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by bsenftner 1666 days ago
Some people seem to be able to will suggestive language, phrases, maybe audio additions to take them to an imagined fantasy they will testify in a legal court they "teleported and lived there". I made the mistake of discussing deep meditation as described by the Transcendental Meditation faddists during the Beatles hey days, and ever since that date I have been receiving emails and social media private message questions asking about "reality shifting", as if I'm some type of authority. I had no idea what this "reality shifting" phrase meant, so I responding describing literary authors who are known to have changed and elevated literature (basically, Nobel Literature authors) whom they did not know, but created some type of confusion circle. I still get about a dozen such private message contacts a month, asking how to "reality shift" with a half dozen acronyms and pseudo-science nonsense words in their peas to who they think is some type of reality wizard. I'm at a loss how to respond ethically to such irrational requests, they certainly do not respond to anything as I expect. Too often, the response seems to come from a perspective that I'm being coy, or testing their made up something or other. I feel like I'm on the tangential end of a mass mental disease.