I sense you feel threatened, don’t be Alan, I do not mean to cause that. You mistake arrogance as a direct threat.
I said “…I have taken an interest, and would like to read your publications.”

You’re an ambulance chaser Alan for the Automobile Insurances companies, a paid expert by the courts or a defendant…hahahah. But that a nice try, for your sake we call it science… I carry no such torches though my friend…of course I have called myself an artist, that seems just as bad.

“I shall tell you a truism passed on by a true Teacher: Anything beLIEved is a lie. Whether in “science” or “art” or any other domain of your mind. Belief does not make It so, nor does belief unmake Reality!” – Alananda…………….

Are you familiar with Ockham’s razor?

Let me play devil advocate, does it not come down to that dam cat in a sealed box. Belief is all you really have… belief has undone the human and made him into blind arrogant god. We have been here before, believe me. We are the inheritors of a dystopian nightmare, of which there seems to be no return, it’s a long road out of Eden, unless…an Extinction Level Event. Or at very least a paradigm shift into an even deeper, deeper belief.
Belief makes important men important; rock stars, painters and Caesars, and even statisticians.
Imagination has made this Universe, Imagination is belief.
A little quote for you Alan, you seem like a fine fellow, it’s based on belief….and its from one yours.

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” –William Blake

michael

No, sir. You “touch” no nerve with me. After letting go, long ago in 1976, of killing animals for the sake of knowledge, I have never considered the work I do wrong. Au contraire, as my French-Canadian wife would declare! (Twenty-five years and counting, this capital-M marriage! Third time lucky…)

I shall tell you a truism passed on by a true Teacher: Anything beLIEved is a lie. Whether in “science” or “art” or any other domain of your mind. Belief does not make It so, nor does belief unmake Reality!

I am not a “Statistician” per se, though once a Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, Statistics) blessed me as an “applied statistician”. I have applied statistical methods with a vengeance throughout a successful career. I also apply Pharmacology and Toxicology to practical real-world issues and individual problems in litigation (civil, criminal). Want to communicate with me directly? See http://www.alandonelson.com!

I have to tell you, “the mind” is the key to getting free of your own fetters. Love to speak with you! Please, feel free to visit here with us, in the foothills of NorCal. No s__t. Love to host you and any others that pass close enough by to shoot the breeze, comment on the geoengineered weather, of which we have plenty!

Let’s all us like minded folks get it together! Virtual community or geographical get-together!

May Love and Peace and Joy be our hearts’ content, always.

Alananda

michael

“The devil is in the details”

I assert that we have a critical task before us, each of us: Answer to your satisfaction, “What is the Mind?” Next question: HOW and WHY do YOU use “the Mind”? We do, each moment, each day, “conscious” or “asleep”. We have to break through the illusion of The Matrix, the only avenue through is penetrating Mind, the light at the end of Its tunnel beckoning, teasing us on.

Best I can offer.