{"id":1566,"date":"2009-06-19T07:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T07:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/06\/the-universe-in-your-head.html"},"modified":"2009-06-19T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T07:59:12","slug":"the-universe-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/06\/the-universe-in-your-head.html","title":{"rendered":"The Universe in your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrodynamics.net\">by Lynn Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"listeningpanel1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/69\/import\/images\/listeningpanel1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>The astrological sign of Aquarius rules invention, innovation, and ideas that blow our traditional ways of thinking out of the water, and as we move into the <a href=\"http:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/Articles\/Cycles\/Age%20of%20Aquarius.htm\">Age of Aquarius<\/a>&nbsp;our very conception of reality will continue to morph and evolve as our understanding of the multilayered patterns of the Universe becomes more complex.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now comes <i>biocentrism<\/i>, a belief that life creates the Universe. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Lanza\">Robert Lanza<\/a> is one of the leading proponents of this theory and has come out with a new book which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/31393080\/print\/1\/displaymode\/1098\/\">abridged on the MSNBC site<\/a>. (A quick look at Lanza&#8217;s chart (born 2\/11\/1956, time unknown) reveals that he was born under the New Moon in Aquarius, with the Sun and Moon conjunction opposed by Jupiter (expanding one&#8217;s point of view) and Mercury (thought process) in Aquarius as well.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lanza&#8217;s theory of biocentrism includes these seven principles:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. An &#8220;external&#8221; reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind.<\/li>\n<li>A Second Principle of Biocentrism: Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be divorced from one another.<\/li>\n<li>Third Principle of Biocentrism: The behavior of subatomic particles, indeed all particles and objects, is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth Principle of Biocentrism: Without consciousness, &#8220;matter&#8221; dwells in an undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.<\/li>\n<li>Fifth Principle of Biocentrism: The structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The &#8220;universe&#8221; is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.<\/li>\n<li>Sixth Principle of Biocentrism: Time does not have a real existence outside of animal-sense perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in the universe.<\/li>\n<li>Seventh Principle of Biocentrism: Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent reality. We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which physical events occur independent of life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>You may recall the old question, &#8220;If a tree falls and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?&#8221; &nbsp;Evidently the answer is no!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the excerpt of Lanza&#8217;s <b><i>Biocentricm<\/i><\/b>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>Quantum mechanics describes the tiny world of the atom and its constituents, and<br \/>\ntheir behavior, with stunning if probabilistic accuracy. But quantum mechanics<br \/>\nin many ways threatens our absolute notions of space and time. When studying<br \/>\nsubatomic particles, the observer appears to alter and determine what is<br \/>\nperceived.&nbsp; The presence and methodology of the experimenter is hopelessly<br \/>\nentangled with whatever he is attempting to observe, and what results he gets.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>In 1964, Irish physicist John Bell proposed an experiment<br \/>\nthat could show if separate particles can influence each other instantaneously<br \/>\nover great distances. First it is necessary to create two bits of matter or<br \/>\nlight that share the same &#8220;wave function&#8221; using a special kind of crystal<br \/>\n(so-called &#8220;entangled particles&#8221;). Now, since quantum theory tells us that<br \/>\neverything in nature has a particle nature and a wave nature, and that the<br \/>\nobject&#8217;s behavior exists only as probabilities, no small object actually assumes<br \/>\na particular place or motion until its &#8220;wave function&#8221; collapses. What<br \/>\naccomplishes this collapse? Messing with it in any way. Hitting it with a bit of<br \/>\nlight in order to &#8220;take its picture&#8221; would instantly do the job. But it became<br \/>\nincreasingly clear that any possible way the experimenter could &#8220;take a look&#8221; at<br \/>\nthe object would collapse the wave function. As more sophisticated experiments<br \/>\nwere devised it became obvious that mere knowledge in the experimenter&#8217;s mind is<br \/>\nsufficient to cause the wave function to collapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>That was freaky, but it got worse. If the wave function<br \/>\nof an entangled particle collapses, so will the other&#8217;s &#8212; even if they are<br \/>\nseparated by the width of the universe. This means that if one particle is<br \/>\nobserved to have an &#8220;up spin&#8221; the act of observation causes the other to<br \/>\ninstantly go from being a mere probability wave to an actual particle with the<br \/>\nopposite spin. They are intimately linked, and in a way that acts as if there&#8217;s<br \/>\nno space between them, and no time influencing their behavior. Experiments from<br \/>\n1997 to 2007 have shown that this is indeed the case, as if tiny objects created<br \/>\ntogether are endowed with a kind of ESP. They truly seem to prove that<br \/>\nEinstein&#8217;s insistence on &#8220;locality&#8221; &#8212; meaning that nothing can influence<br \/>\nanything else at superluminal speeds &#8212; is wrong. Rather, the entities we observe<br \/>\nare floating in a field &#8212; a field of mind, biocentrism maintains &#8212; that is not<br \/>\nlimited by the external spacetime Einstein theorized a century ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>No one should imagine that when biocentrism points to<br \/>\nquantum theory as one major area of support, it is just a single aspect of<br \/>\nquantum phenomena. Bell&#8217;s Theorem of 1964, shown experimentally to be true over<br \/>\nand over in the intervening years, does more than merely demolish all vestiges<br \/>\nof Einstein&#8217;s hopes that locality can be maintained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>Before Bell, it was still considered possible (though<br \/>\nincreasingly iffy) that local realism &#8212; an objective independent universe &#8211;<br \/>\ncould be the truth. Before Bell, many still clung to the millennia-old<br \/>\nassumption that physical states exist before they are measured. Before Bell, it<br \/>\nwas still widely believed that particles have definite attributes and values<br \/>\nindependent of the act of measuring. And, finally, thanks to Einstein&#8217;s<br \/>\ndemonstrations that no &#8220;information&#8221; can travel faster than light, it was<br \/>\nassumed that if observers are sufficiently far apart, a measurement by one has<br \/>\nno effect on the measurement by the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>All of the above are now finished for keeps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">The research of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucelipton.com\/article\">Bruce Lipton<\/a> has already revealed that human consciousness influences which DNA switches are turned on and off, proving what many of us already know: that we can create not only our reality but our physical health with the intention of the conscious mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">Our understanding of the very concept of consciousness is transforming at a spectacular speed. &nbsp;The triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune, all in Aquarius, can act as a portal for us individually to gain a deeper understanding of the reality that underlies our experience of the Universe. &nbsp;But first our minds must open wide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lynn Hayes The astrological sign of Aquarius rules invention, innovation, and ideas that blow our traditional ways of thinking out of the water, and as we move into the Age of Aquarius&nbsp;our very conception of reality will continue to morph and evolve as our understanding of the multilayered patterns of the Universe becomes more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness","category-quantum-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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