eThoughts : Forget About It

Forgetting may be saving our lives.

For instance, think about all of this research that purports to support prayer at a distance. Yes, there appears to be some significant findings in the research—even if it is not so consistent (there are those that have answers for that inconsistency). But the idea is not so uplifting to me—in fact it seems downright scary. How do others know what to pray about? In a world in which humans are more than occasionally running amok, just how do we know that what we pray for is a good thing?

Okay, we pray for goodness for ourselves and others. Uh, whose definition of goodness? How about love? How about peace? Same problem. How about health? If we’re able to pray into existence what we intend, don’t we need some sort of definition, some sort of specificity? Even with a Cosmic Helper, how much help can there be if our intent is so vague as to not be real intent at all?

Let’s take health. If prayer is so powerful—as in intent—perhaps some have consciously or unconsciously prayed illness into their lives. Perhaps illness is necessary for health. Think about that one. By praying for another’s health and well-being, do we run the risk of circumventing another’s prayer? Weirdness—now we’ve introduced the prayer competition. That would be an interesting Olympic event.

If prayer is so powerful, maybe we have we been praying all along and that’s the world we live in—the one we prayed for.

Perhaps prayer only works if it is good—by a supreme being’s definition. Maybe only the “good” prayers are answered. I see some problems there—what’s the importance of prayer again if we’ve got a Cosmic Censor?

This is getting silly.

The movie Sphere has something to say about this. Maybe we’re not quite evolved enough to manifest with any surety our mind’s wishes without the helpmate of forgetting. Perhaps we’re still engaged in such negativity that if we did not have forgetting, negativity would be the most likely manifestation (and we’re doing pretty good at that). After all, what was the crucifixion about—the human propensity to kill off good out of fear?

Perhaps, in the absence of fluidly transmuting our perceptions from one viewpoint to another, forgetting what we had in mind helps to keep the negativity at bay, and helps us to come upon Beauty without being encumbered by our fear.

Maybe the next time you can’t remember something, smile. It could be a life saver.