... but is it the only thing that takes leave of your senses? -- ps

This could be updated as follows: An individual's beliefs and their feelings/emotions behind those beliefs cause energy (lifeforce/light) to emanate from the individual being into Space Time and changes it for that individual predominantly, and affects others also to varying degrees. (Just a 2001 version for possible consideration). -- Linda Britton

Care to suggest a repeatable experiment that would test this?

See Jane Roberts.

Don't believe the following. Reality will cheerfully & automatically prove you right:

• Life is a valley of sorrows.
• The body is inferior. As a vehicle of the soul it is automatically degraded, tinged.
• I am helpless before circumstances I cannot control (see Solipsism). But sometimes you are
• I am helpless because my personality ard character were formed in infancy, and I am at the mercy of my past.
• I am helpless becaues I am at the mercy of events from past lives in other incarnations, over which I now have no control. I must be punished, or I am punishing myself for unkindnesses done to others in past lives. I must accept the negative aspects of my life because of my Bad Karma.
• People are basically bad, and out to get me. Some of them are
• I have the truth and nobody else has. Or, my group has the truth and no other group has.
• I will grow frailer, sicker, and lose my powers as I grow old. Yes, in general, you will.
• My existence depends on my experience in flesh. When my body dies my consciousness dies with it.
• I'm sickly and always have been. Maybe so.
• There is something wrong with money. People who have it are greedy, less spiritual than those who are poor. They are unhappier, and snobs. This is often the case
• I am not creative. I have no imagination. True of some people
• I can never do what I want to. If you wan't things unavailable to you
• People dislike me. Some doubtless do.
• I am fat. Maybe you are. I am.
• I always have bad luck.

These are beliefs held by many people. Those who have them will meet them in experience (far beyond the statistical phenomenon of psychological "filtering"). Physical data will always seem to reinforce the beliefs, therefore, but the beliefs formed the reality.

Believe these instead:

• You make your own reality.
• The self is not limited.
• There are no boundaries or separations on the self.
• The point of power is in the present.

Not all beliefs create reality in Space Time (e.g., anorexics believe they are fat without, in reality, being or becoming fat). Why do some beliefs create reality while some do not?

I suspect the root belief here might be "Food is Evil", no?

But food isn't evil, is it, despite what anorexics believe.

All individual beliefs create individual realities for the individual creating them (the beliefs); i.e., it is now true for them, regardless of whether or not it is true for anyone else (the Space Time reality). It is the emotion (energy in motion) behind the beliefs that does the actual creating.

Anorexics believe they are fat and live in fear of being overweight due to a sense of invalidity and self unworthiness. Modern psychology and psychiatry consider this is a disease of the mind. Spiritual individuals consider this to be a misunderstanding on the part of the individual as to the person's identity and value. Both scientists of the mind and those working in spriituality agree that the problems stem from the indvidual's past experiences and their opinions of those past experiences. In summary, the suffering individual, in this case an anorexic, is attempting to gain senses of validity, self-worth, acceptance, and love by looking and appearing in a certain way, i.e., slender. They usually consider the state of slenderness to be ideal or perfect. In their minds, if they are perfect-appearing, then they will be ok or accepted and loved.

No, food isn't evil. What the anorexic sees, feels, and believes is different than what we see, feel, and believe. Her mind has made it real for her. In effect, she is trapped and terrorized within her own mind. Perhaps we could look at individual realities vs. collective realities and how denial, past experiences, and opinions and memories of those past experiences affect each type of reality. -- Linda Britton

Religion And The Brain has got to be weird. (Either the page or the subject. It's a fair bet.)