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I do believe there is consciousness in other dimensions, it just manifests differently for everyone. Personally I have not seen any ghosts, though I have some friends who have said they did/do.

Thanks for all the responses so far! It's quite an interesting topic, wouldn't you say? :) Perception definitely influences reality, but no matter how much we may want to perceive things a certain way, sometimes static reality can't be altered by our views alone - like a stone will still be reasonab...

I agree about not being controlled by your thoughts, and how you can watch them flow instead of "jumping" into them...but that wasn't really what I was talking about in my post. It was more about how thoughts can influence reality (though what you said does have a bearing on the issue)

So we can say that thought influences reality, but only to a certain extent - like in your example of the meteor. But I don't think it's fallacious to say that thoughts CAN have some influence on reality. And who is to say which perspective is right or wrong? Though I do agree that the further you g...

But doesn't thought influence reality? What you think does impact how you feel about something.

It's a generally agreed upon truth that how you perceive something affects what it is to you. If you see someone as good, he will be good, if you see someone as irritating, he will be irritating. So far so good, right? In fact, it could be argued that the entirety of anything is exactly how you perc...