This article asks questions about the possible links between the Law of Attraction, the Capgras Delusion and Parallel Universes. While it asks questions, we may be able to come up with at least partial answers en route.
It seems to me that this is the decade of explosion in the realms of physics. An explosion of knowledge, of assumption, of theory and indeed of fact.
Joseph Capgras, 1873-1950, was a French psychiatrist who, in 1923, first described this ‘disorder’ which he noticed in a French lady who complained of corresponding doubles in people she knew, including her own husband.
Quite a lot has been written on this subject ever since, following various experiments and observations. The latest is that it’s been seen to occur in people who show no signs of delusion whatever. It’s thought that about 2.5% of the World’s population are subject to this condition. This is where it becomes interesting. See how the thinking’s changed?
First, it was because people were delusional. The reason for this was brain damage. Then over the years, it was discovered that people didn’t need to be brain damaged, nor delusional, to be subject to these experiences. Could this possibly be linked to parallel universes? And if parallel universes, the Law of Attraction? Are people in some way ‘willing’ these experiences with their doppel-gangers?
I know my wording of this article could well be criticized. The great difficulty is that we’re trying to explain a type of physics that we don’t truly understand in the only possible way; in language we do understand.
One of the great theoretical physicists, speaking on television some time ago, told us that the laws of physics as we know them are probably just the tip of the iceberg. That there are other laws about which we know absolutely nothing.
Another very telling comment was made by another doctor of physics, that the mind is the only reality. So I feel that no longer do we simply suggest that perhaps the Law of Attraction, etc., is real. We now know it is. There is no further doubt, nor should there be in anyone’s mind. It’s now a case of learning the best method of ‘plugging in’ to the Universe.
Meanwhile, we go on using the Law of Attraction to the best of our abilities. I intend to pursue the parallel universe question, too. Moving from one universe to the next, seeing how their various histories developed and meeting our doubles is a positively mouth-watering concept!
So we have to ask ourselves. Is the Capgras Delusion really delusional? Apparently not. So the question is, what exactly is it?
