It’s taken me about 18 months, but I’ve finally come full circle with my thoughts about the lottery…
When I first started trying to win the lottery, I believed that I needed to do so through some sort of understanding. A lottery-nirvana. This evolved into trying out different techniques related to consciousness. Altering my belief structures, trancing, precognition, intention manifestation, etc.
As those techniques (mostly) failed, I began to think that science was the way to go. Think of an experiment, go through the motion, and be done with it. Plug and chug. I had turned away from the consciousness-based approach, and thought a more mechanical way would work. I looked at winning as a result of a series of successful experiments.
The problem with designing and executing experiments was finally realized and expressed in my post, Pseudoscience. The scientific method can only help us so much… but how do you turn a microscope on itself?
So I return to my first thoughts, with a more robust sense of direction. There is no mechanical way to win the lottery; from a machine’s perspective, the lottery drawing is a chaotic process. No amount of formulae can predict the future. Our destination is a result of decision - not determinism. The only way to win the lottery is to plug into a decision-making machine: Consciousness.
I’m still at a loss on how I’m going to do this… perhaps that’s why I continue to fail. I’m trying to find the middle path. I’m not there yet.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Maybe you should go and do a lot of good things… Or talk to a fortune teller. Yes future can be predicted, but jackpot is not the future.
We should know that if there is a future, if we can see it, we know it can’t be changed unless we see it and deliberately change it. Maybe jackpot isn’t in your future, we should see through the future, and just keep working towards the “ultimate enlightenment” until we realize the true purpose of this world. I’m pretty sure that’s not related to lottery, wealth, or power, it’s beyond that.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
You will probably plug into it the same way most lottery winners seems to plug into it, completely by accident!!!!
October 11th, 2008 at 2:20 am
My 2 cents:
Why do martial arts teach you to redirect the attackers energy? Because sometimes tackling things head on isn’t the best way. No matter how strong you are, there’s always someone stronger than you. But that doesn’t mean you’re always be defeated. Sometimes you just have to take a different path to victory. Even if sometimes the only way to beat someone is not to fight them.
The lottery is a zero sum game. No, it’s worse than that, because the organizers always make a profit. Together the participants always lose have a net loss, although some might gain a little at the expense of others. So here’s the catch - even assuming psychic powers exist, how many other psychics would be playing the lottery at the same time? Each one trying to bend it their way? They can’t all win. And my suspicion is that their efforts would cancel each other out, unless one of them is orders of magnitude stronger than the rest. And how likely is that?
So what’s the answer? To me it seems obvious: find a non zero-sum game. Life is full of them. Do something great and you have a net gain. Screw up badly and you’ll have a net loss (example: the credit crisis right now). But at least in real life, on average, humans have been making a net gain. Compare our quality of life to someone a century ago.
Anyway, whatever you reason is for wanting to win the lottery, there may be a better way to achieve the goal behind that decision.
A site for your inspiration: http://www.project10tothe100.com/
Since I see you have a link to UC Berkeley’s videos, another site for you interest: http://ocw.mit.edu/
October 11th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Sorry for the typos, my fingers are disobeying me again glares at fingers
attackers -> attacker’s
you’re always be -> you’ll always be
always lose have a net loss -> always have a net loss
you interest -> your interest
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Creating Abundance
http://www.crystalinks.com/abundance.html
November 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Shantoruk, you make it sound like we’re trying to manipulate the lottery. We’re only trying to predict it.
In this case, we COULD all win. If all the psychics trying to predict the lottery did so correctly, they’d all win.