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Robin your post reminded me of someone of you may know - John Rafanello. I remember from a series of his videos, the following:
"To postulate the existence of something and then to perceive it- the only two abilities of a being who is by nature infinite potential" "It is the awareness that you are every living entity on the planet while simultaneously being yourself." "If God IS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND EVERY VIEWPOINT then the more viewpoints you have the more godlike you are... thus An infinite ability to occupy other viewpoints is FULL OT..." ... Llewellin > Good morning Colleen, > > thanks for your question. > > I honestly belief that your approach of > <quote> "... perhaps hoping if I do enough of that it > might really happen in real life ..." > <end of quote> > is firmly based on a very valid and working assumption of yours. > And can't see any contradiction to Dennis' writings there. > I love that idea. > > Indeed I contemplated the pan-determinism issue already > early when I started with RI. I remember having had very good > indicators (VGIs) once with running the b) side of RI. > The cognition I had back then - and I'd like to share with you > in a minute - sounded so ridiculous to me that it gave me good > laugh and I ended the session at that point. But it's often just a > small step from the ridiculous to the sublime > > Well, it suddenly occurred to me that everything around me is > solely my creation. That includes all the beings, humans, you, > and you, ... as well. Since everyone was created or dreamed up by > me it was only natural that it was in my power to make those > beings create all kinds of effect. Factually they had no > free will of their own and everything, dead or alive, existed > only due to my mercy. I was the undisputed ruler of the universe; > a god! In order to have some fun thereof I decided to introduce > some randomity by simply granting the beings limited "free" will > - which is the equivalent of "not knowing" on my side. Great game! > > Example: Colleen since I've created you - and you actually do not exist > as a self determined person - I can exactly predict what you going to do > right now. You read this, right? (Needless to answer, I know it anyway). > I've not yet decided to know what you will post next but I'm sure > you will post something. Knowing it all down to every detail would > spoil the fun of the game. > > I'm kidding of course - and hope you do not mind my megalomania. > > But is not there a certain sublime component in that as well? > Let me explain. When we assume that not only me but any being > can think and postulate along the line of attitude I'd depicted > above then - as I see it - this supports the idea of oneness. > Meaning we are all one but still every one of us can owns his > individuality at the same instant. > > And that was the real cog. that caused my VGIs back then. > > > A splendid weekend to everybody > > Robin > > >
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