I couldn’t sleep last night.
It was a little past 1am, I was exhausted from a long day at the clinic that ended in a 2 hour Aikido practice, and I had a treatment scheduled to 8am. I totally needed to sleep, but here I was, lying in my bed, trying to breath the stuffy air of a belated autumn heat wave, rolling this new thought in my head, as I was doing since I stumbled on it during my lunch break.
See, I’m reading this book now. It’s called The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden. This happens to be an extremely silly book, as is to be expected from a book forecasting the end of the world based on natural disasters in the late 90’s when read at the end of 2009. The horrid translation into Hebrew makes it an even more difficult read. But I persevered, because I had a feeling there was, somewhere in that mire of sentimental foolishness, an idea that was important for me. And yesterday I finally found it!
So I was too excited to sleep. I kept turning it over in my mind. I really need to get some feedback, to discuss it with others who are open minded yet critical. It would also be a good idea to write it down, to clarify it to myself.
Then, after an hour of tossing and turning, it hit me: I’ll write it down in a blog and ask all my friends to come and see! I got up all excited and went to discuss the technical aspects with Dawoun, my gracious host and long time friend, who never goes to sleep before 2am, and so was noisily clicking on his keyboard in the other room.
It is a good time for me to start a blog, as I foresee many changes in the near future. I’ve finally found my own apartment after 2 months of searching, I’m about to start a coaching process, and I’ve registered to an applied kynesiology course. So it’d be interesting to record the changes and understandings I’ll be going through.
Anyway, maybe you are curious what was this oh-so-grand idea?
Simply and briefly put, it is thus:
The universe is split into alternate realities by events at the quantum level. All alternate realities co-exist in time with a definite probability to each. Despite the probabilities, it is our attention that determines which of the possibilities we will come to experience as factual.
Not very ground-shattering, I know. But it will take me many-many words to explain it and I don’t want to make this post too long. Besides, I’ve got to run to the AK class.
See ya later!
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Glad(?) to see my name mentioned. Just to be clear, “host” in this case means IRL honest-to-god in-my-apartment host and not any kind of virtual (site/computer) host.
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An interesting idea. I’ve heard about this before. There is the assumption that for every decision we make, there had to be some process on the quantum level which made us choose what we chose. And every time we make a choice, an alternate universe splits off where a different choice was made, and so on, and so on, and repeated ad nauseum to infinity.
What is important to remember about these kinds of philosophies is that they can’t be proven or disproven, not with our current understanding of quantum mechanics, which is at this point mostly theoretical. That means that the only thing that really matters is how your beliefs shape how you live and see the world, and that’s what you have to keep in mind.
I’d draw an objection to the idea of “time” as the universe itself has no notion of the concept, but it’s 1:30 in the morning so I’ll read the other posts in the morning.
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Bryan, thanks for your comment. The alternate universes theory you explain is the “standard” one. Mine is slightly different, but I’m planning to go into that in depth in the future (that in fact is the cause of all this blog) I won’t try to explain here.
In the meantime, I agree that there is no way to prove or disprove this. It is just a thought that happens to be useful in explaining away some glitches in my faith system.
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