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Prompts a pointing to this little tale (Asimov’s scientific perspective merging with mysticism recalls George’s words above):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Do_More_Than_See

Don

I think it is less about beliefs than it is about choices. We don’t always choose according to our beliefs, and sometimes our beliefs change. But to address your question, I think the answer is “both”. I think our experiences hone our beliefs, and our beliefs influence our choices and ultimately our experiences. I know this is circular, but then that’s how I think the universe operates.

Above I laid out what I believe, and it is so far consistent with my life experiences. Should something happen to change that, then I may modify my beliefs. (or go into denial).

And, to my detriment, I certainly don’t always act according to my beliefs. (Counter-productive habits I would think are the most difficult challenges to overcome in daily life, at least in my own experience.)

By vibrations I meant frequncy. In a general sense, Buddhists and Hindus for example believe that higher consciousness is a form of higher frequency energy (e.g. light or perhaps some other subtle form of wave-like energy), and lower frequency energy essentially condenses into the material world and matter (which Einstein himself determined is just another form of energy). This is where I find there is an interesting cross-over between physics and mysticism.

How I apply it to trading is that first and foremost I take my cues from nature – it is definitely cyclical and regenerative. Therefore so must be human behaviour. Can you predict when and where particular cycles will occur, and their magnitude? Very difficult. (Can you predict when and where a particle will be? According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, also very difficult) But can you predict THAT cycles will occur? (Hint: Look at any stock chart, and, perhaps dust off a Statistical Mechanics textbook and know that you can statistically know where a particle will be at some point in the future.) So I focus on trying to passively take advantage of cyclicality in the markets in a statistical way, without trying to predict specific moves. If I can capture enough cycle-bits within a reasonable time frame to effect a profitable outcome, then I have succeeded (in the market anyway). And … so far it’s not working.

Cheers,
George

I believe we are part of a higher consciousness that wishes to experience itself, and has created the context to do so with the material world (universe). I don’t how, or why. But I think we are here to experience our way through some kind of great journey, and how we relate to each other as pieces of this great consciousness is somehow important. The material world is also a manisfestation of this consciousness, a slowing down of it’s vibration, as it were. But we are still connected to and through it.

Shakespeare to me made a very spiritual statement when he said “The world is a stage”. That’s how I see it as well, but I don’t believe there is a fixed script. Our choices are the key to how we navigate and experience our individual journeys, and collecively they produce the “performance” that plays out on the stage.

When I look at things this way, the horrors and injustice out there make much more sense. No matter what our circumstance and the terrible price, it is only a role, and it is an intended part of the experience. What we “do” in this world adds to the sum of what everyone else “does”, and we each participate, influencing and being influenced by, directly or indirectly, everyone else’s experience.

And because the universe is so huge, I think that it is reasonable to extrapolate that there is other intelligent life out there in greater and lesser degrees of self-awareness and “advancement” than we here on earth – our particular little theatre.

In the physical sense, I think we are pure energy, in various degrees of condensation, imbued ultimately with enormous sentient intelligence. At the “lower” levels of vibration we can’t access all of that intelligence, but now and then with methods such as meditation we can tune in. Some people may be wired a little differently and can perhaps resonate with it by other means. As energy, and as physics has shown, I also believe that we can neither be created or destroyed, and that our consciousness at its higher levels retains the memory of its experiences (i.e. life after death). A good analogy of how we are inter-related would be the ocean. If consciousness were water for example, we may evaporate off and end up in the clouds, a lake or a river, or perhaps in an aquifer or icepack somewhere, but ultimately, somehow we flow back to the ocean. And I think we may be doing this many many times in a great cycle (re-incarnation).

Therefore, I further believe there is no downside to life, and no need to fear death. Also, being altruistic and thinking beyond oneself makes sense, because then you are engaging the greater part of more of you, and expanding your experience. Excessive focus on oneself limits that scope and opportunity for expansiveness. This is one of the challenges I think we have to overcome in the journey. That’s why I think we try to differentiate and organize ourselves in terms of moral principles such as “good” and “evil”. We instinctively know at some level that helping others helps (expands)us, and hurting others ultimately hurts us (diminishes or holds us back), because we are part of the same thing. But within these dualities, there are infinite shades of experience, and everything is relative to something else. (That’s why moral absolutes can eventually be contradicted, and situations found where they no longer apply or actually can become their opposite.)

Well there you have it. The world according to George. Can I empirically prove any of this? No. But it jives with my own experiences, and it jives with what I know of the physical world through sciences like physics. And now you know – I’m a nut-bar.

Cheers,
George

“Win”-ning systems: be it for the markets, the personal ‘abundant’ life, or geo-political exhortations, have run the gamut for a long time; from the dizzying heights of the Tower of Babel to unleashing the power within of Anthony Robbins…
Like yourself, I am somewhat of a skeptic here.

Don

[Your comments with MDan above on 'differences', and what you said on 'comparison' elsewhere, chime with some other thoughts I've been having...
'Differences' are indeed the touchstone (assay) upon which Man relate with one another; and seems to hold especially true in some of his most important areas of relations: communication and markets.

Let me dust off my dusty thoughts from the draft folder and see if I cant put it together.

]

Jeff