What is Reality?
Delving into the mysteries of life
Just yesterday I started to re-read an amazing book many people haven’t heard of: “An End to Upside Down Thinking” by Mark Gober. I find this book to be so fascinating because he delves into the scientific studies that show that the brain does not produce consciousness and what that means for our everyday lives.
I have always been so interested in science, in space, in the universe, in what’s “out there” for us to explore. I believe that there is much more than what we see right in front of us. I have seen this in my own life on a daily basis as events magically happen just with pure intention. I am amazed at all of the magical surprises that I have seen because of just noticing, slowing down and paying close attention to life.
In this article I will explore some of what Mark Gober discusses in his book because I think it is an amazing topic to delve into . Much of the time we experience the world through our five senses. We experience “what is” by things that we can see, hear, smell, taste or touch. What if there are things outside of our realm of senses, some forces that we can’t see?
I love the section in his book about how matter isn’t what it seems to be.
Science shows that atoms are 99.99999999 percent empty space. As stated by Dr. Diane Powell: “The nucleus of an atom takes up as much room in the atom as an ant on a football field.” Or as British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington said: “Matter is mostly ghostly empty space. If I simply relied on my everyday experience, I would have said my arm is solid and not mostly empty. But it is mostly empty. And the remaining 0.000000001 percent that isn’t empty isn’t exactly solid, either. As we saw in the double-slit study, sometimes particles behave like bits of matter, and at other times they behave like waves of probability. So this stuff that we call “matter” and assume is solid, isn’t actually solid at all. -Mark Gober
In a quantum reality, things are not as they seem. It is very different based on our observations and our perceptions of what is going on in our world. I believe it is important to explore our reality and really, truly think about what it is for us. How do we perceive reality? Is it only just a solid, materialist world or is there more to it? Have you explored this? Have things happened in your life that you couldn’t explain?
For example, in my own life I have experienced some amazing things. There will be times where my accountability partner and I (who I have never met in person and lives overseas) will have similar experiences even though we are far apart and did not do anything to make this experiences happen. Recently we both came up with some programs to offer clients. We ended up having success with the programs and also had a similar number of clients although the things that we coach clients on are completely unrelated. Another time I did an experiment and wrote “lightness” on my arm. I intended that every experience I had for those days would be light and effortless. That week I got a letter in the mail that said that the state owed me $12,000 more in retirement money from the 10 years that I was a teacher. This was not something I could have ever expected or orchestrated!
I often think that there is a greater intelligence out there, where we are all connected, and all one mind. In the book Gober talks about the term “entanglement” where two particles that are far apart mirror each other. He says in this section:
“One of the primary tenets of quantum mechanics is known as entanglement: the finding that the states of two distant particles mirror each other instantaneously. So entangled particles are in some way connected, even if they are physically separated-no matter how far apart they are in space and time.” -Mark Gober
I have certainly seen examples of entanglement in my life as I cited in the above examples. In fact, I think because my accountability partner and I took a course in subjective reality and we are much more in tune with these possibilities and notice them a bit more than other people might on a regular basis. We make notes of synchronicities between us and other events. However even without being so aware of these occurrences, they are happening all around us.
Gober goes on to share what Dr. Dean Radin points out about non-local entanglement:
How might this “spooky,” non-local entanglement relate to consciousness? Dr. Dean Radin, the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences suggests in his 2006 book, “Entangled Minds, that we take seriously the possibility that our minds are physically entangled with the universe. He concedes: I’m not claiming that quantum entanglement magically explains all things spooky. Rather I propose that the fabric of reality is comprised of entangled threads.” -Mark Gober
I do believe that we are more connected than we have the capacity to understand at this time. All that I can say that I know that we are all part of one interconnected web of humanity and part of this amazing universe. This is something that we are discovering now more than ever with this pandemic. We are literally ALL in this together. It is no longer a world in which the problem is “over there.” and we can ignore it. We are ALL experiencing this on a global level.
For this reason I believe it is so important for as many of us as possible to focus on being solution oriented, on being the most positive, loving, giving beings that we can be right now. To focus on love, to focus on light, to focus on what we CAN do to help others right now. Sometimes that might be an encouraging word. Sometimes that might be dropping off groceries or donating food, or writing a poem or singing a song. Or even just checking in with our friends and family on a regular basis.
We are all learning that we all truly depend on each other. We are all entangled in this amazing, beautiful web of reality. It is our chance to make this an amazing reality. It is our time to make a difference and create a reality we can all be a part of.
What is reality to you?
With lots of love and light,
Trista
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