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Re: [idm] fiction reading, writing
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From: "Robert Feuchtl"
quoted 1 line but i guess gibson is not toffler..> but i guess gibson is not toffler..
He definitely read Toffler, though.
quoted 2 lines u shouldn´t. some people do and that IS sometimes the essence of the> u shouldn´t. some people do and that IS sometimes the essence of the > fantastic novels by these authors. see the future? william toffler did
Alvin Toffler, not William Toffler: Gibson is "William", or Bill. ;)
quoted 10 lines (read "future shock" and compare) and my mother did when she predicted a> (read "future shock" and compare) and my mother did when she predicted a > letter from the postman one day. I remember it very clearly: she got up > in a terrible mood and told me that she felt really bad and anxious, she > didn´t know why, was totally disbalanced and she had a weird dream of my > grandfather telling her that everything´s fine. after she opened her > letters we knew it. my grandfather had died 3 months ago and that was a > delayed note of this incident. so she predicted the bad news, the > arrival of the letter (not his death). i call this looking into the > future, yes. you don´t need to believe what I tell you, but I think > prediciton exists (evokes) in certain situations.
See: Arthur Koestler - 'The Roots of Coincidence' and Jung - 'Synchronicity'
quoted 5 lines we do it by interpolation/extrapolation of subliminal information. you> we do it by interpolation/extrapolation of subliminal information. you > can do it best the nearer you are to the moment that you want to > predict. there is a lot of hidden information that we can use to predict > situations to come. (meta-communication) nothing magical in the process, > one day it will be explored. I don´t believe in supernatural effects btw.
The super-natural *is* ~natural~ by definition. ;) seek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org