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CONSIOUSNESS AND THE CRITICAL MASS

We are magickal - we have the natural ability to manifest our reality, as individuals we can make a difference to the critical mass. Today's leading-edge science is quantum physics. This is the branch of physics which seeks to understand what is going on at the very deepest roots of reality. As our technology gets more powerful, we are able to peer into ever smaller details of physical matter. Quantum physicists are explorers of the subatomic levels. Over the past century they have been gathering a lot of new data that doesn't comfortably fit in the existing paradigm. And it's definitely challenging the traditional framework.

Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (2002), is one of 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 startling 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. Scientific research is 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.