Hello kids!!
I have just finished reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on the morning of Valentine's day 2010, and guess what I found out? Not much, just that The (not-anymore) Secret's Law of Attraction concept is already a scientifically proven fact. And further research regarding the concepts in the book told me that the human soul weighs at around 21 grams (Google "soul weight" and the first hit is this: http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp followed by Wikipedia article of the scientist).
Noetic Science also claims that thoughts are a powerful thing, being capable of manifesting physical changes in reality, pretty much telling us that energy from mountain monks, ninjas, spiritual leaders, clowns, faith healers, traumatizers, exorcists, Wicca witches, clowns, cultists, voodoo and black magic users are very much potent if the individual is already very skilled in controlling his or her thoughts and channeling the thoughts of others. That makes faith a very powerful thing, because you can't adjust overnight the massive mindset of a crowd or a nation and tell them what to believe and what not to. Weirdly enough, the homily of the priest on v-day is a science lecture: how the hypothalamus works in the brain and lets us think of ways to show our love to those special to us.
Di pa rin gets?
Picture this: a scene in James Cameron's Avatar movie (maybe it's that good that it probably made it on the updated "list of movies to watch before you die"), where the Na'vi prays to their god Eywa following the destruction of Home Tree... I don't believe it was Eywa's response that brought them the victory they sought, it was the collective thought concept at work.
Don't like movies? The 9/11 incident would be more real. Random Event Generators, software which broadcasts, well, random stuff (http://www.damninteresting.com/random-event-generators-predict-the-future) suddenly became less random and actually showed a trend.
Teka teka, bago ninyo ako tanggalin sa reading choices niyo, here's something to think about. Let's say the force or gravity of our prayers or collective thought is equivalent to our soul (this is to say that all of the people in the whole world can more or less control their thoughts, or know how to pray, and all have the equal ability of doing so). There'd be more than 6.8 billion people in the world right now, increasing exponentially as your eyes move through this sentence. Multiply that number by the soul's weight and what have we got? A staggering 142.8 kilotonne worth of product (of course the product could have been larger if we used the exact population at a given time), and a tonne is a thousand kilograms. That's one-four-two-eight then add eight zeroes. Yes, we're done with the math now.
The real question now is, what could we all possibly should be praying for that's worth that much, or weighed that heavily? Fun fact: The "Fat Man" and the "Little Boy" atomic bombs only weighed 4.6 and 4 tonnes respectively. The energy outputs of these bombs are 21 and 15 kilotons of TNT (explosive material) or 88 and 63 terrajoules. I know most people are familiar with computer file sizes and calories nowadays so I wouldn't give the elementary analogy with the figures anymore, hmmkay?
I'm imagining we already have the power to stop the end of the world as we know it, not just how we think.
Still interested?
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
