I'm starting this thread for those who want to intelligently debate shared dreaming and other psychic phenomena.
Skepticism is allowed, believers are also allowed... as long as they do not troll by trying to make ad hominen attacks in an attempt to get threads locked, as seems to be a popular tactic for those who are unable to substantiate their arguments.
Anyway,
Right,
I've been thinking about shared dreaming, and thinking of the benifits it would bestow upon whomever could do it.
Having thought about it, there are several thoughts I'd like to share. Having had these thoughts, it'd made me realise how very narrowminded we can become about these subjects, how we can only see them through the filters of our own lives. This got me thinking further, and there is a phrase I think that if you take the time to really ponder it, speaks volumes about the subject.
That pharase is:
"Necessity is the mother of invention"
Now what do I mean by that?
Well, let's take a completely different perspective here shall we, shall we forget our own happy healthy lives, our freedoms, our comfortable existence.
And let us project ourselves into the lives of others, who are not as gifted.
Necessity...
Consider for a moment, the thousands of people on this planet, both alive today, and the billions who have gone before us. People afflicted with chronic disability, or perhaps those who have been kidnapped, held hostage or are otherwise cut off from the luxury of social contact we take forgranted.
I'll stick with the disability angle as it avoids confusion.
Let's take one person as an example, Dr Stephen Hawkins.
Here is a man trapped in a body that does not function, to the point where he cannot even communicate verbally. Now think, how many others there are like him.
Consider, the intense motivations, the frustrations, the constant daily stress of not being able to communicate with those you love. The Necessity.
Let us stick with Dr Hawkins, and let us also remind ourselves, here is one of the greatest minds of our time.
Are we arrogant and short sighted enough, to not accept that people in this kind of position, would not have considered EVERY possible means to communicate with their loved ones possible?
Being stuck, trapped in their own minds, every single agonising second of each day.
Would you not crave a means to communicate?
Back to Dr Hawkins, here is a man who can outthink any of us here in this forum. He understand things that many of us would take years to even comprehend, let alone ADD TO the knowledge of those fields.
Do you think he, with his great mind, and the restrictions imposed upon his life, would not have investigated shared dreaming, would not have followed the lead through to a conclusion that could potentially offer him a freedom he can only dream of (no pun intended).
Do you think that if he saw a glimmer of possibility in shared dreaming, he would not have jumped into that possibility with a motivation to understand it, more than we could ever muster.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
So why?
When there are people out there, and have been for generations, who live such restricted lives, who crave to communicate with their loved ones.
Why have they, OF ALL PEOPLE, not developed this skill?
necessity is the mother of invention.
Now, put things into perspective people, see outside the box of your comfortable healthy lives.
See beyond the fuzzy warm feelings the new age books give you.
See the world for the place it is, both beautiful and tragic at the same time.
Think of the frustrations and deep deep aching motivations some unforunate people will have to communicate with others, when they have utterly no power to do so.
It may be all fun and games to play "lets share dreams" when it's just an oddity, a fun little game us healthy lucky people have the freedom to take lightheartedly.
But for some people, that skill, would be the doorway to freedom, a release that we cannot even dream about.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
So why then, with such a powerful and vastly overpowering necessity, has such a skill never been used as a release for these people?
Think about it.
And think about the minds of people like Dr Hawkins, who tower above us intellectually... people who would not only free themselves with such an ability, but would also be in a position to share it with the scientific community with an authority to have it taken completely seriously.
And consider what lengths people will go to for freedom, such as the young man who cut his own leg off with a spade, to escape the rubble of an earthquake recently.
If necessity is the mother of invention, then there is a very very big lack of invention, considering the wave of necessity that overwhelms so many peoples lives.
I think that says a hell of a lot.
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