Suspension of Disbelief
Sheldrake is right, I am sure of it, but he cannot get traction within any scientific community and he is not charismatic enough to get a lot of traction in the religious or New Age communities. Alan Watts was the greatest when it comes to Charisma. Of course, Neville Goddard didn’t even try to sugarcoat his ideas. Goddard, therefore, says things in such a dogmatic way that it doesn’t always penetrate the reader’s mind in a convincing way. I ran into this problem reading Thomas Campbell, who is completely convinced we are in a simulation; but cannot explain it. Well… are we? I suppose it really all depends on your definition of a simulation. Do I believe in the accuracy of my experience of the objective world? I do not. I don’t believe things are as they seem to me. So if I had to define what I do believe about the objective world, I think it would be fair to say that I think my experience of it is similar to it; aka, a simulation. Once, many years ago, I was looking through ma