Goals:

You get started.
Doors open.
You meet people.
People open doors.
There's always a open door.
Just remember:

"You have to let go of the door knob.".

Without a clear-cut positive goal, set at the outset, the situation just seems to happen, and makes no sense until it has already happened. (ACIM, CH 17, VI, 3.1)

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.