Copyright © Gregg Braden
Reprinted with permission from Mystic Pop Magazine, Nov/Dec Issue 2006
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“What strange beings we are!” noted the 13th Century mystic Rumi, “That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” Perhaps it is actually the power to choose our immortality, as well as everything from our personal healing to the peace of our world, that truly frightens us!

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that it is us —our consciousness— that holds the key to life and even reality itself! In 1967 the pioneering physicist Konrad Zuse married the ideas of consciousness with modern technology and proposed that our universe works like a massive consciousness computer. And just as every computer translates “Input-commands” into “Output-results,” our cosmic consciousness computer appears to do precisely the same thing! When we translate our deepest beliefs into the reality of our world, we are literally re-writing the code that makes the universe appear as it does.

Living In A Participatory Universe
A series of breathtaking discoveries has given us a powerful new way to think of our role in the universe. Rather than the conventional view that suggests we are passive observers, living a brief moment of time in a creation that already exists, the discoveries suggest that it is actually consciousness itself that is responsible for the existence of the universe! Perhaps the most revolutionary discovery supporting this idea, is the scientific fact that when we look at the stuff our world is made of — tiny quantum particles such as an electron, for example — the very act of us watching that electron changes the way it behaves in our presence. What’s more, the longer we look, the more it changes! In 1998, scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science documented this phenomenon showing that “the greater the amount of ‘watching,’ the greater the observer’s influence on what actually takes place.” (Nature, Feb. 26, 1998) Citing such experiments, Princeton University physicist John Wheeler suggests that we not only play a role in the creation of our everyday world, but we play the prime role in what he calls a “participatory universe.” Wheeler states that we can no longer think of ourselves merely as onlookers who have no effect on the world around us, because it is impossible to simply watch. If we are alive and conscious, then we are affecting our world. “The old word ‘observer,’” he says, “simply has to be crossed off the books…and we must put in the new word ‘participator!” The key to Wheeler’s proposition is the word “participatory.” In a participatory universe, you and I are part of the equation. We are both creating the events of our lives, as well as the experiencers of what we create. Both are happening at the same time! In other words, we are like artists expressing our deepest passions, fears, dreams, and desires through the living essence of a mysterious quantum canvas. The difference between us and conventional artists, however, is that we are the canvas, as well as the images upon the canvas. We are the tools as well as the artists using the tools. And just as artists refine an image until it is just right in their minds, we may think of ourselves as perpetual artists, building a creation that is ever changing and never ending. Through our artist’s palette of beliefs, judgments, emotions, and prayers, we find ourselves in relationships, jobs, and situations of support and betrayal that play out with different people in different places. What a beautiful, bizarre, and powerful concept.

Living from the Answer
From the perspective of us participating in an ever-changing universe, the solution to any condition is a change in attitude and belief. And this is the great secret of propelling our heart’s desires from the possibility of imagination, to the reality of our everyday lives. The key is our ability to feel as if our dreams have already come to life, our prayers already answered, and live from that feeling. There is a subtle, and yet powerful difference between working toward a result, and feeling from that result. When we work toward something, we embark upon an open-ended and never-ending journey. While we may identify milestones, and set goals to get us closer to our accomplishment, in our mind we are always “on our way” to the goal, rather than in the experience of accomplishing our goal. This is precisely why Neville’s invitation to “enter the image” of our heart’s desire and “think from it” is so powerful in our lives. In the ancient studies of martial arts, we see a beautiful metaphor in the physical world for precisely the way this principle works in consciousness. When martial artists choose to break a concrete block as a demonstration of focus, for example, the very last thing in their minds is the place where their hand will touch that block. The key is to place our focus upon the completed act: the healing already accomplished, or the brick already broken. As a student of the martial arts, I was taught to do this by focusing on a point in space that is beyond the bottom of the block. The only way that my hand could be at that point was if it had already passed through the brick. In this way, I was thinking from the completion, rather than how hard it would be to get to the completion. I was feeling the joy of what it feels like to accomplish the act, rather than all of the things that must happen before I could be successful. This simple example offers a powerful analogy for precisely the way that consciousness seems to work. And this is the great secret that has been protected and preserved for us in wisdom of our past. From the monasteries of Egypt and Tibet to the forgotten texts of our most cherished traditions we are reminded that we are part of, rather than separate from, the world around us. As part of everything we see, we have the power to participate — not control or manipulate — but to consciously chart the course of our lives and our world. Please don’t be deceived by the simplicity of contemporary philosopher Neville Goddard’s words when he suggests that all we need to do is to “assume the feeling of our wish fulfilled.” In a participatory universe of our own making, why would we expect that peace, healing, and a long and healthy life should be any more difficult.

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As we live our lives, using the teachings our parents passed on to us sometimes without knowing it, we tend to recreate situations over and over – until we say to ourselves “I would rather stay single, I only attract trouble”, or “I give up – nothing is ever going to change for me”. Or worse.
We hang labels around our necks, paste descriptions on our foreheads that limit us by causing us to focus on what we see around us, focus on what get reflected back at us…. only mostly, we are not aware of the fact that we put that vibration out there in the first place.

We walk around with deep aching voids in ourselves, fixating on others to beam at us the loving acceptance we are not even aware of being able to receive from ourselves.
And when we lose their admiration we feel almost desperate in our renewed search for someone to love us – and eventually, having passed through relationship after relationship that did not work out, we give up.

The knowing that we can find all that unconditional love, acceptance and nurturing within ourselves comes with the realization that we are greater than we once thought, that there is a part of us that is blended with a greater loving energy – our connection to Source…. whatever we call that expanded part where we are all One matters not, the filters through which we see it matter not, – what does matter is that we can open our hearts and know that we are never alone, never abandoned, that there is a timeless connection binding us all together, and that we can turn inward and find the love that we are missing within ourselves.

Sometimes all it takes it the acceptance of the possibility of being able to be self nurturing, which is in fact what it is… and as we nurture ourselves, as we start taking responsibility for our lives and our decisions without placing blame on ourselves, things start shifting in our lives and our outer reality moves to match our inner reality of greater light, greater consciousness and greater love.

And it is at this point where doors start opening for us, synchronicities start to appear and we start tapping into that great stream of Consciousness in a conscious manner, learning about the laws of the universe, learning about our own magnificence, our shining beings, – that we are perfect even in our imperfection.

We can attract to us the lives we have been yearning for by simply starting to awaken in ourselves those qualities that we so look for in others – loyalty, unconditional acceptance and love, and the knowledge that magic does exist and that it is all waiting for us – when we least expect it.

© Nina Ferrell

What is energy work? A more basic question, perhaps, would be the exploration of what is energy.

Energy is the term that has come to be used to explain or to connote the basic life force that exists in and all around you. Its very intangibility to those who exist solely, in their perception, on the Earth-plane gives it an ethereal quality that makes it seem difficult to understand.

Often people say they cannot feel energy. What they really mean is: they do not know what they are feeling when they feel it.

All of you feel energy all the time. All of you have the ability to discern what it is that you are feeling. You simply need to bring awareness and attention to what it is you feel.

Understand, however, that this can be a difficult process. Sometimes certain protections are built-in to your patterns of awareness that make it difficult for you to notice when you are feeling certain kinds of energy. The people who feel energy the most tend to be those who have chosen to accept that doing so is a benefit to them. This is a choice that you can make at any time. But understand that such choices need to be made on all the levels of your being. You are your conscious mind. You are also your heart space. You are also your soul or essence. All of You works together, all the time, to create the choices and the responses that you have all the input that you receive in the course of a day.

Energy Expanded
Going back to the question “What is Energy?”:

Energy is simply the explanation for the life force that exists in and all around you.

In other words, everything has its own awareness: a table, a book, the cells that make up your nose all have an individual awareness. This collective awareness moves in a cyclic fashion, much like a wave and much like electricity does.

In fact, a very good analogy for “What is Energy” is to compare it to electricity. However, electricity has far more instant tangibility than does energy. You are beings made of energy. That is what you are made of – there is nothing more to you than simply energy. Another way to describe energy is, of course, calling it Love. It’s gathered together in certain patterns, in certain ways, to create form. The form can be a microphone. The form can be a person. The form can be a tree. It’s all made of the same “stuff”.

Energy work, then, is an activity that helps to bring awareness or attention to the energy that you are and the energy that exists all around you. When someone puts their hands on someone else, when they’re doing Reiki or other energy healing, they are simply intending to bring attention to the energy that is already that other person. That’s all there is to it. Energy work brings attention to what already exists within you.

The reason why energy work is effective is because it acts as a catalyst to assist you with the process that you choose to embark upon. If you are receiving healing from someone else, you are choosing to accept that healing, and in so doing accept whatever comes of your new attention and awareness to the healing that is taking place within you. No one person can heal another without an interaction and a choice being made by the recipient to bring their energetic awareness and attention to the possibility of healing taking place.

Question: So the healing actually comes from increased awareness?

Yes, but even saying “increased awareness” is a little bit misleading.

You don’t necessarily have to have that awareness within your conscious mind. Your body, made up as it is of energy, has awarenesses of its own all over the place. Your leg has awareness that you may not be aware of in your mind – but your leg knows. If your leg is choosing to hold attention to the healing that needs to take place within it, then that will happen.

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In the last post I raised the example of you getting offered a business opportunity, and you immediately getting a feeling that it was a bad deal. I asked you if it was your intuition warning you, or your negative programming just creating a negative thought to sabotage you and keep you stuck.

So what did you come up with? And how do you know for sure?

Well I have some bad news. When you are in a negative thought cycle, there is no way to really know yourself. Your negative programming will always cause you to find the cloud in every silver lining. The good news is that once your prosperity consciousness has developed, you will be deeply in touch with your intuition and know the difference. But what do you do until then?

You need to have people further along the journey than you, who help you out. You need to be able to “check things out” with them. They will know you, and your negative tendencies. So they can advise you whether the course you are disregarding may actually have some value.

That doesn’t mean they are investment advisors or they replace lawyers, accountants, and other appropriate professionals. But it does mean that you have an external source to check things out with. And that helps you develop your positive instincts. Look for people that are living the kind of life you want, and who are confident enough in who they are that they don’t need to shoot you down. Look for people that care about you enough to tell you the truth in a loving way. Then when you reach that state, you can pay it forward to others.