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Positive thinking – just another dumb dogma

April 27th, 2010 |

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Stop believing in Fairy Tales!

Positive thinking does not work! It appears to work sometimes, but so does religion, politics, police regulation and corporate control.

The rules (taught as guidelines), that institutions impose upon you, are not realistic or practical. They do not make life easier and they do not free you from problems. They fill you with false hopes and usually leave you stranded with the frustration of broken dreams.

Positive thinking is just another dogma. It depends on guilt and embarrassment to keep the followers chasing the unattainable carrot. It promises riches, security and power all by following a few simple steps and repeating the appropriate mantras on a regular basis. It puts up living examples of Positive Saints who’ve gone before you onto mega-wealth and glory.

If something really works, it works all of the time. Gravity seems to be something that really works, up until now, it has been consistent and reliable. Manmade rules are rarely consistent and reliable.

You accept that the earth rotates around the sun because it does so consistently! If once it didn’t, would your understanding still be complete? Of course not and humanity would frantically try to find an alternative law that did work. Yet, you accept the inconsistencies of positive thinking and other dogmatic teachings.

Positive thinking definitely does not work consistently. It is no different to religion, it’s another unproven set of organised and fantastical ideas.

In truth, the only people who make any money out of positive thinking are those who sell the doctrine. This is similar to those on the internet who make money by telling you how to make money on the internet. They have no product to offer, they are selling a dogma.

You justify the failure of positive thinking by assuming that you are subconsciously negative. You blame yourself for your failure to live up to someone else’s promise. You justify religion by stating that the mysterious god concerned somehow changed his mind through a mysterious thing called ‘His will’. The result is that you always feel guilty and blame yourself for your imperfect ways, even though those teaching the values are just as imperfect.

There are very few things that are consistent in life. Perhaps the only things you can rely on are: change, struggle, bad luck, death and taxes. This seems to be a practical summary of it all.

Perhaps the only thing you really have, is the challenge to make something wonderful in a world that is consistently uncomfortable.

So what now? Question what you justify and you might open the door to a new way of seeing this strange destructive planet.

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Hard work does not always pay

April 22nd, 2010 |

Author: Colin Perini

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Creative ways to give up

You have countless times when you did something extraordinary. Something that you were very pleased with. Perhaps you were complimented or even rewarded for your achievement, regardless it is not important. What counts is the fact that you did something wonderful and you have done it lots of times.

What were the magic ingredients that gave you such results? Was it luck, was it the result of hard work or something else. Well, it seems that luck (whatever that means) does play a role in life and hard work does not always pay off – ask anyone who has been self-employed for a long time, they will soon agree with that.

What was the magic ingredient that produced extraordinary results? Most likely it was your attitude. It took me about 5 years to learn to draw portraits. My final breakthrough came through frustration. I was annoyed at my inability to draw and in anger I drew a portrait of my mother-in-law at breakneck speed… and… it worked! I did not give my self-doubt and reservation time to kick in. I did not care and it worked!

Your extraordinary achievements often come about when you have relaxed your expectations and let the spontaneity of the moment rule your actions. Give up trying to be clever and you may well find that it is very easy to be amazing!

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I am here where are you?

April 14th, 2010 |

Author: Colin Perini

Creative ideas that will confuse you

When you are physically aware, you are in this world. When you are dreaming you are in the dream world. When you are in your thoughts you are in your imagination.

Regardless, you are always here now. You are wherever your focus is your consciousness is. Reality is what you are experiencing. There is no reality for you outside of where your consciousness is.

You exist in a sea of possibilities. This is the quantum world. It is an unformed infinite expression of eternity. It is the sparkling emptiness of swirling colours or white noise that you might experience when you close your eyes.

Whatever you are experiencing is your reality at that moment. When you close your eyes the visual world does not exist. When you fall asleep the physical world no longer exists.

Wherever you are, that is existence. There is no magical other place you can go to. There is not heaven over there, a dream time over here and a physical world in the middle. It is wherever you are. You are where your focus is! Your reality, your world is where your consciousness is at any moment.

Reality is where your consciousness is. You are all possibilities in the one place. You do not go anywhere, you just focus on a different aspect of your reality. Your conscious awareness varies according to where you have allowed it to wander.

When you meditate, you do not fall deep into a spiritual zone for the extremely holy. All you do is change realities but you are still where you are. There is no up or down, in or out. Where you are is the only place your consciousness can ever be.

So when you want to meditate, just stay where you are and drift into an alternative consciousness. You cannot escape from being wherever you are and you cannot escape from being a consciousness that observes these changing realities.

Help I can’t get away from my own awareness!

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Creative ways to swim through mud

April 9th, 2010 |

Author: Colin Perini

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A gift from the god of creativity… perhaps

I had a vision the other night, I thought I would call it that to make it sound as if it came from some sort of extraordinary cosmic source. I could have just as easily said, I had an idea, but that lacks authority.

In my vision I saw, myself continually being covered in large plain discs, one after another coming from all angles. I saw this as the continual onslaught of problems, petty and major that are always coming at us. I wondered how do I get out of this stupid and uncomfortable situation that persists through most people’s lives?

Surely there was some way out of the constantly annoying misfortunes, that life seems to arrange for each person. Imagine if you had good luck to the same extent that you had bad luck, what a life!

Suddenly I had a realisation, sort of in a cosmically inspiring and uplifting way, but without the music and drama that you see in the movies. I understood that the best you can do is to look for a thread of structure within the chaos of daily life. Try and maintain some sense of organisation within the regular confusion.

How do you do this? You have a plan, a direction that you are heading, Your plan will guide your decisions so that you will see opportunities amidst the confusion. Even if they are only tiny steps, they will still take you in the direction of your dreams.

So the outcome of this incredibly anti-climactic vision is: Even when you’re swimming through mud, at least swim in a direction that is of some benefit to you!

I rewrote this 'vision' as a story in my new creative blog 'Underground Delights'.

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How big is my imagination?

April 2nd, 2010 |

Author: Colin Perini

Infinite creativity and imagination

Many dream to be one with the infinite, to experience eternity in the moment, to feel timelessness in an instant. Unfortunately that dream is crazy, you already live in the infinite and you cannot help but live in eternity and experience timelessness in each instance. This is an infinite world in an endless universe. There is no finite. There are no sharp edges, there is no physical limit.

According to quantum science, every edge ends in an impossible-to-measure fuzziness. The science of fractals shows that every measurement is infinitely long. Take the coastline of an island. How do you measure it? Do you do it in kilometres, centimetres, millimetres? When do you measure it? High tide, low tide? How do you measure it? Do you follow every little inlet, every craggy rock and the shifting sands?

You can only take an approximation of every calculation. The more detailed you make your measurements the more impossible it becomes. The more liberal you make your measurements, the more incorrect they become. Science can measure to the atom. Science can also measure to the light year. This is not much use to someone measuring a coastline.

There are no correct measurements, there are only practical values can be used to get a relative appraisal. Everything is impossibly long, infinity exists right here and now.

Time is just as impossible to measure. How do you measure the moment? Is the moment an infinitely small slot in time? How can you measure the now in which we all live. It is an instant that forever changes.

We see changes occurring as the combined result of these infinite slices of time. Everything occurs in an impossible to measure moment.

We live in an infinite moment in an infinite world with immeasurable distances between us. Good, bad, high, low… everything is relative to another thing and nothing can be measured without comparison.

So use your infinite imagination to express your eternal creativity!

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