Golden Rule

 “In order to perfectly live the Golden Rule, one in business, to begin with, would be compelled to buy his merchandise in such a way that he would be dealing with the seller on the basis of the Golden Rule, as well as buying for his customers on the basis of the Golden Rule. The thought I want to bring out, is that we have left most things religious and spiritual down in the swamps of sentimentalism. The efforts of the church in the past have not been directed as much as they may toward educating and equipping men and women to live large and full lives. Whatever has come to the A. Nash Company in living the Golden Rule has come because there has been enough business knowledge to enable us to live it to just that degree, and whenever we have failed in exercising that very highest and keenest business judgment on a truly ethical basis. It has been because we did not have sufficient insight to understand our obligation measured by the Golden Rule. . . . In other words, perfect and infallible living of the Golden Rule would require infallible mentality and undaunted courage.”

Six approaches that you can use to influence and persuade other people.

6 key principles of influence by Robert Cialdini

The Four (4) Questions of Cartesian Logic and Cognitive Dissonance.

Cognitive Dissonance. is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation.
One often experiences strong dissonance when one believes something about oneself and then behaves in a way that is contrary to that belief. For example, if I believe I am good but do something bad, then the discomfort I feel as a result is cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a very powerful motivator which will often lead people to change one or other of the conflicting attitude/belief or behavior. The discomfort often feels like a tension between the two opposing thoughts. 

Clearing emotions and limiting decisions with TimeLine Therapy / The Four (4) Questions of Cartesian Logic

Why the Emotions Disappear using Timeline Therapy, (or even Morty Lefkoe or Byron Katie’s “The Work”) for that matter.

22-12-2012

"Spiritual progress changes your mind as to what is good and bad for your life." Vernon Howard

John Nash was the subject of the Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography of the same name, focuses on Nash's mathematical genius and struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. He saw and heard people that weren’t there. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize.

The Human Will-To-Believe, Even In The Face Of All Factual Evidence.

I heard that meme has been officially added to the dictionary.

A meme is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. An Internet meme is a concept that spreads via the Internet. Balloon boy hoaxor Ancient Aliens

Know Your Meme

Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature is a study by L. Sprague de Camp_[1]. It is considered one of his most popular works. It was written in 1948, and first published serially in the magazine Other Worlds Science Fiction in 1952-1953; portions also appeared as articles in Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Natural History Magazine, and the Toronto Star. It was first published in book form by Gnome Press i n 1954. I never noticed this about Sprague de Camp_[1] when I first blogged him in 2011.

L. Sprague de Camp_[1] enjoyed debunking doubtful history and pseudoscientific claims. The work provides a detailed examination of theories and speculations on Atlantis and other lost lands, including the scientific arguments against their existence.

December 22 2012 (the day after 122112).

Man's weakness for leaders, as well as his worship of idols, makes him an easy prey for false lights and pseudo-teachers.

Good will come to these students; they will discover after years of awaiting and sacrificing that they were following a mirage. They will then become disillusioned in their schools and pseudo-teachers, and this disappointment will be worth the effort and price they have paid for their fruitless search. They will then turn from their worship of man and in so doing discover that which they are seeking is not to be found in another, for the Kingdom of Heaven is within. This realization will be their first real initiation. The lesson learned will be this:

There is only one Master and this Master is God, the I AM within themselves.

With thanks to Neville Goddard, Your Faith . lS Your Fortune. (1941)

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.

I am a Divine expression of God’s love.

Faith knows.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Heb. 11:27

·         "Egypt" means darkness, belief in many gods (causes). The "king" symbolizes the power of outside conditions or circumstances. "He" is your concept of yourself as already being what you want to be. "Enduring as seeing him who is invisible" means persisting in the assumption that your desire is already fulfilled. Thus this quotation means that by persisting in the assumption that you already are the person you want to be, you rise above all doubt, fear, and belief in the power of outside conditions or circumstances; and your world inevitably conforms to your assumption.

The dictionary definitions of faith:

·         "the ascent of the mind or understanding to the truth" - "unwavering adherence to principle"

are so pertinent that they might well have been written with the law of assumption in mind.

Faith does not question- Faith knows.

THE POWER OF AWARENESS

1952 by Neville

"I am only here to be truly helpful.

 I am here to represent Him who sent me.

 I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.

 I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.

 I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal." — Excerpted from A Course in Miracles

Natalie Jean created a video based on Emma Curtis Hopkins treatments.

In “Scientific Christian Mental Practise” Hopkins said

--“Even healing is not healing, because the Mind needs no healing.”.

-- “Man appears sick to you because you see him that way.”

-- If you touch a patient you are confirming they are sick.

Emma Curtis Hopkins Six Treatments - First Treatment - Monday

http://goanimate.com/videos/0U1ZUZDl9kHA?utm_source=linkshare
Treatment #2 http://goanimate.com/videos/0peC6buPTimo?utm_source=linkshare
Treatment #3 http://goanimate.com/videos/0_MOeoEVV3D8?utm_source=linkshare
Treatment #4 http://goanimate.com/videos/042jE6DT85Hw?utm_source=linkshare 
Treatment #5 http://goanimate.com/videos/0Z_A6N0SxWb0?utm_source=linkshare  
Treatment #6 http://goanimate.com/videos/0g7WYekqzobg?utm_source=linkshare

I knew someone taking homeopaths to clear disease from past lives. At least that was the belief. How does one get born with disease from past lives without affecting your mooher is an interesting point. FPPs, Cognitive Dissonance and Denial seem to be the flavors of the day for 2012.

"What you condemn, you continue.  Focus on where you want to go, rather than on what you want to get away from." ~ Alan Cohen

I found this site yesterday. It’s trying to bridge the gap between Jehovah Witness’s , ex-Witness’s and Christians. I’ve met a few ex-Witness’s who embraced New Age, conspiracy theories, secret governments. http://4jehovah.org/about-us/home.php

If you’re centred in the Chrsit within then none of that matters.

Like wise, when you’re centred in the Christ within you wouldn’t care less about things like “Celestine Prophecy”, “What the Bleep”, 2012, “Indigo Movie”, “The Da Vinci Code”, earth harmonics and the Fibonacci sequence, etc.

You’d KNOW all is MIND and you are not a body so the become irrelevant except to the ego( the small i) consciousness.

I walked by Pride Day a week ago. They are children of God and do not inherit sickness.

I am whole, perfect and complete!

Rational Emotive Behavior

Dr. Albert Ellis (1913 – 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), inspired by many of the teachings of Asian, Greek, Roman and modern philosophers. REBT is one form of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and was first expounded by Ellis in the mid-1950s; development continued until his death in 2007.
Ellis explained REBT:

Rochester Rappings

The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism. The three sisters were Leah Fox (1814–1890), Margaret Fox (also called Maggie) (1833–1893) and Kate Fox (1837–1892). The two younger sisters used "rappings" to convince their much older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits. Their older sister then took charge of them and managed their careers for some time. They all enjoyed success as mediums for many years.

Our acts are directed by our belief!

If you can make the reader believe anything no matter how absurd it is, he will prove it to be true by his experiments. This proves that our beliefs make us act and our acts are directed by our belief, for the wisdom or knowledge is in the belief. People are not aware of this.

Make man responsible for his belief and he will be as cautious what he believes as he is in what he says and does, for he will see that just as he measures out to another just so it will be measured out to him.

If you make a person believe that he is in danger of any trouble he will be affected just according to his belief, so all beliefs are to be analyzed like food or drink to see what it contains and how it acts upon the body, for the belief being in the mind, it shows itself on the body.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
1863

Dorothy Martin ~ ‘Sister Thedra’

I like to play connect the dot and see where it leads me.

Enthusiastic members of her circle were Dr Charles and Lillian Laughead (who appear as Thomas and Daisy Armstrong in When Prophecy Fails [http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/leon-festinger-1919-1989-was-american.html]).

Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Leon Festinger (1919 – 1989), was an American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Social comparison theory, and the discovery of the role of propinquity in the formation of social ties as well as other contributions to the study of social networks. Festinger is perhaps best known for the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which suggests that inconsistency among beliefs and behaviors will cause an uncomfortable psychological tension. This will lead people to change their beliefs to fit their actual behavior, rather than the other way around, as popular wisdom may suggest.

A self-fulfilling prophecy

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression "self-fulfilling prophecy" and formalizing its structure and consequences. In his book Social Theory and Social Structure, Merton gives as a feature of the self-fulfilling prophecy: e.g. when Roxanna falsely believes her marriage will fail, her fears of such failure actually cause the marriage to fail.(Now, isn't that exactly what Quimby had demonstrated in the 1860's as he healed people?)

A positive or negative prophecy, strongly held belief, or delusion - declared as truth when it is actually false - may sufficiently influence people so that their reactions ultimately fulfill the once-false prophecy. (And of course Morty Lefkoe is helping people to eliminate false beliefs)

  The self-fulfilling prophecy is

The Second Great Awakening of 1844. The Great Disappointment: A lesson for 2012.

The Great Disappointment was a major event in the history of the Millerite movement, a 19th century American Christian sect that formed out of the Second Great Awakening. William Miller, a Baptist preacher, proposed based on his interpretations of the prophecies in the book of Daniel (Chapters 8 and 9, especially Dan. 8:14 "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"), that Jesus Christ would return to the earth during the year 1844. A more specific date, that of October 22, 1844, was preached by Samuel S. Snow. Although thousands of followers, some of whom had given away all of their possessions, waited expectantly, Jesus did not appear as expected on the appointed day and as a result October 22, 1844, became known as the Great Disappointment.

Samuel Sheffield Snow (1806–1870) was a skeptic turned Millerite preacher who calculated that the return of Christ was to take place on October 22, 1844. His teaching sparked what became known as the "Seventh-month movement," which led to the Great Disappointment when Jesus did not return as expected.

The dauntings that followed:
'Have you not gone up?'
'Have you a ticket to go up?'
Some Millerite churches were burned. Some congregations attacked.
In Toronto a few were tarred and feathered while others were shot at.

The Great Disappointment is viewed by some scholars as an example of the psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance, the formation of new beliefs and increased proselytizing in order to reduce the tension, or dissonance, that results from failed prophecies. According to the theory, believers experienced tension following the failure of Jesus' reappearance in 1844 which led to a variety of new explanations. The various solutions form a part of the teachings of the different groups that outlived the disappointment.

The Great Disappointment of 1844 is an example of cognitive dissonance in a religious context.

Millerite prophetic time chart from 1843.

Unfulfilled Religious Prophecies
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unfulfilled_religious_prophecies

The Forer effect

Is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, and some types of personality tests.

A related and more generic phenomenon effect is that of subjective validation. Subjective validation occurs when two unrelated or even random events are perceived to be related because a belief, expectancy, or hypothesis demands a relationship. Thus people seek a correspondence between their perception of their personality and the contents of a horoscope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect


http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/09/if-you-can-make-reader-believe-anything.html

http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/07/true-believer-syndrome.html

http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/01/cognitive-dissonance.html

Alter Your Life by Emmet Fox

In 1932 Emmet Fox gave a lecture.

Of the Great Seal of the United States on coins the said:

"Of the obverse, metaphysically the olive branch stands for affirmations, the arrows for denial."

"Of the reverse, the unfinished pyramid, 13 steps, capstone not yet lowered into place and the ancient all seeing eye". All symbols of our relation to God.

The single eye Jesus spoke of " When the eye is single the whole body is full of light.".

The single eye stands for the Allness of God.

"When an individual or nation puts God first, it will be healthy, and prosperous.".

A new one dollar bill of paper containing these symbols was circulated after this lecture.

Elsewhere he states that since 1914 the end of the world had been forecast by doomsayers. Occasional groups had actually stayed up all night waiting for the end.

Nothing happened.

He also talks of the Zodiac and the bible (we're currently in Aquarius[2150 years of the Christ consciousness] the 12 lessons of mankind.

He even has a prayer for world peace.

Cognitive dissonance

Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger and associates, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happen.

While fringe members were more inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to "put it down to experience", committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).


I found that fascinating. The date thing in 2000 was a fiasco that never happened. Anyone buy a portable generator they couldn't take back. Now the emphasis is on 2012 because of the Mayan Calendar. There's also a planetary alignment but one event has no bearing on the other.

I finished reading "Beneath The Pyramids" by Andrew Collins (ISBN-13 978-0-87604-571-8) . Excellent reading. Orion isn't the best match for aligning the pyramids to stars and no hidden chambers in the Sphinx, much to the chagrin of the New Agers. There are the remains of people from 10,500 BC (the Pyramids aren't that old) that have been found which I didn't know. No Fibonacci sequences in this book. It's a great book involving the mystery of ancient names, distant constellations and Edgar Cayce.