I’m now running through a list of famous people who have claimed that something is the final word, and I can’t think of a single word, and I can’t think of a sinle one who hasn’t been proven wrong.
JEFFREY SATINOVER
There is superposition of multiple possibilities, which after a while will collapse to one or the other, so you choose to do this or choose to do that.
—Stuart Hameroff
Lest we end up on Dr. Satinover’s list, let’s say from the start that this chapter is not going to be a final word on how to run your life, or what you need to do, give up, do without or create. As if we would know, sitting here typing at a computer, what crucial thing, place or event will turn your life around and make glorious your trip through the universe. People often seem to think that there’s a secret formula, that if only they would be told, then everything would be wonderful. If only they could get five minutes alone with Donald Trump, then their business would fly.
So then, why have we been writing about all these ideas, experiments, concepts, methodologies and ways of seeing the world? Think of it as loading up the tool belt. And we’re loaded with some heavy equipment.
All of the concepts in theoretical physics, the concepts on quantum physics, all that’s fabulous and wonderful. But at the end of the day, does it give us a better way to change our mind?
—JZ Knight
Many of the concepts we’ve been talking about have been debated, discussed and argued by the best minds and spirits on the planet for thousands and thousands of years. So in the realm of mind (which is real, after all) we’ve joined with many truly amazing beings. You might ask: How can we even hope to definitively unravel what these geniuses could not? Well, they probably thought the same, but went into the unknown anyway. And in the end, the answers to What Is Reality? Who Am I? Do I Create Reality? What Is Matter? How Do I Become Enlightened? What Paradigm Am I Stuck In? are intensely personal anyway. We have to answer them for ourselves.
Okay, but another question immediately comes to mind—why worry about such “lofty” ideas when you hate your commute to work? Why wonder what is reality, when you are “stuck” in yours? Dean Radin was asked why he cares about philosophy and abstract thought:
Because it goes to the essence of the assumptions of who and what you think you are. So if we think that we are living in a certain kind of world, we behave in a certain kind of way. If we think we are living in a world where human beings are a kind of machine, we’re like robots walking around, and there may or may not be anything actually happening in there, then questions like morals and ethics and how we live our lives and what we think about death and life, those will be very different than if we think the world is an interconnected, alive one.
Well, science creates the stories that we live by, and science has told us a very bleak story for the last hundred, four hundred years. It’s told us that we are some sort of genetic mistake. That we have genes that just use us, basically, to move on to the next generation, and that we randomly mutate. It’s said that we are outside of our universe; that we are alone, that we are separate. And that we are sort of this lonely mistake, on a lonely planet, in a lonely universe. And that informs our view of the world. It forms our view of ourselves, and we are now realizing that this view, this view of separateness, is one of the most destructive things. It’s the thing that creates everything; all the problems in the world, the wars, the views of I need more than you, the aggressiveness in everything from business to the classroom. And we’re now realizing that paradigm is wrong. That we aren’t separate, that we aren’t all alone. We are all together. That at the very nethermost element of our being, we are one; we are connected. And so we are trying to understand and absorb what are the implications of that.
—Lynne McTaggart
Why Care About Science?
One of the first reasons goes right back to what science is based on: the scientific method. Given that what we perceive is based on what we know and what we believe, it seems difficult to ever get a true picture of the way things really are. The scientific method is a revolutionary approach to reality; as far as possible, it removes the prejudices from the observer and thus gets a truer picture of reality. The reason why that is important can be seen by reflecting on the Middle Ages, where the conception was: The world is flat, and there is a edge to fall off of. This was hardly the basis for an age of exploration. So people by and large stayed on the farm, in the town, or in the fiefdom.
In other words, our understanding of reality limits our options. The grand thing about science and its method is that it has the ability to say, “What I thought was reality was only an approximation—I now have a better one.” Think about what kind of a tool that is in the old belt.
Not that science is the only way to approach life. There is art and beauty and inspiration and revelation. Nevertheless, think of all the times you didn’t do something because you might be wrong or fail. In science there is no such thing as a failed experiment. That experiment was successful—it told you that reality does not work that way. Why care about science? We asked John Hagelin:
I want to stress emphatically that everything I am talking about here really represents a firm foundation of mathematical physics with predictable consequences that can be tested in a laboratory and more importantly applied for the benefit of society. That’s what the ultimate importance is, the discovery of the unified field; the superstring is beautiful, but more importantly the discovery of the unified field will soon transform civilization away from today’s fragmented world, which is crisscrossed by arbitrary political borders that separate humanity from humanity.
A fragmented world reflects a fragmented understanding of the universe. Now with the emergence of the fundamental understanding of the unity at the basis of life’s diversity, it won’t be long before this rainbow-colored, politically divided world will become a global country, a global country of peace. And that we are going to achieve it in our generation.
Simply put, science tells us what is possible. People tend not to venture into what they believe to be impossible. But what is impossible? Quantum theory says that it is possible, in the next instant, for you, your body and the chair you’re in to, for no apparent reason, be on the other side of the universe. The probability is ten to the minus gazillion, but it’s not zero.
So Candace Pert says: “The body always wants to heal itself. There is a database of spontaneous remissions and spontaneous recoveries, particularly from cancer, and what’s interesting to me is that it’s so often accompanied by a sudden release of emotions.” Then somebody reads it, releases something and is healed.
What is the definition of any miracle? Something that happens outside of convention, outside the box of what’s socially acceptable, scientifically acceptable, religiously acceptable. And right outside the box is where human potential exists. How do we get there? We have to overcome the emotional states that we live in on an everyday basis. Our own personal doubt. Our own unworthiness. Our own lethargy and fatigue. Our own voices that say, we’re not good enough or it’s impossible.
—Joe Dispenza
Why Care About Change?
Really. It’s a pain in the butt. Everybody and everything starts screaming. Bosses, lovers, parents, why, even your cells are clambering for that good, old feeling. Just slip out of that tool belt and onto some comfy couch. Or not. Says Dr. Joe Dispenza:
People have to make that choice for themselves. Most people are happy with their life the way it is. Most people are happy with watching television and having a 9 to 5 job. Not to say that they are happy with it, but they are hypnotized into thinking that that’s normal. The person who has another urge inside of them that they’re clearly interested in something else, all they need is a little bit of knowledge, and if they accept that knowledge as a possibility and if they embrace that knowledge over and over again, sooner or later, they’ll begin to apply that knowledge.
Now for some people it may take five minutes, and for other people to take that first step may take an enormous amount of effort because they have to weigh that first step against everything they know, and everything they know is attached to the way their life is presently, all their agreements, all their relationships. And to take that first step means that they have to evaluate what it’s going to look like by taking this step against what they know, and there’s that battle between those two elements. But once we give ourselves permission to move outside the box, there’s a definite sense of relief and definite sense of joy.
How can we say that we have lived fully every day by simply experiencing the same emotions that we’re addicted to every day? What we’re actually saying is, I have to reconfirm who I am, and my personality is, I have to do this, I have to go here, I have to be that. A master is quite a different cat. It is one that sees the day as an opportunity in time to create avenues of reality and emotions that are unborn, of realities that are unborn, that the day becomes a fertilization of infinite tomorrows.
—Ramtha
So according to Dr. Dispenza, on the other side of “another urge” is a “definite sense of joy.” Really? At this point we could launch into all the reasons why, and talk about evolution and “making known the unknown,” but that’s what we’ve done throughout the book.
And besides, 
anyway? Dr. Dispenza obviously thinks it’s true, but that’s not me, and that’s not you. The real question is:
Really.
The short-form answer to that is: Try it. Test it out. Test it all out. Remember, the answers are intensely personal anyway, which is why we’re not giving you the quantum cookbook on how to cook up a wonderful life. The good news and the bad news is that only you know.
But once the process of experimenting with your life is engaged, all the information we’ve been going over and all the knowledge about creating and emotions and addictions, about choices, changes, intent, about associative memory, will all come into play. The paradigms and neuronets that limit your degrees of freedom will leap up in your face. The beliefs that constrain your immortal spirit will scream in your ear. It’ll be chaos, mayhem. Whoa!—you’ll be alive.
Enlightenment is our birthright. We’re wired for it. It’s what the human brain was designed to experience.
—John Hagelin
The Final Collapse
The final collapse to the final superposition is you. All these possibilities: to change or not to change? To change into what? To own, retire or collapse what emotional pattern into wisdom? Which belief to put to the test and find out what is real? All these possibilities are sitting out there, awaiting a choice. Says Miceal Ledwith:
What’s the difference between belief and knowledge? Well, I believe something on the authority of some other person or thing. I have knowledge when I have experienced that thing personally, and if I, for instance, walked on water, I would have knowledge that it is possible to do, and I could never again doubt it really. But if I only believe it on the word of somebody else, well, then it’s only a philosophy, an abstraction, and a great necessity in evolution is to change belief into knowledge or into experience or into wisdom. To convert knowledge into wisdom that is experienced is the great journey of spiritual development.
And we are apparently equipped to make that journey. Dr. Dispenza adds: “The brain is actually a laboratory, and by our design, and by our own will, it acts as a laboratory, to take concepts, ideas and models, and ask the what-ifs, the possibilities, the potentials, and contemplate on designs or ideals that are outside the boxes of what our present understanding is, to come up with a new understanding or an enlarged box.”
As they said in Ghostbusters: “We got the tools; we got the talent.”
And you just gotta wonder, why do we have these tools? These talents? Either it’s an accident of nature or it’s why we’re here. It’s pretty much one or the other. Obviously, the thrust of this book has been on the “it’s why we’re here” side. All the creations of humanity spring out of the abilities, the human potentials, that we are in possession of. And we have them for a reason, which we’re all in the process of discovering.
We have the amazing brain—the most complex structure in the known universe—that can and does rewire itself to continually maximize whatever you want to experience. Whereupon the brain rewires in response to that new experience—all under your control. Then there’s the body: self-healing, self-replicating, and let’s face it, a thing of beauty. And the mind, which has the ability to delve into the tiniest corners of space and time and then get huge and contemplate the big bang. And beyond.
And within. Consciousness explores consciousness and comes up with such crazy ideas as: The world is essentially empty; all we perceive is maya—illusion—and we are fundamentally all connected—we are one. Those explorers of the unseen, the enlightened, have been reporting on this for millennia and lo and behold, out of those tiniest corners of space and time, and out of the probings into the working of the brain, comes the message, “Yeah, that is what is.”
The tool belt is getting very full. We’ve always had the tools for transformation; all that’s missing is hitting the “go” button. If there’s knowledge that we’re without, we’ll find it; if it’s an experience we’re missing, we’ll create it.
Higher and higher, on and on. Remember those nested Chinese boxes? How properties emerge as we ascend to higher, more integrated levels? What properties, what talents, what realities will emerge out of that!? What can and will we become? Is there a limit? How do I find the answers to my questions?
Thus we end like we began—questions.
Our final words are, “Why? How? What?”
The words of explorers, adventurers divine.
So, of course, the final collapse of the final superposition becomes the initial conditions of the new superposition. That’s nerd-talk for: The changes never end.
Thank God.