Belief

[jarandhel]

If you accept the premise that concentrated belief can create physical manifestations (ie: the concept that man begat the gods by believing in them) does that mean that things like Area 51, the Illuminati, the Hollow Earth, and the pregnant vampire elvis clone from the tabloids just might be real too?

I wonder...

(I should probably note that I'm in the midst of reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman at the moment, or else people will think I'm totally nuts.)

Comments

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

It makes you very interesting. :) I used to wonder things that were sort of similar to that, like what if every fiction story ever written corresponds to events that really happened in some alternate universe, but I never really thought about those things being real here. With the other thinking I've been doing lately about immanent otherworlds, I'm forced to confront that concept. And Neil Gaiman's writing is an excellent catalyst since it deals largely with those ideas.

You're probably right about the belief-energy thing too... although, on the other hand, maybe that's so only because we believe it is? *grins and winks*