So, I have to explain this outright, but first, I want to tell you that I’m having a human experience. Things do happen in my life, but in the world I live, work, and play in, I take 100% responsibility for those things.
So, yesterday, I wrote a post about not trusting the internet.
For the humans, this is the takeaway: I create that.
Do I do it consciously? No.
But am I responsible? 100%
So, here’s a fun tidbit. Have you ever heard of the Pauli effect?
“The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.” (from Wikipedia.)
I read about it in The Holographic Universe. If you want to question everything in existence, read this book.
I’ve known a few people since I’ve been coaching to be Pauli’s—always tech issues. At first, when there’s just one, you think, “OK, this could be a one-off fluke.” But, over time and repeated instances, you can see that typically, the tech works for most people… and for a select few, it encounters repeated critical failures.
It’s hard to say to someone, “Hey, it’s you.” But, now, I just send the Wikipedia page (which they usually read) and the book (which they usually don’t.)
I have a friend who is a Pauli, and technology illogically fails repeatedly in his presence.
When I stayed with him back in 2021 for about a week, I was still podcasting. This was the only time in the history of my podcast that I had issues getting it to upload. It refused to do it. Also, during that episode, the entire text I was writing to accompany the episode deleted itself. It was the most frustrating episode I ever produced… with him sitting in the room with me.
Do these people think in their minds, “I’m going to cause technology to fail?”
No.
But energetically, they create it.
Energetically, I create my unsafe internet.
I have shit happen with databases merging that is so wholly unlikely— I could tell you so many stories. Anything to fuck with my head.
Here’s an example:
Recently a bus company I’ve used since 2007 emailed me… EMAILED. They told me a ticket I purchased in May this year was reported fraudulent. They said since I’ve been such a loyal customer (it’s a small company) for years, do I know how this could have happened, and could I make a call to the bank to ensure they receive payment?
(I vetted the email and discerned that it was not spam. It also CC’d a real human, so I called the company to affirm who the human was. It was a lady in the accounting department. They transferred me to her, and I left her a message)
After calls to the bank and discussing with their fraud department, I found out nothing was ever reported as fraudulent!
The woman from the accounting department “dig some digging,” and the next day CC’d me on an email that it was another ticket, another route, from another person in another state, completely unrelated to me. She had no idea how my name became associated with it.
This shit happens to me. It’s bizarre.
You create all that is in your reality, and I create this.
When I studied Buddhism, our teacher talked about how you’ll have a job, and all of the people there are petty and dramatic, so you quit, and you get a new job, and it’s the same old people all over again.
She also gave an example of a relationship with a person and it’s terrible, so you find a new one and you’re like “I thought I already broke up with you!”
People think what’s happening in life is real. It’s not. It’s created by your mind.
So, while I write pieces like yesterday’s (about not trusting the internet), it’s not real. It’s part of my subjective experience.
It does happen, but it’s not happening at random.
This is the difference between people who get coaching and people who go to therapy.
Both are useful, but coaching is a space of 100% responsibility.
You take responsibility for everything. Even when it’s not your fault.
You are the creator of it all, even if not consciously.
This should be very empowering for you, because if you create it, it’s in your power to change it.
Have a great week ahead, and stay beautiful.
After reading yesterday’s post, I thought about it for a few minutes and decided not to encourage that energy in my life, so I didn’t comment, just let it go.
My universe supports me. I choose some things from the internet, and the rest I let lie.
But I’m going to look into your book recommendation.
It makes me think back to the underlying structure I saw during a mushroom trip one time, and how I realized that the universe is reflecting like a kaleidoscope. We put an emotion or energy or strong idea in, and it refracts and multiplies into infinity like a crazy fragmented picture, returning to us in unexpected ways.
So can we flip the script and carry a Midas Touch, turning anything into gold? Not only technically but emotionally as well