Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable

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By the way, I can’t personally make chandeliers move from afar, and I’m not sure I aspire to that power.

We go through many tiny mythquakes every day: for example, we expect something to happen, but it either doesn’t happen in the way we expect, or doesn’t happen at all. For instance, when a client comes to me and says, like, I feel like the board’s going to go with a different decision than the one that I want, I’m really upset no matter what I say that I can’t talk sense into them and they feel like they’re losing control over the situation and that decision is going to go a different way. For the, uh, more adventurous, there’s a whole domain or discipline that explicitly works on and with this manipulation of belief, known as Chaos Magic.And then if the fear feels like it might actually happen to ask yourself, am I still a yes, even if it happens. That light there”, she said, pointing to one of the long light-fittings ten feet above our heads, hanging on their chains from the high ceiling. Well, in this case, if you’re feeling fire in your chest and want to scream, it’s a totally different experience and I might have been encouraged that client to grab a pillow and scream into the pillow because I believe that we want to move this energy pattern out of our system, because what happens is when we don’t feel our uncomfortable emotions, we freeze them in the body, and they’re left unprocessed and stuck in our bodies. But given my science background from school and suchlike, I was convinced that their approach to theory was rubbish: I was absolutely certain about that.

Which kinda suggests that for any change to happen, anything new to be created, we first have to be able to believe in the existence of that ‘something’, that doesn’t yet exist. If you think that, well, there must be some ordinary run-of-the-mill physical explanation, no can do – sorry. As long as we stay to the left of that ‘boundary of effective-certainty’ – the red dotted-line – we might have some variation, but effectively we can be certain that the outcome should be what we expect. We touched a little bit on today, like the difference between emotions that feel good in our body and uncomfortable emotions that feel like negative ones but then lastly, the action piece.

The concept of bending reality first entered the mainstream in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs in which he used it three times to describe why Jobs was so successful. Arbitrary assumptions, based on presuppositions about valid versus non-valid theory – in a context for which you do not actually have any concrete evidence at all. More importantly, than just feeling to the vision that you have is understanding what are the thoughts, feelings and actions that align with that vision. I’d mentioned it, somewhat in passing, in the earlier post ‘ Let it go‘, but let’s bring it front-and-forward here. There’s a very, very important get-out clause to this whole thing, as you’ll see when we get to the actual test itself – but if you skip forward to that, you’ll again miss the point.

because if we can’t do that, we’d be blocking our own access to that magic, which means in turn that we’d block other people’s access to that magic. What I found is that the more wound up our nervous system is, the harder it is for us to sit in any uncertainty. If one of your values is I want to make an impact in the world, then you can say, OK, how does pay my bills help me make an impact?

She has not only helped execute a challenging pivot towards building next-generation covid vaccines, but, perhaps more importantly, has helped us expand our vision of what HelixNano is and can become: global transformation of human health. So in a quite literal sense, we’re in the magic-business – the business of creating magic, of creating something new from, ultimately, nothing at all.