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| The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (Articles 11-20) Article 11: Programming the Universe |
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Programming the Universe:
The Science of Belief
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"The universe may be nothing more than
a giant hologram created by the mind"
-David Bohm (1917-1992), physicist
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Just when we were getting comfortable with the "laws" of physics and biology and were convinced that we could master nature, everything changed. Suddenly we're told that atoms no longer look like tiny solar systems and DNA isn't quite the language that we thought it was, and now we find that it's impossible for us to simply observe our world without somehow affecting it.
In the words of Princeton University physicist John Wheeler, "We had this old idea, that there was a universe out there [my emphasis], and here is man, the observer, safely protected from the universe by a six-inch slab of plate glass."1 Referring to the late-20th century experiments that show us how simply looking at somethimg actually changes what we're looking at, Wheeler continues, "Now we learn from the quantum world that even to observe so miniscule an object as an electron we have to shatter that plate glass; we have to reach int there. ...So the old word observer simply has to be crossed off the books, and we must put in the new word participator."2 In other words, the discoveries reveal that we are active contributors to everything that we see in the world around us, precisely as the spiritual traditions of the past have said that we are.
In light of such discoveries, we now find ourselves at a curious crossroads where we must sort out which of our beliefs about the world are true, which ones aren't, what workd, and what doesn't. An interesting by-product of doing so is that this also gives us a new understanding of where and how science and spirituality fit into our lives.
When we talk about the power of "invisible forces" such as belief, to many scientists we've crossed the line that separates science from everything else. Maybe it's precisely because this line is so hard to define that we often learn about it only after we've already crossed it. My personal belief is that by relaxing the boundaries that have traditionally kept science and spirituality separate, we'll ultimately find the power of greater wisdom. With the new discoveries showing that consciousness affects everything from the cells of our bodies to the atoms of our world, belief is clearly at the forefront of that exploration today. Interestingly, it has also become the place where science, faith, and even spirituality seem to be finding common ground.
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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 37 & 38
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House 2008
1. John Wheeler, as quoted by F. David Peat in Synchronicity: the Bridge Between Matter and Mind (New York: Bantam Books, 1987):p.4
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| The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (Articles 11-20- Article 12: Belief Defined |
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Belief Defined
Belief is a universal experience that we may understand, share, and develop as a potent agent of change. The following points lay the foundation for a description of what beleif is and how we may use ours as a powerful inner technology.
--Belief is a language. And it's not just any language. Both ancient traditions and modern science describe belief as the key to the very "stuff" that makes our universe. with no words or outward expression, therefore, the seemingly powerless experience that we call "belief" is the language that touches the quantum stuff of our bodies and our world. In the presence of our deepest beliefs, the limits of biology, physics, time, and space that we know today become a thing of the past.
--Belief is a personal experience. Everyone has beliefs. Each individual's experience of them is different. There are no right or wrong ways to believe, and there's nothing that we should or shouldn't do. There are no secret ancient postures to hold with our bodies and no sacred positioning of our fingers and hands. If there were, then the power of belief would be limited only to those with full access to the functioning of their bodies and limbs.
Likewise, belief is more than what we think with our minds. It's more than what a book, a ritual, a practice, or a research of another person tells us is true. Belief is our acceptance of what we have witnessed, experienced, or know for ourselves.
--Belief is personal power. Our beliefs hold all of the power we need for all of the change we choose: the power to send healing commands to our immune systems, stem cells, and DNA; to bring an end to violence in our homes and communities or in entire geographic areas; and to heal our deepest hurts, breathe life into our greatest joys, and literally create our everyday Reality (with a capital R). Through our beliefs we hold the gift of the single most powerful force in the universe: the ability to change our lives, our bodies, and our world by choice.
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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 52 & 53
by Gregg Braden
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| The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (Articles 11-20) Article 13: The Anatomy of Belief |
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The Anatomy of Belief
To grasp the power of beliefs, we need to understand them on a nuts-and-bolts level: precisely how they're formed and where they reside in the body. While they're closely associated with feelings, they fall into a category that works a little differently from simple anger ot joy. When we identify this subtle yet powerful difference, it becomes clear how we may change our beliefs when they no longer serve us.
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For our beliefs to have an effect on the world around us, two things must be in place:
1. First, there must be something that our beliefs travel through--a medium--to carry our inner experiences beyond our bodies.
2. Second, our beliefs must have the power to do something in the physical world. In other words, they must rearrange the atoms that the universe is composed of to make something happen.
Beyond any reasonable doubt, the new discoveries show that our beliefs possess both of these attributes.
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Both scientific discoveries and spiritual principles acknowledge that the space between the world and us (which we may have thought of as empty in the past)--regardless of what we call it or how it's been defined--is anything but empty. Early in the 20th century, Albert Einstein made reference to the mysterious force that he was certain exists in the space that fills what we see as the universe around us. "Nature shows us only the tail of the lion," he stated, suggesting that there's something more to what we see as reality, even if we can't glimpse it from our particular cosmic vantage point. With a beauty and eloquence that's typical of Einstein's view of the universe, he elaborated on his analogy of the cosmos: "I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it [the tail] even though he can not at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."1
Einstein's lion is the force that physicist Max Planck described as the matrix that fills empty space and connects everything with everything else. (In 1944, Mac Planck, the man many consider to be the father of quantum theory, shocked the world by saying that there is a "matrix" of energy that provides the blueprint for our physical world. In this space of pure energy, everything begins, from the birth of stars and DNA to our deepest relationships, peace between nations, and personal healing.) This matrix provides the conduit between our inner experiences of belief and the owrld that surrounds us. Today, modern science has refined our understanding of Planck's matrix, describing it as a form of energy that is already everywhere at every moment and has existed since time began with the big bang.
The existence of this field implies two things that directly affect the power of belief in our lives. While these principles may contradict many well-established tenets of science and spirituality, they also open the door to an empowering way of seeing our world and living our lives.
1. The first principle suggests that because everything exists within the Divine Matrix, everything is connected. If things are connected, then, what we do in one place must influence what is happening in other places. The influence may be huge or it may be small, depending upon a number of factors that we address in this book. The keyis that our inner experience in one place has the power to affect the world in another place. This power includes producing physical effects.
2. The second principle suggests that the Divine Matrix is holographic, meaning that a ny portion of the field contains everything in the field. This means that when we sit in our living room and believe in the healing of a loved one halfway around the world as if it already exists, the essence of our belief is already at its destination. In other words, the changes that we initiate within ourselves are already present everywhere, as a blueprint in the matrix. So our job is less about getting our good wishes to where another person may be located, and more about breathing life into the possibilities that we create as our beliefs.
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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 53 - 55
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House 2008
1. Albert Einstein quoted by physicist Michio Kaku in an online article, "M-Theory: The Mother of all SuperStrings: An Introduction to M-Theory" (2005).
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| The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (Articles 11-20) Article 14: The Language of Atoms |
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The Language of Atoms
While scientists struggle to understand how beliefs affect our world through the traditional models of life and reality, the new view of everything as energy interacting with energy leaves us wondering how it could be any different. When we begin to see things from this perspective, it blows the doors right off the limitations of our past. Suddenly, the mechanism that allows beliefs to change our physical world becomes clear. And it all begins with the way we think of matter itself.
Rather than the mechanical model of things orbiting around other things--like a miniature solar system--the quantum atom is based on the probability that energy may be concentrated in one place or another at a given moment in time. What's important here is that the energy is made in part of the electrical and magnetic fields--the same fields that we create in the thoughts of our brains and the beliefs of our hearts. In other words, the universal experiences that we know as feeling and belief are the names that we give to the body's ability to convert our experiences into electrical and magnetic waves.
This is where things get really interesting. When either the electrical or the magnetic fields of an atom change--or both do--the atom changes: It alters the way it behaves, as well as the way it expresses itself as matter. And when the atom changes, so does our world.
This shifting of an atom's energy by a magnetic field is a well-documented phenomenon that was first recognized in 1896. Named after its discoverer, Nobel Prize laureate Pieter Zeeman, the Zeeman effect state, "When placed in an external magnetic field the energy of the atom changes..."1
A similar phenomenon, known as the Stark effect after its 1913 discoverer Johannes Stark, is documented as taking place with electrical fields, which do electrically what the Zeeman effect does magnetically.2 While both the Zeeman and the Stark effects are interesting individually, together they become the key to understanding the power of heart-based belief.
Studies by the Institute of HeartMath have shown that the electrical strength of the heart's signal, measured by an electrocardiogram (EKG), is up to 60 times as great as the electrical signal from the human brain, measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG), while the heart's magnetic is as much as 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain.3 What's important here is that either field has the power to change the energy of atoms, and we create both in our experience of belief!
When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we're "speaking" to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.
In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It converts the perceptions of our experiences, beliefs, and imagination into the coded language of waves that communicates with the world beyond our bodies. Perhaps this is what philosopher and poet John Mackenzie meant when he stated, "The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained...all existing things are...imaginary."4
So what does all of this mean? The bottom line is simple. The implications are profound.
The precise fields of energy that alter our world are created by the mysterious organ that holds our deepest beliefs. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the power to change our bodies and the atoms of matter is focused in the one place that's long been associated with the spiritual qualities that make us who we are: the heart. Truly, we can fel justified when we look to ourselves, then to one another, and from the place of deepest gratitude for all that we've experienced in life, simply say, "Bless our hearts!"
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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 58, 50, 60
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House 2008
1. http://bcs.whfreeman.com/tiplermodernphysics4e/content/cat_020/zeeman.pdf
2. http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/QM/H.10.html
3. The Institute of HeartMath Research Center conducts basic research on emotional physiology and heart-brain interactions, clinical and organizatonal studies, and the physiology of learning and optimal performance.
4. Neville, The Law and the Promise (Marina del Rey, CA: DeVorss, 1961) p.44
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| The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (Articles 11-20) Article 15: Emotion, Thought, and Feeling: |
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Emotion, Thought, and Feeling:
Seperate yet Related Experiences
If we can truly grasp what out heart-based power of belief tells us about our world, then life takes on an entirely new meaning. We become architects of reality, rather than the victims of mysterious forces that we can't see and don't understand. To do so, however, we must understand not only how our beliefs speak to the universe, but also how we may revise the conversation by changing them. When we accomplish this, we are truly programming the universe. And it all begins with understanding the three seperate yet related experiences that we know as thought, feeling, and emotion.
Chakra System
*(Chakra is a Sanskrit term meaning "spinning wheels of energy")
In the Sanskrit system, a distinction is made between the first three [chakras] from the head down, and the bottom three [chakras] from the base of the spine upward. The role that these groups of chakras play in the creation of our beliefs is the key to taking charge of our lives.
When we understand the relationship between our thoughts, feelings, and emotions, we also recognize how our beliefs have the power fo affect the world. While on a physical level each energy center is linked to one of the organs of the endrocrine system, on an energetic level the chakras play different roles in our lives.
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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 63 & 64
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House 2008
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