This is such a fascinating topic. I came to believe many years ago that there was some kind of 'information wavelength' which could be accessed (tuned into) by the human mind to bring about certain outcomes. Some refer to Guardian Angels. For me it worked again and again and again and then I watch a movie called The Secret by Rhonda Byrne which reported the same phenonenom so I knew it wasn't just me with the idea. For some reason the magic stopped working but I don't know why.
In Tibetan Buddhism the realm of consciousness which is the construction zone for reality as it develops, and within which we may participate through conscious practices like meditation with constructive intention (prayer), is the "Sambhogakaya".
"Spooky action at a distance," Einstein. Exactly! If a phenomenon cannot be explained by physical laws, this leaves spiritual explanations as the only alternative. Spook: Ghost, disembodied spirit.
Well, I think "we" have not agreed on explanations for a LOT of things yet, and we will have to backtrack on some of what we think we agree on, if history is any indicator.
Thank you that is very interesting too. I remember reading a book decades ago called the Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav which gained attention, to quote Wikipedia, by "leveraging metaphors taken from eastern spiritual movements, in particular the Huayen school of Buddhism with the monk Fazang's treatise on the Golden Lion to explain quantum phenomena" Well worth a read.
me. i have a terrible track record for reading. i haven't even read the Bible. i am more interested to do so now, but my mom tells me it's a hard read because of the way it's written.
There are many old and new translations of the Bible, and many Old and New Testament books written by different authors, so it is written in many ways.
This is for you Jessica, from the Revised Standard Version:
Matt. 13: 52 "And he said to them, ' Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.' "
If you seek, you will find yourself not far from the kingdom. JMHO
I've never used one, but try a Bible concordance. There are several types available, including online. They help in understanding words, context, language references, and other useful information. Strong's seems to be highly regarded.
This is a very delicate and sensitive question into the nature of the question of free-will, and it falls right where my own pondering falls (often on bike rides, where I don't fall these days).
The biophotons in our nervous systems prompt just these musings for me as well, and I am left with the conclusion that there SEEMS to be "free will", despite so many impediments and influences, and that in intellectual fairness, we have "no choice", but to assume that there is free will and take our best shot at life, rather than adopting some variant of passive nihilism.
Here is something I saw today, a short video outtake of Elon Musk explaining his own struggles as a teen and young man, regarding "the meaning of life", "German philosophers not helping teenage depression", The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "42", and building a bigger universal consciousness of our species to find the bigger question, that our planetary consciousness may not be big enough to answer. https://x.com/Thedrivenman/status/2047710910261645348
I'm not at all confident that his bigger-is-better seeding of the universe with human minds is the "best" approach...
I would very much like to communicate to him the potential inside-joke that Douglas Adams made with the "answer to life, the universe and everything" being "42".
Awesome article Jessica. The malleable aspect of our mind's behaviour allows us to react spontaneously while we go about our business in this world but being confined to a certain reality that we have to react to for our own survival and well being. The gifts of being from the quantum chaotic entanglement are out there for us to enjoy and revel in if we let them. The secret to a happy and enjoyable life experience.
This is a profound synthesis of a topic that most scientific discourse is too timid to touch.
The traditional dismissal of quantum effects in the brain—citing 'warm, wet, and noisy' environments as a barrier—feels increasingly like a defensive posture designed to protect the Newtonian, materialist paradigm. If we assume the organism is a passive, deterministic machine, then spontaneous or miraculous healing is an inexplicable anomaly. But if we follow your logic of a participatory universe, it becomes a logical output.
If consciousness is indeed the mechanism that collapses the wave function, then 'healing' may not be a random biological accident, but a deliberate selection of a specific physiological branch from a landscape of potential states. We are conditioned by a medical-industrial system to view ourselves as victims of 'fixed' genetic or diagnostic outcomes, yet this framework suggests that our capacity for directed intention—our free will—could be the very 'measurement' that necessitates a shift in our physical reality.
The challenge, as you rightly point out, is moving from stochastic noise to coherent agency. But if even a fraction of our biological processes interface with this quantum layer, the implications are staggering: we are not just observing our health; we are actively authoring it.
Thank you for providing the intellectual scaffolding to discuss consciousness not as a byproduct of matter, but as the primary architect of the physical world we inhabit. Looking forward to the continuation.
Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza? He's written three books: You are The Placebo, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, and Becoming Superhuman. His work, meditations, and week long meditation conferences teach people how to become greater than their physical self by teaching people to become no one, no body, and entering into the quantum field. It is in the quantum that they change is made and then it becomes reality in the physical. It's the ultimate example of cause and effect. No longer needing something in physical world to change for the person to experience change. There are thousands upon thousands of testimonials of spontaneous healing. He has entire research teams studying his work and super mediators who are hooked up to machines, blood work done before and after meditations. Co-healing groups that mediate around people and change matter. One of his experiments had co healers sitting near a refrigerator with active cancer cells and together actively killing the cancer cells via mediation directed at the cancer cells in the refrigerator.
His work shows that consciousness is not local and if we can access it via meditation by becoming no one or no body we can effect matter and cause change on the physical level.
You are touching on the nature of reality itself. The ability to choose one possible world over another results in our inhabiting a universe, which is the sum total of all our unique individual choices. Some faith traditions say that, at the moment of death, you cease to exercise freewill, and so your consciousness (i.e. soul) transitions to the space freely chosen for all eternity. It reminds me of this observation from one of the most consequential philosophers of the 20th century - "The sphere of virtue is the very core of reality." - Dietrich von Hildebrand - where "virtue" is the given strength or power to make a deliberate choice.
Interesting analogy, Jessica. While your analysis is steeped in science, here is one steeped in philosophy:
Aristotle revealed that the will is your intellectual appetite, combining your mental, belief machinery with your emotional, "desires-and-motives" yearnings.
Every unique and individual mix of "beliefs, desires, and motives" leads to a chosen action that -- while specific to you -- could not have been pre-determined by any forces acting outside of you.
That's because it isn't just that environmental existents -- e.g., thunderstorms, lightning, and rain -- have the capacity to cause things to happen, but individual people, themselves, have the capacity to cause things to happen.
There was never a reason to treat people as if they could not originate as the cause of an action.
There is a delicate, resilient, wise healing energy field, radiating from a lovely human form.
This healing transforming energy is felt as expanding knowledge, and understanding on this plane of existence. In ancient times such a one was called a Boddisattva.
The compassionate light at this time is called Jessica.
As an un-learned person, I find this essay fascinating. Abandoning agency (or so I imagined) more than once, in younger days, I made life decisions based on a three coin toss, six times. This practice was loosely aligned with the I Ching as I always felt the universe was participatory, a quantam layer of, well...everything. Sometimes I just couldn't "see" it although I believed the lattice wasn't inside the universe, rather the universe was the lattice!
Here's a doctor you would love to check out about this topic and others. His name is Dr. BRUCE LIPTON. I've been following him since quite a few years and he is definitely one of my favorite. here's a link where you can find many of his video.
Thoughts as I read this. Consciousness is not born of the physical universe. The reverse is true. I suspect quantum superposition is evidence of this. Something about looking. Superposition resolves with observation. Likewise, decision is not the result of thinking, but of looking. Something like that, but of course, there is much less to it than that. We are fundamentally very simple beings. This is most apparent within the vibrations of affinity and pure admiration.
Whatever the source of noise -- through quantum fluctuations or effective factors in complex feedback or coincidences -- it's the peculiar and subjective way in which the organism harnesses the noise that creates free will. I think we're on the same track.
Jessica, the Rishis of ancient India were scientist of their time. They observed the universal life force, that which pulsated in alive bodies but was absent after death, this was the pulsation of inhalation and exhalation, the breath. At that time without mechanical instruments they studied the sounds, the vibrations that were created as this pulsation moved in and out of this form.
This was the original basis for all subsequent systems called Yoga.
You are like a Rishis of old, seeking a perspective that reaches what you intuitively grasp is that separation is the illusion. Oneness is the default state, all your detailed and elegant explanations of phenomenon connect the dots. Much appreciated.
This is such a fascinating topic. I came to believe many years ago that there was some kind of 'information wavelength' which could be accessed (tuned into) by the human mind to bring about certain outcomes. Some refer to Guardian Angels. For me it worked again and again and again and then I watch a movie called The Secret by Rhonda Byrne which reported the same phenonenom so I knew it wasn't just me with the idea. For some reason the magic stopped working but I don't know why.
In Tibetan Buddhism the realm of consciousness which is the construction zone for reality as it develops, and within which we may participate through conscious practices like meditation with constructive intention (prayer), is the "Sambhogakaya".
"Spooky action at a distance," Einstein. Exactly! If a phenomenon cannot be explained by physical laws, this leaves spiritual explanations as the only alternative. Spook: Ghost, disembodied spirit.
Well, I think "we" have not agreed on explanations for a LOT of things yet, and we will have to backtrack on some of what we think we agree on, if history is any indicator.
;-/
I like quantum entanglement a lot.
;-}
Thank you that is very interesting too. I remember reading a book decades ago called the Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav which gained attention, to quote Wikipedia, by "leveraging metaphors taken from eastern spiritual movements, in particular the Huayen school of Buddhism with the monk Fazang's treatise on the Golden Lion to explain quantum phenomena" Well worth a read.
I read that, and his original "Tao of Physics".
;-)
Which Baby Boomer hasn’t read the Tao of Physics?! He writes of the parallels betweenness Buddhism and Modern Physics.
me. i have a terrible track record for reading. i haven't even read the Bible. i am more interested to do so now, but my mom tells me it's a hard read because of the way it's written.
There are many old and new translations of the Bible, and many Old and New Testament books written by different authors, so it is written in many ways.
This is for you Jessica, from the Revised Standard Version:
Matt. 13: 52 "And he said to them, ' Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.' "
If you seek, you will find yourself not far from the kingdom. JMHO
We didn't read the bible in Catholic school. I started reading the old testament and I couldn't do it.
I've never used one, but try a Bible concordance. There are several types available, including online. They help in understanding words, context, language references, and other useful information. Strong's seems to be highly regarded.
Thank You, Socratic Sister Jessica.
This is a very delicate and sensitive question into the nature of the question of free-will, and it falls right where my own pondering falls (often on bike rides, where I don't fall these days).
The biophotons in our nervous systems prompt just these musings for me as well, and I am left with the conclusion that there SEEMS to be "free will", despite so many impediments and influences, and that in intellectual fairness, we have "no choice", but to assume that there is free will and take our best shot at life, rather than adopting some variant of passive nihilism.
Here is something I saw today, a short video outtake of Elon Musk explaining his own struggles as a teen and young man, regarding "the meaning of life", "German philosophers not helping teenage depression", The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "42", and building a bigger universal consciousness of our species to find the bigger question, that our planetary consciousness may not be big enough to answer. https://x.com/Thedrivenman/status/2047710910261645348
I'm not at all confident that his bigger-is-better seeding of the universe with human minds is the "best" approach...
I would very much like to communicate to him the potential inside-joke that Douglas Adams made with the "answer to life, the universe and everything" being "42".
That inside joke is this "Paper 42" from "The Urantia Book", titled "Energy Mind And Matter" https://members.urantiabook.org/042-Energy-Mind-and-Matter
I strongly suspect that Douglas Adams read the Urantia Book and it influenced both Dr. Who and Hitchhikers guide writings and portrayals.
Paper 42 is not a quick read, but it may be the door to the Tardis.
;-}
Awesome article Jessica. The malleable aspect of our mind's behaviour allows us to react spontaneously while we go about our business in this world but being confined to a certain reality that we have to react to for our own survival and well being. The gifts of being from the quantum chaotic entanglement are out there for us to enjoy and revel in if we let them. The secret to a happy and enjoyable life experience.
This is a profound synthesis of a topic that most scientific discourse is too timid to touch.
The traditional dismissal of quantum effects in the brain—citing 'warm, wet, and noisy' environments as a barrier—feels increasingly like a defensive posture designed to protect the Newtonian, materialist paradigm. If we assume the organism is a passive, deterministic machine, then spontaneous or miraculous healing is an inexplicable anomaly. But if we follow your logic of a participatory universe, it becomes a logical output.
If consciousness is indeed the mechanism that collapses the wave function, then 'healing' may not be a random biological accident, but a deliberate selection of a specific physiological branch from a landscape of potential states. We are conditioned by a medical-industrial system to view ourselves as victims of 'fixed' genetic or diagnostic outcomes, yet this framework suggests that our capacity for directed intention—our free will—could be the very 'measurement' that necessitates a shift in our physical reality.
The challenge, as you rightly point out, is moving from stochastic noise to coherent agency. But if even a fraction of our biological processes interface with this quantum layer, the implications are staggering: we are not just observing our health; we are actively authoring it.
Thank you for providing the intellectual scaffolding to discuss consciousness not as a byproduct of matter, but as the primary architect of the physical world we inhabit. Looking forward to the continuation.
100% and AMEN!
Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza? He's written three books: You are The Placebo, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, and Becoming Superhuman. His work, meditations, and week long meditation conferences teach people how to become greater than their physical self by teaching people to become no one, no body, and entering into the quantum field. It is in the quantum that they change is made and then it becomes reality in the physical. It's the ultimate example of cause and effect. No longer needing something in physical world to change for the person to experience change. There are thousands upon thousands of testimonials of spontaneous healing. He has entire research teams studying his work and super mediators who are hooked up to machines, blood work done before and after meditations. Co-healing groups that mediate around people and change matter. One of his experiments had co healers sitting near a refrigerator with active cancer cells and together actively killing the cancer cells via mediation directed at the cancer cells in the refrigerator.
His work shows that consciousness is not local and if we can access it via meditation by becoming no one or no body we can effect matter and cause change on the physical level.
You are touching on the nature of reality itself. The ability to choose one possible world over another results in our inhabiting a universe, which is the sum total of all our unique individual choices. Some faith traditions say that, at the moment of death, you cease to exercise freewill, and so your consciousness (i.e. soul) transitions to the space freely chosen for all eternity. It reminds me of this observation from one of the most consequential philosophers of the 20th century - "The sphere of virtue is the very core of reality." - Dietrich von Hildebrand - where "virtue" is the given strength or power to make a deliberate choice.
John Wheeler referred to the participatory aspect of consciousness and 'reality' as do many other scientists, and the Vedas, too. 🙏
interesting!
Interesting analogy, Jessica. While your analysis is steeped in science, here is one steeped in philosophy:
Aristotle revealed that the will is your intellectual appetite, combining your mental, belief machinery with your emotional, "desires-and-motives" yearnings.
Every unique and individual mix of "beliefs, desires, and motives" leads to a chosen action that -- while specific to you -- could not have been pre-determined by any forces acting outside of you.
That's because it isn't just that environmental existents -- e.g., thunderstorms, lightning, and rain -- have the capacity to cause things to happen, but individual people, themselves, have the capacity to cause things to happen.
There was never a reason to treat people as if they could not originate as the cause of an action.
May need to learn the art of the Whirling Dervish……May help to retrieve entangled energy?? 💁🏻♀️😎
OH MAN YES!
There is a delicate, resilient, wise healing energy field, radiating from a lovely human form.
This healing transforming energy is felt as expanding knowledge, and understanding on this plane of existence. In ancient times such a one was called a Boddisattva.
The compassionate light at this time is called Jessica.
wow. pretty profound sentiment. thank you Rich.
As an un-learned person, I find this essay fascinating. Abandoning agency (or so I imagined) more than once, in younger days, I made life decisions based on a three coin toss, six times. This practice was loosely aligned with the I Ching as I always felt the universe was participatory, a quantam layer of, well...everything. Sometimes I just couldn't "see" it although I believed the lattice wasn't inside the universe, rather the universe was the lattice!
Here's a doctor you would love to check out about this topic and others. His name is Dr. BRUCE LIPTON. I've been following him since quite a few years and he is definitely one of my favorite. here's a link where you can find many of his video.
https://www.bitchute.com/search?query=Dr.+Bruce+Lipton&kind=video&sensitivity_id=normal&duration=all&sort=new
AND...
Check out also... GAIA
https://www.bitchute.com/search?query=GAIA+TV&kind=video&sensitivity_id=normal&duration=all&sort=new
They also have a website but must pay for membership, which is worth to pay for.
HERE'S ANOTHER LINK From Dr. Bruce Lipton
TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/k9BgvXXnMvou
Bruce is great. I mentioned Dr. Joe Dispenza as well. They are of the same group of people who know the true potential of humans.
Thank you Jessica.
Thoughts as I read this. Consciousness is not born of the physical universe. The reverse is true. I suspect quantum superposition is evidence of this. Something about looking. Superposition resolves with observation. Likewise, decision is not the result of thinking, but of looking. Something like that, but of course, there is much less to it than that. We are fundamentally very simple beings. This is most apparent within the vibrations of affinity and pure admiration.
Whatever the source of noise -- through quantum fluctuations or effective factors in complex feedback or coincidences -- it's the peculiar and subjective way in which the organism harnesses the noise that creates free will. I think we're on the same track.
Jessica, the Rishis of ancient India were scientist of their time. They observed the universal life force, that which pulsated in alive bodies but was absent after death, this was the pulsation of inhalation and exhalation, the breath. At that time without mechanical instruments they studied the sounds, the vibrations that were created as this pulsation moved in and out of this form.
This was the original basis for all subsequent systems called Yoga.
You are like a Rishis of old, seeking a perspective that reaches what you intuitively grasp is that separation is the illusion. Oneness is the default state, all your detailed and elegant explanations of phenomenon connect the dots. Much appreciated.
Take care.