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Quantum Mechanics
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Dr. Dean Radin: can one's intentions affect the quantum world and create reality?
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Editor’s prefatory comment:
We’ve looked at testimony from a number of physicists who assert that an attempt to measure or observe a particle changes it. And this is fact.
ghostlike particles are one thing, but gross-matter objects of the macro-world are quite another
However, this does not mean, as Einstein disparagingly cautioned, that the universe is changed when a mouse looks at it, or that the moon disappears when we turn our heads.
There are entire industries, flim-flam money-making ventures, which have been created to exploit this desire for “mind over matter”. You’ve heard of the book and movie “The Secret” and several other works of this nature. I wrote a lengthy article exposing the fallacy of these "if you pray for it, a shiny new red bicycle will appear on your front porch" and similar wishful-thinking con-jobs.
But how is this so? What about the “observer effect” in the quantum world? It’s alive and well – but it doesn’t present itself in a dramatic way on the macro-level; at least, not quite yet. In the “holodeck” writing, we learned of many testimonies from the other side which assert that one day we will be able to create things with the mind’s intention; but not quite yet.
Dr. Dean Radin, featured on the “afterlife” and “OBE” pages, sets us straight:
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'like a cartoon'
As the great neuro-scientists inform us, the brain acts as a “step-down transformer.” Mortal eyes can view only a very tiny sliver of the electro-magnetic spectrum, what we call visible light. We see so little of what’s around us that Dr. Dean Radin said our perception of the world “is like a cartoon,” mere caricature, so paltry and diminished, compared to “what is.” Part of the brain’s function right now is to filter out 99+% of what could be accessed, such that, our senses receive, he said, only "one trillionth" of what might be accessed; and so, yes, "like a cartoon."
And concerning "mind over matter" and the like, it's best that we don't make too many plans at the moment to live large:
'tweaking probabilities'
As with many falsehoods, there might be the smallest grain of truth to it, which is why it gains some traction among believers. Positive affirmations, like drinking water, said Mark Twain, can do you no harm; and, in fact, there is some correlation between intention and manipulating matter – see the scientific experiments conducted by Dr. Dean Radin; further, as mentioned, we are headed toward future worlds in which our minds will direct objects in our environment. However, all this acknowledged, right now, we do not have the ability to materialize a new Cadillac in the driveway simply by wishing for it. Dr. Radin said that the force of our intentions, in this world, has the effect only of “tweaking probabilities,” of making certain outcomes very slightly more probable; what was a billion-to-one chance but now improved to 999 million-to-one still isn't going to happen. It’s best not to get too excited about that new Cadillac for today.
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