Category: Science – Quantum

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This Race is Already Run … Welcome to the Real World

When I watch and pay attention the universe reveals connections. I especially enjoy seeing random, unrelated topics dovetail elegantly.

Recently I heard Neville Goddard truisms in the pop-rock song “Elemental” by Tears for Fears: “.. this race is already run ..”

Neville continues with: “Creativeness is only a deeper receptiveness, for the entire contents of all time and all space, while experienced in a time sequence, actually coexist in an infinite and eternal now.” He recommends:

“Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination; disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire.”

“Ignore the present state and assume the wish fulfilled. Claim it; it will respond.”

So, is the world finished – deterministic? What of Free Will – these desires and wishes? Or is creation done and Free Will still exist?

The compatibility of Free Will and Determinism is a topic debated by scholars and philosophers for centuries.

Physical reality, the mechanics of cause and effect and our linear experience of time don’t allow for Free Will. Perceptions of destiny are be found here; “if it’s meant to be, it will be.” Deterministic.

Yet I perceive my personal experience as real, genuine and intuitive; my choices independent.  Free Will feels fundamental.

Holding these two contradictory positions as true is challenging: but worth pursuing. When I consider the principles introduced by quantum physics – the paradox becomes plausible. For the curious and analytical, check out this YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UE7tp7oSw

CrackingTheNutshell.com

Things don’t happen in a vacuum. We’re interconnected parts of a whole; a whole that feels tangible and certain. This can be helpful or harmful.

The damage is seen when too many people operate on autopilot. Habit, society and family conditioning create an unnecessary deterministic way to live. The cliché “same shit, different day” is thought normal and acceptable. Consistency is called reliability. Being capricious is fickle. Consider instead that consistency may be tedious and dry; and that whimsey and fancy enhance and enrich our spirit.

It seems people flip flop between the contractions depending on what suits them in the moment. The idea of destiny may alleviate my sense of responsibility for what’s in front of my face. A rote life is safe; until it’s not.

“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Without conscious intent to examine my perception of reality; convention and routine create a deterministic life absent of free will. This is a choice. And as a good friend reminds me – no choice is a choice.

Thoreau observed that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” My responsibility is to step outside my comfort zone. Push past the fear and discomfort about what other people think or believe.

The desires of my consciousness exist – here in the infinite, eternal now. I AM that. This is my real world.

“Ignore the present state and assume the wish fulfilled. Claim it; it will respond.” – Neville Goddard

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.” ― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

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The Air is More Than Empty Space

Sending blessings, love and energy through the airwaves is a satisfying and nourishing gift. People sense affection and support, whether they’re near or far away. It’s a powerful way to make a personal difference for myself and others.

This emotional force deserves careful attention though. People also intuit the malevolent vibes and often respond in kind. As the saying goes, what you put out you get back.

It seems logical that words and behavior expose my feelings. The power of my thoughts is less obvious. While I consider them private, their impact is tangible. Pretending otherwise is just fooling myself. The good news is that I create tomorrow with the attitudes of today. Let me choose those thoughts wisely.

Influencing energy through space isn’t science fiction or new age magic. Views conceived by psychics, mystics and clairvoyants are now scientific reality.

High-frequency radio waves bring Facetime and Zoom calls. Bluetooth delivers airdrop photos and my favorite tunes on a wireless speaker. I don’t need to know how it all works, but I’m grateful to the engineers and technicians that brought these marvels to life.

A century ago, science established that plants benefit when we talk to them. And recent studies suggest trees communicate with each other through their roots and soil. There’s a beautiful deodar cedar in my front yard. I stop and look from inside – appreciating her beauty and character, feeling peace. That she may feel this emotion from a distance and benefit is inspiring.

The air around us is more than empty space.

Striking a balance between science and fancy is a good approach for me. Experimentation and practice increase the confidence I have in my instincts. This is how I learned my intuitions are reliable and hunches to be explored, no matter how peculiar.

Taking responsibility for the thoughts in my head is a practical ambition. For those notions where science hasn’t caught up, I’ll follow my intuition and instinct.

Imagine it and make it real.

“All imaginative men and women are forever casting forth enchantments, and all passive men and women, who have no powerful imaginative lives, are continually passing under the spell of their power” – Neville Goddard; ‘The Law and The Promise’

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Cross Over and Join Me – In The Twilight Zone

Consider infinity, time and eternity. Thought-provoking concepts – potential mind benders.

There’s an episode from the 80’s Twilight Zone, called “A Matter of Minutes” that sticks with me. A couple somehow wake up hours into the future. They’re freaked out to see their home being dismantled and re-built by cloaked humanoids.

Running through the city they don’t see anyone they know. Eventually they learn these builders create the world minute by minute before anyone arrives – but only the bits that are used and observed. They glimpse a mystery and are captivated until they realize they’re trapped. There’s a very 1980’s ending – a bit eyerolling but still twilight zone-y.

How do these futuristic organizers know what bits are needed? That’s what stuck, poking my curiosity about creating the future.

Time is commonly perceived as linear; the way of clocks and days and years – forward moving like we see in the Twilight Zone episode. However, the theories proposed by quantum physics and entanglement allow more room for imagination.

The early 1900’s saw the introduction of the wave-particle theory. This is a new way to consider the physical universe and time. My favorite thought experiment from that era is Schrodinger’s Cat – is the kitty dead or alive?

Not many people go down the quantum rabbit hole, and eternity is a principle more often contemplated by the disciplines of mathematics, philosophy, religion and poets.

If I extend a little imagination and awareness in my day-to-day life, I can tap quantum possibilities. Reflecting on William Blake’s poem helps me go into the feeling of these lofty ideas, holding them briefly before practicality carries me back to the current moment.

Considering possibility just beyond my understanding pushes my mental boundaries, creating a ripe field to sow a future I might not have imagined.

“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”

― Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
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You See? Now Everything Is Different

Don Henley says life can change In A New York Minute. Yes, suddenly things can get a little strange.

More commonly though life evolves. When I look back at happenings a year ago, two years, ten; those things that made me crazy or filled me with joy – they’re gone. Replaced with new challenges and rewards.

Hindsight is an interesting animal. I see progress when I look in the rearview mirror; not just materially, but emotionally and spiritually. Finding myself in a place of peace and self-possession is gratifying. Appreciating this mindset gives me the momentum to keep up the discipline and awareness that got me here.

Human nature wants more; wants expansion. If I don’t grow, I stagnate. Fortunately, I’m predisposed with infinite wants and needs. New longings come up, new missions revealed; someone crosses my path and opens me to new opportunities for self-growth.

And it’s possible to more consciously direct my evolution. When I pay attention to my intuition, my gut; I feel those moments when change is possible. It can start out a bit fuzzy, but if I intentionally focus on the feeling, ambiguity fades. A shift in perspective is palpable.

The mystics are right – I can create the future with my imagination, and they invite me to try. By testing the hypotheses they present; the world becomes my canvas. What I’m learning is fascinating and revealing. Revealing the beliefs that block me; fascinating when unexpected benefits appear.

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Marcus Aurelius

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Tell Me a Tale – Spin Me a Yarn

We’re born into a story.  A story of culture and heritage – of country, shaped by region, city, neighborhood – fixed by family, gender, race and class.  We believe this story as truth.  Until one day … maybe, we can imagine something different.

When John Lennon and Yoko Ono released “Imagine” I was 12.  Their call for me was set inside my story.  Could I imagine no heaven?  No nation – no possessions?  No I couldn’t, not then.

Reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Dues; A Brief History of Tomorrow is opening my mind to a potential that John Lennon saw 47 years ago.  It’s uncomfortable, unnerving and exciting.

Let me step outside my story, my comfort zone; see reality from a different vantage point.  Change my perspective; make an actual paradigm shift.

Could I try on for size the possibility that there’s no heaven, no hell and purgatory just doesn’t exist?  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.  My sins won’t be punished; my sacrifices unrewarded.  No being born again.  All that exists is today.  If this is true – what changes?  Do I choose differently?

Considering I’ve depended on Karma – with a CAPITAL K to take care of some of the most egregious shit-heads of the world a new story is a huge ask for me.

Harari cleverly outlines psychological and scientific aspects of our “experiencing self” and “narrating self” – how our self-told stories shape what and how we feel.  He says that it’s “much easier to live with the fantasy because the fantasy gives meaning to suffering.”

Byron Katie’s approach – doing “The Work” to accept life as it meets me, helps move me off a story that’s grinding me down.  Make Inquiries.  Ask – The Four Questions and Turnaround:

  1. “Is it true?
  2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
  3. How do you react; what happens when you believe that thought?
  4. Who would you be without the thought?

… Turn it around, and find three genuine examples of how the turnaround is true in your life.”

This is how Byron Katie helped me “Let Go of the Big Mad”

It’s all a story.

I’m tellin’ ya – we gotta . . . TELL BETTER STORIES!!!

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[Pi:] “So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?” – Yann Martel, The Life of Pi

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