Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

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Now, related to this energy power, it's the idea that we have an energy field. Our minds control that. That vibration is something we can effect and in doing so it affects our reality. Higher vibration/greater control people can do a host of crazy-cool things with that energy power. They can attract the resources they need for sure. This is not so much what this book focuses on, as I think it's attempting to attract those that already believe that and are trying to understand what to do about it, i.e. how would you then given that learn to heal your physical body (Think in terms of how your immune system is impacted by stress... and you have considerably less stressed when you're happy vs miserable).

If you don’t and if you keep claiming scientific rigor, then it’s normal that some people will get suspicious. Most of your life involves being matter, being a tangible being. But you also give off energy, and because of that, you can affect both your body and the world around you by merely focusing your consciousness.

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From what I gathered, much of the criticism of Becoming Supernatural echoes what I have already said in You Are The Placebo.

P. 317 The afterward is highly relevant b/c I think some might stop and think he's only in the mind. In fact, no. This is reiterated in the afterwards that the point is to experience this in waking life and in our actions. He attempts in this section to tell you what that looks like and means. establishing of new languge and rituals that walk the line between existing uses of this same language He says that “certain people”, including people in the scientific community, might call his work pseudo-science. Typical of Dispenza’s work, Becoming Supernatural purports to marry the mystical to science. The author says that changing our bodies with our minds is scientifically explained by quantum physics.P. 276... very interesting study on the effect of oxytocin and stress. It's impact on the pituitary and amygdala. I did not know this. Interestingly, from my other research oxytocin is also produced by holding a baby, petting small animals, or also getting good sleep. He does a great job also describing vasopressin's release in similar fashion (also a sleep hormone). The French researcher René Peoc’h first demonstrated this very phenomenon in 1995. He built a robot with random-choice-generator software installed. The robot traveled forward, choosing to turn left or right at random times. Peoc’h built it to turn right 50 percent of the time and to turn left the other half of the time. It could even be used as a ploy to point fingers against an out-group to further stoke the support of the in-group of followers ( ingroup-outgroup is a well-known sociological phenomenon that can be used to convince people and you can read here how Tai Lopez uses it). Let's be clear, this book was shoved down my throat by a particularly obstinate friend. See I need to say this because I get it. The pseudoscience books that reek of an enlightened pile of motivation and you-can-do-it, because your brain is awesome, DO NOT get me going. I am not the TEDTalk kind. This is not that. Thank you, good friend, for the constant "did-you-start-it-yet". I was unwilling only for the first 20 percent of the book, then I pushed him aside took the book to a corner and devoured it. Right off the bat, either you will buy into his concept of energy vs. matter or you will not. I absolutely do, but I know from experience a huge portion of the population will not. If that's not your deal, you can just cross this book off your list until you are more open to the concept.

the parts where it actually presents interesting information on biology and it presents the way it might link with spiritual knowledge (it would have been truly great if instead of praising his techniques and advanced workshops, he would have used the book to present his hypothesis on that more in depth) Dr. Joe Dispenza has a single-minded mission: to help all of us to shed the limitations of the present and reclaim the multidimensional life that we were born to lead. By underpinning deceptively simple practices with hard brain science, Dr. Joe proves that the supernatural is in fact our natural state of being—and also within our ready grasp. Fasten your seatbelts. Read this book, sample his paradigm-busting techniques, and be prepared for a wild ride into your limitless potential.”

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Thus, to focus on the outcome rather than on being mindful and compassionate on all parts of ourselves that are stimulated or agitated by our circumstances is to miss the point and set ourselves up for disappointment, frustration and disillusionment - not to mention, more likelihood that we’ll repeat the same patterns in our lives until we integrate the parts of ourselves that are unconsciously creating them rather than just focusing on using the subconscious to manipulate and control outcomes. P. 91 This is spoken about in many places, but you get a bit more flavor on how dwelling builds up the stress reaction. The mind is worried and narrowly focused preparing for worst case scenario. But in this section he then talks about what it's not preparing for. The problem in other words is not that people dwell, but it shifts their focus from the world they want to have to the world they are afraid of having. This means the body also prepares for that, i.e. stress/adrenal reaction, etc. Hence, we over stimulate this response.

Personally, I wouldn’t even call it pseudo-science. If you can’t offer proof that is replicable and falsifiable, then it’s not science at all. Simple. Some generic expressions also don’t help to pinpoint what we’re talking about. Starting from the title for example, what’s “common” and what’s “uncommon”? The author weaves three kinds of ingredients into an entertaining life philosophy that might help some people feel motivated enough to help themselves mainly through harmless (could be beneficial) meditation. From a gifted scientist and passionate teacher, this unique and practical guide shows us—step by step—how to move beyond the limits of the known and into an extraordinary new life.” We can create better lives for ourselves—and that we are not linear beings living linear lives, but dimensional beings living dimensional lives. Hopefully, reading it will help you understand that you already have all the anatomy, chemistry, and physiology you need to become supernatural sitting latent within you, waiting to be awakened and activated.”– Dr. Joe DispenzaThe fact that those seminars are expensive, private endeavors, albeit not constituting any proof against Dispenza, have to make a critical mind seek even more solid proof.