my mind has officially been blown!

[mikegrove4]

After careful consideration I am posting this in the creativity section as it pertains directly to my ITLAD inspired and very itladian novel.

when reading this, bear in mind that I hardly walk anywhere (usually go by bike or car) and that something changed our minds (google maps on my iphone) about which route to take.

My wife is currently in hospital after enduring months of back/leg pain and then a five hour operation today.
The kids and I decided to take the 15 minute walk form our house to the hospital this evening (mainly due to the fact that it cost three quid to park for an hour and a half in the grounds!).
We started our trip a little unsure as to the best route to take, having not walked the 'shortcut' to the hospital before. We took a turn up one road and then decided to take an alternative route upon looking at google maps on the iphone. This meant going back on ourselves a few yards out of the turning we'd just taken.
So there we were, ambling along folllowing the screen when I noticed a little bundle of folded papers on the floor.
I picked them up, gawd knows why, and unfolded them. There were three unmarked blank checks folded together. So? you may be thinking...

The cheques - ooh, I feel all weird writing it up now - are in the name of - blimey this is weird! - the lead chracter of my book! Daniel Payne

Now, I started writing this book over a year ago, and I am still only half way through.
I was almost dub-struck, and the kids were amazed!

I joked to them that maybe he is here just because I wrote about him, that I brought him into existance through my book. Also that perhaps we are all characters in a book.
We so easily could be, couldn't we?

[Anthony Peake]

Mike,

This is truly, truly creepy. It sent shivers up my spine just reading about it. How it must have felt from your point of view is just to weird for words.

You have been sending me instalments of Find A Penny as you have been writing them and it is the first itladian novel ..... and it is amazing. As I have said to you many times you are an incredibly talented writer and I have no doubt that a publisher will spot this and offer you a publishing deal .... if not then there is no justice in the world!

Maybe this is a subtle clue from your Daemon to say that you are on the right track .....

Tony

[Mr Erickson]

Nice one Mike, but literature is full of examples where writers have created characters and many years later, people with the same names have met the fate the writer bestowed upon them. The one I can think about, without having to dig out the article, which is full of such incidents, is of Edgar Alan Poe. He who wrote a story about a cabin boy who along with three sailors survived a ship wreck, but died and was eaten by the others. This story came true about 50 years after Poe had written it.

If Tony checks out my FB photos I did scan the article up for him there to read.

It will aid his research me thinks.

[mikegrove4]

Maybe I got the name from a previous life run?
Subconsciously planted in there in a life where I went to the hospital that day, but wasn't writing a book?
Maybe that find actually inspired the character's name that time (or this).
I can't explain how I came up with his name in the first place.
I doubt it was inception, since such a thing is generally deemed to be impossible.
It was in there already.

Anyway, it's not quite the same Mr E. I didn't predict anything. Although I appreciate the point.

The odds against finding a cheque (three) in the name of a character one has invented must be infinitely small.

in fact, if I had put that in the book people would probably sneer and think it an overly contrived plot device, no?

[Mr Erickson]

Anyway, it's not quite the same Mr E. I didn't predict anything. Although I appreciate the point.

Its not prediction I was on about it was the idea that you created this character. In the article I have they express the same sentiment, are writers and artist somehow creating the future.
Of course Tony would say no they are remembering it. I personally think there is only One Mind and that Mind exist out of time, so it can easily retrieve information from the distant past or the far flung future.

[jobsaboba]

Prediction is creation...... if there is enough energy at that moment then the prediction/creation comes true or in to being
If there is not enough energy then the prediction does not come true or in to being
We give ideas substance by believing in them, Everything that you can see in this physical life, started out as an idea, were these not predictions ? creations ?

from this perspective, all precog and strange occurences can be seen to be quite simple, and not that spooky at all.

jobsaboba

[Mr Erickson]

Prediction is creation..

Agreed but only if you Tony and the gang use Occams's Razor.

Everyone is talking about the same poo but, using different labels in my humble opinion.

[jobsaboba]

Prediction is creation..

Agreed but only if you Tony and the gang use Occams's Razor.

Everyone is talking about the same poo but, using different labels in my humble opinion.

prediction is creation has nothing to do with occams razor ?

the simplest answer is usually the correct one ?

i personally do not agree with tony and i would summise like yourself that i dont belong to any gang pml

i do however have my own understanding that is deepened by interacting with other souls that may hold the tiniest piece of my own personal jigsaw that i may have been overlooking.... it is usually the simplest piece !

i would further summise that from your "tone" and by tone i mean the way you arrange letters into words to express your thoughts, that there is a certain frustration within you at this moment in time.

if and i say if this is the case, may i offer a "simple" suggestion ?

just because you can see more than most, and may have a much deeper understanding, dont let the lonliness get to you.... encourage those around you with a little more care, you may find they will move forward at a much faster rate than simply pointing out their failures in enlightenment.

you are part of all there is, and yet you are all there is from a certain perspective, if you acknowledge that you are all that is.... why on earth would you put out a bad feeling only to have it reflected back at you ?

create what you will, recognise it before it occurs, be at peace with yourself.

NB: Let them sell their books..... soon there will be no money to buy them lol

regards

jobs

[Mr Erickson]

prediction is creation has nothing to do with occams razor ?

Well I beg to differ, thanks for your advice I do feel a little frustrated at the moment and I have no idea why. Maybe there is more to life than just sitting here day in day out reading books and getting inebriated.
Maybe I am missing the grandchildren who are thousands of miles away. Although if the idiots in control decide to start throwing nukes around at least they are in a much safer place than where I am.

Tony what about my idea posting your notes up or is that me being crazy lol

What I want is a article that clearly shows that top physicists claim to understand that the implications of the double slit experiment, shows that the photons are conscious, in that they are aware of where each other are, and they are aware they are being watched.
The sceptics refuse to acknowledge this, and that is frustrating because they are clinging onto a out dated paradigm.
I sent Rupert a article about how flawed the peer review system is and I think he might put it up on his site. They are using peer review to control and manipulate not only science, but public opinion. Its a gate keeper designed to stop anyone upsetting the status quo. Davies and Gribbin in their book the Matter Myth say that when a paradigm is coming to the end of its cycle, the majority will cling onto it denying the reality of the situation. This must be psychological, humans don't like change and prefer the comfort zone.

[jobsaboba]

These may be of some interest, they cheer me up when i am feeling, shall we say not myself.

http://youtu.be/cpbM_huqHBs
http://youtu.be/fF6jhQ2MRx0

regards

jobs