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Where do your friends get this stuff? Did they read the Sequences on LSD or something? Do they do anything differently in everyday life on account of it (besides talking about it)?
How did you get the belief that it is lawful?
I doubt it, for the sequences are very long and I don't think one's attention span would hold while tripping. They might have read David Lewis on LSD.
It comes from many different places. Friend A got here through psychedelics and Schrodinger, friend B through their families' Hindu beliefs dating back thousands of years. Oddly enough, they mostly agree with each other.
Not really. Many of them try to influence reality through positive thinking, but then this probably has psychosomatic benefits anyway. But, if for instance one of them was ill, they would use conventional medicine.
Why do I believe that the universe is lawful? Because it appears lawful, and due to reasons discussed in other replies to my post, and my common sense has marked the alternative as insane.
Well then, there's how you:
You observe lawfulness, not just believe in lawfulness. Whatever the source of that lawfulness, the lawfulness itself is right there in your observations.
Is it lawful independently of you, or is it lawful because you are God but have forgotten yourself? I suppose you could seek out and practice spiritual exercises to remember your true being as God, and only if that fails to produce a smidgen of miracle-working ability, consider that you might not be God after all. But "we are subject to physical law because we have forgotten our divine nature" is already too much like claiming to have an invisible dragon.