Reality Isnt Real

REALITY ISN’T REAL:
Patricia F. Hare offers a great web-article about how change occurs
(link below).

Back in 1980 Marilyn Ferguson introduced us to the concept of a “Paradigm Shift,” which takes place when things are viewed in a particular way, then new information comes along and the way things are viewed changes in response to the new information. Ferguson said, “The problem is that you can’t embrace the new paradigm unless you let go of the old.”

I have written in this column, on more than one occasion, that everything appearing solid in our world breaks down to subatomic particles -- to energy. And energy is non-physical in nature. Cutting-edge physicists now claim that our reality is best described as a “thought form.” This fact doesn’t surprise the mystics who have always claimed we live in a world of illusion. So today, the scientists and mystics are in agreement.

Simply stated, we are energy interacting with energy.

The following two paragraphs are from Hare’s article:

Lynne McTaggart, author of “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe” (2002), is one of the many writers explaining to us the quiet scientific revolution taking place and the implications of its findings. These implications are heretical to some; to others they offer a life-enhancing vision. McTaggart tells us that quantum physicists have been finding that at the subatomic level our world is a “participatory relationship” between an observer and the observed. Subatomic particles exist in probability until they are perturbed (i.e., observed and measured) forcing them into a set state, “an act akin to solidifying Jell-O.” And guess what perturbs subatomic particles (here’s where we get to the starling part): the observer -- human consciousness.

Please understand that most physicists would never suggest that human consciousness is responsible for bringing the observed world into being. This idea seems bizarre (and its details are not yet clear). However, a growing number of physicists are stating that the findings of quantum physics -- whether they like it or not -- are just that: Reality boils down to the consciousness that is observing it. This idea is so radical because it flies in the face of everything that we have been taught about the nature of reality. Reality is solid; reality can be measured; reality has weight; reality is, well, real. We don’t “think-up” reality! It exists, we discover it, we explore it, we define it, we exist in it--it does not exist in us! But there it is. A century of scientific research taking us to this paradigm-shifting conclusion: Nothing in the universe exists as an actual ‘thing’ independent of our perception of it. If that is true, then we are blessed and burdened with the responsibility for what we see. And if we don’t like what we see, the means of changing it are not “out there” in “reality,” but within us, within ourselves, within our consciousness.

With this in mind, the idea of “creating your own reality” seems a little “ real.”
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