Joe Dispenza

The book is about using Meditation and Visualization to reprogram your mind and body, but it throws in a lot of scientific references like Quantum Physics, Neuroplasticity etc. You'll learn.
• Key concepts and ideas from Quantum Physics, including how (i) everything in our material world consists mainly of energy, and (ii) where we direct our attention, we direct our energy.
• How your mind and body work in a thinking-feeling loop, to affect your internal biochemical state, and even your gene expression. Realize how you're unknowingly trapped in the past due to your focus on the body, environment, and time.
• How to create a new reality by injecting new thoughts/feelings to change your internal state. Discover Dispenza's meditative process--which involves 7 steps over 4 weeks--to start changing your mind, body, and external outcomes.
Book summary at: https://readingraphics.com/book-summary-breaking-the-habit-of-being-yourself/… (més)

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.

The ingredients are:
- perversion of science and scientific method by means of a completely flawed understanding of what science is and how it works
- misuse of evidence, and language around evidence designed to provide assurance
- establishing of new languge and rituals that walk the line between existing uses of this same language

This is a book designed to make you stupid, you might become happier, and solve your life problems but you will be a terrible scientist.

Science is not what happens when you measure something strange and mysterious, science is what happens when the community of scientists argue and try to find simple reasons to explain that strangeness and eventually find a shared explanation they all agree on. Science is the boring consensus, not the bizarre outlier, despite what popularising science books have been trying to do by adding interesting stories.

An interesting example is the reference to Rene Peoc’h and his baby chick experiment. This is not science until Rene does everything possible to openly share in questioning and finding explanations for the mechanism underlying his presumed ESP. The actual paper by Rene says almost nothing about the detail of its random number generator which is the crux of the reported effect.

A good book for a skeptic to learn the dark arts of white magic in self help like texts...… (més)