Healed Planet

I’m finally reading Lynne McTaggert’s “The Intention Experiment“, a book I mentioned when I first learned of it, last December.  Have you ever had an intention for something that suddenly occurred, simply because you thought it? For example, you may have thought of speaking with someone, or calling him or her, and then that person called you, seemingly out of the blue.   Or maybe you were thinking of a particular item to buy and it suddenly showed up.  Has this kind of thing ever happened to you?  Please share.

His The Power Of Now was a huge hit. Now, Oprah has embraced him. Does this book live up to the hype?

Deepak Chopra has a new book, The Third Jesus.

It is sure to provoke controversy among those who have conventional religious views, but will raise consciousness among those who truly want to know just what Jesus would do. Over at Liberalland, where they have been kind enough to mention Healed Planet occasionally, there is a good Chopra post.

He brought us Transcendantal Meditation in 1958, and his book “Science of Being and Art of Living” taught millions the way to happiness and peace. The Marharishi Mahesh Yogi mentored, among others, the Mia Farrow and the Beatles.

The Maharishi left us Tuesday evening, passing peacefully at his home in the Netherlands.

Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, or is there someone else you look to for spiritual solace?

That’s the goal of a charity called Jalie’s Butterflies is doing. They have something called the Vick House Project, where they’d like to raise enough money to buy Michael Vick’s House and turn it into a shelter for abused and mistreated dogs. Talk about doing all one can to take a heinous situation and doing all one can to reverse course. Healed Planet hopes they succeed, but even if they don’t monies raised go to the ASPCA.

Given what we know about the Law of Attraction, what is it that has these particular individuals drawing such attention, both wanted and unwanted? And is this something they can control? If so, wouldn’t that mean we can control what and who it is we each attract?

Or is destiny beyond the reach of human influence? In watching the presidential race, it first seemed inevitable that Hillary was going to be presdient. Now there is an air of destiny surrounding Barack Obama. Is our future sealed by the destiny of certain individuals, having nothing to do with stances on positions, or even the voting process? Can we have any effect on outcomes of events such as electons? Let’s not forget that even though Al Gore won the popular vote, he did not become president because other forces were at play. Is our future pre-ordained, then, and how can the future be changed?

How do we make it better in 2008? First, how to you plan to change yourself. Second, how will you change the world?