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Bonus Sample: Reality Bites: The Tragedy of Magical Thinking

Conspirituality

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The Answer to Suffering Isn't Therapy or Medication or Meditation

Three peoplew arnte, betsy chase and mark vicente were students of ramtha's school of enlightenment. They claim that we can always choose to manifest whatever reality we really want by using our consciousness to select it from the infinite fluid potentiality of electrons in their superpossession. These pseudo profound claims are actually a kind of philosophy porn that exploits our deep longing for genuine insight and relief from suffering. Soothing cognitive distortions or maybe soothing our own anxiety by constructing ways to magically gain control over the world is just a side effect of our evolved ability to imagine the future. If only quantum entanglement really did mean that loneliness, relational disfunction or political polarization was just an

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