What’s Real?
Gayle Kimball, Ph.D.
We Know Little About Our World
Our dominant worldview is like the Flatland novel published in 1884 about a two-dimensional world. When the hero first discovers a three-dimensional place and reports back on his discovery, he’s persecuted. I interviewed 65 visionary scientists to find out what’s real, according to their research, and why they’re able to swim against the materialist current so bravely. Going against the dominant worldview evokes ridicule, as in “Why study flying pigs?” Their answers are found in my trilogy: The Mysteries of Reality, The Mysteries of Knowledge Beyond Our Senses, and The Mysteries of Healing. I quote some of them below.
We know very little about reality, but Professor William Bengston, Ph.D., noted, “There is nothing more liberating than realizing everything you think is true is wrong,” as he found researching effective intentional healing of cancer in mice. The observable universe made of atoms comprises less than 5% of the universe. Over 95% of the universe is invisible dark matter and dark energy that repels gravity.[i] These mysterious forces have been measured but not understood. Various theories try to explain gravity but none are definitive. A major interpretation of quantum physics predicts multi-universes beyond the known universe that remain a mystery.[ii]
Genes with a known coding function make up only about 1.5% of our DNA structure, while the non-coding genes are called “junk.”[iii] In regards to their function, computational biologist Ewan Birney said, “It’s slightly depressing as you realize how ignorant you are. But this is progress. The first step in understanding these things is having a list of things that one has to understand.”[iv]
Psychologist Chris Roe, Ph.D., points out that the evidence “suggests our current psychological model of what it is to be a human being is incomplete.” We have access to information and resources beyond our conscious brains: ESP, healing from a distance, clairvoyance, clairsentience, precognition, psychokinesis, teleportation, revelatory dreams, placebo effect, near-death memories, channeling, communication among plants, measurement of the aura and chakras, and other forms of “anomalous cognition” that are verified in labs in thousands of double-blind experiments. Also, the acknowledgement that we have free will rather than simply being determined by our chemical interactions is liberating.
Our common sense is often inaccurate, such as believing in what our senses tell us about solid matter. Einstein said, “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy whose vibration has been so lowered as to be discernible to the senses. There is no matter.” The Copenhagen interpretation of physicist Niels Bohr theorizes that a quantum particle exists in all possible states at once. How can that be in a common sense viewpoint? Leading physicist Anton Zeillinger observed, “The world is even weirder than what quantum physics tells us.” The infamous “hard problem of consciousness” is we don’t understand the origins of our ability to be aware. Physicist Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., explained, “Before collapse, only mind stuff exists in the guise of possibilities. Possibilities are potentially able to be something. Atoms are ideas we use to map out what we observe with sensitive instruments.”
Consciousness is the Basis of Reality
Bernardo Kastrup, Ph.D., views materialist dogma as making us “collectively mad, enmeshed in a collective trance that leads to immorality.” The condition of our environment is proof of this insanity. Larry Dossey, MD., observes that we face a “horrible crisis in ethics and morality.” Brilliant researcher Dean Radin, Ph.D. finds that materialism “cannot easily account for all aspects of reality, especially consciousness and psychic phenomena.” Therefore he advocates for a new paradigm, “with a more comprehensive model of reality where consciousness becomes just as fundamental, if not more so, than materialism.”
Actually, idealism is very old, defined as the belief that reality is mentally constructed. Ancient Greek philosophers, such as Anaxagoras in 480 BCE, emphasized the primacy of mind and consciousness, although his contemporary Plato’s idea of ideal forms is better known. Ancient Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism also recognized that the material world is maya, illusion, way before quantum mechanics realized that matter and time are not what we think they are.
Various organizations conduct or report on psi research based on consciousness and the power of intention, such as the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK, and in the US the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Society for Scientific Exploration, and the Consciousness and Healing Initiative.
If our common sense simplistic notions about material things, locality and distance, time, sources of information, death, and the power of belief are wrong–at least on the quantum level–what are the implications? We need training in how to accurately access non-sensory information and use thoughts and emotions to manifest our goals. It’s helpful to learn to pay attention to seemingly unrelated synchronistic events, especially what Gary Schwartz, Ph.D. calls “super synchronicity” when we experience six or more related events. They suggest that some form of helpful guidance exists and that we can learn how to access it more deliberately. It’s time to put the consciousness paradigm to work to improve our lives and better understand reality.
[i] Katia Moskvitch, “Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity, “ Quanta Magazine, April 30, 2018.
[ii] Ethan Siegel, “The Multiverse is Inevitable, And We’re Living It,” Medium, October 19, 2017.
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