Category Archives: Social Conditioning

Social Conditioning

Technology

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     Today, April 26 Anabelle Villanueva, a favorite blind masseuse reported  that she visited my website. At first I was skeptical; how can a blind read the entries in my website? But then she mentioned the name of my nephew David Victor who provides most of the photographs for my essays. How could she have known David Victor?
     She explained that she. even reads novels from the Internet.She uses a device that voices what she reads. Unbelievable but true.
     Relatedly this April 23 I read from Yahoo news that Samsung is testing a brain-powered tablet. The technology is still in its infancy but would  allow users to control the computing device with their thoughts. This is exciting! This would help those who are unable to operate technology via voice, swipe, touch or gesture.

Stepping Stones

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According to Dr. Hew Len, Joe Vitale”s “The Attractor Factor” and Neville Goddard”s “The Law and The Promise” even “The Secret” are like stepping stones.
” People are at various steps along the path.”  This means that books and other materials speak to people where they are.
“People don’t get what they say so much as what they feel. Most people who pray don’t believe they will be heard or they will be helped. Most people pray from a place of desperation, which means they will attract more of what they are feeling: more desperation.” This statement was made by Joe Vitale in his book “Zero Limits.” Michael Tamura has a similar observation in his book “You Are The Answer”.
Martha Beck has a similar statement…”what you expect most deeply is what guides your behavior, which determines what you form.” Forming is manifesting.

 

The Law of Perversity

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Photo by: David Victor

The Law of Perversity, better known as Murphy”s Law states that if anything can go wrong it will. According to Bonewits’ “The Real Energy” all psychic, magical, spiritual, artistic, sexual, and other creative energies are filtered by the subconscious hopes, fears and assumptions of the people involved; it is always wise to pay attention to internal processes.

It seems people may have self-destructive circuits in their subconscious minds or spirits. In my case I often second guess myself. My husband has caught me several times verbalizing my intentions for what I expect to manifest. But in the same breath I recite a litany of what ifs
negating what could have manifested.

     I feel better about my unrealized wishes in this context. I prefer the possibility that I myself have prevented the coming forth into reality of my wishes rather than my former understanding that God didn’t want to grant my wishes. What a relief to discover that God is not a joyless and tyrannical Supreme Being.
     Relatedly one can consider “39 New Scientific Concepts that Everyone Should Understand” in wwwbusinessinsider.com.

Greatness

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I am a critical Catholic. I repeatedly choose to stay in the church in spite of my frustrations. I go from one Sunday Mass to another pleading God for conversion.
I write because like Arlene Babst Vokey (Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 16, 2013) who has a son, I have a daughter Whom I desire to catapult to her birth right of greatness and “being made to the image and likeness of God” beyond Catholic guilt and false humility.
I write because with a new pope, a Jesuit at that I hope some of my issues will be resolved. I write because inspired by the parable of the one talent I don’t want to let my one talent: writing, to go to waste.

 

The New World

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Maria Perla M. Hudtohan

February 25, 2013

It’s more than just climate change. The world did not end in 2012 but practically everything has changed for me.  I  am a product of a predominantly rote-memory education.  It has served me well.  After all, it gave me a comfortable retirement package.  With the help of my husband and our only daughter we are now settled comfortably in a condo.

However, I want a life.  Nowadays, I thrive with the help of my Buddhist mental adapted from the books of Sylvia Boorstein.  I do a lot of new perceptual training with the help of Peter Ralston’s Zen-Body-Being. Continue reading →