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A hassle-free movement to blogspot
June 25th, 2008 by OsmanI am freezing this blog and moving over to blogspot: moodr.blogspot.com. I am not going to transfer posts and comments from here to there.
The reason is blogspot is becoming much more easy to use day by day in comparison to a self-hosted wordpress blog.
Hope to see you there.
Personal Change group on Facebook
May 7th, 2008 by OsmanI have created a group on personal change on Facebook. Here is the address of the group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10661521114
This group is going to be bilingiual, in Turkish and in English. So far, I have only made one announcement about two or three books and I made it in Turkish. I will start doing my announcements and send messages in English immediately after at least one person who doesn’t speak Turkish and can understand English joins the group.
I hope we will make a significant change.
I would like to get back on the scene but how?
January 17th, 2008 by OsmanFor the last week, I was thinking how to go about this blog. I am sure with the quality of my writing, I am sure about the quality of the opinion I have etc. That’s not the question.
The question is, the internet is too much trade oriented. I have set up a blog about alternative approaches to clinical psychology, depression etc. on the Psychology Blog. I have written a couple of dozens of blog posts there and I got immediate attention by key word advertisers. Sure that was commercial.
The attention that I got there was about something. This something was not the quality of my opinion. It was about the quality of the sector and search engine communication capability of my opinion.
When I go and look for the popular blogs on Technorati, things are still the same. I am jealous with people who made it possible to become famous with their opinion. One such blog might be Daily Kos. Another one might be Hot Air from Michelle Malkin (I don’t like her at all though). So, those blogs are political. There are also not political blogs like the Dooce. Dooce is a better example of what I would like to do just because it is not much about having or talking about something to trade.
Anyway, those are important examples. Blogging for having your voice heard is hard. I don’t feel the need to listen to everybody in the world. No one feels that need either. So, I have to create a difference. I should open up my world a little bit and transform it into words, phrases, photographs, maybe sounds too and publish that to the world’s interest.
Anyway, that was one short kind of a brainstorming. There are more to come I hope.
The role of action according to the secret - 2
October 7th, 2007 by OsmanLet me continue.
First, I would like to point out that this is not an advice about sitting at home and doing nothing. Instead, this is to discuss how action is irrelevant to what is told in the Secret.
The Secret, and it’s source, the Teachings of Abraham by Abraham & Hicks claims that to create a castle is as easy as to create a button.
This is not an arbitrary comparison. Law of attraction is here to tell us that this material world, this physical reality that we live in is in fact just a reality of our creation. In this creation, there isn’t any difference in terms of difficulty or complicatedness between creating a handful of sand and creating a galaxy because both are same in difficulty and complicatedness.
I, personally, can’t suggest you doing nothing, not acting and just thinking what you want to achieve or have or do or be. With my current standpoint, current addictions, current perception of reality, I cannot seem to do that.
I just try to tell you that action and law of attraction are not in harmony, they are just in conflict.
Law of attraction just promotes action in joy, which means you think of a red Ferrari and take it right away when it appears. So, it doesn’t tell you that you are going to have a brilliant business idea and you are going to work for that idea and then you are going to easily have the money to buy that Ferrari. Even this is not something encouraged by the law of attraction.
Again; this is not something that I am defending, advocating or promoting. I just tell you that using law of attraction doesn’t entail that you will easily work hard.
Therefore, it is tautology that you can achieve working hard by using law of attraction. By the rules of the law, that just means you attract the experience of working hard and the universe manifests it for you.
That was the brainstorming for the role of action according to the secret.
New age thoughts: Where to go from here?
August 13th, 2007 by OsmanI have always been interested in mystical stories, new age thoughts and teachings, the bleeding edge of science, etc.
After years of reading, thinking, talking about “what does it all mean”, nowadays I came with a conclusion on all things I have researched so far.
The movies “what the bleep do we know”, “the secret” and the books of Abraham’s teachings, some hands on, useful information on quantum physics are really helpful to sum up what you know and what to make out of what you know.
If I were to write down what I am feeling recently, and all the things those feelings suddenly brought to my life, I had to write a book!
But since this is a daily blog post, I will not going to make you drown in details. Three quotes from “the secret” may be successful on summarizing what I feel exactly at the moment, and there is only this moment; it is always now.
Learn to become still and take your attention away from what you don’t want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life.
You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.
That’s what it all means.
Where teachers of the secret do wrong
August 10th, 2007 by OsmanI look for web sites of people who claim to understood the secret and teaching the secret. Most of them, or most popular ones also showed up in the movie “the secret”.
However, I see something that is not compatible with anybody who understood the secret.
Those web sites usually begin with a prejudice of opposition. An opposition that they think people will have when they hear the secret. While they try to eradicate all the doubt from people, they show the unawareness of creating the opposition while they think about it.
This is seemingly a wise marketing move where the seller tries to decrease the doubt in the buyers mind. But hey, we are talking about the law of attraction! While you focus on the opposition that people or potential buyers may have, you are creating and perpetuating this opposition.
What I tell here is not a counter argument to the secret or the law of attraction. This is not something I tell for the sake of good marketing. This is just a quick note to tell that if you keep your attention on that opposition that people may have then you are on the track of creating more opposition and perpetuating the opposition that already might be there.
Just my a couple of cents 
I’m in Mardin
July 25th, 2007 by OsmanI came to Mardin on Monday. I’ll be here for at least a couple of days. Here are four of the first photos I made here:
This city itself is a miracle. You should visit Mardin. It’s hard to tell. The marvelous sight of Mesopotamia is something worth seeing. You can test human eye’s capability of how far it can see.
I’ll continue to post photos and thoughts.
Thoughts become things
July 24th, 2007 by OsmanWell, nowadays I am mostly busy with concepts that are introduced in The Secret and What The Bleep Do We Know. What those movies say are almost identical. The Secret is absolutely based on facts that are explained in What The Bleep Do We Know.
The main idea is that the universe would be a set of possibilities and nothing would happen or nothing would turn into reality when nobody is there. This is hard to swallow. This is not the physical world we are being told at school. This is something different than what we got used to believe.
Briefly, there are particles that creates an atom and those particles do not provide a reality until they are being observed by some mind. To get a hang of this, please see this Wikipedia pages about the slit experiment and the observer effect.
This means that our minds are able to create this observer effect. Well, frankly, this means that we provide an observer effect and create most of the reality that surrounds us.
It is very likely that it rains when it rains just because a couple of hundreds of people are believing that it will rain or is raining.
This is where thoughts become things and The Secret has to be understood that way. You can create your reality.
Now, a couple of questions arise in my mind… When most of the people think without knowing the secret, they are creating realities for all of us, unconsciously. Those who know and don’t know the secret both broadcast waves of thought while sleeping. Whenever they dream of something during sleep, it is very possible that they are creating a reality somewhere.
What do you think of this?
About the secret
July 23rd, 2007 by OsmanI have seen the movie, finally. After that, I have scanned the book over at a friend’s home. I like the idea of being a co-creator of our universe. And that’s all about it.
The secret can’t be thought of without quantum physics. Quantum physics came to a conclusion like this: There can’t be a universe, without mind entering into it.
I can understand that people object to the secret because of several different reasons. One of them is secret’s being a little consumer oriented and tells about having a new home, a new car, new commodities, more money, etc. However, it is very normal to have cosumerist view of the secret when it is pronounced by Americans. U.S. is the result of hardcore capitalism, this is their culture, this what their culture has been built upon.
On the other hand, that doesn’t mean that the secret is all about having lots of money and being free to spend it as you wish. That’s just par of the secret. That’s just when you concentrate on finance.
Instead of concentrating on what the secret is influenced by, you can concentrate on what the secret is telling you about how to have what you want to have, including more financial assets as well as many spiritual improvements in your life.
On of the teachers that shows up in the secret says “I have seen many miracles. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing in relationships…”.
So you can keep cool and concentrate on what you want and forget about the examples in the secret that don’t seems interesting to you.
You really have to open and free your mind whether the topic is the secret or not. You have to increase your awareness anyway.
It is really up to you.
Suggestion and decision in art
July 14th, 2007 by OsmanA couple of hours ago, I grabbed some paper and some painting tools, and started drawing and painting, arbitrarily as usual. I first used pastels and used them big. Photos of what I have painted are below. They are absolutely decided… by the material and technique I used.
Then I turned to color pencils and started drawing in smaller pieces. Every second I continue was a suggestion for the next second. Thus, the outcome was richer in the context of being art. At least in my humble opinion.
That was the day so far.
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