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Aeble posted:My dad keeps talking about it. It's all "you have to disentangle yourself from your ego" and "god is the universe". He also showed me The Secret and is way, way into all that craziness. I've had some talks with him, but I really don't see how to get someone out of it if they don't want to. I think it's pretty sad. Some people just want to believe. I have a former friend who fell into The Secret whole-heartedly after her project of becoming a Buddhist failed to produce an SUV despite numerous weeks doing some-odd chant she kept describing. In fact, as far as I know she had a history stretching from early adulthood of trying out religions to see which ones would produce miracles on demand. I found her fascination with The Secret particularly interesting because everything she said about the Law of Attraction and how she was going to think her way to wealth reminded me of early 20th century Hermetics. It's like Byrne took the basic tenents of Hermetic Philosophy as understood by the English re-popularization of it -- literal belief in the employment of magical rituals -- and washed it of any historical and religious interest, leaving just an insane metaphysics. For some reason, she wasn't thrilled when I compared her attempts to wish herself an SUV to practicing magic. v  v
Conskill fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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