Quantum Living - Part Twelve - Paradigms for Living

LIVING IN THE QUANTUM AGE

BUILDING CERTAINTY

As we go about our daily lives, we make most decisions with certainty. In the morning, we know we will find our clothing and belongings where we left them last night. We 'know' that our appliances will work as intended, and our routine is disrupted when they don't. Uncertainty makes us uncomfortable, and therefore we seek certainty. Our sense of security is important to us. Why else do we buy insurance?

IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND

Over many human generations, we have built up our mental model or world-view using concepts that change only rarely. We make our plans using this model, because it is more 'dependable' than the real world in many ways. When we plan a trip, we plan it by leaving out all the ever-changing variables, such as detours, traffic, accidents, and such.

We have two ways of dealing with everyday life. First, we stick with the Newtonian model, which relies on simple cause and effect, and which treats all events as objective. The subjective component is ignored. We apply classic interpretations of events, accepted by most if not all our peers, so that we don't need to develop individual and personal views of each thing we encounter.

Our sense of certainty about things is part of our mind construction, and so long as we can stick to our model and ignore the variables in the world around us, it works. It gives us a sense of security which allows plans to be made in confidence. However, it comes with a price. The price is ignoring and missing the half of everyday occurrence that does not fit the model. We ignore thousands of happenings each day because they vary from the smoothness of our mental construction. And at the end of the day, we say, "What trouble?"

NEW PARADIGMS

The paradigms which make up our model are mostly held in common with others of our cultural group. Other cultures will have paradigms which vary slightly, but in general many are shared the world over. They start with things that we consider 'obvious' but which are not necessarily so in the light of quantum understanding. Some of the 'obvious' truths are:

- The permanence of material objects
- things stay where we put them; things last unless they are altered by physical force.
- The solidity of matter, and the impenetrability of hard surfaces.

Both these 'truths' are subject to some modification in light of current knowledge. They apply only to a point and then are invalid. The matter of our world is NOT solid; it only seems solid to us. Our senses are too crude to perceive the truth of it. Reality for each of us is simply the character of the illusion we have accepted- it is our set of judgments.

Most people are rooted directly in the illusion of physical reality; in what the eastern philosophies have called Maya. Their focus is on the manifpulation of the ‘things’ in their physical surrounding; they would even argue that there is nothing else, or that it is foolish to consider anything else.

There are a few who are rooted in another paradigm- what might be called an energy awareness, or as I like to think of it a flow consciousness. This is a feeling kind of awareness that they are in the flow of ideas, of possessions, or money, of all things. They attract things that then flow to them, and they release things to flow back into some gestalt of the world. They don’t have to manipulate the world, but they simply intend, and know, and things arrange themselves based on their knowing.

Sadly, most churches are led and filled with people who are tied to the former, more materialistic worldview. Accordingly, they view a world in which matter is insubstantial and subject to Mind as lying in the realm of miracle, if not fantasy. Thus they interpret the ultimate reality as existing in some alternate realm, not this one.

Few have glimpsed the truth; that there is ONE ultimate reality, and we are in it now, and that there are many modes of awareness, or paradigms of consciousness, through which we can perceive the multi-dimensional world.