Ami Is Back!

Ami rejoins the Monday team after a two week absence, and the three of us continue as before without missing a beat. We start with two emails from Deborah. The first is about last week’s show with Louis and Walt: “LOVED Louis’ story about how he found his Kung Fu instructor; talk about when the student is ready the teacher will appear! Reminiscent of the Carlos Castaneda books or “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior”. “I guess he really taught him all he needed to know in that first lesson of when you receive a blow getting your eyes back on the target.So when you invite contrast, put your focus exclusively on the direction that you want to go – on the opposite end of the stick as Abraham might say. There’s nothing to be gained in dwelling on the blow you received but everything to be gained in focusing on the other end of the stick, the direction that you really want to go in. Or at least that’s how I interpreted what he said! “Though the discussion I felt fell slightly into the realms of naval gazing with the “unique or not” aspect  as ever it turned into another insightful & helpful discussion, many thanks to you both! “Oh & the punishment discussion brought to mind the subject of restorative justice which used to interest me greatly, definitely a step in the right direction within the present societal constraints.” Today, Deborah sent us another topic idea before the show: “I have just joined a writers’ group and someone brought up the subject of aphantasia, the inability to form a mental image, and I’m pretty sure this is something I heard you allude to a few years ago?? “This has really sparked an interest in me as it’s something that I’ve always had too, I’m able to conjure an extremely vague picture but if I try to focus on it, it sorts of slips off the page, melts away, it’s extremely vague anyway almost to the point that it’s barely there, in fact I’m not even sure that the image is there at all, or if it’s just that I know that I know what it looks like! If that makes any sort of sense… “Anyway, I certainly don’t consider it as a negative attribute but it has made me ponder – a lot!- how it affects our perception of the world, as we are all creating our realities, it’s all in the perception and evidently ours is very different to most, I just read that only about 3% of the population perceive (or don’t!) in this way. “So many possible repercussions; I see why words have always been HUGE for me, and have always attached such great importance to them. In what I’ve read so far about this, which admittedly isn’t much, people aren’t talking about the FEELING aspect of those who don’t clearly see images in their mind’s eye. For me, that’s massive, when for example Abraham talks about conjuring up a feeling of joy, boom, I’m right there, I wonder if we actually feel things more intensely as a result of this attribute (don’t want to say “condition”!) If we can’t picture something, we naturally turn our attention to how it feels to us. “Anyway, just thought it might possibly be an area of interest for discussion, or not! I sort of imagined Louis possibly having fun with this one.” We then start discussing aphantasia and quickly transition to lucid dreaming. Talk about shifting! Use the LOA Today app to send us your question for discussion: https://loatoday.net/listen