Truth of the matter is: fact and fiction work as a team.
Though the concept of Mind over Matter has been around for a long time, and often used in the context of yoga, our understanding of it has remained mystical and in the realm of magic and legendary fantasies. It has recently come back to light through research and discoveries in quantum physics, where the scientists doing the research have clearly seen that their powers of observation influence the outcome of their experiments. Since this has become very apparent at the level of quantum energies within the molecular structures, which are the building blocks of matter, it can only lead us to conclude that matter also is influenced by the observer. In short then, we are not just observers but also partly directing what we are observing. How mush is "partly" depends on the level of developement of the individual mind.
It has now become a reality accepted by the scientific community that our mind and consciousness are responsible for creating our "expected" experiences. Yoga has been stating this for thousands of years, and now that millions of people are practicing Hatha yoga as a fitness exercise there is an awakening curiosity about just what role our mind plays in the overall scheme of things.
Much more to be said here... stepping out from the world of Merlin, Gandalf and Harry Potter, there is a movie called: "What the Bleep Do We Know" which brings the reality of quantum physics to the public eye. If you have not yet seen this movie, Go for it.
What the Bleep Do We Know? says that science and spirituality are not different modes of thought, but are in fact describing the same thing. And it brings the power back to the individual man and woman as it demonstrates creation as the god-like capacity of every individual.
It has been called by some theater goers The Handbook to The Matrix. Like The Matrix it shows you a greater reality behind the one we all accept as true, and you have the ability to create absolutely anything from your own thought while laughing all the way!
What the Bleep Do We Know!? is a wake-up call to the hundreds of thousands of people who are searching for a voice somewhere in this fragmented culture who have been awaiting a catalyst.
It has arrived!
This bold, funny, unique work goes to the heart of the human dilemma. It challenges and lays waste the old paradigms of thought and places responsibility squarely where it belongs - on individual human consciousness.
Most of the scientists and researchers seen in the film are renown in their fields and have done amazing work in the area of mind/body connections, or mind over matter phenomena.
Dr. Masaru Emoto ( www.masaru-emoto.net ) Although Dr. Emoto does not appear in the film, his research and stunning photographs of water crystals do. When Amanda misses her train she stumbles onto an exhibit of the water photographs. The information is so amazing that many viewers have asked "Is this real?".
In this photograph of a water crystal taken by Dr. Emoto we can clearly see the well defined geometric structure. This mandala styled geometry is actually created by using the mind to put positive thoughts into the water. In this case it was a blessing by a Zen monk. On the other hand, putting negative thoughts or vibrations into the water breaks the symetry and creates more chaos.
Dr. Candace Pert ( web site ) was a graduate student in her mid-twenties when she discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular bonding site for endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, which she calls our "underlying mechanism for bliss and bonding." This breakthrough presaged a sea change in scientific understanding of human internal communication systems, pointing the way toward the information-based model that is now supplanting the long-dominant structuralist viewpoint.
Dr. Pert has established a very positive link between what we think, what we feel and what is happening to our bodies... the missing link in the equation of mind over matter.
In her book "Molecules of Emotion she relates her research of our internal body chemistry, and how so much of what we think and feel has to do with neuro-peptides - chemical messengers created by most cells in our body. She also demonstrates well how thoughts create these chemical messengers in an ongoing process - and these create the emotions we feel.
Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. www.fredalanwolf.com is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963.
Wolf's inquiring mind has delved into the relationship between human consciousness, psychology, physiology, the mystical, and the spiritual. His investigations have taken him from intimate discussions with physicist David Bohm to the magical and mysterious jungles of Peru, from master classes with Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman to the high deserts of Mexico, from a significant meeting with Werner Heisenberg to the hot coals of a fire walk
In the movie, Dr. Wolf states that in the world of Quatum physics nothing is real; it is more like an imaginary world with many possibilities out of which we pick our expectations and bring them into manifestation.
The models we use for atoms are only theoretical and quantum physics has all but shattered the old models.
