thought experiment

I think this whole blog thing is gonna be like one big stream of consciousness like thought experiement. In which I may latch onto a few ideas (such as string/m-theory) to see if they could take us anywhere new in the quest for answers to those big questions (why am I here? What created the universe? etc) aswell as other questions science avoids answering (what is consciousness?) by saying that it is either simply a by-product of the brain or it is an illusion. Neither of these explanations are very satisfactory to me at all.

fate, destiny, god, whatever you wanna call it

I saw a bbc documentary about this guy called Abdul Haque. He was Afgani and had been one of the best commados against the Russian Army and had become sick and tired of his own people killing each other after the Russians left. To cut a long story short, he actually wanted peace in Afganistan. Eventaully he was in a position in which he had been a large number of Al-queda generals willing to defect to him, which would have possibly prevented the situation the world finds itself in now, he waited for the 'go' from the americans, but never got it. He was later tracked down and assassinated. Perhaps only because the Amerians wanted to use their newly developed technologies in Afganistan.
Anyway, the point here is that Abdual Haque could have been used. But he wasn't. You could say that destiny, fate, god or whatever had put him in that place at that time so that we didn't have to end up in the situation we are now faced with globally.
We didn't see the possible soluation. But that doesn't mean that there wasn't one present.
Can we not learn a great deal about such examples?

The power of thought...........

We used to think of the human brain as changable & malluable up to a certain age but after this age was reached, it was assumed this flexibility in the brain was lost. Now, scientists are starting to see that adult brains are also changeable & malluable. This could have profound consequences, such as people breaking free from things that they have felt trapped by in the past, possibly people breaking free of addictions to emotions and addictions to other drugs.
When you are thinking about something new and novel, you are building new neural pathways in your brain (over time), if these new & novel ideas are thought of extensively, then connections between the neurons in the pathways will become stronger and stronger.
These new & novel thoughts (such as repeating to yourself over & over again ''I'm going to have a good day and be a positive influence on other people today'') will create neural pathways that become used instead of the older ones (such as ''Man, I don't want to go to work today, it's going to be stressful and unenjoyable''), if a neural network isn't used it will shrivel up.
Because in science nothing is experienced directly, something always has to be perceived, filtering through assumptions, beliefs systems, past experience until it comes together to form an individuals reality: because of this, changing the way you think, builds novel neural pathways, which in turn, gives another route for the perception of reality to travel through, resulting in a new reality for the individual. All by the power of thought.

I wonder............

I wonder if through this blogging buisness if I could ever change my own reality and get a book published?