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Quantum RevelationsExcerpted from The Scientific Illusion and the Relativity of BeliefsBy Anthony Forwood

Copyright (c) 2011 All rights reserved.

The World of Quanta

Quantum physics is the scientific field of knowledge that deals with what are

considered to be the most fundamental building blocks of matter, and the physicallaws that govern them. Collectively, these primary units of matter are referred to as

quanta, and singularly as a quantum. A quantum particle is generally defined as aunit of energy that is of a specific and irreducible size. According to the theoretical

framework accepted by todays scientific establishment, these quanta are consideredthe smallest possible constituent parts of all physical things within our universe. This

is because the mathematical formulas that are used to define the world ofmicrocosmic reality dictate that anything smaller than a quantum particle isnt able

to exist within the four dimensions of spacetime. Below this microcosmic scale ofmatter the laws of nature as we know them are said to no longer be sustainable.

According to the accepted scientific framework, all physical things in our universe are

made up of these minimal units of quanta, organized into specific arrangements thatbuild up in layered scales of ever more complex structural forms such as atoms and

molecules, plants and animals, planets and stars.

It is important to understand that all of matter everything that is at all physical in

nature acquires its physical substance through nothing more than fluctuatingpatterns of energy, ordered expressions of movement. This means that the physical

substance of reality that we perceive is really nothing more than rhythmical,

energetic motion in complex weaves and patterns. These energy patterns, at least asfar as science can tell us, begin at the imperceptible scale of quantum particles, andthrough their interactions with one another, build up into larger and progressively

more solid structures that become physically perceptible at higher scales. However,if this energetic motion should cease, there would be nothing. The physical universe

would simply disappear.

These patterns of energetic motion form the protons and neutrons that make up anatoms nucleus, which in turn form the hundred or so types of atoms that we know

of, which in turn can form into an innumerable variety of molecules. These moleculescan combine to form even larger objects that were able to sense and experience

more directly, such as rocks, trees, the air we breath, even our own human bodies,

as well as the planet we live on and all the stars and galaxies in the universe.Although many of the physical objects around us that were familiar with seem to besolid, at the finest microcosmic scale they are understood to be all made up of the

very same basic substance indivisible quantum units of vibrating energy. What wecommonly perceive to be the physical substance of matter can be more

fundamentally conceived of as a dimensional matrix of varying energetic patterns

dancing their rhythmic frequencies of movement.


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At the microcosmic level of these quanta, the actions and interactions between themare apparently quite limited in their possible diversity of organization, but as they

build into larger structures such as protons and neutrons, the possibility of

arrangements begin to increase, and this allows a limited variety of atoms to form.In turn, these various types of atoms are able to combine into a substantially greater

diversity of even larger forms, giving us an innumerable variety of molecules. Thesemolecules in turn are able to combine in even greater and more complex varieties of

structure, forming the plethora of physical things that make up our universe andwhich we sense and experience directly. In this way, the solidity of matter surfaces

to our level of awareness, emerging through a series of leaps of order in scale of sizeand degree of complexity (Fig. 1-1).

It has been more than a hundred years that these quanta have been determined toexist, when in 1900, Max Planck discovered that the energy of a photon comes interms of a basic indivisible unit of energy. However, because of their extremely small

scale of size and the resultant difficulty in being able to study them as individualunits, very little has been learned about them since that time. In fact, scientists have

never actually been able to isolate a single quantum particle, and can only studythem through less direct means. Nevertheless, through their efforts a number of

very remarkable discoveries have been made over the years that have been forcing

SUB-QUANTUM ENERGY

QUANTUM PARTICLES

NUCLEAR PARTICLES

ATOMIC PARTICLES

MOLECULAR PARTICLES

Figure 1-1


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scientists to change the way in which they must understand the fundamentals ofphysical reality.

Within the pages of this book will be described the general outlines for an alternative

understanding of reality that offers an explanation for all known as well as yetunknown phenomena. In order to introduce this new understanding, we will begin

by exploring certain aspects of the current scientific understanding of the physicaluniverse at its most fundamental microcosmic levels. We will give consideration tothe study of quantum mechanics and what this body of knowledge reveals about

reality.1 We will look at five significant revelations that have been made in the field of

quantum physics. Between the five of them, the reader will see that they offer aconceivable means for understanding reality in a way that can not only account for

certain currently unexplainable phenomena, but which also reveals consciousness tobe deeply intertwined throughout the fabric of reality.

Five Revelations

The first revelation of quantum mechanics that we will consider is that below the

level of quantum particles, at a microcosmic scale of time and space that is less thanthat of Planck time (10-43 seconds) and Planck length (10-33 centimeters), the

concepts of time and space are no longer in effect. At this sub-quantum level ofreality, the energy that emerges into the simplest material forms of quanta is itself

just a jittery, frothing sea of uncertainty. The dualistic opposites of our normal world,such as left and right, up and down, near and far, here and there, inside and outside,

before and after, etc., do not apply. There is no sense of causality or order as weunderstand them on the larger scales we are more familiar with. Quantum particles

pop in and out of existence in a seemingly chaotic and unpredictable manner,sometimes emerging long enough to interweave themselves into configurations that

will exist for a while, but which eventually disintegrate back into a haze ofuncertainty again.

Further, this frothing quantum sea of energy exists at every conceivable point inspace, filling even the microcosmically huge distances between an atoms tinynucleus and the electrons that inhabit orbits at its outer perimeters. This sub-

quantum energy exists everywhere throughout the conceivable limits of space, beingpresent at all points throughout. It is this underlying energetic field from which

matter emerges in its physical, particulate form.

This underlying sea of ever emerging and vanishing quanta is commonly referred to

as the quantum fieldor zero-point field. In this text, we will occasionally need to

make the distinction between the underlying energy itself and the quantum unitsthat arise out of it to form particles. For this reason the term sub-quantum will be

used to refer to the underlying energy itself, rather than to the quanta that form out

of it. This is simply to help the reader clearly understand what is being discussed.

The second revelation of quantum mechanics is based on what is known as Bells

Theorem, and is commonly referred to as quantum entanglement. This revelationdictates that two or more particles, once they become correlated through an

interaction, will thereafter remain correlated no matter how far apart they become

1There are, of course, other discoveries that have been made from the study of quantum mechanics, but they are not included here

since they are not absolutely necessary to our discussion, and to include them would only overburden the reader unnecessarily with

complicated information.


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from one another in space. They seem to be integrated in a way that makes thespontaneous and immediate exchange of information between them possible, even if

they happen to be at opposite ends of the universe. A change in any of theproperties of one entangled particle will automatically and instantaneously cause a

change in the corresponding property of all those particles entangled with it.Instantaneous long distance connections between physical objects are therefore not

limited by spatial distance at the quantum level, and the interactions of subatomicparticles that are continually occurring means that things are much more connectedthan they might seem at the human level of everyday perception.

The third important revelation gained from the study of quantum mechanics is thatof wave/particle duality, which means that every quantum of energy, such as a

photon or electron, has both a wave aspect anda particle aspect, rather than just aparticle aspect (as was once commonly thought). Although scientists had always

assumed matter to be purely particulate in form, the study of quantum mechanicseventually revealed that there is also a wave aspect to matter, and quanta can exist

in one or the other state. Further research has revealed that the wave aspect ofmatter exists even when its corresponding particle aspect does not. A quantum of

energy therefore exists primarily as a wave, but in certain instances most

specifically when it is being observed or measured a quantum wave collapseoccurs, and its particulate form springs into existence. In its wave state, it can beconsidered as existing only as a potential particle, and as such has no definite

location, being in all possible spatial locations at once. This potential, all-encompassing yet undefined location is referred to as the particles superposition. In

quantum physics, this wave state is referred to as a probability wave, because untilit temporarily collapses into a distinct and solid particle, the location in which that

particle will be located can only be defined as a statistical probability. It cannot bepredicted with absolute certainty.

This is an effect of what is known in quantum physics as the Uncertainty Principle.

This principle is based on the fact that predictions about the outcomes of quantum

effects can only be statistical in nature and therefore cannot be determined with anygreat precision these outcomes can only ever be determined as probabilities, not

absolutes. Although all possible spatial locations are covered by the wave in itssuperposition, certain locations will have a higher degree of probability than others of

being the eventual physical location. Some of these probabilities will be very highand some of these probabilities will be very low.

From the standpoint of the mathematical formulas that physicists rely upon to plotout the structure of reality, the determination of where a particle will finally be

located rests on the complex interactions of so many variables that it can only everbe calculated to a certain degree of probability. However, we do not have to worry

about mathematical formulas in order to understand that the underlying wave stateof a quantum of energy is always permeating every point of space to one degree or

another. When it collapses into its particle state, that quantum of energy can bethought to instantaneously condense into a single location to become a particle. The

energy used by the particle, however, is essentially still connected to the entirety ofits underlying sub-quantum source through its wave state. This is important in

understanding the mechanics of quantum entanglement between particles, asoutlined above.

The fourth revelation that quantum mechanics has given us can be referred to as the

observer effect, which has been indisputably shown that the observer (or the act of


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taking a measurement) has a definite effect on what is observed. This is tied in withwave/particle duality, in that the observer causes the wave to collapse into a particle

at one of its probable locations. This will obviously be of extreme importance informulating a more accurate scientific model of reality than we currently have,

because not only does it indicate that things are only definite when their observationforces the probabilities into one specific outcome, but it also indicates the more

profound realization that mind affects matter. This revelation will likewise beimportant to keep in mind as our discussion progresses throughout this book.

The fifth and final revelation of quantum mechanics that is of importance to our

discussion is that during the observation or measurement of a quantum particle, it isimpossible to acquire information on more than one of its properties during that

observation. This is another effect of the Uncertainty Principle. An example of thisrevelation is that it is not possible to measure both the momentum and the location

of a particle with any degree of accuracy. It is possible to measure any one property,but to do so causes an immediate change in that particle, making all other properties

uncertain. If we were to measure its momentum, for instance, this causes a changein its location in space.

All five of these revelations, which have been established through empiricallycontrolled laboratory experiments, have each been accepted by the scientificcommunity as indisputable characteristics of physical reality at the quantum scale of

matter. Between these revelations, we can see that beneath the perceptible surfaceof things, the deeper levels of physical reality are very much different from what we

could ever have expected them to be.

The rules of order that we understand and have relied on to predict and describe thephysical events that occur at the perceptible scales of our everyday world do not

apply at the quantum level, and a separate framework of understanding has slowlyand tediously been forming, which scientists hope will eventually provide a complete

and accurate description of events at this microcosmic scale. However, the very fact

that two separate rules of order are required to define and describe these differentscales of physicality suggests that the scientific framework is not whole, but is rather

a patchwork of understandings that do not mesh as neatly as they should.

We should therefore give further consideration to these quantum revelations in orderto better comprehend their significance in our ability to discern a deeper reality. A

more encompassing description of reality will become further clarified as we discuss

other relevant subjects in later chapters, but for the time being it is important toconsider these five revelations further in order to gain a firm understanding of how

things appear to be at the quantum level.

The Quantum Field and Entanglement

From our description of the underlying quantum field of energy that permeates allpoints in space, with its lack of separated properties, we can begin to formulate an

understanding of how the entanglement of quantum particles can be possible. Sincethe concepts of here and there have no significant meaning at this basic level of

reality, there can be no spatial differentiations as far as energy is concerned, at leastin its irreducible sub-quantum state. In the same respect, with no meaningful

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and the instantaneous exchange of information between points in time also becomeconceivable.

Although this may be hard to understand in ordinary terms that we are familiar with,

this difficulty is simply due to our human nature of wanting to see things in thereductionist terms of separateness. However, it should become more understandable

as we progress in our discussion that the sub-quantum energy that underlies ourphysical reality is really an inseparable whole. It can only be temporarily shaped andreflected in the semblance of distinct and separate parts, but these are in actuality

no more than illusory impressions created by our way of perceiving and

understanding what we experience within certain rules of order that we have learnedand adapted ourselves to through long experience.

At the microcosmic scale, the frothing sea of energy that is continually emitting and

absorbing patterns of activity is all there really is. There is absolutely no perceptibledistinction of separation between the larger objects of our everyday size scales.

What we perceive as the sense of time and space and the separateness anddifferentiation between things and moments is something that has emerged through

the way we, as conscious beings, have come to perceive these expressions of

energetic activity. At the sub-quantum level, below human conscious awareness, allpossible events exist together as one with no time or space or any otherdifferentiation between them. There is no distinction between points within this

energetic field, and this allows a means for an entangled connection between theparticles that form out of it.

The information that defines particles, such as their spin, charge, mass, etc., might

conceivably be inherent to the sub-quantum energy the particles are created out of,with the particles being just reflections of particular information expressed by that

energy. Two entangled particles are simply expressing the same information fromthe same source that they both come from, and they do not necessarily possess that

information within themselves.

This idea is somewhat similar to how a computer can have information stored at a

specific location in memory, where this information can be accessed by any numberof different programs running at any one time, and yet the information is not itself a

part of any particular program. If the information changes at the storage location,the change will be reflected in any programs that query it. In this analogy, the sub-

quantum field is like a universal memory bank from which particles acquire the

information that defines them. A computer program is likened to an observer, in thatwhen it queries the memory bank, it is essentially making an observation.

Entanglement can therefore be seen to be possible when the information shared

between entangled particles is conceived to be inherent within the underlying sub-quantum energy that they are all formed out of, rather than as the properties of the

particles themselves. The information is revealed to us in the perceived form ofparticles, but only through certain forms of expression of that underlying energy.

These expressions simply reflect this information in a way that can be described asparticulate forms. That particles have certain specific properties that we can measure

and use to define them is merely due to our having learned to observe and definethem in that way. That we expect all particles of one kind or another to reflect

similar properties in order to comply with our understanding requires the necessityfor some sort of unification between them, and their entanglement is a further

expression of this unification. The wave aspect of matter, being less formative in its


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defining qualities, can be conceived of as a state of energy that is preliminary to thatof full particulate actualization, and does not reflect the properties inherent to

particulate matter.

Entanglement and Wave/Particle Duality

To understand this better, we should consider the characteristic of wave/particleduality further. As we have already stated, the illusion of separateness that masks

the underlying omnipresence of sub-quantum energy is caused by our own

perceptions and how we distinguish order and meaning in the reality we experience.This dualistic and reductionist attitude in our learned mode of thinking and perceiving

is continually applied as scientists delve further and further into the nature of matter,

down to the extreme limits of measurability. The result of this has brought them tothe understanding that the finest units of matter can themselves be perceived as

having the dual nature of wave and particle.

Realistically, however, all energy is but one indivisible substance, and reality cannotbe fully and completely understood in its whole by dividing it into more and more

components. To get over the seeming paradox of entanglement and the holisticconnectivity of everything that does not otherwise fit with the way we are used to

understanding things, we are forced to say that quanta exist as both waves andparticles. It would be more accurate to say that the wave aspect represents the more

primary form of reality, and the particle aspect is actually more of our own makingthan it is the nature of energy in its purest sense. The wave aspect can be

considered as a state of energy that lies between the state of pure sub-quantumenergy, where all potentials exist in unexpressed form, and the state of particles with

more clearly defined characteristics in full expression and absoluteness. The wavestate is still semi-merged with the quantum field, and its potential to actualize into a

particle is eminent. Its distinctive vibrational pattern is already set to a certaindegree, and when it collapses, this pattern fills out in definition, and this includes its

essential properties. In this way, these properties can be set even when its particle

state is absent.

As we have said, the wave state is always in existence, permeating all of physical

space in its superposition, and only at certain times does its complementary particlestate arise. Since the wave state is always existing throughout space irrespective of

the particles presence, the underlying omnipresence of the wave enables

information about itself to be available at all spatial locations at all times.Furthermore, since every wave state permeates every other wave state,

wave/particles are in a sense each forever merged with one another, and this makes

entanglement between their seemingly separate particle states more conceivable.

Wave/particle duality indicates that individual wave states, by being simultaneously

everywhere at once, must share all potential locations at the same time throughtheir superpositions, even when they are collapsed into their more physical form asparticles. Not only does this provide an explanation for information transfer between

entangled wave/particles irrespective of how far apart they might be physically, butsuch instantaneous information transfer through the mutual omnipresence of wave

states would also account for such otherwise irreconcilable phenomena as telepathyand clairvoyance. It also offers an understanding of the nature of mind itself,

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Wave/Particle Duality and the Observer Effect

This correlation of the physical world with mind brings us to the observer effect,which has been shown to cause the wave state to collapse into its complementary

particle state. If a wave only collapses into a particle due to an observation ormeasurement, then we can understand that energy takes its particulate form only

when being expressed as a separate and distinct entity, and it does this in a mannerthat conforms to an already established dualistic sense of order.

The wave state of quanta has been concluded to exist because the particle statecannot by itself account for certain experimental observations, such as when a single

photon simultaneously passes through two slits in a barrier, which a particle cannot

do. Prior to experiments that revealed this effect, it was assumed that matter waspurely particulate in form, and only after such experiments revealed a non-

particulate aspect has the wave state been considered to exist at all. It should benoted that scientists have always given the particle state a dominant role when it is

more accurate to think of the wave state as being more dominant, existing evenwhen its complementary particle does not.

In our everyday world, of course, we do not see particles at all. What we see are the

larger forms that are comprised of these smaller particles. As scientists look closerand closer at these otherwise ordinary forms, at a certain point they must do so

indirectly, using techniques that only reveal hints of what reality is like at suchmicrocosmic scales. It should be realized however that no particles as small as the

quanta we are discussing have ever actually been viewed in their physical form. Theyhave only ever been assumed to exist in physical form due to the indirect means we

must use to study them and which can only reveal certain expressions of them. Mostof what we can piece together about the structure of physical reality at the

microcosmic level is derived through mathematical formulations of the limited datathat we can glean indirectly. Our conception of particles is but a picture painted to

represent quantum reality that incorporates what can be indirectly observed, and

being only a representation, it might not include every property that might be a partof what is represented. There is obviously much more to reality that we are stillunable to observe.

The significance of the wave state of matter is only now coming to the attention of

scientists, but this does not mean that it is secondary to the more familiar particle

state. The wave state seems to be more primary than the temporary particle state.

We must realize that it is our observations and what we think we will see or what we

want to see that has a significant effect in what is seen. The observer causes eventsto unfold in physical form, drawing them out of the underlying potential energy that,

in its purest sense, is of a wave nature. The particulate nature that we are more

familiar with has been defined by the constraints of certain rules of order thatscientists have established through observations and measurements, and use toexplain reality. This definition has been based on solid particles that follow certain

rules and has therefore come to be the common expectation and belief, but a truerreality is beginning to reveal itself as we come to analyze matter more closely,

exposing certain misunderstandings in our currently established sense of order.

When we understand that the wave state is present even when the particle state isnot, and that the observer causes particles to form out of their underlying wave


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states when attention is brought to bear upon them, we can begin to conceive howthe physical world is drawn out of a quantum sea of potential energy. Essentially,

matter comes into existence through a pattern of interacting waves that we compelto form through our attention to them.

The Observer and the Limits of Observation

The scale of observation required for studying the quantum world makes it extremely

difficult to learn anything at all, and we are only ever able to acquire individual

pieces of information at any one time. As we stated earlier, when one type ofmeasurement is made on a particle, the act of measuring it causes an immediate

change in the particle that makes all other information about it to become uncertain.

This limitation is not so much because of the problems of size that are being dealtwith, which make the isolation and observation of particles difficult, but is due more

to the fact that uncertainties naturally abound at this level of reality. Almosteverything about quantum mechanics is based on probabilities, rather than

absolutes, and often the only means of acquiring any information at all is throughstatistical analysis of large groups of similar wave/particles.

This inability to glean more than one piece of information about a single

wave/particle at any one time is a very interesting revelation, because it indicatesthat as we reduce reality to its finest levels, we are also reducing it to its basic

components of expression. It is worthwhile to point out here that these seeminglyirreducible quanta of energy have a certain number of definite properties, such as

mass, charge, spin, etc. Each of these is ultimately understood conceptually asexpressions of information. At the finest level of measurability, then, we are reduced

to dealing with pure information, rather than the energy it describes or the matterthat is composed of that energy. This is important to understand, and we will be

expanding on this idea in later chapters. It is important, however, to understand thatas conscious observers we acquire information through a very narrow window of

awareness, and only the accumulation of this information over many very short

periods of observation (the very shortest measured by Planck time, or 10 -43 seconds)allows us to perceive a larger, more information-rich structure that culminates in theflowing, interactively connected reality that surrounds us.

Particles and Energy

Lets consider some general premises that can be made regarding the energy and

particles that make up our universe, to see what might be revealed.

Premise 1) Quantum particles only arise during the brief moment of an observation

or measurement.

Premise 2) A quantum particle is comprised of a specific, measurable amount ofenergy.

Premise 3) The total amount of energy in the physical universe remains constantover time (based on the laws of conservation).

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Premise 5) Particles arise as concentrated amounts of energy in this otherwiseuniform and unvarying energy field.

Using these premises, we can discern that the amount of energy needed to create a

particle must be subtracted from the total amount of energy available, which causesthe remainder to be thinned out by that amount for the duration of the particles

manifestation. This means that the more particles there are co-existing at any onemoment of time, and the higher the concentration of energy in those particles, themore thinly spread out the remaining energy will be. Particles therefore tend to

become more distinct against the background sea of sub-quantum energy when they

begin to take up within themselves the substance of that background. Because ofthis, the concentrated energy of particulate matter is reflected as substance against

a seemingly empty vacuum of space.

A Wave/Particle Analogy

At this point we should consider how particles might be conceived to be entangledtogether. The two defining qualities of entangled particles are that they have at some

point come into close proximity to each other and that they thereafter shareinformation. We will use an analogy that can illustrate how information might be

thought to be transferred via wave states by particles coming in close proximity, andhow that information is thereafter shared between them.

Imagine that you have a sheet of cellophane wrap, which represents the wave state

of a wave/particle occupying its superposition. The surface of the sheet represents allpossible points in space. The particle state, in turn, is represented by the cellophane

when it is crumpled into a little ball. If you press your finger or some other pointedobject into the spread out sheet of cellophane, it leaves a permanent impression.

This impression can be thought of as representing the location where thewave/particle collapses in space and time, and this information becomes recorded in

its wave state. The cellophane can be squeezed into a ball as though it had collapsed

into a particle, and then spread back out into its wave state again, and theimpression that was made will still be there.

Now imagine that you have a second sheet of cellophane overlaying the first and itrepresents a second wave/particle in its identical superposition. Now when you make

an impression, you make it in both sheets at once so that the impressions are

identical in form and in location. When the two sheets are squeezed into separateballs and then spread out again, they still contain identical impressions, and these

impressions match up perfectly when the sheets are again overlaid. The first

impression you made in the first sheet is still there, but it does not affect the secondsheet it simply represents a previous incarnation of the first particle. The second

impression you made, however, being identical in both sheets, represents a

correlation between the two that occurred at a specific point in space and time. It isa record of information about the two related wave/particles.

To better understand our analogy, we need to understand that at first the probablelocations where a wave/particle might collapse will be many, and these would be

represented in the cellophane sheet as a number of small impressions, the depth ofeach depending on the strength or weight of its corresponding probability. A lower

probability would create a shallower impression and a higher probability would createa deeper impression, and these can be imagined as appearing scattered around on


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the sheet at their respective locations. As the actual location that the particle willappear becomes more and more distinct, all others become less distinct until that

one final location becomes such a high probability that it reaches a threshold depththat causes the wave/particle to collapse (Figs. 1-2 and 1-3).

Now consider the two cellophane sheets that represent the superpositions of two

particles. The matching impressions that were made in them represent the locationsin space where the particles finally collapse together, being equally located andequally deep. We can think of the depth of an impression as being a measure of how

probable a location is, and at a specific level of depth, it can go no deeper and thewave collapses into a particle. Seen in this way, we can say that there is a specific

total amount of probability weight that is at first spread out to create a number ofdifferent probable locations (Fig. 1-2), and as the probabilities settle into one specific

location the weights adjust, taking weight from the less probable locations andadding it to the most probable (Fig. 1-3). This means that there would be a limit to

the total amount of combined weights.

Consider for a moment what happens when two wave/particles become entangled bycollapsing in close proximity to each other. Each of the probability weights of the

wave/particles superposition comes to be amassed at about the same location. To

more accurately describe what is going on, we can say that at the moment of theircollapse, their probabilities of being at the same spacetime location have each

become so high relative to any other probable locations that it causes them tocollapse together and become entangled. The matching impressions in the

cellophane sheets represent the matching spacetime locations of individual

wave/particles where they have become entangled. This is a permanent record oftheir interaction and we can think of them as waves overlaying each other

harmoniously from the moment they become entangled and forever after. Theidentical shape and location of the two impressions in the sheets can be thought of

as what keeps them entangled.

Since wave/particles always exist in their wave states, this harmonic relationshipbetween them once they are entangled is always present, even during the extremely

short instances when either one collapses into a particle again through anobservation or measurement. In their respective wave states, they have a

connection similar to the identical impressions made in our sheets of cellophane, andthe impressions that are identical in form and location can be thought of as the

means by which they know they are connected. The information they share is notcontained in the identical impressions, but the impressions direct them to reflect the

same information that is contained within the sub-quantum energy field they areboth connected to.

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With a little thought, the reader should be able to grasp that each of these uniquespacetime locations will either be occupied by a particle or it will not, and this state

of affairs will never change. This means that our conceptual model allows for apermanent historical record of the physical appearances and disappearances of every

quantum event that occurs in spacetime. Such a model describes reality in a way

that allows for what is referred to in some Eastern philosophies as the Akashicrecord, which is said to contain all knowledge past, present, and future.

If we consider sub-quantum energy as being the receptacle for such a permanentrecord, and remember that this energy exists without spatial and temporal

limitations, and if we accept that its energetic substance is nothing more thaninformation, we can begin to formulate an understanding of how information

patterns can be expressed by that energy in a way that appears disconnected fromthe vantage point of higher levels of reality, such as when particles show

entanglement between them. Although this will not be easy to explain in simplewords, our progressive discussion through the next few chapters should make such a

method more comprehensible to the reader.

Energy and Wave States

If we can conceive that the underlying energy that permeates all of space is thesame energy that comprises wave/particles while they are in their wave states, then

it should not be too difficult to understand that particles are expressions that ariseout of this same source. This source can therefore be considered as a conglomerate

of wave states for all potential wave/particles that might ever arise. Another way tosay this is that there are no individual wave states that correspond to individual

particle states. Rather, the sub-quantum energy that makes up the quantum field isthe wave states of all potential particles. The wave states can be thought of as

emerging out of the sub-quantum energy as they take on their group identity asphotons or electrons or whatever, and these individual particles will manifest out of

this when their potentials reach a critical point. This occurs when we observe closelyenough to force such a physical expression to occur.

The sub-quantum energy source that underlies the wave/particles of physical matter

has a certain quality of non-differentiation between all conceivable points. Like water

that is jostled so that ripples and splashes temporarily form on the surface, theenergy that is taken up by quantum particles to form matter soon returns to this

source when the particle disintegrates and is merged back into the quantum field.

The sub-quantum energy temporarily reflects the particulate states that seem toemerge from it and quickly disintegrate back into it again. Seeing it in this way, we

can conceive that the information that a particle expresses itself by its momentum,

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spin, polarity, etc. is also a temporary reflection of the quantum field and is aquality of it, rather than a thing in itself. The information is inherent in the energy

itself, and is reflected through the wave state, giving full expression only through theparticle state.

Reality as Determined by the Observer

The underlying quantum field that permeates all of space suggests a direct

correlation between its own omnipresence and that of the wave state of

wave/particles. The effect of the observer in determining the final objective state ofreality, as quantum mechanics reveals, allows a definite objective outcome to

manifest as expected. In other words, the observer is taking part in continually

creating physical reality. As we will see further on, we structure our reality by ourbeliefs and understandings, and these play a major role in determining the limitation

of possible outcomes.

It is important to understand that the observations and experiences we each have ofthe physical world take place in our minds only. Not only that, but what we perceive

through our five senses as the physical world around us is not the full extent of thatreality, nor do these limited senses of ours comprise our full attachment to that

reality. There is a deeper level of reality that involves consciousness and whichconnects all things together, both mentally and physically.

In each moment of normal waking consciousness, each of us causes a temporary

manifestation of physical matter or at least the perception of physicality throughthe act of observation. External reality emerges into perceptual manifestation where

and as far as our attention is focused upon it. It blurs and fades away whereattention is not focused.

Of course, this does not mean that the moon or anything else ceases to exist when

we arent looking at it. The moon and everything else is more deeply rooted into

reality than as a simple visual observation. It exists as more than just the reflectionof light on our eyes when we look up at it. As we will see in later chapters, all thingsexist first on a mental level where they are given meaning, and only then can they

gain enough potential to take greater form through the mental energy given tothem. In this view, the moon exists first and foremost on a mental level, with all of

its attributes, and is reflected as a physical form whenever the observer draws

conscious attention to it, and to the degree that that attention is given.

The more conscious attention given to something, the more substantial and distinct

it becomes the reality of it increases further and further as waves of energy fallinto a perceptual order we can understand. This is true whether we are focusing our

attention on something physical or on something purely mental. During each

moment of our attention, we receive information about whatever we are focused on.The more attention given to something, the more information we are able toaccumulate to give it substance and distinction.

When we are experiencing the physical world, we are receiving information about it

through our senses that is handled by automated physical and mental processes thatare completely unconscious to our awareness. Through these processes, this

information is translated into a comprehensible continuity of objects and events thatunfold before us in a meaningfully ordered way. As we gaze around, turning our


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Wave Potential and Manifestation

The wave state of a subatomic wave/particle is a state of potentiality. It exists,perhaps in archetypal form, but has no unique or definite place in spacetime, and so

it exists as potential reality that is in all possible places at once. This potential can beconceived as fluctuating between a state of physical being and of non-physical being.

As long as the attention of consciousness is not focused on it as an observed physicalevent, it remains only as non-physical being, like an unexpressed thought. When

consciousness is directed at it, however, it becomes manifest into physicality. It is at

the point where conscious awareness directs and focuses its attention that potentialsbecome actualized and their uncertainties disappear.

This does not necessarily mean that our minds will manifest whatever we imagine ordesire, or that objects cease to exist when we arent paying attention to them. It

does suggest, however, that consciousness creates the perception of physical reality.It also suggests that consciousness sustains the structure of matter. At a deeply

subconscious level, conscious energy the life force itself can be thought to existin all matter as it arises through the act of observation. The concept of consciousness

permeating all matter is generally known as panpsychism, and the realization thatphysical reality is created by our observations lends weight to the truth of this

concept.

Particles arise out of their wave states because we look for them in theirseparateness from all other potentials. Before we look, they are in the wave state as

part of the whole, which comprises all other potentials as well. When we look, theparticles appear out of their wave states for a certain period of time. During this

time, we see that they follow certain rules that govern their reactions to events.These rules, which we know as the laws of physics, can be conceived as being

followed cooperatively by every concurrently existing wave/particle by anunconscious, automatically responding motivational force. There is no necessity for

choice at this basic level of matter, and so they do not require a higher level of

consciousness and instead operate through automated responses very similar to ourown subconscious processes (We will discuss these processes of mind in a laterchapter).

It is quite conceivable then that the structure and actions of particles are sustained

in this subconscious manner of automated response. The particle state ends when

conscious awareness no longer sustains it through the attention of observation. Theparticle goes back to its wave state within the whole from which it came.

As we have previously stated, wave states are not bounded by space and time. Inthis way, it is analogous to the realm of consciousness. We know that this wave state

exists because we can experience its expression, and we can even direct it to some

degree to create meaningful conceptual associations on the mental level. When wehave a particular thought, for instance, we draw on certain potentials and give themmore strength. We draw them into a subtle formative state for the brief moments we

are able to sustain an idea or image in our minds before our thoughts go elsewhere.This mental realm is where information is the substance out of which are manifested

concepts and ideas, rather than what we perceive as physical substance. It isthrough this mental realm of subjective existence that all physical reality must first

arise in the process of its manifestation into a shared, objective reality. This mentalrealm involves more than just the aspect of awareness, which is the primary level of


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consciousness. The mental realm is also where analysis takes place and meaning isdefined, where order is conceived and applied, and where potentials are separated

out of the whole to manifest into energetic wave forms as the expression ofinformation which is interpreted by our minds as physical reality.

When a wave collapses into its particulate form, it does so due to the interaction of

the observer. We can therefore say that to observe something is to draw informationfrom it. It makes sense then that the collapse from the wave state into the physicalmanifestation of the particle state is the drawing out of information by the observer

from the underlying substance of all things, the all-encompassing wholeness of sub-

quantum energy. Prior to observation, while a wave is still just one of a number ofpotentials, the information that will come to characterize its final particle state has

not yet been fully established. Since information arises due to relationships betweenaspects of reality, and the wave is only a potential with only minimal specifics about

it yet established, it therefore has little or no specific relationships to any particularobservation or measurement, but is related to all things in an undifferentiated

manner at the sub-quantum level.

Attentive mental focus, or the conscious awareness of the observer, is rarely

sustained for more than a fraction of a second at a time, and is constantly turninginwards, away from the external world as it analyzes the information it absorbs.Conscious attention is only ever sustained through directed willpower, and it is only

during those short moments of actual outward attention that wave states collapse.As they do, they express information to the observer, and then return to their wave

state while conscious attention turns inward to process that information. As thishappens again and again in fractions of seconds, the information from each

successive series of wave collapses gives a sense of fluid continuity to our sense ofphysical reality. In this way, information continually builds and sustains the

structures that we perceive as solid matter. The uncertainties of specific particleproperties balance out over the collapses of innumerable wave/particles and

culminate in a specific, information filled reality that flows from moment to moment

based on a mentally implicate sense of order.

Wave/Particle Identity

A number of questions arise at this point in our discussion. For instance, what gives

a wave/particle its identity as a photon or electron or whatever other identity it

might hold? Is a photon still a photon while in its wave state? Does it contain thisdefining information about itself prior to its collapse into an observable particle? Or is

this information of a more fundamental order than that of the wave state? Since we

cannot observe wave states directly, but only know of their existence throughindirect means, then perhaps they have no independent identities between them at

all. Perhaps photons or electrons arise only because we look for them in the context

of a photon or an electron. This would mean that the observer interacts with wavestates by allowing them to collapse within certain identifying parameters. This mightbe considered as mutual expression/reception, where the exchange of information

between observer and observed takes place at the same time.2

If waves have no specific identity until they are caused to collapse into one oranother type of particle, then this might suggest that a wave can become any type of

particle at all, and that all of the properties of that particle are not completely set

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until it actually collapses. In the most extreme sense, this suggests that an objectthat is made up of collapsed wave/particles could just as well be comprised of all

electrons or all photons, but of course, this does not appear to be the case. Theenergy that comes out of the electrical wiring of your house never comes out as a

stream of photons, for example, but only as the electricity that we know is comprisedof electrons. So it would seem that at the point of collapse a wave must become a

specific type of particle. This indicates that the information designating its particletype is already contained within the wave. This means that wave states exist at alevel above pure sub-quantum energy, as though partially separated out of it into

different expression types, such as between photon waves and electron waves, and

these wave types are somehow able to divide further into their separate wave stateswith greater variations in their individual properties. The information that

differentiates the underlying sub-quantum energy into primary wave types such asphotons and electrons is therefore of a more fundamental order than the information

that designates their individual property values when they collapse into particles.

Since all particles are defined by similar properties, such as mass, charge, spin, etc.,we can say that these commonly shared properties are of a more fundamental order

than the particles that express them. Furthermore, the range of values for these

properties for each different type of particle are fundamental to that particlesexpression. The difference between each individualized particle is reflected in thecomposite values of predefined properties that are more fundamental than the

particles themselves.

In this way, the information that differentiates their properties is layered and buildsup in complexity into individualized particles from one level of expression to the

next. Each level of individuation of material expression from sub-quantum energy,to wave types, to wave states, to particles, to larger physical objects is determined

by the information involved at that level of definition. This information expressescertain rules of order that underlie our perception of reality.

This description of individuated material forms emerging from an underlying sourceof a more fundamental nature, where each apparently separated and individual thing

is but a reflective quality of this one unified source, is described in similar terms byDavid Bohm in his highly acclaimed book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order. In

chapter seven, section four, Bohm suggests that non-causal connections betweendistant physical elements stem from such a higher dimensional order. These

separate elements share a common ground in this higher order, and are not actually

separate from it, but are instead abstractions of that higher dimensional orderprojecting into our three-dimensional world.

Bohm uses the analogy of a fish tank, with one camera and monitor providing a view

of the front of the tank while a second camera and monitor provide a view of the sideof the tank. With both monitors positioned side by side, we have two seemingly

individual and separate events occurring as the fish in the tank swim about. Onemonitor shows one perspective while the second monitor shows another completely

different perspective. They seem to be of two separate events. However, thecorrespondingly instantaneous movements of the fish on both monitors reveal a non-

causal connectivity between these two events. In Bohms view, these two-dimensional perspectives of the fish shown on the monitors are actually abstractions

of a deeper, three-dimensional order. In the same way, he explains, the connectiveaspect of entangled particles is not a reflection of any coordinated change of


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properties contained within the particles themselves, but is merely the reflection of asingle higher dimensional expression coming from a deeper source.

We can understand from Bohms interpretation that physical properties are not

inherent in matter itself, and material forms are not actually autonomous objectswhen we consider them at a more fundamental level of order. The properties that

define and differentiate material forms, such as photons and electrons, are actuallyreflected projections arising from a deeper underlying source.

Physical Law and Order

In considering all of what we have discussed so far, we should not overlook another

very important question that needs to be answered: Where does the order amongstthe components of physical matter come from, and how is this order able to be

sustained throughout space and time? This question has never been properlyanswered by science, and it has hardly been given any consideration at all. At the

very best, this order within our universe is explained as having randomly arisenduring the Big Bang event. There are no truly random events, however, and what we

perceive as randomness is actually order of a more complex nature than we cancurrently comprehend. This is to say that the order that underlies our physical reality

is not randomly derived, but rather is purposefully designed. This suggests thatconscious will is involved in the most fundamental aspects of physical reality.

Such a means of order seems to involve a preliminary form of entanglement that ties

all things together. This is evident in the uniformity and absoluteness of the orderthat governs our universe. All points in spacetime are connected through the sharing

of this underlying order. It is possible that entanglement can exist in a variety ofways, like layers of information that affect those particles that encompass the

corresponding layer. For instance, a basic physical aspect is described as quantizedenergy. This basic physical aspect can take on a variety of other aspects that will

define this quantized energy as photons, electrons, etc., which in turn build up into

atoms, molecules, etc. When a property of one entangled particle is changed so thatthe corresponding property of its entangled partners is affected, it is really theinformation that they share that is affected, and this information is reflected through

the particles, rather than being a part of them.

Such an underlying organizational cooperation between all of the seemingly separate

parts through a basic layer of entanglement is the simplest conceivable method thatwould guarantee that elementary particles always follow the same laws of nature.

Within a mechanistic framework, only an underlying entanglement of the parts is

able to account for this. The laws of nature actually reflect a pre-established orderthat gives rise to all physical manifestations and allows them to be sustained over

time, and what is slowly being learned about quantum entanglement suggests that

this is exactly the way things are.

Science explains the beginning of our universe as forming out of a singularity in

which all of physical reality began with its composite energies occupying the samenon-dimensional point from which it has expanded to create spacetime as we know

it. Within this original singularity, all would have been entangled together as one, notunlike potentials in their combined wave states with no observer to cause their

collapse. The Big Bang that science describes was essentially the awakening of aprimary observer into self-realization. This has been described along similar lines in


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the most ancient of religious philosophies. While existing as a singularity, allseparateness that we are familiar with was nonexistent and the information that

expresses the separateness we know today was contained within the singularity aspotential. We can imagine that this was the state of the conscious universe prior to

awareness. When the Big Bang occurred, the information contained within thesingularity began to be expressed as energy organized and separated into different

configurations that settled into the early physical forms of matter. The firstinformation to be separated out of the singularity would have been the initial definingrules of order that would come to underlie all further expressions. These rules would

have been caused by a predominant form of expression of the energy within the

singularity, much like an initial thought or idea from which follows a range of morecomplex ideas that arise from it and build into more complex expressions.

This order that underlies physical processes is not explainable in terms of a Big Bang

as anything more than random chance. Such an idea essentially reduces themeaning of everything to nothing. Obviously, this cannot be, however, and just our

being here attests to this fact. In later chapters, we will consider the deeper intentbehind our ability to experience reality, as well as the processes that are involved in

experiencing that reality.

Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent

If, as we are proposing here, wave states exist as part of (or are more directlyconnected to) the underlying field of energy from which their particle states emerge,

at a level where that energy is not hampered by the usual concepts of space or time,then while they are in these wave states all quanta of energy can be considered to

be omnipresent. Also, with the ever-increasing body of scientific evidence showingthat entanglement is a very real aspect of matter and may even be the reason why

all wave/particles continue to operate within the same basic rules of order ratherthan to follow different rules over time or space, energy is also omniscient.

Moreover, since the smallest divisible amount of energy contains potentially infinite

power within itself, it can also be considered as omnipotent.

Such a realization will undoubtedly lead us to perceiving a connection between the

scientific description of reality and the spiritual descriptions of it in which the conceptof God is said to be the underlying source of all creation. This connection is not a

coincidence. The two descriptions are actually representations of the same thing, but

taken from two different perspectives using two different conceptual frameworks ofunderstanding. This is important to realize since such differing representations can

lead to a broader understanding of the concepts that they both deal with in their own

way. Neither representation needs to be considered as refuting the other. One maydescribe aspects of reality that the other does not incorporate, but the reality they

describe is no less the same one. It is merely a matter of perspective. In science, the

perspective is focused on the purely physical qualities, and in theology, it is focusedon the purely spiritual qualities, but the qualities belong to the same underlyingthing, and by considering these different perspectives, we might gain a greater

overall understanding of that thing.

As we delve further into our exploration of reality, the reader will come to betterunderstand both how we take part in its creation and how we affect it as conscious

observers. This understanding will also help to explain how psychic phenomena takeplace, and the reason for the current elusiveness of psi abilities will become clear in


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time, making the blocks that hinder the natural development these abilities begin tofall away when the mechanics behind psychism come to be more fully realized.

Acquiring the proper framework of understanding will be crucial to this effort.

The reader should, at this point, have at least a general understanding that sensoryobservations are nothing more than a representation of reality and not reality itself.

With such an understanding in mind, we can begin to see past the current limitationsimposed by science and common belief, and be able to take advantage of the newinsights to be gained.

A New Model

Until quite recently, the scientific model of reality has been one based on the purelymechanistic framework of Newtonian physics, in which matter was considered to be

the fundamental substance of reality and consciousness was no more than anemergent property, arising by pure chance out of the otherwise lifeless, mechanical

actions of physical forms existing above the molecular level. Although consciousnesshas not previously been considered at all relevant in the primary order of things, the

discoveries that have been made regarding quantum mechanics will undoubtedlychange all that. It now seems to be just a matter of time before new theories will be

established that will be able to encompass the strange world of quanta within aworkable framework that will not only account for the otherwise anomalous events

that take place at the quantum level, but which will also necessarily includeconsciousness as a primary aspect of our reality, if not the primary aspect. Whatever

picture of reality these new theories do turn out to describe, there is great likelihoodthat they will be able to explain all the varieties of paranormal phenomena that

Newtonian physics is not able to account for, and which, for this reason, have beenmore or less ignored or discredited by otherwise reasonable scientific minds.

Whatever the new model of reality is to be, it should be able to explain some or all of

the otherwise anomalous phenomena that exist within the current framework without

introducing any new anomalies into the fold as a consequence. As we have alreadysaid, one of the major problems with the currently accepted Newtonian framework isthat it does not properly account for consciousness, or the many types of paranormal

phenomena that seem to be effects of consciousness. Most, if not all, paranormalphenomena reveal a direct connection between consciousness and matter in one

form or another, and even strongly suggest that consciousness is more fundamental

to reality than matter. These phenomena include telepathy, clairvoyance,premonition, telekinesis, out-of-body experiences (OBEs), past life recall, levitation,

materialization and dematerialization of physical objects, ghosts and apparitions,

poltergeist activity, channeling, dowsing, faith healing, and many others. A largenumber of these phenomena have been established beyond any doubt as being real

events, and have been replicated in the laboratory under conditions that meet

stringent scientific protocols that eliminate any chance of fraud or misinterpretationof the results. A new model of reality may even give new credibility to such practicesas astrology and numerology. These possibilities are not out of the question.

The reader should be made aware at this point that any description of a thing is only

a conceptual representation and can never be as well defined as that which itrepresents. In this respect, quantum mechanics offers a means of understanding the

physical nature of reality as a conceptual representation, and nothing more. Itprovides us with a useful method for understanding aspects of reality that, like all of


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the established physical sciences, is based on external physicality as it is perceivedby the human mind to be in its function and form. It should be remembered,

however, that our experience of physical reality as being external and physical is butan illusion of our perceptions, so to speak. Our perceptions are a small reflection of

the outside world and not the totality of what is able to be observed. Although mostof this reflection is crafted by the wiring of our brains, at the lowest structural level

our brains themselves consist of these same interacting energy patterns, andsomething must guide them to continually and consistently follow the laws of naturethat define their actions and hold them within the structural units of quanta, atoms,

molecules, and such. Something similar to this physical force also guides the energy

that generates the thoughts and actions we have as conscious beings. Theunderlying energy that operates the machinations of the brain is, of course,

consciousness. It should be understood, of course, that in discussing quantummechanics we are simply considering a currently accepted scientific framework that

describes certain properties of reality that still require something more primary toexist beneath their physicality. This primary something is what sustains reality and

holds it in order, and we are proposing here that this something is consciousnessitself.

In the next chapter, we will take a somewhat detailed look at the general mechanicsof waves in order to gain an understanding of some of their basic characteristics.This will help in conceptualizing the structure of reality in its more familiar

mechanistic form, which will prepare the reader for the chapters that follow it. Byfirst discussing wave mechanics we will better understand how waves interact and

how information can be created and transmitted within this mechanistic framework.This will give the reader a preliminary foundation for understanding how information

is expressed in physical terms as we move towards formulating a consciousness-based perspective of reality in which the basic creative substance is information.

A Review

We have seen in this chapter that the underlying quantum field that permeates all ofspace provides the material substance for all physical objects to take their form, andis the medium in which physical events occur. We can consider it as the ground-base

or foundation of physical reality, the primary substance of the material universe.Through the properties of this fundamental substance, all points within it are linked

together in such a way that offers the means for order and continuity in space and

time. It also provides the means for the instantaneous transference of informationbetween distant points and the ability for events to be affected from a distance. As

we have seen, this is made possible through the shared superpositions that

wave/particles exist in together. As wave states, they each exist in all possiblelocations at the same time, with their superpositions merged with each other. This

wave/particle duality offers both physical and non-physical interaction of the aspects

of reality that can be referred to respectively as matter and mind. Quantummechanics reveals that it is mind, through the attention of the observer, whichcauses what is observed to manifest from probability into physical actuality. The

uncertainty of small-scale events allows probabilities to balance out into specificlarge-scale events. We have also seen that these observations are limited, at the

quantum scale, to acquiring only one bit of information at a time, and that all otherinformation is affected by that observation, making it uncertain.

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