It's not a mystical force you're born with, he says, but a habit you can develop. His book The Luck Factor presents research that proves you can learn to be lucky. Are other people luckier than you? If so, psychologist Richard Wiseman says you can do something about it. Using this definition, describe two acts of healing: one you would enjoy performing on yourself and another you'd like to provide for someone you love.ģ. The level of one's spiritual wisdom, I believe, is more accurately measured by helping people in need than by meditation skills, shamanic shapeshifting, supernatural powers, or esoteric knowledge.īut I also believe in a second kind of healing that is largely unrecognized: to supercharge what is already healthy to lift up what's merely sufficient to a sublime state. Psychotherapists wrestle with their clients' traumas and neuroses. Philanthropists donate their money and social workers contribute their time to helping the underprivileged. Medical practitioners focus on sick people.
The primary meaning of the word "healing" is "to cure what's diseased or broken." Trick questions! The answers may depend, at least to some degree, on what you believe is true.įormulate a series of experiments that will allow you to objectively test the hypothesis that the universe is conspiring to help dissolve your ignorance and liberate you from your suffering.Ģ. Is the world a dangerous, chaotic place with no inherent purpose, running on automatic like a malfunctioning machine and fundamentally inimical to your drive to find meaning? Or are you surrounded by helpers in a friendly, enchanted universe that gives you challenges in order to make you smarter and wilder and kinder and trickier? Read past issues of the newsletter from before May 12.Įxperiments and exercises in becoming a blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate, eternally changing Master of Transgressive Beautyġ.
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