Evidence of T.O. In Reality

Hey everyone,

Now, much the same as Sam I'm not quite done reading it through the first time, hopefully I can go over it again later and find a whole bunch of realtions with the book. This post, however, is about my knowledge pre-grapes of the concept of a Transcendental oversoul. Now I can't really give total sources for all my information as it is more of an amalgamate of what I've learned over the years through reading and movies and such. Good starting points would be The Universe In a Single Atom By the Dalai Lama, Dancing Wu Li Masters by Someone I forget and "What the Bleep do we Know?" A movie by someone I forgot as well. For me, the idea of Transcendental Oversoul (T.O.) as I understand it, is that humans have the ability to alter reality through their will proportionally to the amount. This is represented by the hypothesis that if everyone in the world simultaneously wished for world peace it would happen. I've heard this before and I've considered it a self-fulfilling prophecy, if everyone in the world was willing to wish for peace then they obviously wouldn't be fighting. At any rate, I've since seen alot of interesting studies that are in favor of the human's ability to influence things with their mind, though the effect is minute.

The most pertinent of these is research done by a japanese scientist by the name of Yamamoto, if my memory servers (which it probably doesn't). What he did was he took 10 bottles of water that were exactly alike, looking at them before any stimulation under a blacklight microscope, and then he subjected them to different mental stimuli. For the first bottle of water he had it blessed by a zen buddhist monk, when he looked at it again under the microscope the formation of the particles, which had been shapeless and random, had taken on a more beautiful, crystiline formation. No physical change was made, in temperature light or movement. For the next bottles he taped different pieces of paper with words on them onto the outside of the bottles. Afterwards he examined the water again under a blacklight microscope, the bottles of water which had kind or positive words on the had beautiful, crystilline formations. On one bottle of water he wrote "I hate you, I'm going to kill you." The water from this bottle was arrayed blobishly and was without a doubt uglier than the bottles with nice words.

Another example which goes more into the idea that the collective mind can bring world peace is a case test done by the city of washington in which, for a year, they employed 2500 spiritualists from assorted religions to do nothing but pray for goodwill within the city. The city police cheif predicted that it would take 4 feet of snow for the crime rate to drastically decrease however at the end of the case study it was shown that there had been a 25% reduction in violent crimes throughout that year with no "observable cause" (aka: no 4 feet of snow or anything that someone who didn' know about the study would attribute it to.).

Interesting stuff, certainly lends a bit of credibility to the theory. So whether you agree with me or think it's all a load of bullocks you should feel free to comment. Let's get a bit of back and forth going, make this more of a discussion and less of a storage for a bunch of essays. I'll find as many links between the text and T.O. as I can by friday, let's see how many we as a group can get.

I'm tired now, Night all.