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Manifesting is postmodern spirituality. The metaphysics of discourse creates the world, but it is in the postmodern mind a force that can be harnassed through language and thought.
"Manifesting" fits perfectly into that understanding of the world...
Manifesting is postmodern spirituality. The metaphysics of discourse creates the world, but it is in the postmodern mind a force that can be harnassed through language and thought.
"Manifesting" fits perfectly into that understanding of the world...
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Remember the postmoderns think *everything* is entirely socially constructed and if the world is created by society using language, which means the world is built using words that exlress ideas, thoughts, ideologids, dreams, goals, and so on.
Well....
Remember the postmoderns think *everything* is entirely socially constructed and if the world is created by society using language, which means the world is built using words that exlress ideas, thoughts, ideologids, dreams, goals, and so on.
Well....
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That means the "world" as it's understood to be constructed is not an unintentional brute reality, but it's filled with and interwoven with thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and dreams
If you graft our natural human propensity for spirituality on to that understanding of the world...
That means the "world" as it's understood to be constructed is not an unintentional brute reality, but it's filled with and interwoven with thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and dreams
If you graft our natural human propensity for spirituality on to that understanding of the world...
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It means the world begins to look like it is infused with, or more accuratly given the spiritual spin we are looking at, the world is *ENCHANTED* with all the thoughts, ideas, dreams and beliefs of the rolling sea of social connectedness (society) that made the world...
It means the world begins to look like it is infused with, or more accuratly given the spiritual spin we are looking at, the world is *ENCHANTED* with all the thoughts, ideas, dreams and beliefs of the rolling sea of social connectedness (society) that made the world...
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On this view, you dreams are, quite literally, out there in the world waiting to be connected with.
The world is alive in a way, it isn't an impersonal brute physical system, it is alive with the ideas, beiefs, and dreams that made it.
Here is another way to think about it:
On this view, you dreams are, quite literally, out there in the world waiting to be connected with.
The world is alive in a way, it isn't an impersonal brute physical system, it is alive with the ideas, beiefs, and dreams that made it.
Here is another way to think about it:
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If words and language have the power to socially construct reality, then words have the power to make and transform.
Where else do we see that idea? We see it in witchcraft and magic; in the charms, incantations, and spells that magically transform both people and things...
If words and language have the power to socially construct reality, then words have the power to make and transform.
Where else do we see that idea? We see it in witchcraft and magic; in the charms, incantations, and spells that magically transform both people and things...
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And in the enchantments and spells that turn princes into frogs, pumpkins into carriages, and make Aladdin a prince.
So magic spells and incantations have a parallel with radical social construction: in both cases words have the power to create and change reality.
And in the enchantments and spells that turn princes into frogs, pumpkins into carriages, and make Aladdin a prince.
So magic spells and incantations have a parallel with radical social construction: in both cases words have the power to create and change reality.
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If you see the world as a relational entity socially constructed with the power of language, it's a small step for your natural psychological religious arcitecture to kick in and see a world that's enchanted with the magic and power of the words that socially constructed it.
If you see the world as a relational entity socially constructed with the power of language, it's a small step for your natural psychological religious arcitecture to kick in and see a world that's enchanted with the magic and power of the words that socially constructed it.
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No conscious choice is needed. A worldview shift that sees the world as constructed with the power of language is enough. When that connects to people's natural religious impluses then in their minds the power to change reality is divorced from the world and wedded to the word
No conscious choice is needed. A worldview shift that sees the world as constructed with the power of language is enough. When that connects to people's natural religious impluses then in their minds the power to change reality is divorced from the world and wedded to the word
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It's a new religious thinking that results from mixing the postmodern worldview our natural proclivity for religion; a religious thinking where because language makes the world, language is primary amdanguage comes first.
In the beginning was the word.
It's a new religious thinking that results from mixing the postmodern worldview our natural proclivity for religion; a religious thinking where because language makes the world, language is primary amdanguage comes first.
In the beginning was the word.
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So it makes psefect sense that "manifesting" would be a new thing.
If the world is made of thoughts and language, the mayne you can make your own world for yourself if you have the right thoughts and say the right things.
So it makes psefect sense that "manifesting" would be a new thing.
If the world is made of thoughts and language, the mayne you can make your own world for yourself if you have the right thoughts and say the right things.
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I never meant this to go this long. But here we are.
/fin
I never meant this to go this long. But here we are.
/fin
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