richard evans
Jun 18, 2004, 09:23 AM
How much does self-fulfilling prophecy affect consciousness,and vice-versa?How would it affect the effects of an hallucinogen/a trip?
Dan
Jun 18, 2004, 09:31 AM
I guess that a self-fulfilling prophecy might support the belief in destiny. If one trips on such a notion, one might begin to lose the sense of being capable of choice and perhaps even to conceive oneself as an emergent property of another 'real' subject (e.g., 'I am nothing but a thought in the mind of God')
Robert the Bruce
Jun 18, 2004, 10:01 AM
Dear Richard
In terms of hallucinations we see self-fulfilling prophecy or programming into ethnic modes or BELIEFS (closure of the creative process in real consciousness rather than paradigm thinking or 'stinking') is very much the case as you suggest. Jung noted this in his forward to The Tibetan Book of the Dead which he kept (along with the Iliad) by his bedside for some 20 years. In anthropological terms this is known as anthropomorphing and most all visions have an element of this. Thus self-inspection and extreme honesty is a discipline one must cultivate on the path to wisdom and potential.
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