>Do we have the power to create our realities? Are we in control? What do YOU >think?
29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels. (The Gospel of Thomas) http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html If Anger, or Greed, or Nicotine, or things like that are called spirits, then you could say that these things that control us are created by us. (Wine and Spirits ~ Alcoholism can take a pretty heavy handed control of a person. Prohibition was reversed, and (Creator- ed?) a new course for the country/world.) On Jul 22, 9:29 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > Are we in control of ourselves, our lives, our families, our worlds? > Or are we just aware and knowing what one can do if something > unpredictable happens? > There are many explanations for why we do what we do. For example, > Thomas Metzinger's new Book, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind > and the Myth of the Self, seriously questions whether there is even an > "I", let alone a "we." And Douglas Hofstadter's book, I Am a Strange > Loop, contends that the "self" is a recursively self-referencing > memory loop. > > Hundreds of experiments by Benjamin Libet and others tend to > conclusively confirm that our brain prepares to execute our decisions > before we are even aware that anything is being decided. It alerts us > to our decisions only in time (a split second) for us to veto them. > > Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet, as well as Benjamin > Libet's book, Mind Time, and Walter J. Freeman's book, How Brains Make > Up Their Minds. > > It is quite likely that we have no so-called "free will" other than > veto power over our specific actions. Our free will may consist > instead of 1) being mindful about any ill-serving subliminal > intentions and tendencies that inform our actions so that we are > accordingly prepared to veto any action that they correspondingly > inform, and of 2) programming (or reprogramming) our subliminal > intentions to be more productive of the experiencing that we most > desire. > > Do we have the power to create our realities? Are we in control? > What do YOU think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
