Cloudbusting: Dissolving clouds with your mind.

[Emproph]

I read about this in a 'new age' book about 20 years ago, how to dissolve clouds with your mind. I tried it and after a few times, it worked! :eek: :eek: :eek:

It’s supposed to show how your thoughts affect what you are thinking about.

I would even say it’s a demonstration of the effect of prayer. I just tried it again last July 4th ('06), and as usual it worked (about 10 times).

The other night I caught a portion of “The Fisher King” with Robin Williams. His character described this same process and referred to it as “Cloud busting.” I didn’t realize this idea was so mainstream so I did a search on Google for the term, I’ve included a couple of the links.

I would also say that all thought is prayer. You may be familiar with the term that ‘our thoughts create reality.’ In the physical we can Identify with that only to a certain extent. My thoughts don’t create the computer monitor in any practical or identifiable manner, my thoughts don’t even make my heart continue to beat as far as I am aware. Yet many of us pray and believe in the power of prayer.

So there is much of reality that our thoughts seem to have no effect upon. Too deep to get into right now, perhaps another thread. This is about one way that we can see how our thoughts/prayers DO affect the REAL and PHYSICAL universe. At least that’s the way I look at it.

There’s no particular “way” to do it. You just look at it (the cloud) and you think about it, then you think of it dissolving. Over the course of a few minutes it will dissolve and disappear, with a nearly 100% success rate.

Start small and work your way up. I did a big cloud one time but it took about a half an hour.. Boring..

From what I’ve been reading, a few things appear to be standard:
-It only works on the “puffy” cumulus type clouds
-No matter how much I concentrate, try, or desire, it never dissolves any faster.
-I cannot make clouds appear or make shapes of those that exist.

And remember, it takes a few minutes so you can turn your sight/thoughts away from the endeavor, even when you turn away or think about something else, I think the process is like a memorable commercial or song. When it’s over and you’ve left the room it continues to play in your mind. The same seems to apply to the thought of the cloud disappearing. When you turn back to continue it appears the original thought (of it disappearing) was still working..

Let me know if you guys have tried this. The only other thing I would like to try is to have several people working on one cloud at the same time to see if it could be dissolved any faster.

The implications of this are profound, think hurricanes, rain for wildfires, etc.

Good article, not nearly as complicated as described though, at least when you get the hang of it. ;)
http://www.neilslade.com/cloud.html

This guy videod and narrated the process.
youtube demonstration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X0fI_3QcQU)

[Zerbie]

The only thing Emproph, is, clouds dissolve anyway. Cumulus clouds are always doing that. There is nothing to tell us that our looking at the cloud is the cause of its dissolution.

I think it would be more interesting for you to talk this over with some quantum physicists whose experiments have led to some paradoxical discoveries about the nature of observation affecting the observed object. There's that famous paradox about Schroedinger's Cat, but I can't remember what the paradox was!! :lol: If you aren't already familiar with Schroedinger's Cat, give that a Google, as I think it will get you further along the track. There's a book by Fritjof Capra (I think, and I can't recall the name. It's at least 15 years old, but a fascinating study on 20th C physics, written for lay-persons interested enough to wade through the explanations.)

Then there are the famous yogi adepts of India reputed to actually materialize objects at will by summoning the atoms of the surrounding elements to come together in the form of, say, an out of season fruit that he wants to eat. IF such things are actually possibly, I'd suggest it takes a lot more than a few hours gazing at clouds to develop these skills. More like a lifetime, which seems to me if I had that kind of talent and that kind of time, I would want to devote it to something that would have a more profound impact on my spiritual future than giving me an out of season peach.

Great thread E!!!!!! :D

[BruceChris]

There is often considerable misunderstanding as to what Quantum Physics is actually telling us. Quantum Physics tells us that on a sub-atomic level, classical Newtonian physics no longer yields exact answers, or al least cannot be shown to yield exact answers. However, by the time that you are working with a larger mass, say anything from an atom on up, the law of mass action takes over, and any small statistical variations average out so as to be indistinguishable from that predicted by Newtonian physics. It's called the law of mass action. None of the physicists that I talk to have any thoughts as to how "What The Bleep Do We Know" could have anything to do with Quantum Physics.

Re Prayer. No one can really tell us what the difference is between prayer, meditation, and creative visualization. Perhaps these are all ways of preparing the mind to see that which we expect to see. Or perhaps ways of bringing these things about, perhaps subconsciously, by our own actions. (The lord helps those who help themselves?) I suppose, if you believe something strongly enough, in some ways it becomes true, but I take all things religious as being matters of faith, not scientifically discernible fact. If I could prove that God exists, I would not then be able to have * faith * in His existence.

Come to think of it, though, God could intervene at a sub-atomic level, and science could probably never be able to discernible it.

edit: I went and read this on google, and it reminded me that there is a whole lot about Quantum Physics than I remembered when I wrote the above.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AAB4F-7BC2-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21

Emproph, if what you say is right, there must have been an awful lot of bad karma coming out of New Orleans, about a year ago, and Zerbie, you are always a peach, and you are never out of season.

Peace and Love, Bruce Chris

[Emproph]

It's been know to get some people emotionally high, I wouldn't call it dangerous, have you tried it??

Is there a risk I'm unaware of? Besides the devasting failure of NOT being able to dissolve clouds with your mind... Like I can :weee: :flower: :weee: .

Ok, so there's a bit of a risk..

Taking EVERYTHING into consideration though, wind, evaporation rate, cumulous cloud-wise speaking, let me know when your failure rate reaches 10%.

I so want to pontificate with you both, molecularly and spiritually speaking but personally I'm set, I definitively can indeed dissolve clouds with my mind and furthermore contend that it's nothing special and that anyone can do it the same.

Have you ever tried it? What seems more apparent to me is the disbelief in it's possibility.

The most empowering dreams I have are when I move matter with my mind. They are so memorable now that when I have them I often check to make sure I am not dreaming! ...Often I’ve concluded that I am NOT dreaming and that I finally can indeed move matter with my mind – Invariably, and often disappointedly, wake up.

Who says God didn't write quantum cloud theory into the plan? We speak of Miracles, I say God would have to be a Miracle, assuming the garbage of this life does in fact exist.

It's no longer about dissolving litteral clouds, it seems to be about the mental "clouds" of disbelief that need to be dissolved first.

If you can "dissolve" clouds in reality that are miles away with just the thought, how much easier should it be to dissolve the clouds in our own minds?

If you believe in Love as God, then anything based on the idea of Bad is a cloud.