Re: sci.psychology.psychotherapy.moderated article for moderation
Dan R
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> From: alan <alan168...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: was Ouspensky right?
> Newsgroups: sci.psychology.psychotherapy.moderated
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> I once read a novel by Ouspensky entitled The Strange Life of Ivan
> Osokin, and have often wondered about it since then.
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> It opens with the epoynymous hero bidding farewell to his lover,
> knowing she's going on holiday with his rival and that she will
> probably wind up marrying him. He then reflects on all the bad choices
> he has made in his past, and what a mess his life is in, and wishes he
> could go back to the beginning and start all over again.
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> He relates all this to someone he knows who is into magic, and this
> person tells him that he could actually cast a spell to send him as
> far back in his life as he wishes to go - right back to the beginning,
> if he so wishes. However, he predicts that Osokin will make all the
> same mistakes again, and will wind up exactly where he is now. Osokin
> protests that of course this will happen if he has no memory of what
> he did the first time. The magician say "No, you'll remember exactly
> how you lived your life the first time, you'll remember every detail
> of the mistakes you made, but you'll still make them again, and your
> life will turn out exactly the same".
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> Osokin takes him up on his offer, goes back to when he was eight (when
> he felt things had begun to go wrong), and he makes every choice,
> every mistake, exactly as before, and arrives at the same point in his
> life as we saw at the beginning - in fact, the beginning of the last
> chapter is worded exactly as the first.
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> It would be wonderful to carry out such an experiment, but totally
> impossible. But has there been any research to suggest that, were it
> possible to live your life over, with full knowledge of your past
> mistakes, you'd live the same life again?
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