Is this an independent reinvention of the law of attraction? There doesn’t seem to be anything special about “stop having a disease by forgetting about it” compared to the general “be in a universe by adopting a mental state compatible with that universe.” That said, becoming completely convinced I’m a billionaire seems more psychologically involved than forgetting I have some disease, and the ratio of universes where I’m a billionaire versus I’ve deluded myself into thinking I’m a billionaire seems less favorable as well.
Anyway, this doesn’t seem like a good solution since even for every “me” that gets into a better universe, another just gets booted into the worse one. As far as the interests of the whole cohort go it’d be a waste of effort.
The number of poor people is much larger than billionaire. So in most cases you will fail to wake up as a billionaire. But sometimes it will work and it is similar to law of attraction. But formulation via forgetting is more beautiful. You forget that you are poor.
UPDATE; actually, the difference with the law of attraction is that after applying the law of attraction, a person still remember that he has used the law. In magic by forgetting the fact of its use must be completely forgotten.
The number of poor people is much larger than the number of billionaires, but the number of poor people who THINK they’re billionaires probably isn’t that much larger. Good point about needing to forget the technique, though.
Is this an independent reinvention of the law of attraction? There doesn’t seem to be anything special about “stop having a disease by forgetting about it” compared to the general “be in a universe by adopting a mental state compatible with that universe.” That said, becoming completely convinced I’m a billionaire seems more psychologically involved than forgetting I have some disease, and the ratio of universes where I’m a billionaire versus I’ve deluded myself into thinking I’m a billionaire seems less favorable as well.
Anyway, this doesn’t seem like a good solution since even for every “me” that gets into a better universe, another just gets booted into the worse one. As far as the interests of the whole cohort go it’d be a waste of effort.
The number of poor people is much larger than billionaire. So in most cases you will fail to wake up as a billionaire. But sometimes it will work and it is similar to law of attraction. But formulation via forgetting is more beautiful. You forget that you are poor.
UPDATE; actually, the difference with the law of attraction is that after applying the law of attraction, a person still remember that he has used the law. In magic by forgetting the fact of its use must be completely forgotten.
The number of poor people is much larger than the number of billionaires, but the number of poor people who THINK they’re billionaires probably isn’t that much larger. Good point about needing to forget the technique, though.