The Quintessential Guide to Conscious Creation
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Within this scene I noticed a metaphor about the process we go through when we begin to rediscover Who We Really Are. It reminded me so much of myself, and the sloughing off of old negative beliefs, dying off to practically nothing. But over time, I grew a beautiful new skin and structure within which I became even stronger. And eventually, I was ready to weather any storm that came my way.

When we first begin the process of “raising our awareness”, we are elated to discover that there’s something more to us than we always suspected, but couldn’t yet identify. We are thrilled when someone finally tells us how powerful we truly are. The possibilities are limitless! Our minds practically explode with wonderful thoughts of what our life will be like, once we become expert at consciously creating our reality. The freedom, the joy, the new washer/dryer set!

Then, we begin the journey. Ahh, sweet luscious summertime.

At first, the process is lots of fun and very exciting, almost like Christmas morning felt when we were children anticipating what each present would contain. We begin to pay attention to little synchronicities around us, and perhaps we even manifest a few things for which we’ve been hankering (tickets to a rock concert, an extra $50 out of nowhere). Hey, this is great!, we think. I can do this!

After a few weeks, reading our statement of desire begins to feel monotonous, perhaps even stale. Visualizing goes by the wayside, because we just can’t seem to find the time or the energy to do it every day. And now nothing is happening. If anything, it starts to feel like we’re going backwards.

The worst part is that voices in our heads are instilling doubts about whether it’s really possible to have the life of our dreams. Were they telling me the truth? Or was I just dreaming? Yet another empty promise of a better life… The gung-ho days seem bygone. If we allow these thoughts to win, we simply return to our old patterns, which in turn continue to produce the same dismal results we’ve always experienced.

This is the fall. Dead leaves dropping from the trees, becoming mulch.

But we take a deep breath, gather our strength, and make a fresh start. We resume clarifying and affirming our goals and desires. We commit to doing our daily visualizations. We notice even more synchronicities, and we crystallize our grand vision. But, the voices of doubt become even louder; they’re a cacophony by now. And now they’re criticizing us for our outrageous fantasies. How dare you think you deserve this? We can’t seem to shut them up! The more we focus on our desires, the more intense the doubts become.

This is the cold, dark winter. Snow falling, no color, early dusk.

The voices are originating in our subconscious mind, stuck in its ways, and stubborn beyond belief. Our subconscious mind is like a highly creative two-year-old throwing a tantrum, jumping up and down, screaming and stomping her feet. The last thing our subconscious mind wants is to try something new. And when we attempt to do just that, it will put up a fight so fierce that it seems unconquerable.

Our subconscious mind will do everything in its power to create distractions, justifications, arguments…in fact, anything to get us to stop changing how we think. It feels safe and secure with the way things are. It’s incredibly uncomfortable with the changes we propose, and it will invite all of its friends to join in on the “anti-change” party. Only we’re not invited. It’s us against them, and the battle gets bloody.

But despite our doubts, we stick with the program. We continue with our visualizations, and we continue to see little signs that we’re on the right path, despite the shouting going on inside our heads. We tell the voices, You no longer serve me! I want to try something new now. You can come along for the ride, but only if you will behave yourself!

Over time, we learn to become a better gatekeeper to our thoughts. We discover that as soon as we spot a negative thought approaching the gate, we can say, Stop right where you are! And they will. We find we actually have the power to replace them with positive thoughts, and they will turn around and simply walk away. We get better and better at this, and over time, we find ourselves experiencing a higher default emotion on a daily basis. Is this what happiness feels like?

We may even feel a buzzing sensation inside our bodies at this point, occasionally at first, but over time it grows stronger. That’s our energy vibration rising, literally! We realize that this is what they’ve been talking about. We’re finally becoming a more powerful magnet with which to attract the life we desire, vibrating at frequencies that match our desires. And these desires respond by appearing in our life, just as we had expected.

We have shed the old dead beliefs, and we are growing beautiful new leaves and flowers, ready for the new season. We are ready to blossom into our true, powerful selves. We are becoming Who We Really Are.

It is springtime.

A Moonlight Hyperdrive to Saturn

Most people are aware of Einstein’s theory of relativity. However, Einstein’s theory actually consists of two theories, special relativity and general relativity. In short:

General Relativity: (1911 – 1915) General relativity is a geometrical theory which states that the presence of mass and energy ‘curves’ space-time, and this curvature affects the path of objects (even light) moving through this ‘curved’ space. (See more on this in the November issue of the Quantum Express)

Special Relativity: (1905) Special Relativity basically states that time can pass more slowly if an observer (i.e. a person) is moving, depending on their relative speed. And more specifically, that if two people are traveling at constant speeds relative to one another; neither person is capable of performing any experiment to determine which one of them is "stationary".

But these theories are anything but proven fact. Many research teams continue to experiment to determine the validity of Einstein’s theories, and while many times these theories are proven correct, some interesting modifications have been proposed recently that could dramatically change the way we see the world around us.

One of our biggest challenges in space travel is time. The fact that it would take months to reach Mars, and decades to reach the nearest star, makes space travel impractical. That combined with Einstein’s galactic speed limit - the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second) - forces us to use ‘robots’ to explore even the nearest objects in space.

But what if we could simply ‘jump to hyperspace’?

A little-known German physicist, Burkhard Heim (1925-2001), began to explore the concept of hyperdrive propulsion in the 1950s as a spin-off from his attempts to heal the biggest divide in physics: the rift between quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Finding space for both theories

Quantum Physics and Einstein's general theory of relativity clash over the definition of the basic structure of space. In general relativity, space is depicted as an active fabric that is deformed by such objects as planets to form gravity. Moreover, it exists in four dimensions, - three dimensions being the typical length, width and depth and one dimension being time. Quantum theory, on the other hand, demands that space is a fixed and passive stage, something simply there for particles to exist on without being affected by them.

Heim commenced his quest into hyperspace when he began to rewrite Einstein’s equations in an attempt to incorporate the oddities of Quantum Physics. He drew on Einstein's idea that the gravitational force emerges from the dimensions of space and time, but suggested that all fundamental forces emerge from a new, different set of dimensions. By adding a new two-dimensional "sub-space" onto Einstein's four-dimensional space-time, he created a new six-dimensional model of the world, where the forces of gravity and electromagnetism (light, magnetism, etc.) are coupled together.

In Heim's view of space and time, he claims it is possible to convert electromagnetic energy into gravity and back again, and speculates that a rotating magnetic field could reduce the influence of gravity on a spacecraft enough for it to take off. However, as his theories became increasingly popular, Heim, shunning the limelight, withdrew his theories, never formally publishing them.

Enter Anti-gravity

It was not until 1980, when Heim’s work came to the attention of a retired Austrian patent officer named Walter Dröscher, that the hyperspace propulsion idea came back to life. Dröscher looked again at Heim's ideas and produced an ‘extended’ version, resurrecting the seventh and eighth dimensions that Heim originally discarded. The result is "Heim-Dröscher space", a mathematical description of an eight-dimensional universe.

From this, Dröscher claims, you can derive the four forces known in physics: the gravitational and electromagnetic forces, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. But there's more to it than that. "If Heim's picture is to make sense," Dröscher says, "we are forced to postulate two more fundamental forces." These are, Dröscher claims, related to the familiar gravitational force: one is a repulsive anti-gravity similar to the dark energy that appears to be causing the universe's expansion to accelerate. And the other might be used to accelerate a spacecraft without any rocket fuel.

To lift a spacecraft off the Earth will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting coil to create an intense magnetic field. With a large enough current in the coil, and a large enough magnetic field, Dröscher claims the electromagnetic force can reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to the point where it floats free. This seems reminiscent of the spinning flying saucers of science fiction movies, and even Dröscher suggests that a spacecraft fitted with a coil and ring could be propelled into a multidimensional hyperspace. Here the constants of nature could be different, and even the speed of light could be several times faster than we experience. If this happens, it would be possible to reach Mars in less than 3 hours, and a star eleven light years away in only 80 days.

While controversial, the Heim-Dröscher theory has sparked a lot of interest. In fact, it won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics award last year in the category of nuclear and future flight. While further research is still needed, supporters of the Heim-Dröscher theory claim that it unites quantum mechanics and general relativity, can predict the masses of the building blocks of matter, and can even explain the state of the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

But maybe hyperspace is too hyper for you, so just catch a falling star…

In February of this year, the noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber presented a new solution to Einstein's 90-year-old gravitational field equation to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque. The solution is the first that accounts for masses moving near the speed of light.

Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes.

Felber's calculations show how to use the repulsion of a body speeding through space to provide the enormous energy needed to accelerate a spacecraft quickly with minimal stress. The new solution of Einstein's field equation shows that the payload would 'fall weightlessly' in an antigravity beam even as it was accelerated close to the speed of light. This is much like jumping out of a plane, where you feel weightless even though you are being accelerate to well over a hundred and fifty miles an hour.

As an example, to accelerate a one-ton spacecraft to 90% of the speed of light using conventional propulsion techniques would require an amount of energy of at least 30 billion tons of TNT. But the problem becomes more complex when you load the 30 billion tons onboard your ship. Now you have an additional 30 billion tons to accelerate. So now you add another few billion tons of propellant, and on and on. That is the underlying principle that has most scientists believing that we can never come close to the speed of light. The closer you get to the speed of light, the more fuel you need, which in turn adds more weight.

However, in the 'antigravity beam' of a speeding star, a payload would draw its energy from the antigravity force of the much more massive star. In effect, the spaceship would be hitching a ride on a star.

Based on Dr. Felber’s research, it is expected that a mission to accelerate a massive payload to a 'good fraction of light speed' will be launched before the end of this century.

So get your tickets in advance and prepare to journey where no human has gone before!

Anticipation is making me change…

Now, however, scientists have begun to discover some of the neurological secrets of this remarkable phenomenon, and are showing how the brain can be ‘rewired’ in anticipation of sensory input to respond in prescribed ways.

A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently reported the results of a series of experiments that reveal the brain in action as it is fooled. This new work, led by assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry Jack B. Nitschke, tested the ability of the human brain to handle foul tastes through the power of anticipation. Using state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques, Nitschke reveals in detail how the brain responds to such manipulation.

In the experiment, subjects were given several ‘concoctions’ to taste. Some were extremely distasteful, while others were sweet and enjoyable. The twist in the experiment was that the subjects were given ‘clues’ as to what concoction was coming next. But in the tests, the ‘clues’ didn’t always match the taste that followed.

The experiment revealed that when subjects were given a clue that suggested the taste they were about to experience would be less bitter, the taste was perceived as such, and the regions of the brain that process tastes were activated less.

This indicates that when the subject sees the warning signal, portions of the brain are de-activated, thus reducing the response to the awful taste. What’s more, the subjects invariably responded to the concoctions with the taste indicated by the clue. So if the clue indicated a bitter taste, the subject reported that it was bitter. Likewise, if the subject anticipated that the taste wouldn’t be that bad, then it wasn’t.

In short, the new study shows how expectancy affects how humans perceive sensory input, and how events in the brain are directly related to those perceptions.

So, it appears that how we anticipate an event or action in our life has a profound impact on how we perceive it. If we anticipate a bad day at work, our mind will look for and experience those aspects of our sensory experience in order to ‘create’ the experience of a bad day.

The conscious mind has a dramatic effect on our mind and our body. While scientists still are unable to say exactly how a patient’s belief in the power of a placebo to cure them results in a cure, there is little doubt that it happens.

So the next time you’re dreading something, tell yourself that maybe it won’t be all that bad, and it probably won’t be.

Seeing is NOT Believing, but believing IS Seeing.

So how much of what we see is real? Any criminal investigator will tell you that eye witnesses are often the most unreliable form of evidence. What we perceive, as shown above, is often more about what we expect to see. Here’s a quick example that some of you may have seen. Just read the next sentence:

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So no wonder I can’t spell…I don’t need to.

Is it Reality or is it Memory?

Are you really seeing an event or just remembering it? Research into brain activity using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has shown that the brain cannot tell the difference. In a study where subjects were asked to view an event and later to remember the same event, the MRI images revealed that the same portions of the brain were active in each instance, indicating that the brain processed the memory in the same fashion as the real event. The key difference lies in the ‘input’ to the brain.

The ability to recognize objects in the real world is handled by different parts of the brain than those that allow us to imagine what the world is like. That is the result of a brain mapping experiment published in the March 28 issue of the journal Neuron.

Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, (fMRI), the researchers at Vanderbilt discovered that the areas activated during imagination and real world observation tended to lie on two different pathways in the visual system of the brain. These two pathways, called the ventral and dorsal, are sometimes called the "what" and "where" pathways. In effect, the brain simply substitutes the source of the visual input processing much like you would switch your TV from the cable box to the DVD player. Thus what the brain ‘sees’ is dependent on which channel it selects.

But the research demonstrated that it isn’t a simple one or the other. In fact, the brain melds these two pathways together to create a form of augmented reality, consisting of part reality, part fantasy.

The human mind simply ‘interprets’ reality, often incorrectly, by filling in the gaps. This creates a perceived reality that is part real, part believed. So believing can really be seeing after all.

So test yourself! The Perceptual Science Group at MIT has a nice collection of visual illusions that show you just how wrong the brain is sometimes.

A: So what is ‘Dark Matter’? That’s a question that is still baffling scientists. Sadly, at the moment, they don't know what makes up 96% of the Universe. About 23% is thought to be composed of ‘Dark Matter’. The remaining 73% is thought to consist of dark energy, an even stranger component. For scientist, needless to say, this is a rather embarrassing situation. Although much of what is visible in the Universe is becoming better understood by science, it would appear that there is another component of the universe - possibly making up most of its mass - which we cannot see, and we do not understand. This is what is referred to as ‘Dark Matter’.

‘Dark Matter’ is called Dark because it does not emit enough light or radiation to make it visible. That blue coffee cup in front of you absorbs the light that reaches it and emits the blue light, allowing you to see it. Most of the matter around us emits some form of energy that makes it ‘visible’. This is usually in the form of light or radiation. For example, Grand Central Terminal in NYC emits more radiation than Three-mile Island. While well below dangerous levels, this radiation is released from the granite that was used to construct the building. But ‘Dark Matter’ appears to emit no such form of radiation, thus making it invisible to us, (hence the name Dark Matter).

The picture at the right is an example of one type of radiation, infrared. The image (courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope) shows just what the stars at the center of our galaxy look like based on the infrared emissions from those stars. In visible-light pictures, this region cannot be seen at all because dust lying between Earth and the galactic center blocks our view. But due to the radiation from those stars, we can see them and know that they are there. ‘Dark matter’ does not radiate detectable energy, so it remains entirely invisible to us.

So if it’s invisible, how do we know it's there?

To understand how we know ‘Dark Matter’ is there, one needs to fully comprehend the gravity of the situation, literally.

In astronomy, one can detect an object in one of two ways: either by observing it directly, or observing the effect that it has on other, more easily observed objects. It's always been known that there was matter in the night sky that we couldn't directly see. When astronomers use telescopes, or even radio telescopes, they can only see objects which emit light or radio waves. Not all of the matter in the Universe does this - for instance, we wouldn't be able to see planets like our own, because they would be too dim for us to see. However, scientists have been able to locate planets around distant stars, not by seeing the planets, but by observing the ‘wobble’ of the stars. The stars are easy to view, and when a planet revolves around a star (sort of like a rock on the end of a string), the planet tugs at the star in one direction. As the planet revolves around the star, the star wobbles. Thus by looking for this wobble (or the effects of a planet’s gravitational pull o n a visible star), scientists can locate planets which otherwise would be invisible.

Evidence for Dark Matter

Much of the evidence for dark matter comes from the study of the motions of galaxies. Many of these appear to be fairly uniform, so by the Virial theorem:

…Okay, in English

The presence of ‘Dark Matter’, first proposed by Fritz Zwicky in 1933, can be inferred from the way galaxies rotate: Their stars move so fast they would fly apart if they were not being held together by the gravitational attraction of some unseen material. Put simply, it’s like putting a penny on a record player turntable (please don’t ask what a record player is). The penny represents a star, and the record is the galaxy. As you turn up the speed on the record’s rotation, you reach a point where the penny flies off the record. Well, the galaxies rotate so fast (relatively speaking, since it takes our galaxy 200 million years for our sun to make one full orbit of the Galactic Center traveling at over 150 miles/second) that all the stars in the outer edges should just fly off into space. But they don’t. So what is holding the galaxies together?

Scientists assume that it is gravity. But if they calculate the weight of a galaxy, and thus its gravitational force (based on what they see in it) it seems far too low to hold these stars in place.

So scientists theorized that there must be something else, some unseen matter that was responsible for providing the additional gravity needed to ‘hold’ the galaxies together. Thus was born ‘Dark Matter’ as a means of solving this problem.

To date, the only things that are known about ‘Dark Matter’ are that it represents the majority of the mass of our galaxies, and that it must be VERY hot - around 10,000 degrees. But, while accepted by many scientists as a convenient way to explain their observations, the supposition that ‘Dark Matter’ exists is NOT accepted by all.