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What's Yours?

Have you ever had an experience that changed your understanding of the world, or your beliefs about what people are capable of? 

For me, the first big one was correctly separating a whole deck of cards into two piles - red and black - when I was 21, with 100% accuracy. That really happened to me.  Or rather, I really did that.  And in the big scheme of things, it was just playing cards. We were just playing around.  But it happened. 

 

I remember going back into my dorm room afterward and sitting on my bed, going over it again and again in my mind.  I kept trying to figure out if my neighbor had tricked me or made it look like I got them all right.  Something.  But it was too simple for that.  He held up a card, and I said red or black, and he put it in the red pile  or the black pile.  

I remember thinking in a startling moment of clarity, that if I could do that, then people can do that.  And if people can do that, what else can we do? And then I remembered an earlier question about what people can do from my childhood. I remembered sitting in church on a week day (catholic school) in third grade, staring at the back of my friend's head.  I was mad at her.  She couldn't see me, but at some point, she turned around and looked straight at me as if to say, "stop staring at me." Busted.  I knew she knew I was staring at her, and I knew she wanted me to stop.  And I remember wondering, in another startling moment of clarity, how she knew? How do people know when you're staring at them? And what else do they know? 

 

Lots of other odd or unlikely things have happened in my life, but even just those two experiences of what can reasonably be called telepathy (the playing cards and my friend knowing I was staring at her) were evidence about what we are capable of.

 

If I had lived my day-to-day life with that "evidence" or "knowing" front of mind, I might have had a really different life.  But I forgot.

 

I think I knew I would forget, because I wrote a list (I called it "The List") of all the weird and cool and impossible things that happened to me.  But I didn't carry it around and read it every day, and I forgot.  We forget all the time.  It's a problem. 

Or if we don't exactly forget, we forget to remember.  We forget to live as if those experiences actually changed our beliefs about ourselves and the world. 

So I am creating The List project to collect stories of the weird and amazing things that have happened to us. A collective List. 

Because when we make a list of the impossible, cool things that actually happened in our lives, sometimes over and over, we start to pile up EVIDENCE that we are more than we think.  More than we believe. 

And we know that what we believe determines the boundaries of our experience of reality. If we believe we are powerless or dull or ungifted, that will be our reality. And if we can confront the overwhelming evidence that we are powerful beyond measure, magical and gifted, that will be our reality.  We have to remember.  We have to remind ourselves and each other. 

The List Project is seeking stories to re-enchant our lives and deepen our beliefs about who we are. Please submit as many stories as you can remember. None of your information will be shared without your consent. Thank you for contributing! 

The List - Contribute Your Own Stories

  • The List project is seeking stories to re-enchant our lives and deepen our beliefs about who we are.

  • These stories are usually memories in which you suddenly experienced a profound awareness about yourself or the world in a way that has persisted over time.

  • What are the weird, cool, unlikely or impossible things that did actually happen to you?

  • Have you been living as though that Evidence was real for you?

  • Submit as many times as you like; your data will never be shared without your consent.

  • Thank you for contributing to this research project!

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