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Imagination Has Power
For those who like to argue for religion…
Under hypnosis, a person can convince himself that cold water is a boil, and he will have a burn. But under the same hypnosis, a person convinces himself that boiling water is cold water, and he does not have a burn. As a Tibetan monk sitting in a boiling water tank explained to a passerby, “you convinced yourself that it was boiling water and it can burn, and I convinced myself otherwise.” From the point of view of science, it is impossible: it should have been boiled a long time ago. After all, it is consciousness that controls the surrounding world and can change the physical properties of material objects.
— Lazarev S. N.
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“If one does not become the eccentric, unique, one-of-a-kind person he or she was meant to be, then a violation of some large purpose of the cosmos has occurred. Individuation is not self-absorption, narcissism or self-interest. On the contrary, individuation is a humbling task to serve what our deepest nature asks of us. For some it will be a path which brings public recognition, for others suffering and public calumny, for others still, private epiphanies never seen by anyone else.”
-James Hollis
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“Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full…
