Continuum Exhibit Panels 22-46

You are the observer, the person who second-by-second has their
attention somewhere and is evaluating (consciously or unconsciously)

whether it’s good or bad… Thereby influencing outcomes?

“We used to think of the universe as “out there,” to be observed as it were from behind the screen of a
foot-thick slab plate of glass, safely, without personal involvement. The truth, quantum theory tells us,
is quite different… the observer is inescapably promoted to participator. In some strange sense this is
a participatory universe.”

John A. Wheeler, PhD – theoretical physicist and Princeton professor

The act of observing an atom changes its direction, location and charge. It is not the
instruments used that prompt a change, it’s the choice of what to measure,
where to put attention… what to look for.

“We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity.
We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage
on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us.”

Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power
“Regardless of what branch of inquiry one starts from, all avenues of investigation
eventually converge at the quest for an organized understanding of the nature of pure
consciousness. . . advanced thinkers went beyond the parameters of their respective
fields and began to ask questions about the relationship between the universe, science,
and consciousness...”

David Hawkins, MD, PhD

What if your amazing brain is a mind-boggling complex device
whose final emergent structure, the frontal lobe,

“creates reality” — for better or worse — by directing (or distracting)
attention and attaching meanings, which collapse quantum waves of

infinite potential into physical, material, “actualities”?

“The Quantum Window is a huge invitation to the real freedom

that consciousness as the ground of all being offers us. It is also
very scary.”

Amit Goswami, PhD – physicist and
University of Oregon professor

“Quantum mechanics has a concept called a ‘wave function’. It’s
incredibly important because it holds all the measurable information
about a particle (or group of particles) within it. The wave function
describes a set of probabilities that change in time. When we make
a measurement, we are ‘poking’ at the wave function, causing these
probabilities to collapse and take on a definite value.”

Chris Lee – arstechnica.com/science/2011/11/

“…One might assume that this state vector collapse occurs when we
disturb the system by having some measuring device interact with
it in order to make a measurement on the system. But that is not
how quantum mechanics works…observation is just a euphemism
for consciousness, for mind.”

Evan Harris Walker, PhD – physicist and mathematician

“Now we are beginning to see that quantum mechanics might
actually exclude any possibility of mind-independent reality and
already does exclude any reality that resembles our usual concept
of such.”

Richard Conn Henry, PhD – physicist

It’s called the Observer Effect

“Power is nothing if it’s not the power to choose.”
Joseph Weizenbaum, PhD – MIT professor

What meanings do you choose?
Do you choose where to put and focus your
attention, or do you live by distractions and

knee-jerk reactions to circumstances?

If you can’t control your attention you can’t control
your life. Simple diaphragmatic (belly) breathing and
focusing exercises can calm your nervous system and
help resolve attention deficit.
Watch babies or animals: their bellies expand and
contract when they breathe - that’s how we are
supposed to breathe. It creates/changes brain
chemistry to support calm confidence and focused
attention. Shallow breathing in your chest releases
brain chemicals that create stress, anxiety and the
fight, flight, or freeze response, which undermines
concentration and creates an attention deficit.

Is the capacity of imagination to experience (not just think about) something
(even though it isn’t physically there) part of a more fully developed brain/
mind? Consciousness is not just in the brain. Imagery engages the body. It

engages your 5 physical senses and your emotions, not just thoughts/intellect.

“Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it.
They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look when there was
apparently nothing to see, and to listen internally when all seemingly was
quiet. A child that cannot sit still is a half-developed child.”

Luther Standing Bear – Lakota author, educator

Marilyn King – Olympic pentathlete:

“When a person says ‘I wish I could become an Olympic athlete,’ it’s actually
a negative image emphasizing what I am not. It’s a step forward to affirm
that ‘I want…,’ and it’s still more powerful to imagine that before ‘I will be
an Olympian’. But the most effective process is to affirm and imagine, as though
it is happening, ‘I am an Olympian.’ Imagery can be used to envision, step by
step, how we’re going to accomplish that goal.”

LeBron James – King (of the court) James:

“I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day –
but my ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. I dream about it. I dream
about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel…so amazing.”

Willis Harman, PhD – former Stanford professor of
engineering, past president, World Business Academy:

“Imagery, it seems, is the language of our unconscious idea processor.”

Anees Sheikh, PhD – former Chair, Dept of Psychology at
Marquette University, author of many books on imagery
including Healing Images: the Role of Imagination in Healing:

“The effectiveness of mental imagery in the treatment of a wide variety of
problems has been documented in a considerable body of literature produced
by experimental and clinical psychologists.”

Karen Olness, MD – former research director, Minneapolis
Children’s Hospital:

“For changes in health or behavior to occur, a change in your information base
isn’t enough – you have to change your imagery base…mental images have a
far greater effect on the body than does verbal instruction.”

Albert Einstein:

“Written or spoke words do not seem to play a role in my mechanism of
thought... more or less clear images seem to be the essential feature.”

“…in this dream-like state, when the conscious mind is in temporary abeyance,
I see clearly what is obscure in my ordinary moods…Those vibrations assume
the form of distinct mental images.”

Johannes Brahms – classical composer

A 6’4” 240lb truck driver who hauls big pipes was in the hospital faced with foot amputation
because his leg had been crushed between two cars and no blood was getting past the damaged
vessels, even with stent surgery. Coached by his nurse to make pictures in his mind and hear the
sounds and feel water (blood) flowing through his leg (a pipe) – the blood started
flowing and he avoided amputation.

A B-52 navigator with far-advanced throat cancer was
coached by his oncologist, Carl Simonton, MD, to enter an
alpha state, visualizing his white blood cells in the form
of riders on horseback riding into the cancer cells and
vanquishing them. 3 X per day for 15 minutes. Over
7 weeks the cancer shrunk, then disappeared.
A 14-year-old boy, a computer whiz who loved his computers, was diagnosed
with acute leukemia. In his imagination he transformed himself into his favorite
computer and assumed its emotional qualities which, for him were real. This included tranquility and
reliability. He imagined his body as an immensely intelligent “program” fully capable of effectively and
successfully distributing the drugs to the cancer cells. To him the imagery meant being powerful. He
experienced complete remission and remained disease free.

“I imagined hanging out with friends that I would meet in college.”
Edo Walker (2nd from left) used imagery, focusing, and diaphragmatic
breathing to transform from a Minneapolis North High student in a
challenged neighborhood, struggling academically, failing math and
told he couldn’t possibly catch up, to a motivated, successful student
who earned a scholarship to Morehouse College.

If everything is interconnected, and your attention can influence
the outcome of events, can the impact of your imagery extend

beyond your own body, behavior and performance?

“We were down by 11 points with only 4 minutes left. I imagined the clock said
there were 30 seconds left and that the scoreboard said we were up by 6. We
won by 6 points.”

Tayler Johnson – Minneapolis North High Polars basketball player

The right hemisphere – specializing in imagery – is also
wired for transcendent perception and awareness. It’s not so
tied to time and space.
Transcendent consciousness goes beyond divisions and
physical limitations or outlines…beyond the illusion of
separation, the illusion of time, and the illusion that there is
only one reality existing separate from your perception.

Does your perception of reality line up with an honest look at all the
relevant facts? are you dream-making or is there too much drama?

“...Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing
will change for the better and the catastrophe towards which this world
is headed, be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown
of civilization will be unavoidable. . . The truly reliable path to peaceful
co-existence and creating cooperation must start from what is at the root of
all cultures and lies in human hearts. It must be rooted in self-transcendence. Transcendence is
the only real alternative to extinction.”

Vaclav Havel – first president of the Czech Republic

Music, also right brain, is universally popular in large part because it feeds transcendence. Music can
take you to places far away and can unite a concert hall of different people.

Newtonian, materialist, mechanistic science focuses on the
3 material dimensions (width, height, and depth), and on either/or

thinking. Quantum physics goes beyond.

The universe is made up of opposites uniting.
Like expansion and contraction, up and down, positive and negative.

There’s positive and negative in everything. Literally.

Atoms, which make up the physical universe, are made up of
positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons.
Positive and negative coming together to create the universe.

You think winning the lottery is positive? It can be very positive
but what if people come out of the woodwork and constantly ask
you for money? What if you can’t trust that new friends really like
you and not your money? What if you have things but not good
relationships? What if the money creates indulgence then addiction?

You think living in the worst slum in Rio and having 6 family
members (innocent of any crimes) killed by the police is one big
negative? That happened to Vera in Vigario Geral. Yes, there is A LOT that

is terribly negative, but it wrought some positive transformations in the

community, including Casa da Paz, House of Peace. It began with Vera’s

response – (from love not hatred or revenge): She began picking up the

12,000 bullets that had accumulated near her home over the years, which

in turn attracted attention, support and new opportunities.

Everything has positive and negative.

What are you going to look for, focus on and magnify?

don’t ignore the negative. can you seek to learn from it and grow?

The Chinese symbol for crisis includes both danger and opportunity or growth.

what can you create?

Creativity is more than art, music, or dance; it fuels the emergence of life itself.

“People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity
is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Maya Angelou – poet

Creative expression is like self-expression and should be developed toward self-directedness.
We’re too other-directed. If education steers too much towards the left hemisphere (outward focus)
STEM domain, the right hemisphere (inward) is stifled. We are wired to be creative and self-organizing

but face epidemics of dependencies and lack of meaning and self-worth.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken “One must see the invisible
joy in creative expression and knowledge.” to do the impossible.”

“Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable.
And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life’s negative aspects
into something positive or constructive.”

Viktor E. Frankl, MD – concentration camp survivor

Humans are creative beings able to envision new connections and possibilities, and to physically
manifest ideas and dreams – or drama. Our born capacity to imagine, make new combinations,
and manifest new possibilities from the realms of ideas, information, emotions - consciousness -

is how we can create new realities – individually and together.

Greek  philosopher-scientists
spoke of the realm of ideas:

Plato’s Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas was

that non-material forms or ideas represent the
most accurate reality.

What if physical matter
is the 3-dimensional version of what exists first
in another abstract, “informational” dimension?

In 1990, John Wheeler suggested that information is fundamental to the physics of the universe.
According to this “it from bit” doctrine, all things physical are information-theoretic in origin.
“How does something arise from nothing?” he asks about the existence of space and time.
(Princeton Physics News, 2006)

“Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed
always…the source and condition of physical reality.”

George Wald, MD – Nobel biologist

Are our physical circumstances 3D constructs of “information”
from quantum waves of potential onto which we, as
observers, add our meanings and affect our physical,
3-dimensional (plus time) reality: who shows up, what shows
up, and how things turn out?

How can I have my own consciousness and at the same time it’s one
with everything? How can I be here-and-now, but also always was and will be?

Paradox: what is logically impossible but true. Like:

• What is solid is also 99.9% space at the same time!

• A photon (light) is both a material particle and a non-material quantum,
 mathematical, infinite wave at the same time!

• Consciousness is both individual and an interconnected whole at the same time!

The left hemisphere of the brain is
specialized for rational logic and
“either/or” binary thinking. The right
hemisphere is wired for paradox and
for intuitive logic including “both/and”
thinking. The right hemisphere also
has more connections to the emotional
brain. We need to develop right
hemisphere strengths and expand
from probabilities to new possibilities!

Albert Einstein: “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is
more important than knowledge. . . And certainly we should take care
not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles,
but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve.”

Lisa Delpit, EdD – education executive: “When we strip away
a focus on developing the humanity of our children, we are left
with programmed mechanistic strategies designed to achieve the
programmed goal of raising test scores. The reductionism spawned
has created settings in which teachers and students are treated as
non-thinking objects to be manipulated and managed.”

Arthur Zajonc, PhD – Amherst physics professor: “The word science
stems from the Latin scientia, meaning ‘having knowledge’ . . . we can
have knowledge of a much broader range of phenomena than science
has allowed. This includes knowledge based on lived human experience
and the inner world, opened by reflection and contemplation.”

Will post-materialist science advance to a quantum paradigm
of consciousness and the interconnectedness of life, echoing

the ancient and indigenous teachings?

“All things arise out of the boundless...the unlimited is the
first principle of things that are.” Anaximander 610-546 BCE
“Being is without beginning and indestructible... It is universal,
and without end... It is all together, one, and continuous.”
Parmenides of Elea 515-440 BCE

“The ancients knew something, which we seem to
have forgotten.” Albert Einstein
Or maybe we weren’t ready to understand it?

More than 5,000 years ago in Egypt, the young god Horus guarded the doors to the
great mystery schools. The ancients believed that this knowledge should only reside in
the hands of those persons of moral responsibility. All candidates for instruction in their

mystery schools had to undergo many tests of character. This has been reported by Greek
scholars such as Pythagoras who came to Egypt to study.

Can modern science unlock the doors to the ancient wisdom?
Is it a key to becoming fully human?

Doesn’t it makes sense that we need our whole brain to best understand
the nature of consciousness/mind and the universe, and to meaningfully

and most effectively navigate life?

Erwin Schrodinger, PhD – Nobel physicist:

“…what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one
thing, produced by a deception (the Indian MAJA); the same illusion is produced
in a gallery of mirrors. There is obviously one alternative, namely the unification
of minds or consciousness. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is
only one mind.”

Henry Margenau, PhD – professor of physics and natural
philosophy at Yale:

“This oneness of the all implies the universality of mind…If my conclusions are
correct, each individual is part of God or part of the universal mind.”

Swami Kaivalyananda – of Panmana Ashram:

“This self in us, this root consciousness, though it identifies with the
psychophysiological organism and though it is very subtle like an atom, it is
infinite at the same time… The other world is not somewhere hidden in the
clouds or hidden in the stars. It is in us.”

Joan Borysenko, PhD – psychologist, co-founder of the first
Harvard Mind-Body clinic:

“To see through eyes of the heart means to look beneath surface appearances.
With a right brain state of expanded awareness we become, or recognize that
we already are, at one with a web of loving intelligence that’s as close as our
hands or feet…yet as vast as the universe itself.”

Thomas Berry – founder of the Center for Earth Studies and a
Passionist priest:

“We must remember that the human is a mode of being on the planet, rather
than a separate being on the planet. To do this we need a new cosmology…one
that helps us to see that the inner world and the outer world are one.”

“It has been maintained that consciousness is peculiar
to man, and that no animals possess it. Even if we deny
this, and insist on attributing consciousness to the
higher animals, we might hesitate to extend it all down
to the amoeba or to plants. It may be difficult even to
stop there, so that presently we should find ourselves
regarding the whole inorganic world, also, as conscious.
There is perhaps no conclusive reason why we should
not do this. Any alternative will, of course, suffer from
the disadvantage of postulating a breach of continuity.”
JW Sullivan, MD – doctor, mathematician, musician, philosopher,
author (from The Limitations of Science). One of TIME’s 5 most
brilliant interpreters of physics to non-scientists. Considered one of
his generation’s most accomplished men.

Cleve Backster (inventor of the polygraph test, familiar with both scientific protocol
and truth-telling) presented evidence of primary perception in plant life.

Backster secured a plant leaf between electrodes to measure electrical resistance. He
decided to obtain a match to burn the leaf being tested. Without making any movements,

only making the decision, at precisely 13 mins 55 secs there was a very pronounced
upswing of the pen on the tracing chart.

Additional experiments with plants, living tissue of fruit, vegetables and several forms of
animal cell life found similar results, including experiments by Marcel Vogel and Pierre Paul

Sauvin (described in The Secret Life of Plants), and more since.

“Understanding is not knowing the kind of facts that your books and teachers
talk about. I can tell you that understanding begins with love and respect. All
things – and I mean all things – have their own will and their own way and
their own purpose. This is to be respected. Such respect means that we never
stop realizing or neglect to carry out our obligations to ourselves and our
environment.”

Rolling Thunder – Shoshone medicine man

Plants as Medicine – Healing Know-How

The Chelsea Physic Garden has cultivated medicinal
plants since 1673. The plant shown here is montbretia
(crocosmia aurea), used as a remedy for dysentery.
Common examples of plant medicine:
Valerian is one of the most widely used herbs in the world. It is an
active ingredient in many pharmaceutical drugs for those suffering
from anxiety, nervousness or depression, in addition to benefiting
people with other conditions.
Sage is another common herb that humans have used for thousands of
years. Sage has been used as an anti-bacterial medicine to heal wounds
and cuts. Native Americans traditionally use sage for purification.

Ayurvedic medicine, herbal medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine use plants as
medicine. Modern medicine isolates or synthesizes active ingredients, not the whole plant.

Ghritkumari (aloe vera) is a highly popular natural healing agent and
Ayurvedic remedy with many significant health and healing benefits for
skin and weight loss.
The ashwagandha plant and its root powder reduce blood sugar,
support healthy joints, and strengthen the immune system.

“More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its
teaching we are able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret
correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature around us.”

George Washington Carver, MS Agriculture Science –
pioneer in crop rotation

Plants are nourishment as medicine and as food.
Part of a natural system to sustain life.

Cooked Tomato Raw Tomato

Organic Mushroom Commercially Grown Mushroom Cooked Broccoli Raw Broccoli

The more we do to, or process, foods and plants
the more they lose vibrancy, their nourishing and healing information.

“All living cells of plants, animals and human beings emit biophotons which cannot be
seen by the naked eye but can be measured by special equipment developed by German
researchers. This light emission is an expression of the functional state of the living organism
and its measurement therefore can be used to assess this state.”

Marco Bischof – awarded the 1995 Book Prize
by the Scientific and Medical Network (U.K.)

DNA continually absorbs and releases a web of light. Does it
interconnect molecules, cells, tissue and organs as a regulatory network?
“Biofield therapies,” including Therapeutic Touch (TT), Healing Touch (HT), and

Reiki, manipulate energy systems within and surrounding the body.

Practitioners in oncology have described evidence for a positive impact of biofield therapies with people
experiencing symptoms associated with cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Coakley & Barron (2012)

• The normal self-healing capacity of the human body is
supported by the free and balanced flow of energy through
its subtle energy system.

Before Healing During Healing • Disease or disorder can be detected in the energy system
(perhaps before it manifests in the physical body) and can be
affected therapeutically by the action of energy practitioners,
in support of the self-healing capacity of the body.

• Conscious healing intent and compassion are considered
essential to the effectiveness of biofield therapies.

According to a 2008 AHA survey, 84 percent of hospitals indicated patient demand as the primary
rationale in offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services including Reiki, and 67
percent of those surveyed stated “clinical effectiveness” as their top reason. UCLA Health

Lutgendorf et al (2010) found that the energy treatment group demonstrated improved cellular
immunity. Similarly Jhaveri et al (2008) found that healthy cells got healthier while unhealthy cancer
cells actually deteriorated compared to placebo treatment.
A systematic review of 66 peer-reviewed clinical studies of biofield therapies demonstrated strong
evidence for pain-intensity reduction in pain populations, and a blind study with women receiving
radiation for gynecologic or breast cancer demonstrated a significant increase in health function with
HT treatment compared to placebo. Jain and Mills (2010)
A University of Arizona study found that for range of motion for patients with mobility issues, 10
minutes of energy healing was as effective as physical therapy. Baldwin et al (2013)
Mark Melrose, MD an emergency medicine physician at Urgent Care Manhattan, said there’s “infinitely
more that we don’t understand,” about medicine, and that alternative therapies such as energy healing
could benefit patients. “If it makes you feel better, then it’s probably helping.”

Ch’ulel or life-force: what ancient Mayan culture believed is everywhere and
in everything; mountains, animals, plants, rocks, buildings and people are all

connected in this other-worldly force.

Light. Energy. The Force. Intelligence. Consciousness. Realm of
ideas. Information… Science begins to ask new questions about

non-material dimensions of life and reality.

“There are different dimensions we can connect with that give us information.
I’ve experienced channels of information that are clearly beyond what we
conventionally call ‘reality’.”

Edward Belbruno, PhD – artist, mathematician, astrophysicist;
winner of Germany’s 2018 Humboldt Award in Mathematics

WHERE DOES INFORMATION COME FROM?

“Information is one of the defining properties of biological organisms...where does it come
from? Communication theory – or information theory as it is known today – says that noise
destroys information, and that the reverse process, the creation of information by noise,
would seem to us to be a miracle. The 2nd law [of thermodynamics] insists that information
can no more spring into being spontaneously than heat can flow from cold to hot.
It all suggests that we will not be able to trace the origin of biological information to the
operation of local physical forces and laws...it may involve some non-local type of law, as
yet unrecognized by science, that explicitly entangles the dynamics of information with
the dynamics of matter.
In quantum mechanics the wavelike aspects of matter are described by a mathematical
object known as the wave function which represents the information content of the state
of the state...the distinctive feature of the wave function is its so-called non-locality...what
Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance.’ In other words, the wave function, and its
content, is a global entity, not a local quantity like momentum or electrical charge.”

Paul Davies, PhD – physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist

Not bound by time or space. “Spooky action at a distance”
is what Einstein called the fact that quantum physics defies classical/Newtonian
laws of time and space by demonstrating a fundamental interconnectedness.

INFORMATION, LIKE CONSCIOUSNESS,
is associated with matter in a particular space-time

location and AT THE SAME TIME it’s also global,
interconnecting the universe.

“This force (Sami) is available to everyone…[it] is sublime, infinite,
pure energy. That’s what can be felt in different ways. It is the force of
guidance. If it’s the lower-vibratory-rate force, it’s not guidance. That’s
more based on desire and disharmony.”

Cecilia Montero, MS Ed – psychotherapist, academician who was
trained by her great-grandmother as an Altomisayac (Andean
shaman) from the age of two

The new views of science dovetail ancient and indigenous teachings that
– rather than brain-bound, localized, and separate –

consciousness is in all of life everywhere. All things are interconnected.

Can the quantum paradigm of consciousness solve our major problems?
Paradigm = Worldview. The Cartesian, Newtonian, mechanistic, materialist

paradigm is about 500 years old.

Time for a shift?

The Paradigm Shift

“Paradigms gain their status because they are more successful than their competitors
in solving a few problems that the group of practitioners has come to recognize as

acute...Mopping-up operations are what engage most scientists. They
constitute what I am here calling normal science. No part of the aim of
normal science is to call forth new kinds of phenomena; indeed those that
don’t fit the box likely won’t be seen at all.”
Thomas Kuhn, PhD – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, U of Chicago Press.

“A landmark in intellectual history” – Science Magazine

“Major problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that
created them.”

Albert Einstein

“We have entered an Age of Disruption. Yet the possibility of profound personal, societal,
and global renewal has never been more possible. Our disruption deals with death and
rebirth. What’s dying is an old civilization and a mindset. Our future requires us to tap into
a deeper level of our humanity, of who we really are and who we want to be as a society.
It is a future that we can sense, feel, and actualize by shifting the inner place from which
we operate.”

Otto Scharmer, PhD – senior lecturer in MIT Sloan Management School

“Dream big and work hard for yourself and our human family. It’s
only by getting out of our comfort zones that we can create new
possibilities for our future.”

Surya Bonaly – Olympic figure skater (and only figure skater
in history to land a backflip on one foot), ambassador for the

international Peace and Sport Foundation

Current Paradigm Operating Assumptions

1. Reality is what you know through your 5 physical senses. Reality is what

you can physically measure, publicly observe, and repeatedly test.

2. There is one reality “out there”, separate and independent from us, that

we can observe, measure, repeatedly test and “know.” Science is objective:
you can make observations and gather facts without affecting what you
observe.

3. Subjective consciousness like imagination, emotions, thoughts and dreams

are not measurable or publicly observable so they aren’t real. Measureable
brain chemicals and observable neuro-networks are what’s real. Since
thoughts and emotions are chemicals, chemicals should be prescribed to
correct mental/emotional problems.

4. Left brain logic and reason = intelligence. Rational thought is the key to

problem-solving. Emotion gets in the way. The inner world of dreams and
intuition (“women’s intuition”) is fantasy and cannot provide reliable or
valuable information about the nature of reality.

5. Logically impossible things cannot be true.
6. The highest part of our brain, the frontal lobe, is for the executive function

of making decisions and managing logistics; getting things done.

7. We are often victims of circumstance and cogs in the wheels. This is a vast,

cold, accidental, and inhospitable universe. You must be aggressive and
predict/control in order to get ahead and be safe.

8. Success and security are measured materially.

What if those assumptions don’t fit many important facts
and lead to epidemic rates of dysfunction?

new Paradigm Operating Assumptions

1. Consciousness is a causal (not casual) reality: inner states influence

physical, spatial circumstances and outcomes.

2. There are more than just the 3 physical dimensions (+time). Separation

is an illusion of our 5 physical senses. Everyone and everything is
fundamentally interconnected. “I” automatically extends to “we.”

3. Objectivity is a myth, we affect what we put our attention on. We notice

less than 1/1000th of a percent of what is occurring. What we notice and
what we think it means depends largely on our emotional orientation.

4. The universe runs more according to emotion than logic. Emotion/the

emotional brain emerged prior to neocortex (and left/logical hemisphere).
Emotion is a more basic force. The chain of cause-and-effect has non-
material links. Consciousness and inner states are part of the chain. States
of “being” have impact as much as things you do (or don’t do).

5. Logically impossible things can be true. Life is unpredictable (not the same

as random). Quantum leaps to new “impossible” levels can happen.

6. The frontal lobe is for more than “decision-making.” It’s about directing

attention, assigning meaning and creating reality. Like Helen Keller, Nelson
Mandela, Kyle Maynard, and concentration camp survivors have shown, we
ALWAYS have a choice of the meanings we assign to circumstances.

7. It’s a meaningful, responsive universe. We are participators and co-creators.

For better or worse our mindset influences who shows up, what shows up,
and how things turn out. The universe is more like a mirror than a machine.

8. If my sense of self and security come from what I have, I’m always afraid

of losing it. But if my sense of self and security come from who I am, it can
never be taken away. (Thank you Eric Fromm)

With material and post-materialist assumptions, left and right brain
hemispheres, and all of life, it’s about creating a new balance

“With the emergence of the new physics and cosmology, many of the social and cultural
values that the classical scientific revolution contributed as part of the enlightenment
project of the modern West are now outmoded, or at least problematical.”

Tu Weiming, PhD – Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute,
Fellow of the World Economic Forum

Classical Newtonian, materialist, mechanistic science said that your brain’s wiring
was set, you couldn’t change it. Now we know, in a paradigm of renewal and
transformation, by changing thoughts and emotions (consciousness)
you can rewire your brain.

In the materialist paradigm, the chain of
cause-and-effect is made up of physical, measurable,

publicly observable links or steps. In the quantum
paradigm, consciousness is causal (can cause
changes in physical conditions).

The materialist paradigm says genetics cause certain conditions.
What if genes predict  the likelihood of, say, freckles but don’t cause them?

Are your genes biologically encoded consciousness?

Are genes the physical reflection or expression of consciousness that may correlate
with physical, emotional, or mental conditions but don’t cause them?

Some of our genes are “active” but others are “silent.” Research now shows
that it’s possible to activate those silent genes by changing not just external

conditions, but also our mental and emotional states.
Consciousness changes your gene expression.
Sometimes these newly activated genes are transmitted from one generation to
another…a revolutionary idea in the field of genetics, called EPIGENETICS.

Do we inherit aspects of the paranoias or
positivity – the consciousness – of our parents?
Are genes the physical packaging of that
consciousness (information)?

Can we become more giving, tolerant, and empathetic by consciously
cultivating these qualities, changing our very genes and passing
those changes on to descendants?

From Altruism, by cellular geneticist
and philosopher Matthieu Ricard, PhD:
“Studies undertaken by Richard Davidson and
Spanish geneticist Perla Kaliman, show that
within a day, meditating for eight hours on
mindfulness, altruism, love, and compassion
already induces major epigenetic modifications.
We can glimpse here the possibility of an
epigenetic transformation of an individual that is
due not just to the influence of environment, but
also to a voluntary training in cultivating basic
human qualities.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but
the content of their character.”

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

BOLD VISIONARIES DREAM WHILE AWAKE OF WHAT CAN BE, AND BRILLIANT INVENTORS
DREAM AT NIGHT OF BREAKTHROUGHS AND EVENTS TO COME – AS DO MANY PEOPLE.
DREAMS AND VISIONS HAVE BEEN COMMONPLACE THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND CULTURES.

“The dream world is more real than the world you are experiencing now.”

Dagara Elder (West Africa)

“During a dream an idea emerged. It was the design of an experiment to determine
whether or not the hypothesis of a chemical transmission that I had uttered 17 years
earlier was correct. I got up immediately and performed a simple experiment based
on the nocturnal design…its results became the foundation of the theory of chemical
transmission of nerve impulses.”

Otto Loewi, MD – 1936 Nobel Prize, physiology and medicine

“The soul in sleep gives proofs of its divine nature; for when free and disengaged from the services of
the body, it has a foresight of things to come, when we may conceive what will be its state when entirely
freed from this bodily prison.”

Roman statesman, Cicero 78 BCE (from De Senectute)

A dream while Friedrich Kekule, PhD was sleeping inspired one of the critical foundations
of organic chemistry. It has been called a brilliant piece of prediction in the history of
science. To an audience of chemists Kekule once said, “Let us learn to dream”.

Renee Descartes, who created the Scientific Method – which relies on the 5 physical senses to assess
evidence of reality – got his idea from 3 dreams. In other words, the assumption that things like dreams

should be ignored came from dreams.

Our capacities for imagination and imagery, for dreaming and daydreaming, are profound.
Are they portals through which we connect to and work on other levels of reality?

Dream big and put in the work.
Open a new universe of possibility...

Our current model or paradigm of science – called Newtonian, Cartesian, mechanistic and
materialist (focused on physical matter) – is the science of analyzing separate parts and

pieces. It’s the science of probabilities in a cold and indifferent universe where consciousness
somehow (as yet unexplained) emerged from matter.

QUANTUM PHYSICS IS THE SCIENCE OF A DEEPER INTERCONNECTEDNESS THAT
TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE AND THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION.

IT’S THE SCIENCE OF POSSIBILITIES IN A MEANING-RICH UNIVERSE WHERE
CONSCIOUSNESS OR MIND – INCLUDING EMOTIONS – SHAPES MATTER.

“If we say that consciousness is a material process, this may well be fairly
accurate up to a point. But it is also more. Its ground is in the infinite
depths…going from the relatively manifest on to ever greater subtlety…
there is a strong disposition to impose familiar ideas, even when there is
evidence that they may be false.”

Physicists David Bohm, PhD and David Peat, PhD

“To the enlightened man, whose consciousness embraces the universe,
to him the universe becomes his body.”

Lama Govinda

Starting in April 2021 additional panels will be on display on our lower level. We hope the information
presented so far challenges your assumptions and encourages you to explore further the concepts
introduced so that you will be open to connect with others and all of life in new ways and help create a
new universe of possibility.

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