Déjà vu

Déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past. Déjà vu has been described as "remembering the future."

The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% of people report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. It has been extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience in laboratory settings, therefore making it a subject of few empirical studies. Recently, researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using hypnosis

Types of déjà vu
Usually translated as 'already lived,' déjà vécu is described in a quotation from Charles Dickens:
“ We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time – of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances – of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it!”

When most people speak of déjà vu, they are actually experiencing déjà vécu. Surveys have revealed that as much as 70% of the population have had these experiences, usually between ages 15 to 25, when the mind is still subjectable to noticing the change in environment.nThe experience is usually related to a very ordinary event, but it is so striking that it is remembered for several years afterwards.

Déjà vécu refers to an experience involving more than just sight, which is why labeling such "déjà vu" is usually inaccurate. The sense involves a great amount of detail, sensing that everything is just as it was before and a weird knowledge of what is going to be said or happen next.

More recently, the term déjà vécu has been used to describe very intense and persistent feelings of a déjà vu type, which occur as part of a memory disorder

Déjà senti
This phenomenon specifies something 'already felt.' Unlike the implied precognition of déjà vécu, déjà senti is primarily or even exclusively a mental happening, has no precognitive aspects, and rarely if ever remains in the afflicted person's memory afterwards.
Dr. John Hughlings Jackson recorded the words of one of his patients who suffered from temporal lobe or psychomotor epilepsy in an 1889 paper:
“ What is occupying the attention is what has occupied it before, and indeed has been familiar, but has been for a time forgotten, and now is recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if it had been sought for. ... At the same time, or ... more accurately in immediate sequence, I am dimly aware that the recollection is fictitious and my state abnormal. The recollection is always started by another person's voice, or by my own verbalized thought, or by what I am reading and mentally verbalize; and I think that during the abnormal state I generally verbalize some such phrase of simple recognition as 'Oh yes – I see', 'Of course – I remember', but a minute or two later I can recollect neither the words nor the verbalized thought which gave rise to the recollection. I only find strongly that they resemble what I have felt before under similar abnormal conditions. ”

As with Dr. Jackson's patient, some temporal-lobe epileptics may experience this phenomenon.


Déjà visité

This experience is less common and involves an uncanny knowledge of a new place. The translation is "already visited." Here one may know his or her way around in a new town or landscape while at the same time knowing that this should not be possible.

Dreams, reincarnation and also out-of-body travel have been invoked to explain this phenomenon. Additionally, some suggest that reading a detailed account of a place can result in this feeling when the locale is later visited. Two famous examples of such a situation were described by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his book Our Old Home[6] and Sir Walter Scott in Guy Mannering. Hawthorne recognized the ruins of a castle in England and later was able to trace the sensation to a piece written about the castle by Alexander Pope nearly a century earlier.

Déjà vu

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Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction is commonly associated with New Thought and New Age theories, beliefs, and practices. It states that people experience physical and mental manifestations that correspond to their predominant thoughts, feelings, words, and actions and that people therefore have direct control over reality and their lives through thought alone. A person's thoughts (conscious and unconscious), emotions, beliefs and actions are said to attract corresponding positive and negative experiences, or "harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction". The "law of attraction" states "you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your experience." Although this idea has been popular among certain philosophers and denominational adherents for centuries, the idea has received intense criticism from multiple circles in the media, the scientific community, and even some areas of the New Age Movement.

History
Some believers in the Law of Attraction cite a famous quotation from Gautama Buddha -- What you have become is the result of what you have thought as proof that the Law of Attraction has been known to mankind for millennia. It is also alleged that the same idea can be found in Hinduism and in the ancient Greek philosophies of the pre-Socratic Sophists. Some proponents also cite The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus as another ancient example of the belief, but a close reading of that text demonstrates that it deals with correspondences (As above, so below) and does not allege a causal relationship between a thought and the circumstances that befall the thinker.

One of the most important early books on this subject in the English language is As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (1864 - 1912), which was published in 1902. The title derives from the ancient Jewish Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." Allen took this ambiguous idea of a correspondence between "a man's heart" and his existence to a logical extreme, stating that, "The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires -- and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own."

In America, Allen's idea that "the soul attracts" both that which it desires and that which it fears struck a resonant chord in the New Thought Movement. Working from Allen's premise that one's thoughts attract "circumstances" that affect one's mental and physical situation in life, William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) used the term 'Law of Attraction' to describe the phenomenon in his 1906 book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics.

In the wake of Atkinson's success, other authors very quickly wrote their own books promulgating this new principle. For example, in 1907, just one year ater Atkinson's breakthrough was published, Bruce MacLelland brought out Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he declared that "dwelling on any quality of mind adds that quality to you, whether it be helpful or injurious," and also clearly set forth what was to become a classic New Thought epigram: "You are what you think, not what you think you are."

In the wake of Atkinson's popularization of the Law of Attraction, dozens of authors in the first half of the 20th century addressed the topic under various names, such as "positive thinking", "mental science", "pragmatic Christianity," "New Thought", "practical metaphysics", and the "Law of Attraction."

In March 2006 a film named The Secret presented the "Law of Attraction" to a new generation, and was later developed into a book by the same name. The movie and book sold at a tremendous pace and gained widespread attention across the media from Saturday Night Live to Oprah in the United States.

In September 2006 Hay House published a book by Esther Hicks entitled the 'The Law Of Attraction' which reached the New York Times best-seller list.

21st century Christian bestsellers such as The 4:8 Principle, Bruce Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez, and Joel Osteen's recent work in particular present a similar message, although dressed in explicitly Christian terminology with tacit biblical support (such as Philippians 4:8 and the Prayer of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10).

Some proponents of a more modern version of the Law of Attraction claim that it has roots in Quantum Physics. According to them, thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy. In order to control this energy, proponents state that people must practice four things:

* Know what one desires and ask the universe for it. (The "universe" is mentioned broadly, stating that it can be anything the individual envisions it to be, from God to an unknown source of energy.)
* Focus one's thought upon the thing desired with great feeling such as enthusiasm or gratitude.
* Feel and behave as if the object of one's desire is already acquired.
* Be open to receiving it.

Thinking of what one does not have, they say, manifests itself in the
perpetuation of not having, while if one abides by these principles,
and avoids "negative" thoughts, the Universe will manifest a person's
desires

This list of four steps, couched in quasi-scientific terms, is quite similar to, and was influenced by, the panetheistic "Seven Steps in Demonstration" first outlined in the famous non-denominational New Thought book Become What You Believe by Mildred Mann

• Desire. Get a strong enthusiasm for that which you want in your life, a real longing for something which is not there now.
• Decision. Know definitely what it is that you want, what it is that you want to do or have, and be willing to pay in spiritual values.
• Ask. [When sure and enthusiastic] ask for it in simple, concise language. . . .
• Believe. Believe in the accomplishment with strong faith, consciously and subconsciously.
• Work. Work at it. . . a few minutes daily, seeing yourself
  in the finished picture. Never outline details, but rather see yourself
  enjoying the particular thing . . .
• Feel gratitude. Always remember to say, "Thank you, God [or
  the universe]," and begin to feel the gratitude in your heart. The most
  powerful prayer we can ever make is those three words, provided we
  really feel it.
• Feel expectancy. Train yourself to live in a state of happy expectancy. . . . Act it until it becomes part of you, as it must and will.

And the most important fact is that, Believe in you Self, for instance, many of my friends tell me that they are lazy, by saying that constantly they actually BELIEVE in themselves and thats what happence, universe says "Your wish is my Command" and these people stays lazy. Rather they should always say I am not Lazy! and that will Work.

One of my friend Pankaj Muthe, in the course of general discussion said to me " Nikhil I am never Confused" and the way he said it, he actually believed in it, and I know for a fact that this guy never gets confused!

So folks remember "What goes around Comes around"; whatever vibes you will send to universe you are gonna get them back!

Nikhil Deshmukh

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Marriage?.. or Market? The Great Indian Marriage Market

Despite the economic and political empowerment of women, gender discrimination is all too alive in the country's marriage market
Have you read matrimonial in news papers? The most common lines you will come across are “Tall, slim, fair”

If you are a Woman and that too Indian, and if you are applying in Indian Marriage Market for the Position of Bride following are the pre-requisites

Tall, slim, fair (as in complexion), convent-educated, a working woman, a homemaker and, above all, `homely'.

These would have us believe that everyone is looking for a superwoman — a formidable deity raring to take on the challenging and often conflicting roles of super mom, glamour doll, a professional, and a compassionate homemaker and Rich.

And, it is this very mythical being whom eligible bachelors and their parents are increasingly seeking. Arranged marriages in India are undergoing a major transition, given the impact of modernisation on basic social values and institutions. Yet, even as modernity has promoted women's empowerment through education, legal reforms, political power and economic autonomy, gender discrimination is all too alive in the marriage market.

If you look at studies in these areas, you will be looking at continuity and change in Indian marriage patterns over a period of 30 years brings up interesting insights on the perceptions and aspirations of young men and women and their families within the institution of marriage.

A significant change, the study reveals, is that the "pretty" and "virgin" bride sought after in the 1960s has given way to a specific female ideal with an emphasis on physical attributes and earning capability. In the 1960s, while caste and family were important, the girl's "merits" were the prime concern.

Beauty was perceived more in terms of talent (like cooking, singling, household) rather than physical attributes; and "decent" dowry were the norm.

While education and caste considerations retained importance in the 1970s, "convent education" (a euphemism for `English-speaking' women), and "smart" were words used in a fairly big way. Specific physical requirements such as height and "fairness" were also mentioned. The 1970s also marked the emergence of the working woman.

The 1980s witnessed an increasing stridency of tone. Physical beauty — in terms of height and skin colour — clearly started becoming very important, to the detriment of "accomplishments" or talent. Adjectives like "pretty" and "virgin" gave way to terms such as "tall and fair". Working women came to stay, and income (the higher the better) became a virtue to be flaunted. During this decade, men put great emphasis on their background, their family, and the part of the world they were settled in, or wanted to settle in.

Adverts in the 1990s demanded the professionally qualified, physically perfect, working woman who was certainly not "pretty". Paradoxically, though, as the desire for the "1990s' woman" grew, there was also a growing yearning for the `homely' daughter-in-law, chosen through a matching of horoscopes.

On the whole, physical attributes of the woman gained importance throughout the period of the study, and acting as parameters of success in the marriage market. For both men and women, more emphasis was placed on professional degrees in the 1990s. In a positive development, women are beginning to get specific about the kind of work their men should be doing. Besides, in adverts for grooms, the requirement of an "only son" has shown a growing trend. This suggests a kind of protection for the bride from living with the pressures associated with the power structures of an extended family. Also, in today's urban context, the fact that the family inheritance is sure to accrue to one's husband is a definite advantage, she adds. However, as far as consideration for brides is concerned, caste, region and family have retained their importance throughout the timeframe of the study. Caste has also remained an important consideration for grooms.

In the face of the decline of the joint family, the demands on the potential bride and her family have become both specific and blatant. In an era of globalisation and free markets flooded with luxury goods, the bride's family is invariably expected to include these goods in the dowry package.

So, has anything really changed — in terms of people's perceptions and how women are viewed — in the Indian marriage market? There is no doubt that the motivation to acquire a bride who has the `right' physical attributes, who can bring in money (whether through a job or a dowry), and generally promote consumerist bliss, has intensified.

On the other hand, despite the growing accent on education and professional qualifications, the straight and narrow tunnel vision on the role of a woman, caste and family background remains unchanged. The relentless demands on woman continue.

Nikhil Deshmukh

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Thinking...
I belive that its the most powerful tool that Human's have been gifted with. Ability to think is something which makes humans different then any other animal.
Today I am thinking about Thinking..

Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model space forms and alien creatures and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Words referring to similar concepts and processes include cognition, sentience, consciousness, idea and imagination.

Thinking involves the cerebral manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions. Thinking is a highercognative function and the analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.