The Astonishing Physics of the Mind

Enjoy the Preface and Intro from the book Astonishing Physics of the Mind by Dr Peter Davis.

PREFACE 

In my first year of college I saw something unbelievable, even miraculous, which terrified me. My friend Steve and I, along with two buddies Mark and Todd, were finishing our meal in the local pizza joint when the last remains of Mark’s Coke tipped and spilled on the table. Then Steve’s discarded ham-burger wrapper slid across the table. But there was no earth-quake and no wind. Steve then said, “I did that.” When we laughed at him and insisted that he prove it, he said “OK.” He then asked if anyone had matches, and Mark produced a box of matches from his pocket. Steve placed several matches on the table and apparently made them move, sliding and skidding across the table. For the next ten minutes the three of us at-tempted to prove he was a fake. And Steve kept producing his magic tricks of telekinetic powers. He then told us a black and chilling story about his life in New England as a nine-year-old boy, and a thing called “poltergeist phenomena.” His story told of having to leave home and spending many years at a special school where he was tested, probed, and later forbidden to do his tricks. To this day I want to believe that my college buddy moved things with just the force field of his mind. I, as almost any other person, want to believe in miracles. But I also want scientific proof. Using this story as a reference point, this book asks the question, “Did Steve really move the matches?”, and further asks, “Is there any evidence from science which says he did?” Do miracles exist? 

This is a book about how the universe works at its root, bottom line level, and how this knowledge can be activated to create health and happiness in ourselves and the people we know and love. This book is about the whirling energy fields that we are. We are manifestations of the atoms and psycho-physical laws of which the universe is made. We are built on the identical, perhaps evolving laws which design and move the universe. Smart people, courageous humans, can know some-thing more of how our universe actually works and therefore how we actually work. To know this and follow this in a practical way is to adventure a step through the doorway which calls forth the miraculous. 

This book is for people who are both courageous and smart.

Smart people are people who pay attention to life, to what is real, truthful, and beautiful. In today’s world this takes courage! Smart dares to leap ahead, not waiting a thousand years until “everybody believes it.” Smart is not in the head. Smart is in the whole body, top, bottom, and middle. Smart is the synchronicity of all three human “brains,” reptile, mammal, and human. And smart is social. Smart takes care of oneself and also regards what is good for the other and the community, now and into the future. We need smart. We need all our powers to live a good life and master the challenges confronting us as individuals and as a species. If you are a smart and courageous person, if you are paying attention and eager to learn, this book will make you smarter, and it might help you become healthier and enjoy life more. In fact this book will give you a kick! 

This book was born from the author’s interdisciplinary living and interdisciplinary sciences. The book’s many astonishing ideas are daring and even entertaining in that they cross forbidden boundaries. As the author, I have attempted to ex-plain this book’s ideas as simply and metaphorically as possible. But be warned, to understand the contents of this book, your consciousness will have to change! This book tells us stuff we are not supposed to know, see, or think. Centuries ago, Kepler, Galileo, and Copernicus saw something incredible, in fact, to-tally unbelievable, something nobody else could or would see. They saw that the earth itself moved! They saw and calculated that earth’s completely invisible and impossible (from the scientific and theological point of view of the time) motion accounted for our perceptions of the movement in the heavens. This book is very much about seeing the invisible and the apparently im possible. 

Those of us who pay attention know that the paths to brilliance and enlightenment, health and happiness which we are spoon fed by the standard university system, book media, spiritual and health gurus, and audiovisual stimulus media are mostly bogus. Almost always, the results are not what the TV claims. Frequently we are just flat-out lied to! People deserve better as they pour their life’s fortunes into their spiritual and health dreams, their hopes for a better life. There are better alternatives. 

When quantum physicists say that our language simply does not contain words and concepts which allow an adequate de-scription of quantum physical processes and mysteries, they are not kidding. In our ordinary awareness we cannot even visualize or think about these processes correctly! To understand the essence of the new physics and the new psychology we must do more than study a great deal, we must form a new conceptual language, and we must also change our state of consciousness. 

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This book introduces a process which changes our state of consciousness. It follows that in energy field psychology we must introduce new words and concepts to give ourselves the poss-ibility of learning. Two of these important concepts are object continuum and energetic continuum. Object continuum refers generally to the world of objects “out there,” which in our social consensus model we call reality. Everything we ordinarily call real things makes up the object continuum. The term energetic continuum rep resents a non-social consensus model in which the universe is experienced as a flow of energy and awareness. In a fashion the energetic continuum is the invisible space within and between the objects that make up our world and universe, kind of a universe of “luminous shadows.” The object continuum is, in fact, a sub-set of the energetic continuum. We actually experience this energetic flow all day and night (for example, in dreams) but pay little attention to it. Physics experiments during the last half century have consistently proven that the object model is dis-astrously limited and that the energetic model is in fact a much more accurate model. Oddly this leads us to a brief discussion of advanced tai chi chuan, the extraordinary art which has helped make this book possible. 

Tai chi has at times been referred to as “moving meditation.” Many people try tai chi and quit right away, or after a few lessons. Unfortunately the modern body has become so rig-id that we have difficulty experiencing the wonderful pleasure and improved health which comes with enhanced energy (chi) flow. I would like to expand this to say that advanced tai chi is a method which operates with powers of energy and mind which easily overcome object-like physical strength. Tai chi is a meth-od which allows the direct, wonderful experience of oneself and the universe as an energetic continuum. So tai chi chuan will serve as a practical energetic metaphor throughout this book, as it demonstrates the human energy field so well and directly ties together quantum science, psychology, personal relationships, and the mysteries of human awareness. 

As a species we have not yet learned to use our brain. We are fascinated with our brain, but just as with the laptop computer we cherish, we can use only a few percent of its capacity. But we can learn to use our brain’s whole capacity, if we are smart and willing to become smarter. Presently in our world there exists a new, psychoenergetically based, far more exped-ient path to health, happiness, and enlightenment. I will intro duce you to it. Although this path or method is deeply connec-ted to collective and ancient wisdom, the astonishing new infor-mation gleaned from modern physics, psychology, and science has opened new doors. Take a peek. 

On our planet smart, courageous humans are creating new ways of processing information about ourselves and our universe. As a tool for exploring the wonders before us we need a new instrument of thought and feeling. I call this instrument “integral paradoxical thinking”(IPT), although IPT is as much a process of feeling and acting as thinking. What is it? Integral paradoxical awareness uses unifying consciousness which honestly integrates diverse events and points of view in their inclusive, common wholeness, their common functioning principle. IPT operates by allowing the experiencer to perceptually step one dimension beyond the frame of reference in which an ob-served event exists. IPT makes enough mind-space to include in awareness such disturbing paradoxes as the wave/particle duality of matter, the locality/nonlocality conundrum in physics, and common human experiences such as conversations with distant or dead relatives, deja vu, and instantaneous healing of apparently incurable diseases. Using IPT, solutions to age-old problems become apparent, whether these are the unification of the forces of physics or the resolution of personal, marital, or political conflicts. A quality of such paradoxical awareness is that it permits the honest resolution of many false conflicts. IPT is as Promethean to the mind as the laser has been to em-powering the human capture of technology and the power of light. 

This book is not easy to understand. Understanding its central ideas and teachings takes a lot of work and cross referencing, and most of all, contemplation. The book’s material is advanced and for people who dare to be smart and grow smarter. My intended audience includes mind daring professionals, deep thinkers, and brave souls from every walk of life, race, and nation who search their universe for answers to the greatest questions a human being can ask. 

I have always been passionate about human possibilities. As a boy I looked through telescopes, got in fights to protect my rights and the rights of my friends, hunted fossils and dragged my parents through the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. so that I could gaze in awe at the skeleton of an Apatosaurus and a model of the Great Blue Whale. In daily life I noticed how violent and miserable most people were, and I sincerely tried to cheer them up and brighten their day. I would sometimes try to engage my friends in conversations about wondrous and mysterious things. Something awesome became clear to me then. What raced through my brain was that unless we think differently we can never change for the better. If we can never change for the better we can never be happy. If we can never be happy we secretly know it and it makes us feel hope-less and miserable. When we feel hopeless we don’t care any-more and that leads to violating ourselves and each other. And this leads to war and horrible death. What yuck! 

This book is all about thinking and living in a new way. As mentioned above I have given this kind of thinking the fancy name, integral paradoxical thinking. A colleague asked me why the book had such difficult subject matter. He wished I would write another book with the same information, but easily readable by everyone, not just really smart people who are educated in physics, psychology, and other esoteric ideas. I told my friend that I would try to make this book as readable as possible but that it was a book that would take a lot of work to understand, and that I meant to write it that way. I do not wish to be disrespectful to people’s minds, but only if one really understands the powerful information this book provides can this information of itself change one for the better. Acquiring the knowledge shared in this book cost me dearly. I traveled long and in hard circum-stances; spent many years with various teachers; studied until my eyes nearly burned shut; performed original human potential experiments with myself, and entire platoons of daring souls; taught many, many people various aggregates of the ideas and practices herein; and risked my health, sanity at times, and very life to get where I am and bring this information to you. 

A note on the book’s new terminologies: I practice meditation and other self-development technologies, including psychoenergetic skills. I call the meditation practice “alone, still, and silent” (ASAS), due to the fact that what I practice may not at all correspond to what others understand as meditation. As a professional teacher I must often derive my own terminology to distinguish meaning, hence I use such terms as ASAS, hyper sapient, energy field psychology (EFP), QZ7, and menton, describing the subquantum potentials which are the physical geometries of consciousness. The term emotience may be used to describe the emotional or feeling intelligence which through quantum system correlation allows humans to communicate with one an-other nonlocally and instantaneously at great distances. 

I would like you to know something of my intellectual background which is pertinent to this book. My formal education and training is mostly in psychology, health science, and internal system martial arts. I am neither a formally trained physicist, nor mathematician. I have had the privilege of both knowing and growing up with people who were trained and active in both the social and hard sciences, and I have enjoyed a lifelong interest and study in these areas. I have made it my discipline to know enough of all the sciences, philosophies and arts to form in myself a synthetic and interdisciplinary mind and lifestyle. 

One final note I must make. Throughout this book I of-ten use the word “we” where the reader might expect to read the word “I.” The term “we” is not used generically. The term “we” used instead of “I” is simply more correct based upon the fact that “I” did not learn all of this in isolation! I have always had colleagues and co-workers in my explorations, discoveries, and thinking process, and I credit them with “we.” So “I” am simply being more correct when I refer to “we” as the primary force behind the work represented in this book. Where, however, I am more speculative or personal, the word “I” is used. Concerning gender, I originally planned to represent both genders equally, using “her” sometimes and “he” at other times. Gradually this grew very laborious, and my editors asked that I use the pronoun “he” where gender was indicated, and let you, the reader, know that I am referring to both genders, however awk-ward that may sound. And last, please use the extensive Glossary, you may need it.  

INTRODUCTION 

Toward a Synthesis of Science, Psychology, and the Mysterious 

The next phases of psychology, medicine, and practical spirituality will be created through updating these disciplines beyond their Newtonian and pre-Newtonian pasts into their relativistic and quantum futures. Only the most advanced waves of mod-ern science can adequately attempt to model the miraculous power of the mind. Perhaps the most awesome discovery that must be incorporated into our psychology, medicine, and world view is the scientific discovery of nonlocality in quantum entangled systems. Nonlocality refers to the utterly shocking proof, mathematically initiated by John Bell in the 1960’s and later experimentally proven in various ways by Alain Aspect and others, that once two entities such as electrons or photons are part of a system, they remain interactive with each other as part of the same system, even when spatially separated by vast distances! The power of mind is exploding exponentially in such unprecedented phenomena as the world wide web, the coming together of diverse world cultures, the enlightenment of specific human beings, overpopulation, hyper-science as with the Hubble tele-scope, cloning, nanotechnology, and new models of the universe such as supersymmetry, as well as other models such as the energetic continuum referenced herein. We have entered a revolution in how we think about ourselves. This revolution will lead either to our liberation or to our destruction. A purpose of this book is to lead us in the direction of the former. 

Another purpose of this book is to work towards establishing an up-to-date evolutionary psychology of human behavior which uses all our modern knowledge, and especially our new knowledge of consciousness and energy systems. Modern western psychology was founded by such extraordinary minds as James, Freud, Jung, Reich, Maslow, Frankl, and Skinner. The eastern philosophies of Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Taoism, and other mind sets have also been very influential in modern psychological ideas, if moreso from behind the scenes. Ancient adepts of these and other traditions possessed extraordinary practical knowledge. Each illuminating view has added another wondrous gift to our understanding of the mind and life of being human. Because of these gifts we can establish a psychological understanding of ourselves based more completely on the phy-siological, natural, and social laws which govern human life. And through their counterparts in physics, science, and meta physics we better understand the transformation of universal energy, mass, and human consciousness. Researchers such as Rhine, Puthoff, Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Krippner, Reich, Kilner, Teilhard de Chardin, and many others have, in their various and astonishing ways, shown us the nature and mir-aculous side of the mind-body-consciousness relationship. At present it is not only mystics and deep meditators who see a far bigger picture of human life. Today we see advanced physicists in the tradition of Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm seriously exploring models of higher dimensional energetic geometries of spacetime as an arena suffused with mindful, intelligent, formative qual-ities in which the universal energetic field functions of electro-magnetism, gravity, and the strong nuclear and weak atomic level forces may be unified. There is increasingly compelling evidence that at the Planck scale (the smallest possible incre-ment), existence (spacetime) has a geometrical shape of tremen-dous energy. What is astonishing about this geometric univer-sal space “fabric” is that it appears to contain all the infor-mation necessary to build a universe! 

In aggregate the discoveries represented by the work of those thinkers cited above may lead one to the thought that proto-consciousness, a root creative information bearing function of some kind, stirs at the very core of existence. Further, we must consider the possibility that the phenomena we call “light,” and even life itself, originate not in this apparent three dimensional energy field we call home, but rather in higher dimensions which are hidden in the quantum vacuum, essentially invisible at our level of measurement and experience. These geometries may also include other time dimensions existing as possible futures, pasts, and parallel times. Not only may the forces of physics originate here, but even the proto-conscious geometries of such platonic qualities as “love,” “gratitude,” and “beauty” may in-flate and evolve from this magically tiny dimension to the scale and scope we see in human beings. Science now has the power, when used with an enlightened mind, to show us that this mys terious, invisible existence projects itself as everything we see or can measure “here.” This book will attempt to explain this pro-cess in detail. 

But we have a problem. Many great discoveries of science do not really translate into real advancements in therapeutic medicine and psychotherapy. Our medical and psychotherapeutic models are mired in classical and pre-classical mechanics. Sometimes they are even still buried in the dark ages. Our mind does not mix with our medicine! This is central to why patients don’t get better, and to why our diagnoses are frequently wrong. While we have incredible machines like CAT and PET scanners, based mostly on quantum physics, we often don’t use them wisely. Why do we still apply dark age witches’ brews (chemo-cocktails) to helpless, very sick people? Doctors and therapists want to help people, but the situation is desperate, our health care system is monstrously inefficent and ex-pensive, and often driven by the lust for money, not care for human souls. We simply have not upgraded our bedside manners, our healing philosophy, and our treatment protocols to match the miraculous discoveries of quantum and relativity physics. The core of our very thoughts has to change! For our thoughts to change we must wake up to the fact that our quantum biosystem internal events are alive, not dead, and are living, proto-intelligent lawful processes with which we and our brains are in constant communication. (We are even made of these quantum processes.) Discoveries such as quantum field theory and mind enhancement through meditation make being aware of this holistic, multi-level communication possible. This internal awareness of our deep biopsychic quantum process is the next step in medicine and psychology, and for a species (us) that wishes to survive and prosper. 

A difficulty in psychotherapeutics (and medicine) is that we cannot generally “talk” a patient into health. (This does happen, but not predictably.) Hence, since few other techniques are allowed by psychotherapeutic associations there is an over reliance on psychotropic medications. For all the risk involved (we know that many medications actually cause diseases) some patients have positive responses, sometimes even life saving. But we need better psychological, physical, and emotive clinical methods to activate internal, organismically produced curative energies which lead to health in patients and people. We need more than talk and pills! Hence we must learn to focus on educating patients and students to use their emotional intelligence and more formidable mental powers, especially for conversation with their internal organ systems and behaviors, as part of their daily lifestyle throughout all courses of therapy. It is also true that the relationship between the therapist and patient (the emotionally based quantum energetic field correlation) is pri-mary in the healing process. From numerous studies I have read, I make the hypothesis that even a placebo given by a phy-sician whom a patient really trusts is more likely to bring relief from an ailment, in many cases, than the proper medicine given by a physician whom a patient doesn’t trust, and thus the pat-ient’s biosystem rejects not only the physician but the medicine! 

We know from clinical research, for example, that most patients do not breathe well. This is a far greater problem than we yet recognize. Poor respiration means one’s tissues and cells are not oxygenated sufficiently to produce the necessary metabolic energy for health or optimal mental capacity. Enhanced breathing exercises, at times supplemented with slow movement, can be of great use. Aerobic exercise, better diets, cleaner thoughts, happier hearts, as well as vascular health promoters like tai chi chuan are also very necessary. Otto Warburg and others have shown that cancer cells and viruses die in an oxygen rich environment. This is why hyperbaric (pressurized) oxy-gen therapy often works so well. Warburg’s and much more recent research should be taken seriously as another vote for the value of good breathing. 

We also know that most patients resist taking their medicine. In terms of psychotherapy, this translates into one resisting healing during the treatment hour, but more, when one’s hour of treatment is concluded, one often forgets or ignores the new self-knowledge one has just gained. And frequently patients do not continue learning their lesson through-out the week. This is as pathetic as the piano student who never practices, or the biology student who will not study. The exam is coming! One’s focus too often remains on non-essentials, psychologically destructive media entertainments, and bogus self-treatments such as compulsive shopping, potentially dangerous pill concoctions, and alcohol to reduce pain and depression. Therapeutics must find ways to motivate patients and students to practice every day. A remodeling of therapeutic and medical responsibilities is required. I believe this book provides direction here. I aim to make clear the necessity to educate patients to literally create their own therapy based on the sound principles taught to them by their doctor or therapist. Therapists and teachers must find ways to inspire a burning desire in their patients and students to learn about themselves and their universe. 

So, in such practices as psychotherapy and medical therapy we need to implement knowledge about human energy in practical therapeutic ways. This can be done by educating the patient, client, or student to recognize and use the incredible healing potential in himself or herself. Our primary therapeutic method may be as simple as personal quiet time in which the mind, emotional state, and body can learn to be very silent and awaken new powers of intelligence, feeling, and self observation. We have found that quantum physical, spacetime relativistic models and especially our energy field models are ideal as a map for navigating such inner work. This works quite well when one is alone, still, and silent, visualizing map-like therapeutic models (easier than looking at a road map), and moving one’s attention and feeling along the map. 

As our machines improve we are also mapping new models of brain physiology. Our better machines tell us that persistent thoughts and emotions produce proteins or neuro-peptides which alter the body’s cells in present time and in future generations by increasing the chemical receptor sites for these proteins. This proves to be a self-reinforcing cycle. Put simplistically, people who have good thoughts and feelings find it easier to have more good thoughts and feelings. You know the inverse. So the power of our thoughts really does count. Cellular receptor sites are like the lock to the peptide’s key. Their combination activates certain processes, for good or bad. When we live poorly we manufacture mutant peptides which cram their way into available receptor sites. The peptides don’t quite fit chemically and physically but the molecular bond is often close enough that when these cells die the daughter cells of sub-sequent generations are born with receptor sites altered to fully receive the mutant proteins! It is not surprising that opium derivatives are so very similar chemically to our own endorphins, some of the pain-killing, feel-good chemicals our brains and bodies produce. Put simply, our bad behaviors and bad habits (this whole process can also be positive) become locked in at the cellular/molecular level. It becomes harder and harder for us to change. This is why, as smart psychiatrists know, patients who manifest dangerous psychotic (or criminal) behavior must be stopped immediately if they are ever to have the chance of stopping at all. “Blowing off steam” does not work when our condition is this severe. 

When the autonomic nervous system is balanced and serotinergic type neurons are healthy we can willingly stop bad behaviors and our internal chattering, especially the self brutalizing foul-mouth kind which leads to depression and worse. So behavior patterns and mind stuff have, after all, a physical (and extremely extended) basis, as Freud suspected but did not have the technological sophistication to prove. Further, in the “use it or lose it” axiom applied to the brain, neuron caretaker cells known as glial cells also destroy neurons which are persistently not used. In the case of a highly stressed American lifestyle, this may mean the destruction of the very cells which produce chemicals such as serotonin and acetylcholine which we need in order to relax. This hints of Alzheimer’s disease causation. Psychiatric neurochemistry now attempts to control brain physiology, for example, with serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac, in an attempt to improve a patient’s experience and lessen pain. I contend that in most cases the power of consciousness as a pain reducer should replace Prozac and other such chemicals. Of course, this requires brain power and new learning! To some of you this information may be old stuff. But then you are a person who also knows that neuro-psychiatry is in its infancy. Just read the disclaimers related to the application of these various medications. Wow!  

By synthesizing the psychological and physical energetic knowledge from both East and West, the ancient and modern, one may distill a personal and evolutionary daily practice. This metapsychology is uniquely suited for practical application by the individual to evolve his or her intelligence and general hu-man capacities. Through using the energetic field model we can transcend the ordinary limits of psychology, therapy, spiritual teachings, philosophy, and theology. That is, we can come to understand the physical basis of memories, love, depression, self confidence, or even enlightenment. However, we are convinced that the extended physical basis of the mind and reality will not be found only in neurophysiology or chemistry, however useful or advanced, but also in a deeper sphere, a trans-organismic quantum matrix which is inherently proto-intelligent and creative. We interact with this quantum matrix of which we are made, at all times. We are just not usually aware of it. In physics we may refer to this matrix as the Higgs field or Higgs ocean (see Glossary). It is interesting that Wilhelm Reich, the often maligned genius so close to Sigmund Freud, referred to his own primary discovery as the cosmic orgone ocean. We humans beings are building and discovering a new map of the human form and our universe.  

Honest healthcare professionals are haunted by such questions as, how does cure occur, how does the patient get better, no matter the specific quality of ailment? And spiritual seekers are equally haunted by such questions as, is enlightenment possible and if so, how does it become a permanent condition? When we examine incidents of an unexpected cure or enlightenment, we find a common ground, and it is this: a per-son fully accepts continuing responsibility for his or her condition and his or her life. No longer does the person accept self-pity, hopelessness, slavery to his or her personal past, specious societal values, such nonsense as self sacrifice, death as an ab-solute, warfare, permanent disability, etc. The person accepts one thing alone: total responsibility for his or her life. That is the core of the secret.

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