Now this is interesting. Manipulating Our Memories Of Food Can Influence What We Choose To Eat.

"We set out to test what we've known anecdotally -- that false beliefs have repercussions, affecting what people later think and do," said Loftus, whose research over the past three decades has changed the way scientists and the public view the malleable nature of human memory. "We proved this; however, we also discovered that food is a surprisingly easy target for memory manipulation."

This seems like a statement of the obvious, but think about it's implications for a second ..


False beliefs change what people think. What people think affects what they do.
A belief in this context is a belief, the truth or falsity are irrelevant, in either case it is the belief that changes how people think. True, false, or somewhere in between doesn't matter, we always think patterned after our beliefs, now don't we.

A belief is a meme, a unit of psychic contagion. Thoughts are just these memes dancing and copulating with dionysian abandon. A thought, is a meme, is a unit of consciouness in the presence of time. Just as an atom, is a unit of being in the presence of time.

So the big news here is that, at it's core, what we think affects what we do.

Thoughts change reality.

How could it be otherwise?

The meme is the filter thru which we see the world. Our reality tunnel, or a little piece of it. The thought arises from the input passing thru the filter. It is the brains response to the stimuli, fed thru multiple parallel filters and reintegrated. This then feeds back into the world in one action or another.

A zombie. A robot. A computer.

Programmed.

By who?

Did you consciously do it? Did you build your own reality tunnel? Did you choose the pieces?

You can you know. And by choosing the way you think, you can change the way you act. Reprogramming the human biocomputer.

That is the corollary to this. Change the way a person thinks, and you change the way they act.

Build memes. Cast spells. Enchant yourself. Once you learn to create conscious change in yourself, then you can create conscious change in the other people, and thus the world.

In the immortal words of Margaret Mead,

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

The change is happening all the time anyhow, you can be swept along on the tide, or you can ride the edge of the chaos.

It is our choice. Join the illuminati and gaze out from the pyramid. Or sleep and sway in opiate bliss. Or, of course, a constant slow rhythmic sway between one and the other, the continual choosing of which way we desire to go.

Magic is, after all, the science and art of causing change in conformity with will.