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Imagine this, you count out a dozen pennies and carefully put them in a glass jar ensuring that the only thing in the jar are the pennies, then you seal the jar and ensure that it is tamper proof, perhaps putting your signature on the seal. The next day you look in the jar and see a dime in the jar with the pennies, the seal is still intact and you ensure yourself that you are not hallucinating or dreaming.

What would be your reaction? Would you think that you had made a mistake somehow, perhaps a psychological memory block or some kind of brainwashing occured or your eyes and brain are faulty or even that a super forger had broken the seal added a dime and then resealed the jar? At what point would you accept that the ‘impossible’ had happened? and would you even want to find out why it happened?

By the way, there is a rational scientific explanation for the dime appearing in the jar, and it’s not a trick like someone had rigged the jar beforehand with a dime stuck into a dime thickness depression in the underside of the lid, painted over it to make it appear invisible, then the paint dissolved over night and gravity made the dime land shiny side up on the pennies etc, no, and it wasn’t sleight of hand, brainwashing/hypnotism or anything that a contemporary TV detective might conclude.

Perhaps you would circumvent the issue of how it happened by attributing the mystery to ‘divine intervention’ and leave it at that. Would you give up on finding out the how and why because you have a convenient mechanism to cope with things that don’t make sense?

What separates us from the beasts my friends, is our ability to imagine the ‘impossible’ and find value in something as un-necessary as truth. To accept that you are incabable of understanding the how and why is a choice and we are defined by our choices, you might say that our choices, our free will, are what causes reality to be what it appears to be to each of us.

There is an answer to the dime in the jar of pennies and while the answer is theorhetical, it is based on hard science with repeatable results. The answer extrapolates from what we can prove right now on a quantum level,  and once you understand the science of what happens to reality on the smallest observable level you will know that reality is a far different concept than the Newtonian world you were taught that you live in.

The reason why the dime appeared in the jar, the reason that has scientific proof behind it, is that someone consciously changed reality to have a dime appear in the jar. Someone believed it was possible and with conscious intent, manifested a dime inside the jar.

If you are incredulous at that explanation then you are in the same boat as Albert Einstien, he just couldn’t accept the fact that reality wasn’t ’solid’ and ‘fixed’ or even impersonal. The truth is that reality is a very personal thing.

Here’s a short video from the hit movie What The Bleep that explains, in high school level terms, the basic scientific principles of how reality is affected by intent.

If you’ve studied the bare basics of quantum physics (or more) you will know, scientifically, that ‘reality’ is not an unchangeable rigid structure that confines us with the parameters of random boon or doom.

Consciousness, what you actually think, your attitude, has been scientifically proven to affect reality, you can see this for yourself if you grow two identicle seeds into plants, giving each similar amounts of water, light and fertilizer but conciously picking one to ’spend time with’ and ignoring the other, the plant you favor will most likely grow bigger than the other.

 It’s not wishful daydreaming or some sappy affirmation of  positive thinking it’s a provable fact that your intent affects the outcome of your actions. A positive attitude keeps a person healthier than a negative one, anger and fear have been shown to affect your very DNA, not allowing as much access for nutrients etc.

New age explorations and modern science have made things such as "The Law of Attraction" popular topics for discussion as unlocking the potential of our minds, for spiritual and material gain has long been the pursuit of man. The success of such movies based on the L of A such as The Secret and What the Bleep show that this idea has caught on and has some substance.
This idea has lead to many success stories of people changing reality by their "will", rags to riches etc. Rarely does a mega success story attribute itself to pure random luck, however the opposite end of the sociological spectrum tends to deny that it was their will to be unsuccessful, as choosing to fail is a hard thing for people to accept as we often see reality as a Darwinian system of win or lose and equate values such as ‘good’ and  ‘bad’ to our cirumstances.

However, the idea that you can ‘pray for riches’ is not the whole truth and even if you get those riches you don’t necessarily acheive the results you’d expect from the Darwinian system of win/lose = good/bad. Just look at the world of entertainment and you can see that ‘winning’ is often ‘bad’. Why do so many people who acheive the Darwinian ideal of success end up worse off than they were before? If kurt Cobain hadn’t have ’sold out’ would he still be alive? What about Sid vicious, Jimi, Janice, Jim, Elvis, Marilyn etc etc, hell, most of my favorites died before they even had a chance to settle down and perpetuate the species, that’s hardly Darwinian ’success’.

From what I’ve learned it seems that our souls (we can all agree that we are more than just biological machines) have a certain template to work within while they are encased in flesh. You have free will to work within the parameters of the pre-arranged template but you and I don’t have ‘dictator’ or ’serial killer’ in that template (hopefully), honestly, can you see any possibility where you conciously would choose to harm the innocent? Wouldn’t you kill yourself before killing a bus load of children regardless of the circumstances?

There’s no free will in some situations. You might argue that you reserve the right to have the option of killing a bus load of kids to perhaps prevent something worse happening like preventing 2 busloads of kids dying, but you would never do it, maybe a special forces guy or a cop or someone who could see the ‘big picture’ and make the ‘best’ decision, but it just isn’t within the parameters of your free will, am I right?

Presuming that we are all given different limits with which to exercise our free will within, different strengths and weaknesses that determined our potential. Wouldn’t it be helpful to know what those parameters actually are?

Amazingly such a tool already exists and has existed for thousands of years.
Denying the improbable odds of astrology as having some kernel of truth is willful ignorance, after all it has been around for just about the entire written history of mankind (and in the megaliths of pre-historical society too) and while we don’t believe the world is flat anymore, we still find some validity in the position of the planets at certain times affecting things.

Perhaps it is a subconscious imprint from the moon affecting the tides, gravity and the such, but deep down most of us know that there is more to it than just that but we are afraid of the spookiness of ‘occultism’ and of being perceived of as a gullible ’sucker’.

Well, as with the ‘impossible dime’, maybe the truth is just beyond our current level of understanding but the facts remain. look at David Wilcock as an example of an ‘impossible dime’. He claims to be the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce, the most documented psychic in modern history and has the psychic credentials to prove that his gifts, at least, are similar. But look further, a photograph of the young Edgar Cayce looks exactly like the young David Wilcock, ok so maybe that’s coincidence, after all some people look like others, but then take a look at the astrological charts of both men who were born some 90 odd years apart, they are as close a match as can be. Same planets in just about the same places, David Wilcocks birthday just happens to be the exact day that matches the position of the planets of the birthday of the guy who he not only looks like but also shares a very rare gift with. That can’t be coincidence.

So what does it all mean? That reality is not what it seems and you can make a different reality by focusing on it. The power of prayer has been known for millenia and focused group consciousness is just now being accepted as a real provable phenomenon. If you want a better world then manifest it, imagine it, work for it, regardless of what the nay-sayers say as your intent matters but don’t expect to be selfish with your power as it doesn’t work like that. Fame, fortune, power, they might be obtainable but they aren’t there as a reward, they are there to teach you along the way.

This past year has been a great learning process for me, I’ve found what makes me tick and seen that reality is a manifestation of my intent. I will be offline for a while as I am moving, yet again. I will continue to paint and share my work online sporadically, but I intend to concentrate on my paper zines. (zeroxed home made DIY art magazines I send out for free to whomever wants art and weirdness in their snail mail box).  If you’d like to be on the mailing list (not email list) drop me a line daz@99daz.com

Namasté

and this looks like a great and important movie, The Shift

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