THE CONSCIOUS ENERGY FIELD --
Although synchronicity may seem like something that just happens, SynchroDestiny is definitely something that must be learned. But this shouldn't seem at all intimidating. So many things that seem to happen by themselves in our everyday lives are actually learned behaviors and responses. Even the accepted nature of physical reality is something that we learn during childhood. Unfortunately, most of us stop much too soon in our learning and questioning. Mastering SynchroDestiny means reopening the learning process at the most basic levels.
So let's start at the beginning. For thousands of years, and in many different philosophical traditions, a debate has raged concerning the very nature of reality.
On one side there is the point of view that the whole truth about things is available to our senses. In other words, when you look at a table, what you see is exactly what's out there in space and time. It's a piece of solid matter composed of smaller and smaller pieces of solid matter all the way down to the level of subatomic particles. So if you want to know what the table is made of, the answer is wood. If you want to know where the table came from, the answer is a tree. If you want to know how the table came into being, the answer is the name of the carpenter who nailed it together. If you want to know why, the answer is because he wanted to make some money.
This is a completely materialist interpretation of reality. I have described it in rather simplistic terms, but the materialist interpretation of reality is obviously very important. It's the way most everyone lives day in and day out. On the practical level, it's the foundation of the world, as we know it. We live every minute of the day according to this viewpoint.
There is another philosophy, which is also very important. According to this interpretation, the world that we perceive through our senses is only a version of a deeper reality. The Greek philosopher Socrates, for example, and also his pupil Plato, taught that the world of our sensory perceptions is a distortion, a mirage, like a shadow playing across a wall. Today many historians believe that the Greeks were influenced by spiritual thinkers from India, where the idea of a deeper reality has a very long history.
In Sanskrit, for example, the word may refer to the illusion that we perceive the true nature of things through our senses, when we're really seeing only a partial aspect. Because beyond the manifest physical universe, there is a field of energy and information and intelligence that orchestrates and governs the material environment. But this ground state of creation, which I call the conscious energy field, does not exist independently of us. This is a two way street. We are both transmitters and receivers of information. We are both the creation and the ongoing creators of the conscious energy field.
In contemporary science, the debate has continued between these two schools of thought: the materialists on one side, and the proponents of consciousness-based universe on the other. There are strong advocates of both views. Even Albert Einstein never accepted the principles of quantum physics, which are the basis of the consciousness created universe and other related ideas. Einstein believed there was an essential simplicity to the universe which human knowledge had not yet penetrated. He felt that the familiar notion of solid reality could be extended to the level of atoms and even beyond. Einstein believed this truth was only obscured by the ideas of physicists like Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, which seemed to him more mystical than scientific. The German physicist Heisenberg, for example, declared that atoms are not things. And Niels Bohr, one of the most important figures in the development of quantum physics stated that there literally is no material world at the level of atoms and subatomic particles. Instead, there is only an abstract mathematical description of one.
Yet quantum physics has become the scientific orthodoxy of the twentieth century, and it has again and again proved its ability to correctly predict the outcome of experimental procedures. Even Einstein did not say that quantum physics was wrong. Instead, he pointed out that it was simply incomplete, and that there were phenomena that quantum physics could not account for. There's no need to become involved with the technicalities of this debate, but the insights of quantum physics are at the foundation of SynchroDestiny.
The idea of a consciousness created universe is especially important, although it's often misunderstood.
The consciousness created universe doesn't mean that there's nothing out there, or that the whole universe literally takes place inside our heads. It doesn't mean that there's only me, or that you don't exist, or that this recording is a figment of my imagination. What the consciousness created universe really means is that the physical universe has no attributes in the absence of a conscious observer.
For example, we see color as an attribute of physical reality. We look at the American flag and see red, white and blue. We look at the grass and see green. But these colors are not really intrinsic to the reality.
Instead, the phenomenon of color is a response by the human nervous system to stimuli from the environment. We experience color as if it's happening out there, but actually, we're projecting it from in here.
Color is only one instance of this, and it's by no means the most dramatic.
When Europeans first arrived in the Trobriand Islands in the South Pacific, the islanders wanted to know how they had gotten there.
So the Europeans said, well, we came in those ships you see out there in the harbor. And the islanders said, Those what? They looked out at the ocean but they literally didn't see anything. They literally could not see the ships because they had no internal software for them. So were the ships really there? Yes and no.
If you expected to see them, and if you knew how to see them, they were there. But if you didn't expect to see them, they weren't there. So much of what we call reality is really a selective act of perception and interpretation.
For example, supposed a husband and wife have a newborn baby at home. The wife may wake up from a sound sleep whenever the baby coughs, but the husband sleeps right through it.
Both of them hear the cough at some level, because there's no such thing as complete unconsciousness. But there's a selective act of attention on the mother's part.
She's much more tuned into the baby than her husband. Her selective reality is simply different from his.
As you can see, the idea that consciousness created the universe and there may be a conscious energy field, are great subjects of philosophical speculation.
But for the purpose of SynchroDestiny, there are seven specific attributes of the field that I want to discuss. These are the attributes of the universe that we both create and perceive, and they are the attributes that foster synchronicity.
More on the seven principles next time...
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