Mind Over Matter?

I found this podcast truly fascinating -

Mind Over Matter – Paranormal Podcast 506

especially the part about whether we can place hexes on people or not.

Because there were two times in particular in my life where I clearly wished to do an individual harm and I seemed to succeed on both occasions, although I didn't wish death on them.

Jim interviewed Loyd Auerbach about his book, 'Mind Over Matter: A Comprehensive Guide to Discovering Your Psychic Powers' and at about the twelve-minute mark of the podcast Jim brings up another book written by Sally Quinn, 'Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir' and how she brings up in that memoir about hexes she placed on three people who subsequently died pretty quickly.
In times of crisis, what do we really mean by ‘thoughts and prayers’?

This intrigued me, because years ago I had a Canadian boss who I took under my wing when he joined the company as a normal co-worker and told him who and what to be weary of in the company and why I had grown skeptical about the way the company was run.

That ended up being a regretful move (kinda) on my part in the long run, and while this guy was the main boss responsible for my eventual retrenchment from a company that I grew to hate, he really ended up doing me a big favour ... not that he was trying to at the time though.

And I heard that the company sacked him about a month after I was retrenched.

Ain't karma a bitch?-)

But this "hex" on the Canadian manager who I despised (and still do to this day I guess) happened to buy a Harley to ride to work and he would wear a jacket much like the one pictured above.
He would big-note himself by hanging this jacket over his desk chair in his upstairs open office for all the other co-workers to see, as if he was in a one-man motorcycle gang or something similar in his own mind.

Most co-workers just thought the guy was a dick and probably justifiably so, because he could barely drive a fork-lift (which was what he was paid to do when he was hired) without nearly killing himself, or others around him.

Can you tell that I really grew to like this guy over time?-) 

Now this one particular not so nice "wish" of mine happened one day when an image of this guy with two broken arms and a bung leg sitting in the company wheelchair came into my head.

I thought to myself wouldn't that be hilarious if that happened to the prick in real life?

I then went around telling a few co-workers who I trusted, about my vision and we all cracked up laughing about it.

About two weeks later on a weekend that I was working (so I have a damn good alibi that I wasn't responsible) he was up around the Sunshine Coast riding his bike and he had forgot to put his kickstand up, so I was told.

He went around a corner and got flung off his bike breaking both arms and damaging his leg and had to spend about six weeks being pushed around by co-workers in the company wheelchair, while he recovered enough to use crutches.

Me and the boys at work couldn't believe my vision came to pass so quick.

In fact, one of my work mate's laughter soon died down when he seemed to think I had put some kind of dark magical spell on this guy to bring it all about. 

And he made the remark to other co-workers who knew of my hilarious vision coming true that none of them better cross me in the future.

I see his point, but at the time I didn't think it was my doing, I just caught a glimpse of the future I saw and even though I hoped with all my will that this would come to pass, I'm not that egotistical as to think I could override God's plans for this dick that I despised.

Still, either way to this day I was happy at the outcome of that vision:-)

There is a veiled reference to another egotistical
 prick who was a boss of mine once;-)

On the other occasion I tried to see if I could do harm to a person by overriding their thoughts to steer them into oncoming traffic.

This guy was a complete stranger who had nearly sideswiped my car and was driving like a total jackass on the road.

I was so furious with this guy's driving I had thought about chasing this guy and punching him out I was so mad.

Then I had a thought about hearing Aleister Crowley mention how he got into a man's thoughts who was walking down the street and willed the guy to trip.

In my anger I wondered if I could get into this guy's thinking, take control of his arms suddenly and steer him about a foot or two over the double white line and bring him back just as fast before the huge truck that was coming up on the other side of the road passed this guy.

I tried to envision myself as this guy steering the car and quickly steering the car over the wrong side of the road and back just before the truck hit his car.

And the thing that totally shocked me was I seemed to be able do it, because at that exact same time that I willed this guy to steer his car into the truck's path and back, he did exactly that, as if I was steering the car for him.

Now this incident, more than the other one I wrote about with my old boss, really caused me to question whether I had influenced the guy to steer his car to the wrong side of the road and back, or whether this was just a synchronicity that the universe had conjured up to confuse me as to whether I had done what I thought I had done. 

To this day I still don't know.

The odd thing is though that I don't believe in the power of prayer to influence life events, because who has the power to tell God, or whatever it is you are praying to that your suggestion to what should enfold is better than their plan for what should happen?

You can hope all you want, a bit like I did with my boss, that something will happen in your favour, but in the end, what will be will be, I think.

But as Loyd remarks to Jim's question about the effectiveness of prayer in the podcast, "it can't hurt" ,,, or can it?-)

I thank God every day for my blessings, but it doesn't stop me from cursing my enemies ... whether that does me any good, or not.

God forgives, but I don't.

I can let things slide ... but I don't forgive, unless someone is truly sorry for what they did.

And then forgiveness has to be truly organic from deep in my soul, not just loose words that I say but don't mean to someone when I don't truly forgive them.

Forgiveness I find is something that can't be forced, no matter how much we think we should forgive.

Great podcast Jim and I'll have to try and read Sally's book, too.

Cheers.