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Free will, culture and responsibility

There is a consistent stream in our culture that everything is determined by circumstance: genes, conditioning, wealth… But most aside from genes, all those are the product of people acting on each other. The free will debate can also be framed as a responsibility debate. Who is responsible? If there is no free will, does [...]

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Why doesn’t the dream add up to the reality?

I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog analyzing the Law of Attraction, aka ‘The Secret’. One of the issues that keeps coming up for those who spend (in my opinion) too much time on this law, is how to translate the dream into reality. Or as one member of the LOA forum says [...]

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Limits to quantum mechanics and spiritual freedom

I’ve been reading Creative Evolution: A Physicist’s Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design, by Amit Goswami. I’m impressed, the chemist in me (I was taught some quantum physics in college) doesn’t find fault. Nor does the biologist or the philosopher (I took biology and philosophy of religion classes in college too). But I do have [...]

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Gratitude – spiritual virtue 3

This was one was derived directly from ‘The Secret’. It really is a virtue, not a value or anything like that (though I value it). Those who are grateful, can stop striving. When you’re grateful, you can accept and live with what is in your life. If you’re grateful, you’re not annoyed. When you’re grateful, [...]

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Wu Wei and poverty? or more about greed

Money Grows on Trees Photographic Print Katz, Paul Buy at AllPosters.com My previous post got a lot of positive response, but one reader felt I talked lightly about the problem of poverty that is going to be dominating the lives of many more people in the West in the coming years than in previous ones. [...]

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The Hermetic Axiom and The Secret

I want to thank all those who came up to the plate to explain to me how they would explain my questions about The Secret. It turns out they were almost unanimous. The way to understand ‘The Secret’ or ‘The Law of Attraction’ is that it says – with a new twist on the Hermetic [...]

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Are we even in the same (spiritual) conversation?

I’ve been trying to keep up with spiritual blogs for the past year or so. They were hard to find in the first place. But when I did find them, many of them seemed concerned with things that don’t seem spiritual to me at all.

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The Law of Attraction explained for newbies

What’s now known as ‘the secret’ or ‘the law of attraction’ is a way of dealing with life that I’ve been familiar with for years now. That’s because we get all sorts of spiritual people within the Theosophical Society and among some of them this ‘secret’ has been practice for decades at least.

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The Secret applied to Young Muslims

I’ve written about ‘The Secret‘ online. I’ve hosted a discussion on ‘The Secret’. I’ve inwardly cringed at the many commercial versions of the message I’ve seen online. Today I want to apply the basic psychological insights that are at the heart of the ‘The Secret’ to a group of young people that feels trapped. Let’s [...]

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Dreaming your life – or living it?

In college I was told that to have a magical world view was childish. What they mean by that is that people who believe in magic take too much personal responsibility: I thought about her dying, so I must have caused it somehow. Belief in magic does imply that we believe human beings are more [...]

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