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Named after physicist Peter Higgs, who first proposed the theory in 1964, the Higgs boson was dubbed the “God particle” by the media following Leon Lederman's book on the topic in 1993. The “God particle” tag may be a bit much for some, but it points to the profound importance of the discovery—the Higgs boson is expected to provide us with a better understanding of how energy gives the appearance of form to all material objects.

THE COLLECTIVE SHIFT

We understand that change is a natural constant. We can observe the changes that take place at the microcosmic level—our weather changes, our community changes, our nation changes, and our
world changes, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. It's no different at the macrocosmic level—it's just that we can't directly observe it. The galaxy changes, our universe changes, the multiverse changes, and the cosmos changes. The big wheels of change are turning the little wheels. The changes we are currently experiencing are massive in that they are cosmically and universally driven, and they are awakening an expanding consciousness for infinite possibility.

The structure of all known physical laws has always demanded that the universe has only three space dimensions, which include the laws of gravity, radiation, and electromagnetism. Material reality, as we've always known it, has depended on mathematics and physics to advance a three-dimensional theory. The first dimension is defined by the straight line, the second dimension is characterized by the sphere, and the third is defined by the area within a cube.

Our imaginations were previously encoded with this orthodox cognitive downloading, so that most of us were not inclined to stretch our minds beyond the three-dimensional reality. Suddenly everything is changing, as the word
multidimensionalism
has become part of our lexicon. Our collective shift in dimensional reality was inspired by great visionaries.

Noted mathematicians Menaechmus and Apollonius of ancient Greece are believed to have been the first to introduce an analytical geometry that arrived at the coordinates within the infinite space dimension. In the mid-1600s, René Descartes proposed a multidimensional theory based on his understanding of visual-spatial perception. In the 1860s, Friedrich Miescher, Swiss chemist and discoverer of DNA, shocked the scientific community by positing that there were more than three dimensions. Many mathematicians have since proposed similar theories, but it wasn't until the mid-1970s that string theory fully expanded on the idea of multidimensionalism.

Particles appear to have no internal structure, but in the 1970s,
string theorists suggested that if we had the technology available for further examination, we'd see that the very particles that make up everything in the universe are not spatially dimensional, or “point like” at all. String advocates claimed that each particle contains a vibrating loop, or string. Strings do things that single points don't. More specifically, they vibrate. String theory posits that the entire universe is made up of vibrating strings that reflect a space reality with up to eleven dimensions. By the 1990s, string theory was extended to include higher-dimensional objects called membranes. This is referred to as M-theory, or membrane theory. M-theory suggests that vibrating strings can evolve into larger vibrating membranes, which can then evolve into entirely new universes. This evolving multiplicity of universes represents an infinite cosmos, with the potential for infinite dimensions.

Our physical universe may have been defined by three-dimensional space, but physics tells us that the larger portion of the universe of “dark matter” is multidimensional. Conventional science has no viable strategy for contending with the concept of multidimensional dark space. Dark space refers to the material region between galaxies. It makes up virtually the entire volume of the universe. It is as undefinable as the inner space within the human mind. There are no boundaries, nor are there any dimensional restrictions that exist in either of these regions. Dark space and inner space represent vastness that transcends 3-D reality.

The multiverse is an infinite domain of pure phenomena, but because we lack the intellectual capacity to observe such limitlessness through standard empirical means, our tendency has always been to assume that it doesn't exist. Quantum mechanics has changed all this by suggesting that any particular phenomenon that can be viewed by an observer is in fact validated by the observer's presence. In short, an observer affects the reality of that which is being observed. What's more, the observer needn't even be human.

In a study recently conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, researchers discovered, with the aid of a chemical electronic electron detector, that observer witnessing was all that was necessary to cause changes in the interference patterns of electron waves. In other words, the device had the same effect on the wave changes as a human observer. Observation by anything causes changes in wave patterns. Both mathematical probability and physics continue to take our collective perception of dimensional reality to new levels.

“Hilbert Space,” named after German mathematician David Hilbert in the first decade of the twentieth century, refers to extended methods of calculus and algebra from the three-dimensional space to an infinite number of dimensions. This mathematical approach revealed a theoretical framework with an infinite number of vectors in an abstract space with an infinite number of dimensions. Hilbert space bridges the logic of mathematical probability with the abstract of infinite possibility. A very different level of intellectual thought or consciousness is required to grasp the concept of a multidimensional universe.

American physicist David Bohm advanced a holographic theory of the universe he called the “implicate order,” which connects everything with everything else as an unbroken whole, in one undivided movement, with no boundaries. Bohm's theory, intuited from profound insights, begins with his assertion that particles are complete systems with complex internal structures containing detailed information that manifests in quantum wave form. In short, Bohm gave physics a soul. With his implicate order, elementary particles take on animation. These once “robotic” elements suddenly emerge with a “conscious” identity. Bohm identified a unique DNA, spirit, and heartbeat in every particle. Furthermore, he united them, freed them, and perhaps freed us from all restrictive boundaries and dimensions.

A PERSONAL SHIFT

My perception of life has been forever changed. The person I've transformed into over the past thirty years is so radically different, I feel like a Ruth Montgomery “walk-in.” I no longer perceive reality in the same way I once did. I was raised to believe that life revolves around living “stuff,” and that living “stuff” generates the action that produces energy. I believed the universe to be a domain of forms. There were stars that shone, rivers that flowed, and animals that walked and talked. Mine was a matter-centric reality. Humans represented beings of form that produced energy by thinking, walking, talking, and doing. I was raised to accept that matter preceded—and therefore produced—energy. This all changed as soon as I began to delve into classical Chinese medicine.

Almost immediately after initiating this work, I began to see life from a very different vantage point. Chinese medicine assumes an energy-centric reality and, not unlike Bohm's implicate order, it is based on a universal cosmology of origin, structure, and change. Through the prisms of both Bohm's implicate order and the Chinese medicine hologram, we see past and future, East and West integrated as one. This age-old culture has forever ascribed to the belief that energy represents the unseen source of all things. This ancient quantum wisdom resonated with my innermost instincts and continues to be my greatest source of personal and professional inspiration.

During the course of my early studies, a few basic messages were common threads woven through the fabric of every scintilla of information that I'd encountered. Energy is everywhere. Reality begins with energy. Energy isn't merely the effect, it's the cause. The universe is replete with exactly enough energy. No additional energy is needed, nor can any be added. In fact, if human beings desire more energy, they must learn to cultivate it. They must also
attain the wisdom that teaches them to preserve it, rather than waste it.

Now, wherever I turn, everything I hear, smell, touch, and taste I understand to be a manifestation of energy. My perceptions hold true for people as well—I understand that their thoughts, words, actions, and deeds are part of an interwoven mosaic, a panoply of life inextricably tied to a greater matrix of energy. I now also understand that in this universe of energy that gives the illusion of matter, there are unseen, unwritten laws of cause and effect—laws that, once mastered, maximize the balance of our life-force energy.

I was raised to understand life as an unintegrated series of random a priori experiences, events, and circumstances that manifest purely at a material level. Suddenly, I was beginning to see the multiverse from a perspective that views all of life as a holograph of implicate order—integrated, inductive, and energy-based. For the first time in my life I was peering through a lens that revealed all things as energy, flowing into one another, affecting one another, and changing the multiverse.

Let me try to explain this another way. I was guided by constructs that suggested that everything was compartmentalized and separate. I understood there to be four separate seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Then, all at once, I came to understand that the ice masses of winter were also the nurturing flow that would feed the early spring blossoms, and that the warmth of late spring was also the same energy that contributed to the germination of the high grasses of early summer, and so on.

The ancient Chinese perspective reveals an integral model of life where everything is part of a unified energetic holograph. Unlike in the materialistic West, theirs is a vitalistic position deeply rooted in the belief that energy is the true animating “stuff” of life. The two cultures are, quite simply, worlds apart. I found this to be especially true, and most disturbing, in the areas of medicine and healing.

Here in the West, medicine is largely a matter of diagnosing and prescribing. It's all about discovering the disease the patient's symptoms point to, and then finding a pharmaceutical protocol designed to offset those symptoms. In short, it's about treating the symptoms with drugs. The classical Chinese medicine model suggests that there is a causal root for everything, and in order to successfully treat the patient, you must trace the problem back to its root with the intention of eliminating the cause of the imbalance.

For example, the symptoms of pneumonia could be rooted in an overconsumption of phlegmatic foods, such as dairy. If so, dairy foods must be eliminated from the patient's diet in order to free up the blocked lung energy. Where classical Chinese medicine believes that all things are interconnected, they would also be inclined to evaluate the possibility of emotion influencing the root of a physical health problem. For example, the symptoms of pneumonia might also be rooted in an excess of an emotion, such as sadness. By encouraging the patient to express and release the energy of the excess sadness, the lung blockage might then be cleared.

Classical Chinese medicine ascribes to the belief that everything is a manifestation of a great life force called ch'i (energy), and that all forms of ch'i, including emotions and cells, are interconnected. Through 5,000 years of observing the ways of ch'i, the ancient Chinese painstakingly correlated and observed the interconnections of the subtle energy relationships between all things—this wisdom is the great source of inspiration for my personal shift in consciousness. It is what inspired the Whole Health Healing System, and all the healing work I have done to date, as well as all the work I will do in the future. It awakened me to the fact that we are all part of a far greater reality that remains hidden from view and inspired me to dedicate myself to deciphering the natural “ways of a great force,” to which we are all inextricably bound.

A GREAT FORCE

Our ancestors had no choice but to attain mastery over the nature that challenged them. From their earliest origins, they were forced to either adapt to unseen energies within and around them or perish. They must have been in awe of the great force that animated life.

All external energetic phenomena—thunder, lightning, rain, snow, fire, the movements of the sun, stars, and planets—stirred their sense of wonder and challenged their ability to cooperate with the laws of nature. The same held true for their relationship with internal energies such as hunger, emotion, intuition, love, and creativity. The demands from all forms of subtle, natural phenomena often tested and threatened their very will to survive. As they evolved, they attained greater wisdom about the ways of energy. This, more than anything, is what enabled them to master the art of survival. The mystical animating force hidden from view both captivated and compelled our ancestors from their earliest beginnings.