Can you give me references, cite scientific research papers? In my career of a science writer I haven never come across such a claim that has any scientific validity.

It has bugged me for quite some time, that it seems easy for some to accept these ideas, but for most, it is not. Why are people so scared of the idea that we are so powerful that a whole universe (and more) exists because of us? What makes a person afraid to entertain this idea, even for a moment?

Why would you bring children into this world if all you will teach them by your own actions is that life is a struggle.

Why would you become a politician if all you will preach to people is that they need to be led?

Why would you become a doctor? Why a teacher? Why anything?

Why are we afraid? What is there to be afraid of? If God created everything, then that means everything, not bits here and there.

Unless there is some self centered reason or benefit for us to judge everything around us, then I am completely lost! What is to gain from judging something as bad, and then when offered another light, we shun it as madness?

If the entire population were to change their view to that of being a creator instead of a reactor, then all judgments would cease. But at the same time, being judgmental is what forces many to explore the possibility is it not? Are we not driven by what we see as an incomplete world, or a world with too many bad things going on to explore or seek answers?

There is something missing, and no religion has the answer either. Therefore it must be within, the center of all existence, and when you find it, you do not need the approval of someone else. You do not need to change the world, for the world does not need changing, for if it did then you are judging the very thing you are creating.

It’s like a see saw, or a pendulum, this movement from creating to reacting, or judging to accepting etc. At some point the see saw ride must end, and then all that is left is to just ‘BE’.

Thankyou, for your research is wonderful.

I re-read your blog today and want to say to you that I don’t think quantan entanglement means we are illusions. After we have made our choices (or after they were made for us), we are then real. However, I tend to believe we can always change that reality.

When abuse is present, I don’t think those who are abused have asked to be abused, or want to be abused — any more than those who are alcoholic have asked to be alcoholics. But I do think that something in the way we think, feel, and act may set some of us up to experience those things. Prior to retirement I worked 20 years as an Addictions’ Counselor so I saw a lot of physical and mental abuse.

“They suggest that we have to ask ourselves a very fundamental question, perhaps the most fundamental of all: does anything exist before we perform a measurement on it? Or to put that another way, if quantum entities, which are so impossible to define before measurements are taken, drive all our basic life processes, does anything exist as an actual something independently of us?
Suddenly the idea that thoughts can affect the physical world doesn’t seem so strange.”

So how was the physical world before Homo Sapiens started thinking? Was it different? There is some missing link there… Thoughts have been affecting the physical world since many thousands of years when we invented the use of fire, and yes, you need quantum theory to explain the color of flames.