The Law of Attraction...we've all heard it, read it, quoted it and bought it...and been victim to it as well as from it.
Social Psychology says that interpersonal attraction is a person's qualities appealing to another person's desires and to determine such attraction, personality and situation must be taken into account.
So if you're charming and in a crowded room...watch your ass.
Science aside, the metaphysicists or New Thinkers (one has a degree as opposed to a #1 bestseller...) feel that a person's conscious and unconscious thoughts, beliefs and emotions can cause change in the physical world that attracts positive or negative experiences that jive with said thoughts, beliefs and emotions, with or without the person taking action to cause such experiences.
So by doing nothing, you potentially could be doing the best/worst thing possible.
Hmmm...nice odds.
And to think I was sure we talking monkeys were on the cusp of a breakthrough.
Having no doctorate in Social Psychology nor 20 years experience of chewing cactus roots in the desert...well, a couple of summers but it was a beach and it wasn't cactus although after a period of time, I thought hard enough to TURN IT INTO cactus root on a few occasions...provides me with very little to present to the intellecuals and scholars in the form of credentials.
However...
I have been the refrigerator as well as being the magnet, I have had the fabric of my universe torn asunder, I have climbed inside a black hole and I've had my porridge too hot, too cold and just right.
Hhmph. What I've yet to figure out is the protocol to follow. The RULES.
A simple thing like attraction cannot be so simple, as to throw caution to the wind and say "Hey! Guess What? I'm not gonna do nuthin' and ya know what? It's all gonna happen anyway! HAHA SUCKERS!"
At the same time, something so complex as attraction cannot be THAT complex now, can it? Do I need my emotional calculator, my mental abacus and my spiritual tape measure in order to draw up a hunch? A what if? A maybe?
And then there is possibility. What is the possibility of your physical world, which according to one way of thought you can change; the same world in which everyone you know and have around you inhabits as well, bringing up the question of "just whose physical world is it, really?", just might have fallen under the wishes of someone else?
Have we discovered the land of stalkers? The infatuated? The uninterested? The future spouse?
Just where are we Toto?
Makes dressing up and going out on the town to meet people seem really freaky all of a sudden. Or a complete and utter waste of time. Rather a pity, wouldn't you say? Hopes and wishes stymied by others, whose hopes and wishes you are prey to without a clue.
As well as the unconscious guilt you will never deal with, stemming from wrecking someone's night you don't even know.
People like people, people want to be with people. People don't like people and people don't want to be with people. Absolutely exhilarating or certainly nothing reassuring, depending on what side of the cake your icing rests.
And as far as this magnet is concerned, I may know where North is but that doesn't mean
I know where I am going without a map to consult.
Social Psychology says that interpersonal attraction is a person's qualities appealing to another person's desires and to determine such attraction, personality and situation must be taken into account.
So if you're charming and in a crowded room...watch your ass.
Science aside, the metaphysicists or New Thinkers (one has a degree as opposed to a #1 bestseller...) feel that a person's conscious and unconscious thoughts, beliefs and emotions can cause change in the physical world that attracts positive or negative experiences that jive with said thoughts, beliefs and emotions, with or without the person taking action to cause such experiences.
So by doing nothing, you potentially could be doing the best/worst thing possible.
Hmmm...nice odds.
And to think I was sure we talking monkeys were on the cusp of a breakthrough.
Having no doctorate in Social Psychology nor 20 years experience of chewing cactus roots in the desert...well, a couple of summers but it was a beach and it wasn't cactus although after a period of time, I thought hard enough to TURN IT INTO cactus root on a few occasions...provides me with very little to present to the intellecuals and scholars in the form of credentials.
However...
I have been the refrigerator as well as being the magnet, I have had the fabric of my universe torn asunder, I have climbed inside a black hole and I've had my porridge too hot, too cold and just right.
Hhmph. What I've yet to figure out is the protocol to follow. The RULES.
A simple thing like attraction cannot be so simple, as to throw caution to the wind and say "Hey! Guess What? I'm not gonna do nuthin' and ya know what? It's all gonna happen anyway! HAHA SUCKERS!"
At the same time, something so complex as attraction cannot be THAT complex now, can it? Do I need my emotional calculator, my mental abacus and my spiritual tape measure in order to draw up a hunch? A what if? A maybe?
And then there is possibility. What is the possibility of your physical world, which according to one way of thought you can change; the same world in which everyone you know and have around you inhabits as well, bringing up the question of "just whose physical world is it, really?", just might have fallen under the wishes of someone else?
Have we discovered the land of stalkers? The infatuated? The uninterested? The future spouse?
Just where are we Toto?
Makes dressing up and going out on the town to meet people seem really freaky all of a sudden. Or a complete and utter waste of time. Rather a pity, wouldn't you say? Hopes and wishes stymied by others, whose hopes and wishes you are prey to without a clue.
As well as the unconscious guilt you will never deal with, stemming from wrecking someone's night you don't even know.
People like people, people want to be with people. People don't like people and people don't want to be with people. Absolutely exhilarating or certainly nothing reassuring, depending on what side of the cake your icing rests.
And as far as this magnet is concerned, I may know where North is but that doesn't mean
I know where I am going without a map to consult.
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