Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm told I have magical thinking, I think this is because for me pretty much everything is alive and has some kind of agency, hense my sewing machine hating me or computers hating me. As I've always been aware of the awareness of the awarenesses we share our world with, it's perfectly normal to me and weird that others don't know this.
One of the things I don't get is why magical thinking is a problem?
Why is it even called magical thinking?
Who does it harm?
I'm told that my perceptions aren't real, and I ask why? Why are your perceptions so limited that you don't know this, isn't this a problem for you and not me?
Am I the only one for whom the world is alive and that we move through a world filled with other conciousnesses, often very different from our own?
This is how i see the world since ever… I have never thought it’s a problem or something wrong. Looks like I’m not alone and I consider my inner world a beautiful place that compensates a lot what comes from outside. This “magical thinking” may also make me appreciate what I have. When others throw things out, I always consider how I can fix it or reuse it.
I'm so glad I'm not alone with this, all my life people have told me I'm mad, bad and wrong, over imaginative and need to "grow up", I think it's something that's led to a lot of heartache over the years as people can't see the beauty or the value of things. People's reactions to me when not negative or hostile, tend along the lines of making me magical and like I have all the answers, I'm not a guru and being treated as one never ends well as they soon find out I'm human. It's often hard enough just being a spiritual person, people have such strange ideas and confuse it with organised religion, which for me it isn't.
I think there's lots of confusion about quantum physics, I get the impresion that if you asked two quantum physicists the same question you'd get 6 different answers. One of the best explainations of it I saw was a show by Ken Campbel, it should still be around somewhere on the internet.
That's another thing, the internet, where is it if not in a different dimension?
Ok, so I'm not a quantum physicist but I'll try my best to explain what I think gets mixed up with things in magical thinking a lot, it's the observer effect. In quantum physics, the particles seem to react to being 'observed' (bear with me, I might not be accurate all the time since this is not my field of study and I'm not a native English speaker), it's almost like the particles jump into existence when they are 'observed', when there's a 'viewer'. This is where magical thinking can mix up; people will think that their own awareness and consciousness is making things appear or turning things into reality, but in fact, when scientists use 'observe' ,it means more like 'measurement', it means more like: particles, for example photons, interacting with what's being 'observed' rather than a consciousness being present. It's not about the consciousness, it's about the interaction of particles. This is how I learnt it from Neil deGrasse Tyson. I'll link a short video below.
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