Pioneering Mystic Lectures, 2010

Stop Woolgathering!

Linda Mihalic, September 7, 2010, Cleveland, Ohio

“Don’t woolgather because what people say bores you. The Laws of the Crown states that there are no repetitions. Listen and be alert!”–Edna Lister, 1945.
  You could also state this law as: Pay attention, because you never know when the quiz is coming.
  This law is more important now than it was when given in 1945 because we now live in an Age of Abbreviation, of sound bites, and Attention Deficit Disorder that has nothing to do with brain chemistry but originates in the constant barrage of incoming info.
  The media speak of multi-tasking, but recent studies show that we are not very good at it yet. The problem, in light of this Law, is that we are jumping to conclusions more rapidly than ever. If you think that you know the message, based on the first few words or first clause, you are tempted to pigeon-hole it with, “Oh, I know what this is.” You dismiss the remainder and so on.
  To “woolgather” means “to daydream, indulge in a fantasy, to stargaze.” Wool-gathering is dismissing the message by jumping to conclusions. With Edna Lister, even if the topic sounded “old,” she was always saying something new about it. So, no matter what you think, something new can be said even about the oldest or the most often discussed topics, pay attention, for the quiz will be announced in that moment you need the information you failed to listen to.

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