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Tent Camping Tips On Avoiding The Irks Of Tent Camping
- By Jeff Marshall
- Published 05/1/2008
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Causes of Eczema
- By Michael Malega
- Published 03/7/2008
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Legal DNA Testing Required for US Immigration Cases
- By Terrence Ogden
- Published 02/6/2008
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How Drug Alcohol Testing can help you - Basic Ideas about Alcohol Screening
- By Maria Louis
- Published 01/22/2008
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The article discusses the causes and the effects of drug abuse. It also highlights the need and process of alcohol screening, alcohol screening test or drug abuse screening test.
Thanksgiving Facts About it
- By Gianni Truvianni
- Published 11/16/2007
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Thanksgiving is a very special day for Americans as it is a day on which they give thanks for everything they have received during the past year in a feast that always without exception includes a turkey and not surprisingly this holiday is more known through out the world for the 1’000,000 or so turkeys that are consumed then the reason it is celebrated.
The Nobel Prize
- By Gianni Truvianni
- Published 10/25/2007
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The Nobel Prize a symbol of greatness or perhaps a meaningless tribute by men who wish to proclaim themselves more knowing then the rest of us in knowing what true greatness is?
Is There a God?
- By Gianni Truvianni
- Published 08/8/2007
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The Oneness Blessing (Part Two)
- By Steve
- Published 08/3/2007
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Last week I invited my sister to attend a Deeksha and we made arrangements to receive it from a local couple, Angela and Shane Cottreau.
Ask Before You Help
- By Steve
- Published 08/3/2007
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After reading the article I was so excited about how well it was done and the message it conveyed, that I was inspired to write an article about her. I immediately published her article to my directory as well as the article I wrote about her.
Consciously Be This One That You Are by Elysha
- By Elysha Ashram
- Published 08/3/2007
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The Oneness Blessing (Deeksha)
- By Steve
- Published 08/3/2007
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I received a book by author Arjuna Ardagh, in the mail a couple of weeks ago from the Oneness University called Awakening into Oneness, published by Sounds True. I am just over 200 books behind reading in my library, and because I have an arrangement with Sounds True to review their books-I started reading it immediately.
No One Is Forcing You To Awaken To Who You Are by Elysha
- By Elysha Ashram
- Published 07/18/2007
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Your Greatest Hope For Survival is Not what You May Think.
- By Steve
- Published 06/11/2007
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What you know as your truth now is limited. All things change-you, those around you, the environment, and the sky. Life in a box is a closed system and by its very nature is limited. Without new energy and new life coming into the coffer there is no probable possibility of survival.
Stumbling Forward and Going Nowhere
- By Steve
- Published 06/7/2007
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One of the courses I took for about a year was Tai Chi. The major benefit of the course was to learn about balance. The instructor demonstrated to us how most of us walk. We take a step, then fall forward and catch ourselves with the other foot before the rest of the body hits the ground. In other words we stumble forward. When we are in balance we can move forward with deliberate steps, and we should be able to stop anytime in the middle our stride without falling forward.
City of Peace - East Meets West. The Dream of the Spiritual Is-Ra-El
- By Steve
- Published 05/5/2007
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The One Integrated Spirit (IS) as the spiritual IS-Ra-EL (Zion: The Core of the Universal Mind) has been trying desperately to unify His children (all the individuals of mankind) around the perception of One-ness for the length of this Creation, always hoping to gather them from their exile from Himself. sHe has made a protective connection for the third time in the history of this Creation between the Eternally unified JeruShalem (The One: Unity Itself) above and the manifested earthly JeruShalem (ancient Hebrew name for Jerusalem) of the City below, as the capital of an earthly IS-Ra-El, in an attempt to manifest the Holy of Holies of unity, love, and kindness, within the inner and outer Dream of this Creation. In that act he desires to project a sense of unified completion and perfection as Shalem (completion in unity, perfection, and peace in Hebrew) as the individual self reunites with the totality of the Universal Self, feeling within and expressing without the Peace of God manifested as outer peace (Shalom in Hebrew and Salaam in Arabic).Out of The Matrix
- By Steve
- Published 03/12/2007
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The Universal Mind (The IS: Eternal Intelligence-Awareness) always tries to teach its entities of thought about Its reality and their purpose, through the medium of creative inspiration. However if, because of the resistance and creative misconceptions that mankind introduces, the perception is that this cannot be achieved within illusory frameworks of time and space, which defines periods within Creations, then these particular Creations just disappear and are devibrated in the swirling of the real Black Hole of the Mind.
Message from The Holy One
- By Steve
- Published 03/4/2007
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He has been absent, perceptually so, for too long from His Creation, allowing the perception of having been dormant or even dead to exist for too long.
The End of Time and The Golden Bridge to Infinity
- By Steve
- Published 01/27/2007
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My dear brothers and sisters, a stupendous event has started since April 2004, where the old Matrix which had been our Thought and Reality construct since eons is being slowly dismantled. Many of its old rigid structures and informational grids are in the process of crumbling down and are moving within very fluid and bendable systems. Its central core is being carefully transmuted and cleansed. This is of course not yet necessarily apparent to most, but it is a reality that all of you will experience in an accelerated fashion during your lifetime and the future of this and many more Creations.
The old constructs are still being witnessed but have been greatly weakened at their core of any durable strength.
The old Matrix has become but a shadow of Its former self, with its energy leaking and highly depleted. A new transmuted world is in the making for the ones that will resonate to its vibrations and purpose.
We are entering a phase of Universally Remote Influencing Life (reality) by thought alone in up-to-now unimaginable ways.
Free-will has finally been granted to all the children of the IS for good or for bad. The choice is ours. We are out of bondage, but have yet to adjust and fully comprehend. The restrictive cause-and-effect temporal and distal laws of the old Matrix are being removed. We can influence reality outside of the rigid construct of time and space as far as we can possibly imagine. You are all free, by a decision of the One, but with this freedom comes great responsibilities both on an individual and a group level.
And I need to explain:
Our external reality is by now a highly faithful mirror of our thoughts/being. This is why our world and our leaders are but accurate reflections of whom we have become as a group consciousness.
We need to rejoin the feeling and notion of all being brothers and sisters again: All Children of the One - all precious and Holy Divine Beings. We need to search and unite around the points of commonality which we all carry, and to not ever focus again on what differentiates us. We need to only listen to messages and voices that glorify the unity of all, mankind, nature and Source alike, and should shun voices and messages that emphasize differentiation, separation, and elitism of any sort. We need to become One family again: The Human Family united within and without in the spirit of the Oneness of the One. We need to open our Heart to Infinite Un-conditional Love: The Glue of the Universal Creator.
In the next upcoming months and years everyone will be able to transmute energy within and without by thought alone. Each one will be able to transcend from Bad/Inner darkness to Good/Inner Light, engage in the reverse process, or remain static. Love will be the key to this alchemical operation of transmuting mercurial base tendencies and poisonous thought/behavior processes into Glorious precious and Divine Golden Inner Light. No one is to be judged by his/her prior actions. Everyone is given the opportunity now to be the sole judge and powerful co-creator of his/her own reality as to where he/she wants to operate in the next upcoming phase of Creation.
Divine Un-conditional Love is the force which gifts infinite strength and life, as it bonds all Creation.
This Love vibration is the unification point of all the perceptually differentiated points of Light of the Great Sun (Son). It allows for all the individuated thought processes of The One Infinite Mind to gather great Strength and Joy when they all feel the Unity of Purpose of their glorious Creation and experience henceforth a total avoidance of lack and fear.
This era represents the ultimate test for the One Mind and us, as His reflections within His Creational Dream. We will either focus solely and un-conditionally on the Light that any being across us carries, and project back from our hearts - connected to our root/Source, unconditional Love/Light, or we will fragment into nothingness if we focus on our differences and increase separation.
Our fates are indelibly tied. In the desired case, mankind and its Creator, who form the Oneness of the Creator/Creation, will soon integrate the realization that we are all One: Created, Creator, and Creation. In the worst case scenario we will shift further apart from the Original and only Source of Real energy - The bonding that Unconditional Love Creates, and wither away into total oblivion as we loose the only real energy that animates us: The energy of Life - Divine Unconditional Love.
We will either shift into the Ultimate perception of who we really are: The Godliness, and manifest the Infinite Energy of Oneness and live forever, or we will dissolve into final oblivion, final death, with no possible return, as the totality of the One Mind settles into an non-vibratory mode and cries alone (all One) over the memories of what could have been.
This is why I beg you to only see and energize the good that is across, the positive that is and can wash upon your shores.
You must share everything with glee in your opened hearts and dance at the glorious days ahead.
Even what you perceive as the darkest of the darkest was originally birthed in an act of Divine Love. Otherwise it just could not exist. So please transmute the darkness within by only focusing on the magnificence that you all are. Refuse to put your thoughts, even for a fleeting moment on what separates - on the darkness that focuses on separation.
Open your hearts. Your heart is a receptor and transmitter of the Infinite Energy of Life and Love. Subjugate your mind (original Masculine) to the dictates of your powerful Heart (original Feminine), and not do the reverse as has been sadly the case, up to now.
Beat to the drum of life. Do not be fascinated by gore, death, war and destruction, for without the old Matrix system all your thoughts become powerfully manifested, without restriction, and without filtering construct, from within the infinite soup of quantum possibilities that the One carries and projects.
This is the end of time. We now operate outside of the former construct held by the old Matrix, of what used to be the constant of time, one virtual reality frame after another.
Many of us are experiencing an acceleration of time on some days, and a slowing down of it on others. Many of our students have commented and sent us feedback on what they perceive to be a strange phenomenon relating to the perceptual flow of time.
Many of us are confused and frightened as we view our fractured countries and world.
A great deal of mankind feels an increasing lack of the basic energy of life and is looking outside of itself for solace in the false refuge of medicine, herbal remedies, and/or energy healing.
Anxiety is on the rise. Denial is common place. Escape is commonly sought in recreational drugs, alcohol, sexual sensations, pharmaceutical artificial mood enhancers, and/or invoking some "external force."
More and more of us are starting to perceive that the old familiar rules by which we used to operate do not apply anymore with predictive, exact, and repetitive cause-and-effect regularity. We seem to often get different results as we apply the same causal effect. Many are perplexed, the more aware ones much more than the lesser aware.
Economical structures and rules are becoming increasingly pliable and much less rigid. Scientific facts, taken for granted, are leading now in many seemingly contradictory directions.
Geopolitical and/or military plans and formerly established successful strategies are skewing in unexpected ways.
Long-term planning is very difficult, if we only rely on external causal facts.
Confusion is growing, and un-easiness is spreading.
Many are having the old reflex of taking refuge in past or even ancient paradigms or ways of life, thinking that the modern world is the cause of all ills and that "the proven ways of old" are the cure.
They have not yet perceived that a major Creational shift has happened.
Alas, thinking in old rigid ways, and applying different external causes will still not manifest the desired effects.
Our Remote Viewing Course and especially our more recent Remote Influencing Reality Course were constructed with the intent to prepare as many of you as possible for the "great shift." In taking these you have been made to understand, and integrate the new tools with which mankind must operate from now on. The hope is and was that the transition be effortless and welcomed, as you comprehend, see, expect, and joyfully experience the Glory of this big ascension shift.
Many of you, through our teachings and/or the teachings of others are highly prepared for it. You have deprogrammed from the old rigid thought forms, and cleansed your being, mentally, physically, and spiritually. You will further and easily transit into the New Heavens and Earth.
Sadly enough, a great many have remained unaware and are yet to accept the fact that the ascension of this Creation is taking place as I write these words. Some of them are aware of old prophecies being foretold about this, but are waiting for man-made interpretations which have often been rigidly set forth and hijacked by organizations.
To all, I say: "do not open your mind, your eyes or your ears, but your heart. Feel within your heart, and you will surely know what is, and what to do."
For the ones who already feel and understand the "great ascension shift" engaged, I ask to please tell others, all the others, about it. Embrace them all. Love them as you love yourself, for they are but yourself.
My dear family, since April 2004, all of you, without exception, have been given the ultimate gift: The gift of Creation, the gift of manifesting by the sole power of the direction of your thoughts the probable future that each and every one experiences.
You are about to realize that each and every one of your thoughts is eternal and Creates.
As the mirror images of your Creator, who creates by thought alone, you are now freed from the imposed enslaving thought constructs in which this Creation has existed for eons.
However, with the tumbling of the bars encapsulating your former mental prison (the old matrix system) comes great responsibilities toward yourself and toward all of your brothers and sisters who form the Oneness of the ONE and Only Mind.
Each of your thoughts is now a powerhouse of Creative ability. Nothing can be Created and manifested in the world of the "real" without having had a thought originally attached to it.
Your inner thinking processes is the primary focus you must have from now on.
Monitor your thoughts and only think of beauty, fraternity, happiness, abundance, and harmony for all, and this is what you will experience.
If your thoughts are operating in dissonance, and do not resonate within yourself, and with each other, then disharmony and strife is what you have chosen and will get.
From April 2004 on, the old equations about what and who is right or wrong, and the desire by many of being knights of the Light and right against the Dark and wrong, are self destructive functioning modes, for they focus on what separates, and try to impose points of view upon others, and hence bring more fragmentation and disharmony.
My dear brothers and sisters, as the recent elections in the US, and the world situation has shown recently, we are still trying to remove the cause in order to affect new effects. We are still highly divided, almost like never before, and self-righteously emotional about our points of view, our basic philosophies, and our banners of principles.
This is no coincidence. This is our ultimate test. Please do not try to remove or change external causes, but transmute them by opening your heart to pure unconditional Love and projecting it then to yourself and all others, no matter what they profess, are, or look like.
Accept and love unconditionally all of yourself and yourselves, and the darkness within and without will become transmuted into brilliant Love energy. Watch as that energy puts darkness first ill-at-ease, and then sing praises as you experience how it eventually transmutes it into pure Light and Love Itself.
Do not tolerate another. Instead, Love him or her unconditionally.
Love the enemy within yourself and outside of it, and he/she will change into your brother/sister and best friend.
Nothing can withstand the transmuting affect of the ultimate power: the power of the Essence as the Force that gave birth to all of us and to all of Creation - Unconditional Love, without borders, specific targets, principles, structures, restrictions, and finite dimensions.
This power is the real infinite free power, and you can all draw freely from it and become energized, peaceful, and joyful in the process. As the real Life force that bonds us all, please circulate and magnify it, and we will all benefit from it. You will then influence magnificent realities, the like of which you cannot even fathom.
This is also the end of fate, of karma debt. All predictive mechanisms imbedded within the former matrix, from old divination or astrological programs to modern modeling systems are no longer applicable. We are free. Free of prior unwelcome debts, undesirable contracts etc... This is the way by which we are to operate from now on, and this will manifest soon, even on this plane of reality, if we so Create it by thought.
We Create, each and every day, our next day, thought after thought, minute after minute, individually and collectively so.
You are the Creators of your individual and global realities, all of you. It is in the harmony of Unconditional Love that the power of thoughts becomes manifested, and not in the quantity of individuals thinking or the level of material possessions they have.
This is a quiet revolution of Divine Love, all originating from your inner pulsating source of Life: you inner heart, and if you embrace it, nothing, absolutely nothing, and no one, can stop it from sweeping away the old rigid structures of power, for it will transmute all of them in its wave of Divine Light.
Magnify it, by uniting around it. Carry it in your hearts at all times, and that wave will soon turn into a tsunami that will engulf all within - all nations and cultures - with the spirit of unity and brotherhood. And you will know then that you are all One, and that the One and you are One.
These are the times for which all the great spiritual masters of old have prepared us with their teachings. They taught us to be ready for the glorious day when the keys to the Universe will be finally given to all the children of the IS, with no exception. This day is now upon us. The great shift has begun.
All the children of the IS can all equally find this key of Unconditional Love and Light within their opened hearts vibrating and pulsating in unison around the Love beat symphony of the One Heart (Divine Feminine aspect) of the One and Only, who will then allow for Unconditional Love to merge with, orient, and infuse Its One Mind (Divine Masculine aspect).
And the One and Only will then project back to all of Itself and Its children within (the All that IS) a paradise, the like of which mankind has never known nor experienced ever before in its long travail, leading to lasting peace, brotherhood and Eternal free Life energy.
May Joy and Love rest forever with all of us.
Scientific Explanations For Remote Viewing
- By Steve
- Published 01/27/2007
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Eighteenth and nineteenth century physical science had completed and embellished the "golden age of a mechanistic and deterministic models of the universe" where the universe and its constituents are ruled by rigid interactive forces that can be measured, phenomena that can be predicted using mathematical tools, and where the universe or any system operating within it is made of the sum of its parts.
Light was thought to be an electromagnetic wave vibrating in an undetected, and later experimentally disproved media: "the ether", at certain rates of vibration that would define its color. It was part of the electromagnetic wave spectrum that allowed one to perceive an electromagnetic wave as heat, light , radio waves, or other electromagnetic radiations depending on the frequency of its vibrations. This spectrum had been well-defined by the equations of the English physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1864.
Man's biology was reduced to a mechanical system albeit of extreme complexity, and thought was perceived to be but an epiphenomenon of the mechanical brain.
All this was very hygienic, logical, and comforting. It allowed to view the so-called invisible world of spiritual forces or entities as a personal unproven hypothesis, and permitted the justification of atheistic concept to be scientifically sound. Basically it allowed for purely atheistic politico-philosophies alike communism to find a sympathetic resonance within the "intelligentsia" and the masses.
It also gave a great mechanistic impetus and approach to the fields of biology, microbiology, psychology, neurobiology, and the allopathic technical mechanistic approach to the health sciences. Technology was "king" and the understanding of interactions between well-defined separated systems would bring the possible conquest of disturbances and imperfections in the "machinery" of biological entities.
Man having created a new religion called "science", which revered himself and his intellect, had the perception of having attained a Godlike control over nature.
By the end of 19th century the ultraviolet catastrophe - as it came to be known - put this whole hygienic view of the world in question, and the theory of "quanta" of Max Planck was introduced in 1900. The German physicist Max Planck introduced the notion of packets of energy that he called "quanta" in order to explain why the wavelength (color) of the radiation given off by heated objects did not rise in a continuous manner but in discontinuous spurts from value to value as they grew hotter. Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who was to become later one of the fathers of the "Manhattan Project" that developed the first US A-bomb during WWII, used in 1913 the theory of "quanta" of energy in order to prove that the whole world of atoms was full of "quantum" jumps. An electron could jump from one level of energy (so-called orbit) to another without appearing in-between these states. Discontinuity had been introduced in our equation of the universe!
In 1905 Albert Einstein defined light as made of quanta of energy or particles that he coined "photons" in his famous paper explaining the photoelectric effect for which he received a Nobel prize in 1923. He nevertheless acknowledged that light could also be defined as a wave, depending on the mode of observation used in a chosen experiment, and the particle/wave duality was introduced in our attempts to grasp the mysteries of nature.
The new physics of the beginnings of the twentieth century gave a mortal blow to the deterministic principles of the old school of thought. Time and space became relative notions according to the theory of relativity of Albert Einstein. Quantum physics stated that all particles of matter could be viewed either as material bodies or as waves. It allowed for one electron (or any other particle) to be in two locations at once (double slit experiment), and proved that one could not predict the next location of a particle by knowing its present one.
In the strange world of quantum physics, particles dematerialized themselves into waves (such as in transistors) and rematerialized themselves later into particles. This depended on the type of experiment they were subjected to, and most importantly: the choice made by a conscious observer as to how he or she would view these particles.
To most theorists, the phenomena of nature existed only as determined states as a conscious observer witnessed them, either directly, or through the artifacts of a measuring device. Quantum mechanics was born, and with it our view of reality would be forever changed.
In order to comprehend events in the phenomenal world, one needed to introduce a major variable that had until then been ignored: The consciousness (self reflective thought) of the observer. Without the perception of a material world by a conscious entity, there were great doubts as to the existence of that material reality independently of its observation.
In other words we make a potential reality manifest itself by our choices, even retroactively through time and immediately across the perceived infinite space, as the two experiments mentioned hereafter have proven, to the surprise of most physicists. Or, in other words, volition and free will operate outside the confines of time/space, and our impression of making choices is but a delayed awareness of events that higher levels of our minds have already made for us and therefore project to our awareness (ego) as a holographic packet of sensory information, post facto. We are therefore, at a higher level, the maker (subject) of our reality projected to one's self (object) within the web of probabilities of the quantum world that we "materialize" for both the subject and the object that are but two mirrors of one same reality: Consciousness, defined as self -reflective awareness.
Very advanced "remote viewers" know at which points volition is part of the higher levels of one's self and at which points it is made available to the lower (conscious level), as the quantum self or higher self merges with the lower self (ego).
Our courses attempts to allow the conscious part (reactive sensory apparatus operating as intellect) and the much higher vibratory mind (deep subconscious level) to merge with each other in awareness in order to allow a human individual to be more in control of one's reality and probable future. At the level of the higher mind time/space is instantly bridged. "Remote Viewing" and especially "Remote Influencing" allows one to connect to that level.
Mr. O'Donnell only mentions quantum physics in order to allow for the comforting view of reality of most individuals to be shattered and at the very least questioned. Each one is to find his or her own truth, using eventually his or her own path. The course is only meant as a guide to a new world, an opening to a new way of viewing and experiencing reality.
In 1982 at the Institute of Applied Physics and Theoretical Optics at the University of Paris, France, the team of physicists composed of Alain Aspect, Jean Dalibard and Gerard Roger made what may prove to be the greatest scientific discovery of this century. They proved experimentally that the world is non-local or non-separable. This is equivalent to saying that space, as we perceive it to be, does not exist, but is an illusion of our senses. Projected by whom? This is the big question that science tries to answer.
In the same field of quantum theory, time is not only relative but one can experimentally change the past, as the delayed choice experiment, carried out by scientists in the 80's at the University of Maryland and the University of Munich has proven.
Although this all seems to belong to the realm of science-fiction, it is a reality, albeit hard to accept, for all the minds that dwell in the world of the quanta: a world full of seemingly contradictions, surprises, and a certain sense of humor.
All modern disciplines are nowadays affected by it, short maybe of modern biology, neurobiology and surprisingly psychology that are still embracing a mechanistic view of thought and have not, as yet, been able to define it.
Quantum physics gave us the invention of the atomic bomb, the transistor, the computer chip, laser and devices using laser light as a conduct for information, Josephson junctions in supercomputers, superconductors etc.
You should never doubt your natural-born ability to operate at such a high vibratory level of thought. This ability has been proven since antiquity, and is still utilized successfully by highly secretive intelligence units belonging to the major world powers.
This is one case where a dose of skepticism in the field of thought orientation and exploration is unhealthy, and the fear of ridicule even more so. You have to become open-minded, as a child is. All major shifts in scientific thought have incurred the ire of the static-minded old Praetorian Guard of proven inadequate sclerotic systems that are beginning to hit too many walls loaded with points of singularity.
The methods taught in our courses are probably part of the dawn of a new paradigm shift in scientific thinking that will revolutionize and change the "old classical scientific concepts" of the late 19th century that still rule for most of us our interpretation of our perceived material reality. This will have major implications in the natural and health sciences, the biological perceptions and their assumed correlations, all other phenomenal science, and the understanding of what the mind is.
If we are in the process of constantly creating our reality by thinking about it in an individualized and global manner, and that science reflects but a snapshot of our attempt at understanding our Creation, a major shift in our thought- perception will induce totally different ways at experiencing the phenomenal world and controlling it to our desires.
All aspects of our lives in this new Millennium will, most likely, be profoundly transformed by it.
The introduction of consciousness as a major factor in the equation of reality by modern quantum physics is at the core of one of the major paradox of so-called psychic research. According to quantum physics, the thought of the observer has an influence upon the result of an experiment. Therefore, if we are co-creator of our reality by mere thought, the natural imbued skepticism of many scientists and their methodologies introduce a negative bias in the results that they would obtain in thought experiment such as "remote viewing" etc.
In other words, in order to achieve 100% success at proving the efficacy of "remote viewing or influencing " one would need to deal with scientists and tests subjects that are of the firm belief of the easy achievement of such mental feats, which would automatically be called a bias experimental protocol by the skeptical scientific community. That is why the best results at remote viewing were always achieved within intelligence and military secret units that pragmatically only cared about bridging time and space effectively using mental technologies, and were not the least concerned about peer recognition and the fear of being ridiculed.

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