THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
The latest literary sensation is expressed in book form: The Secret , and as a CD. The
premise is simple. Wish, concentrate, focus, send positive energy into the ether and
you will get what you want. Likes attract likes. WoW! That's all there is to get what
I want? Why did I bother going to graduate school and then some?
Oh - you detect sarcasm? a bit of cynicism? doubts? conspiracy?
OK - lets be non judgmental, fair minded, scientific, and experimental. If the claims of the author, publishers, and related associates, are accurate then running a controlled experiment should provide confirmatory or non confirmatory evidence of the validity or lack of validity of these rather extravagant assertions.
So in this connection I really want the following wants to happen really badly and I am willing, ready and able to focus, fervently pray, be as positive as I can be, compartmentalize all my negative doubts, insist, that I get what I want and want it to instantly happen.
Among my list of what I want and want it immediatley - or at least by tomorrow at this same time - are: 1 - At least 5 of the top book publishers finally recognize that I have written one of the all time enligtening, insightful, informative, entertaining, memoirs on the subject of behind the scenes of rehabiliation and recovery of heroin addicts in an innovative therapeutic community in the sixties in New York City - Odyssey House and do so by initiating a bidding war that becomes a major literary sensation in the New York Times next Sunday's book review - 2 - I want the same thing to occur - with my next book to be published on my forty year original research on the nature and use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) - qualified by the following criteria. As not to appear greedy I shall settle on only three major publishers to initiate a bidding war and they can have until Monday afternoon to contact me. Further they may have their choice as to how to reach me - either by phone, e mail, or carrier pigeon. 3 - I would like our President and the top Republican administrators to open formal and serious peace talks with anyone who wishes to come to the table - 4 - I want whoever switched Men in Trees to October Road to apoligize, indicate that they were trying to see how many Americans could be conned into believing that this idiotic , inane, poorly acted, poorly scripted, drivel could be touted as a hit production. 5 - I want a real alien from a prominent flying saucer to land in Washington D.C. by Tuesday morning and finally show all the skeptics that they are for real. 6 - I want every human being in the world to take upon themselves the responsibility to order their own chaos and stop trying to tell everyone else how to live their lives. 7 - I want to take these ideas seriously and begin a new posting copying all I have said up to this point. I look forward to the results of this experiment. P.S. I urge all those who are equally interested in this potentially remarkable formula to run your own personal experiments and share your objective results with the rest of us. |
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