Rant

While in the gym the other day (i can't stop referring to being in the gym, because i hate the gym, but it's so good!) i was listening to a podcast about Paul Bailey, an Australian writer who just published a book 'Think of an Elephant.'

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/spirit.xml

I havn't read the book, but i don't think i want to because it sounds a bit crap. I would probably consider reading it if he didn't promise to give you 'a new way of seeing and being in the world.'

This is what his website says;

Humanity is on the threshold of a breakthrough in perception as profound as the shift we made 500 years ago, from a flat earth view of reality to Galileo's orbital universe.We are awakening to a greater energy and power active within perception itself, realizing that perception does more than give us pictures of the world 'out there'. Cutting-edge science is showing that this greater aspect of our attention is the same influential energy that bonds everything to everything else as one seamless whole.Once these energetic links are found and activated in our lives, we are liberated and empowered in ways we dared not dream possible.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this an old idea? And didn't people think it would happen in the 70's, and it didn't (or maybe we should give it more than 30 years for the profound shift, i don't know.) And isn't there a recent trend for books and films (eg 'what the bleep do we know' 2005)
which could all be summarised as 'how quantum physics can transform your life...into something....not exactly what....but it will be awesome.....and you'll be a better lover....and you'll reach a different state of conciousness....and yay! i'll be awesome! Just read this book!'

I don't really have a point to this post, except to rant like an old man about people who try to fob off old ideas as new ideas and make lots of money out of it. Also Paul Bailey has a really annoying voice because apparently he used to be a business leadership development/motivational speaker person.

So in conclusion grr grrr grrrrrr to expensive new age wank. And now i'm going to go alter my state of conciousness by going to sleep.