This type of new age crap bothers me a whole lot. There's always a whole lot of words and ideas but no content or real evidence. It bothers me even more when evidence is used that is so very distal to the actual point. Physics and vibrations?! you've got to be kidding me!
So enjoy the video and the text below ;)
Everything in our known, physical universe is made up of energy. All the things you can see, touch, and feel are made up of energy. Your computer, your bed, your clothes, your music, your body, other people, trees, the wind, are all made up of vibrating energy. Even the things you can't see, touch and feel are made up of energy - space, time, consciousness, outer space, subatomic particles, are all made up of energy. Everything in its purest most basic level is made up of energy. We live and move and have our being in a fathomless, limitless, infinite sea of energy. Physicist Dave Bohm calls it the "implicate order." According to Bohm, what lies behind all phenomena is vibrating energy which forms an "unbroken wholeness which connects us all." Now what does this mean to us? Well, it all depends upon the depth of your understanding, and your willingness to work with this new model of reality that science presents us. It can either be an interesting concept to be thought about and forgotten, or it can be a major turning point in your life. For me, it was a turning point. I contemplated for many months that "all is energy" until a deepened realization dawned on me. Namely, that my ability to be effective and successful in life depended upon my understanding and use of energy. That energy was the real currency and power in my life.Simply put, "The best way to predict the future is to create it." Our thoughts determine the present and future of what is contained within our lives. It's all about our choices. How and what we choose, upon what we focus, concentrate, or direct our attention, and where we spend our mental and emotional energies -- this is precisely what we will attract or draw to ourselves. And the universe always provides.
ugh... the link :(
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I'm visualizing all the New Agers being mysteriously transported into a distant black hole ...
Oh--and my big lottery win, but you knew that was going to happen.
Posted by: Metro | March 29, 2007 12:04 PM
Gawd...if I had a dime for each time I've seen David Bohm's implicate order as an "explanation" of how we are all connected in one big interconnected holistic super-consciousness blah blah blah, I'd be a f*ckign billionaire. What a load of crap. The sad part is that a couple of the profs in my dept believe this stuff, and even promote it in their own classes. Can't say anything tho b/c they're tenured and I'm not.
There was a brief moment of my UG career where I really got into this stuff, and Fritjof Capra and all of that. It took me about 3 months to finally figure out how vacuous it ultimately is. OK, so I was slow on the uptake. But these guys still believe it. I bite my lip every time they start in.
Posted by: boojieboy | March 29, 2007 5:59 PM
I admit, the New Age style beliefs of my parents took a huge hit when I saw "Yogic Fliers" in action.
For those not familiar, yogic fliers are people who get into the Lotus Position and start jumping. While I have no doubt this is potentially wonderful exercise for the muscles of the lower torso, not one actually managed any sort of superuman feat that could be described as "flying" And trying to tell a High school student that if enough people do this around the world will result in world peace made me wonder if they were attempting to make soldiers laugh so hard they couldn't hold a weapon.
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | March 29, 2007 6:45 PM
Hmm.. yes indeed. This stuff reminds me of 95% of the stuff that I used to spend hours on end trying to "revert" or otherwise prevent from getting into serious articles that I had written on the Wikipedia (or "Wackipedia") before I gave it up as completely hopeless.
Funny but irritating as hell, at the same time.
Posted by: Francesco Franco | March 30, 2007 6:54 AM
"my ability to be effective and successful in life depended upon my understanding and use of energy."
Yes, get off your ass and create videos and articles appealing to postmodernist goofballs, and success will be yours. Woo woo woo.
Posted by: kemibe | March 30, 2007 1:09 PM
My beloved spouse has learned to stay well away from me at street fairs where there are newage people selling rock crystals. I'll ostentatiously look, miming greater and greater interest and slowly building agitation, as the spiel about crystal energy is being delivered.
And eventually I'll start to say, louder and louder "You must take them back. YOU must TAKE THEM ALL BACK. All of their energy is broken up and scattered and in the WRONG PLACES. You realize the world is out of balance? It's because of people like YOU!
TAKE THESE CRYSTALS --- take them ALL BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM .....!!!!"
Posted by: Hank Roberts | March 30, 2007 7:23 PM
ROFL, Hank. :)
Posted by: Sandra | March 30, 2007 9:32 PM
If we all think realy realy hard we can stop this movement in its tracks.
Posted by: David Hunter | November 28, 2007 2:30 PM