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From what I can tell, the idea is to attach thoughts to your hands, so that looking at your hands triggers the thoughts.  The guy said you have to do this all in about ten seconds, because the trick is to "fire up" all the sections of your brain at once and then implant the new thought.

http://www.hamr.com/ is the main website, and the tutorial is pretty much the same as the workshop I attended.  The main trick is to do each thought pattern twice - once with the new thought in the left hand, once with the new thought in the right hand.

I've probably done a rotten job of explaining it, but I can vouch for it.  It's been over a year since I did my self-confidence HAMRs, and I'm only now starting to backslide on it.

If you know how to reprogram your brain, that's magick.

A couple of years ago, I was at a pagan festival where somebody was teaching the basic techniques of Hand-Actuated Mental Reconditioning.

The class title?  "The HAMR for Witches".

You really think that's a promise she could keep?

What, precisely, is her motivation to keep the promise, given that you already believe she won't?

I want ultimate control over the passage of time, so I can finally start getting a decent amount of sleep and still be able to do everything I want to do.

Or an amount of money no less than $5 million, since I figure at that point I can quit my job and get those hours back as extra sleepytime.

Will anyone else out there be totally unsurprised when the final Matrix movie is released and we learn that the supposed "freedom" of Zion is simply another level of the Matrix?

You think perhaps those director dudes are Discordian and trying to say the very same message posted at the start of this thread?

What about his *left* hand?

Do I get a prize for having the 500th reply?

"all of the things of this world are of but one essence, for which there are no words. This is the greater part, which has no beginning and no end."

Ever hear Plato's allegory of the line?  It's like this spectrum of which things are more real or less real than other things.

On the "least real" end of the spectrum are things like shadows or reflections (possibly memories).  From there, you get into the "more real" things like actual objects, and then archetypes, and then on the "most real" end of the spectrum is that "one essence" you mention.  My professor could only define it as "is-ness" - the state of being, but I'm not entirely sure that's accurate.

He also did this neat trick where he'd put a perpendicular line dividing objects from archetypes, labeling it "imagination", and then try and put some sort of cruciform symbology to it all.

I wish I remembered it better.  Guess I shouldn't have sold that textbook back.

http://www.explodingdog.com/january2/onedaygodlookeddownandsaid.html

why do you want me to tell you that?

Who said he did?  Couldn't it have been a rhetorical question?

If Trollax can rip off Pratchett with his nuts

/me makes a mental note to avoid Trollax's crotch.

Oh wait, maybe they save them but they have to convert them because the people market isn't a very stable one. I'd like to see a conversion table with the value of a person's soul.

http://www.wewantyoursoul.com/index.php

Mine's worth £16790!

Here is another problem, though... how do you even know when you are having an original thought?

I hate this!  Did I really come up with the stuffed Stimpy doll with a scratch-n-sniff butt all by myself, or did I hear somebody else mention it when I wasn't listening?