When my daughter was a toddler, we would play a memory game involving picture books whereby, after I turned the page, I would ask her a question about the picture we had just seen. One day the picture was of a banana and I asked her its color. She said it was orange. I laughed and asked, are you sure? She was certain. So I was blown away when I turned back to the picture and the banana was indeed mostly orange. My brain, so accustomed to thinking bananas are yellow, had operated on autopilot so that when I was presented with the image of a banana, I just saw yellow, even when it was orange.
This incident is a good metaphor for the limits of our perception of all things physical. Our left brain, that which allows the function of logic, reason and order, uses customary brain pathways to quickly and efficiently provide us with the information about our physical environment that we need in order to function effectively in the world.
Our physical environment is constituted of various forms of matter and seemingly governed by, and operating within, the laws of physics. But, although our mainstream educational institutions fail to inform us, quantum physics proved decades ago that there actually is no matter. As quantum physicist, Niels Bohr, said in the first half of the 20th century: “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
At the base of everything we believe to be real is energy. In fact, energy is all there is. It is our choice what sort of energy we allow to govern our thoughts, actions and words, which then creates our experience. If our thoughts and actions spring from the high vibrational energy, such as the energy of love, joy and peace, then love, joy and peace will be our experience. It is always our choice that dictates our experience, regardless of whatever else seems to exist around us.
What we must understand, if we are to have any level of success in this world, is that human life offers a series of potentials, in the form of seeming problems to be solved and challenges to be mastered. No matter who we are, what abilities we have or the circumstances in which we live, everyone must deal with these problems and challenges.
It’s as if we are all born at the bottom of a mountain which we must all climb. The challenge and difficulties of the ascent must be solved, through inspiration, growth and wisdom. We are all endowed with these crucial problem solving abilities, but whether we pay attention to them depends on the degree to which we have been tricked into believing in the reality and substance of matter.
Culture, religion, and education all interfere with this process of understanding the true nature of this life, and the laws that govern it and, in the attempt by institutions to gain control, they have obscured the crucial role of choice, which is dictated by what we believe to be true and real and thus determines the degree of our success, happiness and progress.
Morality and ethics have nothing to do with it. This is no longer a matter of religious or spiritual conjecture. It is proven quantum physics. It is simply a law of cause and effect. We need to understand the trick of perception, and to learn to look beneath the surface of things, in order to discover, and implement, this quantum truth.
