Cosmic Ordering
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Cosmic Ordering is a New Age belief whereby an individual spiritually connects to the Cosmos to reveal his deepest desires with the belief that the Cosmos will use its energy to turn these desires into a reality. Cosmic Ordering is not tied to the dogma of any one specific belief system or faith although it does share some similarities. The act of Cosmic Ordering can be likened to prayer because it involves an individual communicating with the Cosmos. The cosmos can be likened to a deity in that it benevolently grants the wishes of those who make cosmic orders. Cosmic Ordering also shares similarities with Goal setting because it involves the pursuit of a specific objective.
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[edit] How to use Cosmic Ordering
Barbel Mohr describes Cosmic Ordering as a simple process whereby you have to write down your wish on a piece of paper and at a later point read it to the universe. She claims that an overly strong attachment or reliance on the success of a cosmic order can actually impede its success.
Andronicos Andronicou details seven stages of Cosmic Ordering which include writing in a Cosmic Ordering journal, visualising success, talking to the Cosmos, Destiny-symbols and having faith in success. Andronicou, in direct contrast to Mohr, stresses the need to remain focused on your Cosmic Orders and the need to consistently emotionally yearn for their success. Andronicou claims that successful results are delivered in a number of different ways. These include the Cosmos working through you to influence your behaviours and decisions so that you take appropriate actions which bring you closer to your wish. Also he claims the Cosmos is said to guide an individual to success via the portentious signs of synchronicity.
Stephen Richards claims he can make direct contact with the Cosmos via naturalistic means.
Nicholas Stanton has a hypothesis that by making the request, we are setting into place mental triggers in the subconscious mind that are constantly looking for solutions to the requests.
[edit] Criticisms
Cosmic Ordering has been labeled as pseudoscience as it has never been shown to work in experiments and it makes use of scientific sounding words like "cosmic" and "universe" without explaining their scientific relevance. As cosmic ordering makes observable claims, it clearly lies in the realms of science and therefore could be tested to see if it works or not. As the idea is appealing to the public and can be used to sell books and other things, skeptics claim that its supporters have no interest in showing that it works when it should be easy to do so.
One could imagine an experiment where a subject would wish for a coin to land on heads and the subject would then flip and record coin flips. If cosmic ordering worked, you would expect a statistically significant number of coin flips would then be heads. You could also imagine more eleborate tests with two groups of, say, 100 people, where one group would wish for one thing (e.g. weight loss, financial gain, a promotion), the other would not and you would measure which group succeeded in this respect the most. Despite the ease of testing whether cosmic ordering works, it has never been demonstrated so skeptics hold the opinion that it does not work and it is psuedoscience.
Any notion that people have that it does work can easily be explained with confirmation bias and/or lack of reasoning about probability. The explanation is that people will only count the wishes that came true (or perhaps partially came true) and will not count the wishes that did not come true. All explanations of any success with cosmic ordering are simply chance, but the user is simply ignoring the times it was not successful, not looking at what the chances are the wish will and will not be fulfilled and/or allowing wishes to be fulfilled in vague or partial ways.
For instance, Noel Edmonds, one-time presenter of BBC TV's Multi-Coloured Swap Shop claims that cosmic ordering got him his job on Deal or No Deal after wishing for a new challenge. Supporters here will fail to look at exactly what he wished for and will not look at the chances of the wish not happening. For instance, as Edmonds has worked in TV for a long time, it is unlikely that he would not be offered new jobs in the future, each giving him some degree of success. A new challenge could also be literally anything, from a lawsuit to moving country. If he hadn't been offered his new job, nobody would hear about this and this would not be counted as a miss against cosmic ordering.
[edit] Public awareness of Cosmic Ordering
Cosmic Ordering is a phenomenon made famous since late 2005 by TV presenter Noel Edmonds[1] Whilst presenting the British version of the game show Deal or No Deal he is regularly seen to have different symbols drawn over his right hand. He has revealed that this is due to his belief in Cosmic Ordering. Edmonds was first introduced to the book ‘The Cosmic Ordering Service - A Guide to Realising Your Dreams’ by his reflexologist. Noel Edmonds had not worked on TV since the end of his BBC tv show ‘Noel's House Party’ in 1999. One of his wishes was for a new challenge, and within months he was offered the chance to return to TV to work on Deal or No Deal.[2] Users of Cosmic Ordering view Edmonds as an example of its success. Barbel Mohr's website states that ‘The Cosmic Ordering Service - A Guide to Realising Your Dreams’ has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone[3]. It has also been a major success in the UK. It has captured the public's attention because of its explicitly positive message that everyone's ambitions are achievable.
[edit] References
- The Cosmic Ordering Service - A guide to realising your dreams. Barbel Mohr. ISBN 1-57174-272-7.
- The Ultimate Guide to Cosmic Ordering - Empower your destiny: Take control of your life. Andronicos Andronicou. ISBN 0-9554-6690-3.
- Cosmic Ordering Guide:Where Dreams Can Become Reality. Stephen Richards. ISBN 1-902578-24-4.
- Cosmic Ordering Connection:Change Your Life Within Minutes. Stephen Richards. ISBN 1-902578-15-5.
