Beyond Civilization Book Club: The Alchemist

The Alchemist
by Paolo Cuehlo
is crucial

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[perceptionsevrything]

How crazy has it been since making the video? Have you experienced synchronicity yet? Most of the time once you really open you're self to excepting that this is real then it speeds up and gets more undeniable and then you really see and understand that it's always been that way you just weren't open enough to except these truth due to being stuck in a curtain experience/emotion cycle.

[Beardedyoungman]

Like that book I found (=

[techjunkie92]

Yeah, I think you basically summed it up... I dont ignore the possibility that there is some sort of greater process. but i cant just forgo my rational mind in certain areas. anyway, your thoughts were good as well - this was a worthwhile dialogue :)

[creosotegirl]

I have felt it.

[cchilder]

i think i am seeing that our difference here is that i am coming from a faith based prespective. im looking at things as a plot. as a character, its my job to uncover the plot and then work for or against it. i have some kind of faith that there is a greater process going on. i see (most) coincidences as evidence of that faith. just another way to look at it i guess.... good thoughts!

[techjunkie92]

dont get me wrong, I think intuition and other forms of knowledge other than strict rationality are good, but when one is faced with the question Why did this coincidence occur? I dont find a compelling reason to say its either the universe, divine, etc, or that its atoms expressing themselves, when there just isnt any reason to think so...

[techjunkie92]

but if you believe that, I dont take issue with it... i just prefer personally and think its a bit better to form our belief sets around what can be demonstrated, observed etc... if we believe things because we essentially guessed that "thats how things work" i dont see a way to develop towards a truth, and to structure our actions around that truth... because everything begins to take on similar worth/validity. if that makes any sense...

[techjunkie92]

i agree that there are communities of life and non-life that should be respected.. I can't really argue with the rest of what you have said other than to say its just a guess and I personally dont see the reason to place faith/belief in what is speculation, seemingly without basis...

[cchilder]

i guess i could say that i have given personality to groups bigger than individuals. there are the communities of humans, all life, our non-living surroundings. the atoms of the universe are expressing themselves in infinite different ways, but they are all the same atoms and they intermingle. kinda like entropy. and i think entropy is rooting for me

[techjunkie92]

edit: i meant to say: b) even if they CANNOT