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ste of what s to come in the fall and even more so november 9 2016 someone is going to win the presidential election and regardless of whether it s trump or clinton the loser s supporters are going to feel existential angst about america and their place in it far beyond the usual pat buchanan advises us to take a chill pill for when a real powder keg blew in the 60s i was there and this is not it and yet in the 60s and the early 70s which is when some of the worst shtf we had the evening tv news and the papers the crazy spread slower then this time any and every incident is going to be magnified and extremely accelerated scott adams one of the most intelligent commentators extant catches something significant here in a few well chosen words so now we have a situation in which team clinton has scared citizens into thinking the threat to their lives is mostly domestic coming from trump trump supporters and anyone who looks like them people who are scared will act and we see those actions now in terms of violence against police violence against trump supporters and death threats to bloggers such as me and we already have one attempted trump assassination so far trump has showed a willingness to annihilate any professional politician that gets in the way and he s annihilated professional reporters and news organizations that got in his way and he s tough on non citizens but trump hasn t tried to turn american citizens against each other clinton has and successfully so you can blame trump for trump university and for his uncivil language you can blame trump for lots of stuff but the police shootings and the recent uptick in domestic racial violence are mostly clinton s doings to win the election and it is working unless trump finds a way to counter clinton s racial persuasion he will lose in november i expect trump to go full attack after the conventions it would take the world s greatest persuader to redefine trump in a way that he can win the election but as it turns out trump is probably the world s greatest persuader that s why i predict he will win in a landslide unless someone kills him first everyone i think senses something different something large and vibrating and vaguely menacing coming down the pike i recently finished jon meacham s semi hagiography of george h w bush and i was struck by bush s bewildered reaction to his loss to bubba in 1992 how could america elect a draft dodging in your face serial liar and shameless philanderer over a man who d volunteered to go in harm s way had his plane shot out from under him by the japs and done his conscientious best to serve the nation for 30 years the answer of course was that bubba and mrs clinton and their friends in the media who d gone to harvard and yale with them had finally got into positions of influence to make their 60s 70s frankfurt school rules for radicals dreams into realities all of that old school crap about duty honor country was now inoperative the republican party subsequently nominated a series of decent moderate men only one of whom could win and that mainly because of the manifest weaknesses of his opponents which brings us to the current year people who are scared will act insert now removed video of guy in trump hat being chased and beaten by peaceful protesters there s going to be plenty more of this at the conventions and after the blmers and black blocers and mexican flag wavers seem to believe they re immune to serious retaliation from trumpers who actually support western civilization but from what i see on twitter and elsewhere limits will shortly be reached civil war 2 0 is of course hyperbole half a million americans aren t going to die in the next four years over who wins this election only one side this time seems to be spoiling for actual violence they d best be careful what they wish for photo credit share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in culture society tagged culture power reality 1 reply review think like a mind reader by jonathan pritchard posted on june 8 2020 by neovictorian23 1 think like a mind reader by jonathan pritchard 2017 paperback only a while back a smart friend and i were discussing the characteristics of a good self help or self improvement book there s a limited amount of new information that can be transmitted by now mostly based on new scientific studies which nearly always confirm the basic premises first espoused by dale carnegie norman vincent peale or aristotle so to be good to be really useful a book needs a new synthesis by coming at combining mostly old sound materials in a new way a way that stimulates action a book can make itself valuable jonathan pritchard has succeeded in making think like a mind reader a valuable book his new approach is coming at it as a mind reader a mentalist in practice he was able to take his skills beyond the his stage show though he still does that and leverage them into a consulting business and corporate training his new synthesis here isn t about mind reading techniques it s about deepening understanding of thought and our understanding of limits most of the limits there are we place upon ourselves as he points out in the introduction after a childhood of strictures and no nos and being taught to suppress our badness w e learn there are thoughts we are not allowed to think as i went through the first few sections of the book i was nodding in agreement but also for an old dog like me there was a certain familiarity enthusiasm interest positive thinking logic but gradually i sensed a fresh approach there is some mind reading technique material but more than anything mind reading takes focus an intense awareness of the moment thinking like a mind reader takes first desire a giving of oneself rather than an extraction of information this is what the author brings to the table that s different than most there are a lot of great self improvement books available i ve studied many of them and even taken action on some of their ideas anthony robbins s unlimited power was one that i picked up at the right time in my life for the right reasons that made a big difference strangely enough the actions have produced the results think like a mind reader is a book that can make a difference if you re a younger person with less experience there may be a lot that s new here but anyone of any age may find a gem in the book that makes a difference in their life the material is presented in a breezy entertaining style that should hold your interest anyway i first encountered jonathan pritchard on twitter the_pritchard that platform has introduced me to many fascinating people and their books and writings now i m looking at pritchard s book on wing chun kung fu and thinking about trying it out share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in book review reading material uncategorized tagged books media power practical psychology reality 1 reply the mechanism an excerpt from reality the novel posted on april 21 2020 by neovictorian23 2 reality scene 33 the rehumanist manifesto october 1975 for private circulation only page 34 the mechanism men have not always needed to know how a thing worked for them to use it to their advantage henry s archers at agincourt devastated the french nobility without any knowledge of the law of gravity or the equations newton produced 260 years later though their arrows paths were precisely determined by those laws in a manner of speaking electricity was supremely important and useful before the discovery of the electron as was fire before the understanding of oxidation in the 1930s much of the world and most especially some of my colleagues in the science fiction field were intrigued by the research done at duke university into parapsychology led by dr joseph banks rhine dr rhine claimed to have demonstrated extrasensory perception esp through a long series of laboratory trials that found certain people who could seemingly see hidden cards through a kind of mind power after a few years of extensive use of esp in the science fiction pulps it gradually became clear that rhine s results were not replicating in experiments by others and interest began to fade though the idea cropped up again with regularity esp might or might not work in our world but did in this or that fictional world this is the point of fiction among the so called general public there was always and continues to be a majority belief in the supernatural this muddy category might include the aforementioned esp ghosts precognition the transubstantiation spirit mediumship something that rhine got his start debunking ufos in all their permutations etc etc etc the reader can lengthen the list as necessary for purposes of discussion what do all of these things have in common first science has supposedly debunked them declared them impossible or at the least failed to replicate them experimentally science long ago was defined as the study of the material world of matter that is atoms and the void that s why elsewhere in this work i mock social science so mercilessly at its best social science is the gathering and analyzing of useful statistical correlates at its worst it is propaganda designed to get the masses to do what our masters want and yet the power of positive thinking was known long before dr peale s excellent book was commented on by authors from classical greece to victorian britain if there is only matter then thinking is merely the firing of neurons and the allocation of electrochemical energy so at first psychological science sought to debunk such notions as thoughts influencing the physical body until the experimental results began to debunk the debunkers positive thoughts were shown with merciless statistical precision to increase the likelihood of long life and health to predict success in work and at school to assist in victory in athletic competition in short the power of positive thinking was scientific and of course this challenge to materialism was met by conjuring up more materialism because there must be a material mechanism to explain all results all phenomena all reality the reason this must be so is that science has deliberately excluded everything else positive thinking must be understood to change hormone levels blood chemistry the activity of the parts of the brain that react to stress or something of this sort this was mere papering over of a tremendous void of course let us consider a man suffering from intense sadness depression because he s stranded alone on an isolated island we would all agree superficially that he has a right to be sad given the circumstances now let us say he is one day sitting on a rock upon his island and he sees a tiny spot of something on the rock that is a different color than he s seen around heretofore a different and rarer type of lichen perhaps and he takes a deep breath and says to himself i will not give up and with this thought he begins to feel somewhat better and the change reminds him that he can change and he speaks to himself internally i will feel better and he begins to do so now one might try and posit a mechanism here something like the light waves of a slightly different frequency than his brain had observed for some time were translated in the visual cortex to electrochemical information that propagated through various organs of the brain resulting in a series of chemical changes that he felt as better and this feeling caused another cascade of similar effects that caused a projection of this feeling into the future i submit to you dear reader that this reads like a fairytale one day the boy found some magic beans in the garden and he felt better i will now give you a scientific proposition of my own to ponder all our known sensory organs are made of atoms and thus the only things they can sense are other atoms that bounce off of them or combine with them to form new chemicals or electromagnetic radiation that alters their electrons this is elementary physics and chemistry if if there were any other kinds of substances in the universe besides atoms and photons and so on our senses would not be able to detect them directly to be scientific in our time is to deny that there is a possibility that there are any of these other substances this was always my position from the time i began to think for myself age 12 or so the time i read of eddington s observational test of general relativity during the 1919 eclipse it was my position as i wrote and sold my science fiction stories of the 1930s esp was included because it had been shown to work in the laboratory and when that came into serious doubt i abandoned it it was my position through the 40s and early 50s in my novels about space travel and future life on earth and then it came to pass that events changed my mind not in the theoretical sense of laboratory results but in real life and i found there that besides matter and the void there is indeed a third thing and that we do have a way to contact it our ancient ancestors knew the way i believe and man traded it in effect abandoned it for the material technology that allowed him to grow from tens of thousands to billions of individuals in just a few tens of thousands of years in many ways it was a very good trade for him but now i understand that it isn t gone forever it can be gotten back share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in esoterica reading material reality the book tagged books mystery psychology reality 2 replies post 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