Origins of New Thought Philosophy

🎙️Episode Highlight: If The Secret is So Great, Where's My Ferrari? 🎧

Welcome back, fellow agents! In this episode we are diving into the magic of non-linear generative engagement. Join me as we explore how shifting our mindset and embracing the complexity of reality can lead to both a more fulfilling and rewarding existence. We discuss little of the metaphysics of the matter, focusing more on the pragmatics (particularly what can be learned from the process of creatives and improvisors). From manifesting our desires to studying luck and the magic of surprises, we'll uncover the secrets to unlocking our greatest potential.

🔍 Episode Contents:

* Acknowledgement to Jamie Smart for the episode title

* Views on "The Secret" and manifestation

* Engaging non-linearly with life leads to a more rewarding and easier experience

* Many people have limitations and erroneous beliefs that prevent them from creating in a lighter way

* The metaphysics of engaging non-linearly

* The metaphysics are not 'supernatural'

* Humans believe they can understand how the world works, but many interdependencies are unknowable

* Lessons from improvisation

* Improvisation involves adapting and responding to the actions of your partner

* Whilst newer improvisers often try to force the scene in a particular direction, this never works

* A sense of possibility and direction is important, but one must avoid outcome attachment

* Nonlinear engagement is practically grounded in the triangulation of intention, action, and opportunity

* The linear approach, involving goal, planning, and control leads to overcome reality

* The power of thoughts and beliefs and self-fulfilling prophecy

* The concept of "as we think, so we are" and "as a man thinketh" is introduced

* Whilst we cannot always change circumstances immediately, we can always change our engagement with them which puts us on a different path

* The promise of new thought is that by changing our vibratory frequency, we can attract different things

* This concept may not be literally true, but it can still be a useful model for understanding how our thoughts impact our reality

* Phineas Quimby and the origins of New Thought

* Creating with all that that comes up in life

* 'The Luck Factor' by Richard Wiseman as a psychological explanation of the Law of Attraction

* Why a more magical take beats out the psychological take

* Rational analysis can kill the magic and inspiration

* Psychological explanations like Richard Wiseman's Luck Factor nonetheless can provide food for the rational mind

* To live in a nonlinear way, one served by going beyond psychological explanations and opening to the concept of higher forces within the universe that are not necessarily understood by humans

* The power of appreciation and abundance

* Those who see more possibilities in the world will find more opportunities

* Appreciating what one has in life attracts more abundance, while focusing on lack diminishes it

* The deeper truth of the Matthew principle: “To those who have yet more shall be given, and they shall have abundance; but to those who have not, even what they do have shall be taken away.” (Matthew 25:29)

Grab your headphones and get ready, because it's time to embark on another adventure with the Agents of Everything!

Until we next connect,

James Tripp

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