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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
Dear Mr. Callahan,
Stepping outside the four corners of magic books, which authors/books/concepts have influenced you over the years and helped to define your views about the nature of reality? With thanks,
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
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Jim-Callahan V.I.P. 5018 Posts |
Good question.
(In my biased opinion of course) My awareness of divergent personal reality began when I was around ten years old when my family became involved in the born again Christian movement. Was also the same year I was to visit my Aunt & Uncle who lived and worked in Lilly Dale. Spent a couple of nights, one alone for a few hours. Think you will agree all of that would give a clever kid a fair deal to consider. For instance. Can we all be right, who is right and why are they, were do we go from here. (After we pass on). So I guess the bible was the first book to push me into that thought stream. To this day I think the bible is a great logic puzzle. Allot of people may not agree but I cannot see how anyone would or could get to heaven once they become aware that each and every one of us is responsible for the death of other people. You cannot interact in this reality without that being true. This idea is part of the scripting for my new show. But let us move on. Allot of what was taught during Physical Chemistry, Psychology and Sociology classes in High School influenced me. It was also during that time that my obsession with death developed. (Not in a dark way). It is the great puzzle of this reality and I enjoy paradox as I call it circular thinking. I think therefore I am, but what do you think of me and is that because I think of you? Cats in boxes and very fine razors are infinitely interesting things. I read allot of science and physics because the answer is there we just cannot see it yet. Realized when in High School that science was a sort of belief based religion. Read medical articles the ones that address on how hobbled we are by our senses and how little we really see with our eyes are of great interest to me as are those about brain function and dysfunction. If your brain is damaged how does that impact your afterlife? Guess I spend allot of time considering options and how things interconnect and why. Also that they do not interconnect the same for all of us. Have an interest in linguistics and how strings of words are interpreted differently by different people. You can see some of my experiment here on the Café that deal with these things by looking up a good friend of mine named J ack Galloway who is currently banned for life what he has of one. Hope this in a small ways answers your question. It is a bit of a sprawling and intensely interesting subject for me as you can no doubt surmise from the sprawling reply. Hope it was interesting. Best Wishes and thanks for reading. Jim
“I can make Satan’s devils dance like fine gentlemen across the stage of reality”.
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
Dear Jim,
Thank you for the fascinating insight! Is the cat in a box a reference to Schrödinger's Cat? And the razor – Occam’s? Which books influenced you dealing with the array of ideas and concepts you articulated above? Have you ever read Alfred Korzybski on language ("Science and Sanity") or Robert Anton Wilson's work on E-Prime, "Quantum Psychology"?
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
By the way, I once went for a day trip to Lily Dale, which is about 2 hours from where I live.
I can't imagine spending even a portion of one night there alone!
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
Jim-Callahan V.I.P. 5018 Posts |
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On 2010-10-25 11:36, panlives wrote: Pan, Yes it is the Cat & Razor. Influenced myself I guess. I have always spent a fair amount of time alone and that has given me time to consider things. Books have been recommended to me over the years by friends because they thought I would enjoy them based upon my ideas. It is interesting to read a book and in a way know the person who wrote it has gone through the same process you have or even a different one and you both are at the same place. Jim
“I can make Satan’s devils dance like fine gentlemen across the stage of reality”.
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