Becomin g God

A Book By FORD

Becoming God™
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 For my wife, Lisa.
Thank you for your encouragement and belief in me.
It is through you that I have discovered how to live the fullest life possible.

I’ll love you forever and a day…

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 Preface

T his is not a motivational book or a religious book, nor

is this a book about science. Those who have already
read this have picked it to be one or the other and
some have chosen it to be all three. I say to the reader, this book is
whatever you want it to be. The funny thing is, this spiritually
enlightening book ironically began as a book to debunk spirituality
through science (I think anyone can find the humor in this). I was
not the authority on this subject when I began, but I believe I am
now. Upon reading this book, you will notice that my perspective
and self-worth issues have changed for the better during the course
of my writing. With newfound confidence and invigoration, by the
time I had finished writing this book, I had discovered all of the
self-worth that I could ever need as a human being. I found this
undiscovered self-worth within myself and understood it to be
infinitely abundant and thus I am now able to give it away.
We have become a society so distracted by technological
advances and on demand entertainment that we have become
isolated and disconnected. We forgot to ask questions and talk
about meaningful things to raise our conscious level and our self-
awareness. My message, at its core, is to get people to start
talking again and recognize their infinite self-worth just as I did so
that they too can ask the next question. This book will continue to
evolve and we will constantly have new ideas about what people
should get out of reading it; this is something that I have struggled
with now for two years. I realize however, in order to change the
world, people have to begin reading it. There has to be a cut-off
point; and so this revised edition is it. I would like to thank
everyone who has helped me make this dream of changing the
world a possibility. Together we will find our way to manifest the
most fantastic dream ever dreamt, to live in a Utopian world.
Anything is possible if we continue to believe that it is.

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 My most sincere thanks to Abraham, Roger Banister, O.R.
Bontrager, Neils Bohr, Brahma, Buddha, Carlos Casteneda,
Deepak Chopra, Jesus Christ, Rene Descartes, David Deutsch,
Joseph Dispenza, Wayne Dyer, Albert Einstein, Hugh Everette,
John Gribbin, Amit Goswami, John Hagelin, Stephen Hawking,
Albert Hofmann, Carl Jung, Michio Kaku, Ray Kurzweil, John
Lennon, Lynne McTaggart, Moses, Muhammad, Isaac Newton,
Norman Peale, Karl Popper, Ramtha, Anthony Robbins, Carl
Sagan, Jeffrey Satinover, Erwin Schrödinger, Alexander Shulgrin,
Frank Tippler, Robert A. Wilson, Fred Alan Wolf and anyone else
who inspired me with your work and whom I unintentionally forgot
to thank.
Thank you for teaching and inspiring me to think outside of
the box. Thank you for encouraging me to ask the next question.
It is through the metaphors that you have unraveled, that “I” have
become self-aware.

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 Introduction:
Your Boundless Possibility

Chapter 1: My Search For Higher Consciousness

How I Learned To Let Go of My Atheist Roots

Chapter 2: The Many Worlds Theory

The Science Behind Divine Intervention

Chapter 3: Redefining Reality

How This New Understanding Will Change Your Life

Chapter 4: How and Why

The Scientific Interpretation

Chapter 5: Having Faith In Science

Understanding The Basis For The Theories and Further Speculation

Chapter 6: Religion
The Religious Interpretation

Chapter 7: Spiritually Tying It All Together

The Unification That Can Change The World

Chapter 8: Welcome To You

Discovering The Dreaming Self and Understanding Your Life’s Purpose

Chapter 9: Manifesting Your Reality

Practical Exercises To Show You That You Master Your Own Reality

Chapter 10: Manifesting Techniques

Meditation, Visualization, The Law of Attraction and Lucid Dreaming

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Defining The Dream, Defining God

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“We are pure imagination. Life is the expression
of the possibilities of our imagination that exceed
our comprehension.”

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Your Boundless Possibility

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I
am not a doctor or a scientist. I don't have a wall of
diplomas or a list of credentials to fill the back cover of
this book, nor am I a bible toting preacher or a friendly
Christian trying to save you from an eternity of damnation. The
purpose of this book is not to initiate a new cult or religion, but if
you want to send me money, I will gladly accept your donation.
I'm not a tree hugging "new age-ie" although I always thought that
some of those concepts had microscopic notions of merit and that
the music is nice to listen to on a rainy day. I am not a millionaire
dressed in an expensive suit walking over hot coals to teach you
how to exceed your monthly sales quota. I am also not a writer.
Yet, here I have written a book with absolutely no concept of how
to do so and you are holding the manifestation of my dream in your
hands.
How is this possible? What could possibly give me the idea
that I had the power and ability to sit down and write a book? I can
barely read more than a page at a time without my mind drifting off
into a nether world construed by my A.D.D. How could I possibly
think that I possessed the ability to coherently construct sentences
in a meaningful way or the audacity to think that someone else
would be interested in what I have to say? Furthermore, I have no
connections in the literary world. I am not a writer by trade, nor
am I a writer pouring my heart into a life's work hoping for the
chance to one day become published. I am none of these things. In
fact, I have not even begun writing the first chapter in this book
and yet, I see you with a paperback copy of it. You are a stranger
to me. You are holding my completed book in your hand and you
are reading it. You are absorbing what I have to say because I have
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demonstrated to you that my suggestions and methods to fulfilling

your dreams actually work. You are holding the proof in your
hand. I visualized, despite my shortcomings, the finality of this
project in my mind and now it has come to fruition. I visualize, as
I write these words, a picture of you. You are reading this very
passage. I visualize that I have now fulfilled my dream of teaching
you something that will forever change your life at every level of
existence, consciously and unconsciously. Some may argue that I
have manifested nothing extraordinary, that I set a goal and
completed the necessary tasks to obtain it. I say, a goal is a dream
and that the mind makes no distinction between the ordinary and
the extraordinary dreams.
This may sound like an ominous introduction to a rather
typical motivational book, but unlike those philosophies, here we
are going to closely examine the motivation and mechanism behind
those motivational thoughts and commands, diving deep into the
very motive and purpose of our existence.
It turns out, the true power of the mind just may be greater
than any of us ever imagined. It is certainly possible that we could
very well be at the threshold of the Age of Aquarius: a union of
science and spirituality and the next evolutionary jump of human
reasoning; an expansion of the mind that awakens us to the
realization that our thoughts not only have control over our
surroundings, but that our thoughts are our surroundings. This is a
concept that first washes over us with hardly a consideration. It is
an absurd idea, one that sounds more like fantasy than it does
reality. But, as you will learn in this book, there is absolutely no

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distinction between either realm. The true nature of reality is that it

is equally as fluid as the dream world as it is tangible as the real
world. To place more importance on either one would be to miss
the point entirely.
This new philosophy is in its infancy and it is based on a
science that is perhaps decades away from being completely
understood. The implications of these concepts shatter everything
we have come to understand about the nature of everything and
driven the smartest men in the world to near madness. The purpose
of this book is to shed some light on this very complicated science
and offer a philosophy to coincide with it. The philosophy itself is
fluid by design, and offered for the purpose of opening a layman's
dialog on what could very well be the single greatest discovery of
the human species. A discovery that redefines everything we know
about everything and affects each of us individually at every level
of our existence. The intention of this book is to start a
conversation about these ideas; for it is within this conversation
that we become self-aware.
Although I had a general idea, I wasn't sure exactly how I
was going to write this book or how I was going to convey the
message that I was intending to deliver. The message is a powerful
one but the concept can only be truly comprehended after intensely
studying the nature of its mechanics. Only then can you harness
the mind-blowing possibilities that come with this powerful notion.
The concept and philosophy of this book is simple to get across but
getting a reader to a state of mind where they will be open to these
extreme ideas is slightly more complicated. Reaching this state of
sincere open mindedness requires a complex understanding of a
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science that is in almost every way counter-intuitive. I only knew

that I wanted to write the book that I had been searching for
myself, a book that contemplates a radical new philosophy without
meaningless metaphysical rhetoric and complicated mathematics.
With that being said, it is important that you do not skip around this
book. However tedious, it is the details of each idea presented in
this book that will eventually lay the groundwork for your new
understanding of everything. This book will at times contradict
itself, however these contradictions are necessary for explaining a
physics that has no rational. My only requirement is that you are
committed to this book. It is only within the last chapter that you
will truly find your empowerment and life’s purpose. However,
the only way to understand and appreciate this new found
enlightenment is by fully understanding every chapter leading up to
it.
So what is this book about exactly? This book is about
examining the most important questions you have ever had in your
life. Everyone yearns to understand the meaning of life. Everyone
is deeply perplexed about who or what God is, where we came
from, and where we are going when we die. These are important
questions and we shouldn’t feel bad for asking them nor exploring
different ideas about them. On the contrary, we should only feel
bad for not exploring them. I cannot think of a more profound
question than what could possibly be the meaning and purpose of
our existence? Religion teaches us that everything just “is” and
science longs to discover “why”. At the end of this book you will
have a clearer understanding that both camps are right. You will
understand why it just is. Beyond this, asking these questions and
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exploring the answers will enable you to gain a completely

different view of your life. For the first time, you will have control
over your destiny in a far more profound way than you ever
thought possible. This book will present to you a scientific
analysis of the mechanics of the meaning of life. By understanding
the mechanics of how something works we can maintain it, fix it
and fine-tune it for the highest performance possible. What I mean
by the mechanics of the meaning of life is having a clear
understanding of our purpose and the mechanism guiding us
towards it. As I will show you in this book, your being or
existence is no accident and you do serve a purpose within the
universe. You contribute through thought and action to an ever-
growing mind, the mind of the universe itself.
More than this, this book is about giving you what you have
been missing in your life. This book is going to take you on a
mind-numbing journey closely examining and further developing a
philosophy from today's most cutting edge science and technology.
By bringing together the resent discoveries in quantum physics,
cosmology, neurobiology and computation with ancient
philosophies, spirituality and religion, this book is going to bring
you the sense of wonder, awe and direction that you have been
searching for. You will learn a new appreciation for life and the
meaning of it all. Never before has there been a more thought
provoking idea than what these resent discoveries have asked us to
consider.
The recent discoveries in quantum physics are among the
greatest realizations in human history. Despite the magnitude of
this, there are no parades, no continuous news coverage of the
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unfolding events, nor White House interruptions. There is no

excitement whatsoever because the implications of these
discoveries are so mind blowing few can fully comprehend it and
even fewer are willing to accept it. These discoveries arguably
tower over the significance of the endeavors of Columbus, Pasture,
Einstein, or any other historical giant or unforgettable moments in
history. They are discoveries that shatter every concept we have
of the reality in which we live and affect us all more profoundly
than anything else we have ever encountered.
This is not a religion nor is it science fiction, it is a radical
concept and it is a way of life. It is a new way of looking at
things. What I am going to open your mind to is not something for
you to cherish or worship, it is something for you to think about,
understand scientifically, and develop for yourself. I am going to
teach you how to tap into an infinite source of knowledge and
power equal to God. The connection is already there and you are
already using it. This book is going to make you consciously
aware of it and show you how to use it to its fullest potential.
Imagine that you are a computer and your Ethernet port is
connected to an infinitely powerful Internet. This Internet is
special, its knowledge and possibilities are limitless. Guidance and
information to anything you can imagine, no matter how specific,
are at your virtual fingertips. Through this Internet you will be
able to easily locate and access the drivers or "drive" to any mental
or physical program or skill set you wish to run or accomplish.
You will be able to easily locate and access protection against and
remedies to any virus that ails you physically. By just running the
program you will heal yourself. Again, there are no limits here. If
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it is your wish to defy gravity and fly like superman, simply locate
the program, run it and it will happen.
Right now you're probably thinking this is all just a bunch of
meta-physical new age bull and wondering when I'm going to ask
you to light a money candle or enter your credit card number on
this magical super-duper information highway. You're thinking,
what kind of an asshole promises the sky? Believe me, I have been
in your shoes. I have shared those thoughts. When I was first
introduced to these concepts I passed it off as rubbish too. These
are not my teachings or ideas. These are ancient ideas. They are
ideas that have been around for a long, long time but somehow got
lost in all of the hype that came with it. Somewhere along the way
the idea itself was left behind and only the hype continued on to be
worshiped and praised.
The idea that I am talking about encompasses the Law of
Attraction, the Power of Suggestion and the Power of Belief. The
idea is about asking your subconscious mind to tap into a source of
knowledge and power and simply instructing it to download and
run your desired programs. The programs are already there you
just need to learn how to search for them and use them.
There are hundreds of self-help books and other media
available teaching these techniques because the techniques work.
However, getting the techniques to work relies on a single principle
and that is you must believe that they work. These teachings are
much like a placebo, where in they are only effective if you truly
believe without a shred of doubt that they are working. Any doubt
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communication process between your conscious and subconscious

mind. The other self help books also agree with this, but they still
fail to sufficiently address our doubts perpetuating, at least for
many of us, a technique that does not work.
There are many people who are comfortable accepting new
ideas on blind faith just as there are many people who need
emphatical evidence before accepting anything. Whichever kind
of person you are, this book is going to improve your ability to
successfully implement the power of suggestion and belief because
this book is going to explain to you the mechanics of how this
process works. This is something nobody else has been able to do
before now. By understanding the mechanics of the process, any
lingering doubt that you may have will recede. The
communication process between your conscious and subconscious
mind will become unblocked and the true power of your mind will
become apparent to you.
Understanding the mechanics of the process however, is
irrational and nearly impossible to comprehend without first giving
up every preconceived notion you have about yourself and the
nature of reality. Although this practice has been around for
centuries, until recently nobody has had an explanation for why the
process works; which is why many people have passed this notion
off as magic or coincidence, or anything but scientific. With our
new understanding of reality however, a new philosophy of the
world is being developed. A philosophy that is radically different
from our present understanding of everything. However
impossible this philosophy appears to be, it answers nearly all of
our scientific questions as well as the deepest questions harbored
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inside each one of us and it enlightens us to the awesome power

that each of us has over our own lives. As radical as this
philosophy is, it is majestic, beautiful and it could very well be the
answer to creating a Utopian world.
Now that I have presented the limitless possibilities to you,
I am going to take you away from all of it because the only way to
get there is to come to these conclusions on your own. Taking my
word for it does not work. It is your belief that is the key to its
success. As I said before, I am a skeptic and you should be too!
You should doubt anyone who comes to you with ideas as
preposterous as these. Denying these notions, examining the
evidence, exploring theories and making your own conclusions are
how you satisfy your core belief system. Do not under any
circumstances just accept these ideas on blind faith alone. Blind
faith is the reason the teachings have failed us thus far. You need
to not believe in any other possibility. No matter how much you
say you believe in the power of suggestion or the power of "God",
if it isn't working for you it is because you have doubts.

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he will end
in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with
doubts he will end in certainties.”

~Francis Bacon

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 Chapter 1:
My Search For Higher
Consciousness

How I Learned To Let Go of My Atheist Roots

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T
hroughout this book I am going to make some very
outlandish and possibly blasphemous remarks. If
you can get through it without feeling like I am
damned for writing it and you are damned for reading it, then you
are ready and your mind is opening. This is the first step in the
right direction. As blasphemous as much of it may be, in many
ways we will come full circle. However, the only way to complete
this circle is to open your mind to any possibility and clear it of any
preconceptions.
Religion has brainwashed us, not necessarily in a bad or
"sinister" way but certainly in a counter productive way. I promise
you that when you finish this book and apply the philosophy you
will feel as I did, robbed of so many years of your life. You will
think about what you may have been able to accomplish if you had
only been taught this at an earlier age. If you grew up in a religious
home, more than likely you were taught these ideologies.
However, you were asked to accept the teachings on blind faith,
which as you will learn in this book, is one of the fundamental
flaws in religion. From the first time you heard that Jonah rode
inside of a whale's mouth or that Moses parted the Red Sea and
countless other stories of the bible, no matter how devoted you
were to the religion there was a seed of doubt planted in your mind
at a subconscious level. You never even noticed it was there, a
dark lurking shadow over the religion. Stories that were just
counter intuitive. Your brain, despite your agreement to accept
things on blind faith, just could not accept these things as real. The
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seed of doubt subtly grew to work against everything else you were
being taught.
In this chapter, I am going to tell you about how I was
introduced to these ideas and tell you how my embracing these
concepts forever changed my life just as learning these
philosophies will forever change your life. My purpose for this
chapter, other than for a little self-indulgence, is to demonstrate to
you that if a cynical Atheist like me can open my closed mind to
these radical concepts than so can you.
I am a skeptic. I always have been. I am or was a self
proclaimed Agnostic. You could really call me an Atheist but that
is such a dirty word. If you really want to loose your friends in a
hurry just say that you're an Atheist and watch them run. I know
people with 666 tattooed to their foreheads that had more friends.
The difference is a Satan worshiper believes in something. Belief
is all you need in this world and beliefs can be persuaded. An
Atheist needs proof. They need to see it in black & white without a
hint of gray. People with blind faith have a hard time dealing with
someone who is unable to take that leap. They see it as a mental
illness. It's scary to them, far scarier than the devil himself because
they cannot relate, they cannot argue and there is no hope of
persuading you into accepting their beliefs.
The trouble with being an Atheist is that it gets boring.
Atheists are waiting for the data to come in and explain it all. The
problem is the proof is never going to come. The evidence for the
meaning of life can be thoroughly examined and traced back in
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after the Big Bang and that's where everything breaks down. There
are no calculations, sophisticated mathematics or physics to be
studied that can give us any hint of where all of this, our universe
comes from. What kind of a way is that to live? Accepting the fact
that there isn’t going to be any answers to anything until we die?
There still isn't any indication that someone or something jumps
out and hands us "The Answers to Everything" book then either.
What fun is that?
I have since found religion to be so on point with the true
meaning of life, and I think that it can truly make ones life better.
However, there are severe problems with religion (and I'm talking
about nearly all of them). One of the problems is that there seems
to be too much emphasis on the worshiping of the messengers and
not enough emphasis on the message itself. In two thousand years
there has been virtually no development of these ideologies, but
instead intense scrutiny over the life and death of the messengers.
For example, I recently saw Mel Gibson’s "Passion of the Christ",
a 3 hour film about a guy getting tortured to death. There is almost
no dialog in this film. The historical figure that the movie is about
had so many insightful and incredible ideas and none of them
appeared in this film. The vary symbol for Christianity itself is the
crucifix, the device used to torture Jesus to death. Religion seems
to be missing the point.
Still another problem with religion is they all get hung up on
details. They hold sacred and take literally things that are just not
so. In the words of Dr. Carl Sagan, "Evolution is not a theory, it is
a fact. It really happened." The Earth is not 6,000 years old, not in
today's numerical system or in any ancient calendars or math
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either. The church wants to know why attendance is declining and

this is a big part of the answer. There are too many of us,
especially the younger generations, who have grown up with so
much contradictory information readily available to us. Let’s face
it, dinosaur bones are not fossils put here by God to test our faith.
Which is the Vatican's official position. No, they are the fossils of
bones of creatures that lived and breathed and dominated the earth
for a million times longer than man has even contemplated it.
What is the harm in accepting this? Why can't the church just
admit that there were some things, incorrect facts and
embellishments, added to the bible to give it some flare, so that it
would appeal to the masses? After all, it is the greatest story ever
told; does it all have to be true?
The insightfulness and teachings of Jesus Christ as with the
messengers of other religions are awe inspiring and I never learned
about any of it in Catholic school. Why? Because I was too hung
up on the ridiculous customs, rules, guilt and fictional stuff they
were teaching. How could I pay any attention to the teachings of
this Jesus fellow when I couldn't get past all of the other
misinformation being passed off as fact? The Catholics were
teaching me facts that contradicted what I was learning outside of
the Church and the real truth provided me with evidence not blind
faith. The truly sad part is I had to become an adult Atheist to learn
about the teachings of Jesus Christ, Buddha, Moses, Abraham,
Muhammad, and countless other incredibly wise people. These
people made a lasting impact on the world because they had an
idea that strongly affected the people they preached to; and despite
the fact that religions have since built walls of misinformation
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around each of these wise souls along with their ideas to separate
them from one another, is they all shared a similar notion. What
was so fantastic about their ideas, that got people to embrace them
as Gods, were their fundamental ideas, when applied and practiced,
brought results. The application of positive thinking and the
power of belief is the most brilliant discovery of all time.
I was introduced to these philosophies at an early age, like
many of you, through religion. I was raised Catholic. My mother
was devoutly religious and my father, though he believed in God
and the teachings of the Bible, was not a church going man. I grew
up in a fascinating time in our history. Man had just walked on the
moon; we had just landed two spacecrafts on nearby planets and
sent another spacecraft out of the solar system carrying with it a
message in the event the spacecraft was picked up by beings from
another world. This was tough competition for the church. In my
room I had astronaut wallpaper, stacks of books about space and a
model of the solar system. I would attend catechism with my space
books and I drew pictures of alien landscapes when I should have
been listening. When I asked about aliens and if Jesus had visited
them, I was scornfully quieted down. There was simply no room in
the bible or church for that matter for alien beings and the wonders
of the universe. From then on church became a chore to me, like
going to school. Something you just had to do. My faith had
become less than whole hearted.
After a brief stint of disenchantment with my faith, I was
introduced to these philosophies again in my teens. I was an
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most teens I was consumed with depression and video games.

When I was fifteen, my parents got me some tapes by the personal
power guru, Tony Robbins. Mr. Robbins had a bunch of really
exciting ideas that he was evidently really fired up about!
Anything is possible, he said if you put your mind to it! Blah, blah,
blah. My seed of doubt had grown so big it consumed the entire
open area of my brain. All of the years of empty promises by
religion, my parents, schoolteachers, product advertisements and so
on had taken a toll on the wisdom that lay inside my mind. This
guy was as full of crap as everyone else, I thought. Without even
considering his message he was dismissed in my mind. This man
was talking about core beliefs and the powers of suggestion but he
failed, at least with me, in satisfying and changing my core beliefs.
His sales pitch did not work because he did not first break through
my cynicism to eliminate my ever-growing seed of doubt. Not
only did my cynicism keep me from having an open mind it
blocked me from even hearing the message. In my mind, this guy
had a good scam going. He was good at it. His enthusiasm was
nothing short of spectacular. He was an amazing speaker and
salesman. But that is what he remained to me, a salesman.
I look back and think if only I had appreciated what he was
so enthusiastic about then how different my life would be today.
But, he did not sell me. My cynicism was like a scar, and the more
people I met who bought into his words just made me more
confident in my beliefs. Most of the people I met were so quick to
rattle off his sayings but few if any applied them. The hypocrisy
reminded me of the church. Today, I hold a very different opinion
of him.
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This is what we need to get passed with you in this book.

Right now, your cynicism is telling you that there is no way I can
fulfill the claims that I have made. To you, I am just someone who
wrote a book to get published to make money. Maybe my
sentiments are sincere and my intentions are good you think, but
there is just no way its going to have any significance on your life.
I am telling you it can and it will have a mind blowing significant
impact on your life once we remove that seed of doubt that is
compromising the true power of your mind. The power that lies
inside your mind can move mountains, literally. Believe me, I
know how ridiculous this sounds to you. I have been where you
are. Every conceivable possibility is obtainable to you. All you
have to do is believe that is.
After my abandonment of the church and my rejection of
Tony Robbins, I was left meandering about without a clue as to
what I was supposed to be doing with my life. I was a mental rebel
in my youth, nothing to brag about, but I found just about anything
with a hint of authority disconcerting. I was an intellect, although
my grades never reflected that, and I tended to question
everything. I found conspiracy and cynicism everywhere I looked,
and I reveled in the fact that I knew and understood it all so clearly
and just couldn't grasp how everyone else could be so naive.
I went on for years that way. God forbid if my mother ever
learned my true feelings. She knew I wasn't very committed to my
faith, but had no idea how strongly opposed I was to it. About this
time I met a friend who introduced me to Judaism. There were
some interesting concepts here. It wasn't much different than
Catholicism at the core; well, except for the Jesus part. I was
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pleased that there was no Hell in Judaism. I always thought that a

vindictive God would be counter productive and figured that if
there was an all knowing God out there he would be smarter than
that. After all, he made us the way we were didn't he? In addition
to this, being “all knowing” meant that he could see the future, see
what would become of us before it happened. If we were to throw
our lives away doing bad things, to the point that he needed to
punish us eternally for it, why wouldn't he just not create us to
begin with and save the energy? Yes I know, I over think a lot of
things but I am fun at parties.
Judaism was an interesting concept but I found many of the
same fundamental flaws in it as I did with Catholicism. They too
were stuck on details, obsessed with the stories and the fabricated
histories. There was no room in that religion either for the wonders
of space. From then on I didn't give religion or divinity much
thought. I was an Atheist. Of course, I would never admit that to
anyone, but in the right social crowd it was cool to say I was
Agnostic. For me, the jury was still out. I would have to admit
there was always a very small section in my mind holding out for
God, just in case... When times got bad I made short little prayers
to my self and when things went exceptionally right I would thank
God. Old habits die hard I guess. I wasn't a very devoted Atheist
in practice either.
Before I continue on with my story of how I re-discovered
the powers of the universe and how I eliminated my seeds of doubt,
I wanted to qualify this section of the book. I want to ease any
animosity you might be feeling as you read. Some of you might be
at a place in your life not too different from what I just described.
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If you are, then I know you really don't want to hear about all of
this religious garbage. I promise you this book is not about
religion. This is not a trick, where I am going to ask you to
become a born again Christian or anything of the sort. I am telling
you this part because I need to convince you that I understand how
you are feeling and that I can relate. Atheists are always searching.
In further chapters I will be going into great detail with
regards to the mechanics of how the process works. Things will
get extremely scientific. We will examine everything from
neurobiology to physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, quantum
cosmology, psychology, philosophy and (less scientifically) meta-
physics. All of this will be to eliminate your seeds of doubt. But
before we get to those sections, you need to come to them with an
open mind just as I did. We need to eliminate or at least reduce
your cynicism towards the ideas that lie outside of your box. You
need to be at a point in your life where you are willing to accept
new ideas by considering the theory and weighing it against the
evidence.
This goes the same for anyone reading this that is still
holding on to their religious beliefs. Whether or not you agree with
my youthful opinions with regards to religion, you cannot argue
that you have accepted your beliefs on blind faith and blind faith
alone. The bible, in all of its variations, as with all other religious
doctrine are in the end, just stories written down by mortal men;
Men with a brain no different from yours writing about the
unknowable. There is absolutely no credible evidence to back up
anything at the core of any religion.

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At the end of this book, those of you who are holding on to

your religious beliefs will get to keep them; At least the core
ideology. But first you must abandon those beliefs entirely and
approach this with an open mind. Don't just say that you are
abandoning it you have to do it. I promise the devil isn't going to
get you! You have to accept the fact that your beliefs currently rest
on the shoulders of blind faith and further accept that as wonderful
and comforting as your religion might be to you, you will always
have that seed of doubt at the core of your subconscious. In other
words, you think you believe in your religion, but the truth is you
cannot believe in any religion and at the same time be a rational
thinking being. Soon you will look at your beliefs in a whole new
way. For the first time in your life you will understand the core of
your religion and you will accept it and embrace it without your
doubts interfering. All of the hype surrounding the religions that
were put in place to attract more followers will be gone. The core
of all religion is eloquent, it is beautiful and it is simple. The fact
is, most religions can be chiseled down to a few short ideas: You
have the power to make whatever you wish of your life. You have
the power to do anything that you desire and there are no
limitations to that power. You are directly connected to an
infinitely powerful, all knowing "God" because you and it are one.
I was never a popular person growing up. I wasn't a jock or
cool, but I wasn't a nerd either. I was just a ghost. Not having a lot
of friends left me alone to entertain myself. I was fascinated with
computers, but not enough to be a considered a computer geek.
Who knows what would have happened if I had gotten a computer
of my own, but that wouldn't be until late into college. Computers
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were rare in those days maybe one or two kids on the block had
one. At the time they seemed to function only slightly more than
as glorified typewriters. They played games too, but Atari was
much better for that.
Instead I had a different hobby. I was a drummer. I got a
drum kit when I was really young and I loved to pound out beats
along with my Dad who would play rocked out guitar riffs on the
electric guitar. My interest in music merged with my interest in
computers, which led me eventually to the synthesizer, an
electronic keyboard capable of making all kinds of unique and
interesting sounds.
I fantasized about one day being a rock star. Duran Duran
was big at the time and the idea of being someone like a Nick
Rhodes was the ultimate fantasy. Everyone has fantasies of fame
and fortune at one time or another in their lives but for me it was
different. I don't think I ever really believed that it would happen,
however, there was definitely a connection there that haunted me.
The thoughts and fantasy of making records and being on the radio
consumed me. I didn't become obsessed with it because I was
brought up in a very conservative family. Not that dreams were
squashed in my family, but dreams like those were just dreams.
Rationally, I needed to make plans to go to college and then on to a
respectable career.
So, I focused on my duty; school, barely I might add, but I
pushed through it because I knew in my family there wasn't going
to be much of a choice. I continued on with my music as well. As
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decided to pursue a career as an airline pilot. Being around all of

those knobs and switches just seemed natural. It just "felt right".
Everyone has experienced this feeling in their lives but have
they ever stopped to really think about where that feeling comes
from? We’ve all experienced at one time or another that strange
feeling of familiarity and comfort like we belong there or, have
even been there before. Most of the time we dismiss the feeling
without reading much into it. We chalk it up to "déjà vu ", or call it
"gut instinct" or "women's intuition". It is only when the feelings
won't let go of us that we follow those feelings to see where they
leads us. Why? Why do we wait so long? Why isn't it an
acceptable part of our culture to go with all of those feelings and
see where they lead us? The feelings are there for a reason.
Whether or not the feeling is there because it is part of some deep
seeded psychological issue or there because your subconscious has
tapped into a source of knowledge and is now guiding you, the
feelings are there and they should be explored. Why is this
frowned upon in our society? Why is this considered a waste of
time? Why is there such little importance placed on following your
heart, following your gut instincts and curiosities?
Think about how different your life would be if you followed
your gut instincts regardless of consequence. Maybe you would
have been more successful or perhaps not. But either way you
would be on a completely different path. Now put that into
perspective with the meaning of life. If you do have a purpose, do
you think that you are now on the road that you were supposed to
be on? These feelings come from your subconscious mind, which
is connected to and a part of an infinitely powerful and all knowing
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entity, our source. Your subconscious knows where it is leading

you. Although it may sometimes look wrong to you, your
subconscious is guiding you ultimately to the correct road. Like a
chess game of life, your subconscious is plotting out moves
millions of steps in advance and recommending those moves to
you. All you have to do is listen to the advice being whispered to
your conscious self. To your subconscious, the game has already
been played in its entirety and it is simply retracing the steps. The
moves necessary for the perfect win are already there. They have
already been played.
Flight school was intense and difficult for me. It required a
lot of studying and a lot of hard work. The difference was in
school if you did poorly you just got a bad grade. In flight school
if you did not study you could hurt or even kill yourself. It was
stressful for me. I had hardly studied a day in my life for anything
until now and this was taking a toll on me. To compound the issue,
I was living in a new city and I had no friends. To relieve the
stress and loneliness I had answered an ad in the paper from a band
seeking a keyboard player. I don't know why I did it. I certainly
did not have time for it. If there was ever a time in my life where I
did not need hobbies or friends to distract me than this was it.
However, something drew me to the ad; something pushed me to
make the call. I can't say that I had given in to my subconscious
thoughts cognitively. I didn't give much thought to it at all; I just
did it. Years later I would look back at that moment, wondering
where I would be today had I not answered the ad. Would I have
answered another ad? Would I have focused on school? It was a
pivotal point in my life, one of many. We all encounter points like
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these numerous times throughout our lives. Think for a second

about similar moments in your life. Go back and imagine yourself
taking a different path. Where do you think you would be?
I joined the band and it really made me happy. It was also a
great stress reliever. We practiced a few times together and things
just clicked. I also liked the people I was around. They were older
than me by a number of years. They introduced me to a new
crowd, an "artsy" crowd. There were countless nights at coffee
houses where groups of them went on endlessly in meta-physical
talk and new age practices. I thought these people were just as
whacked as the devout Christians but at least they followed their
own ideology, which I thought was very courageous and
interesting. It was nice to be a part of a crowd that certainly didn't
frown upon anyone's beliefs. It was perfectly okay in this circle to
be Agnostic. Atheism would still be pushing it.
For the first time in my life I began to think about my
beliefs. I didn't have any. To me there was absolutely no room for
God. Everything, I thought could be explained by the forces of
nature and with sciences we just didn't understand yet. I imagined
that one day we would make contact with an alien civilization and
they would have to gently let everyone down who were still
holding on to their religious beliefs. "This is how it all works,”
they would tell us. For me, there was no magic in the universe;
there was hardly a mystery. Being an Atheist got lonely
sometimes. If I found myself in crisis, surely out of habit, I would
pray in search of an answer only to think to myself how ridiculous
the idea was, and hence break down any hope that the prayer may
have brought me. Why would God answer someone who
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didn't believe?
Months went by and some of the New Age stuff was
beginning rub off on me. I found myself thinking about my
decisions and considering how my decisions affected the balance
and harmony around me. Could all of this be on purpose I
thought? Could it be possible that there was somehow a grand plan
that was focusing the direction of my life? The idea was counter-
intuitive and just flat out goofy, but somehow it was comforting.
For the first time in my life I was a true Agnostic. I still didn't
believe in anything, but I was open to suggestion.
Around this time I was introduced to Buddhism. I made it
clear that I was against any kind of organized religion but I was
open to hearing about the core of the belief. The core of
Buddhism, I found, is pretty straightforward but extremely
profound. It can be summed up in two simple phrases. "Do good"
and "Be good". Buddhism was about listening to yourself and
following your heart. It was about being good to your self and
being good to others (an oxymoron my cynicism was telling me).
The idea had nice qualities though. Even if I didn't whole-
heartedly believe in them, I felt that following this path was a good
thing. I wanted to be good. Maybe if I were good, good things
would happen to me. It was certainly more interesting and fun than
being an Atheist; but those silly robes were just not an option.
After a few months, my band was ready to record our first
demo. I had never recorded a demo before. The other guys had
been down this road countless times. They suggested that we all
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up enough money to go into a professional recording studio to

record the demo.
The day came to record and something strange happened. I
experienced an uncanny feeling of déjà vu the moment I walked
into the control room of the recording studio. It was like the
cockpit of an airplane, there were gadgets and switches everywhere
I looked. The dim lighting, cedar wood walls and general
atmosphere were comfortable to me. It felt like I was coming
home after being away at college for a very long time. It was like
re-entering the womb. Everything just felt comfortably right. I
knew, without a shadow of doubt that I was supposed to be there.
The feeling consumed me the entire time I was there.
After a few days our session was complete and we had our
demo. I couldn't believe it! We had our own tape. I could listen to
music by my favorite artist and then listen to the music of my own.
It was remarkable. A few months went by, and I couldn't seem to
ease the nagging sensation and need to be in that recording studio.
Eventually, I went back and offered to help out for free. I asked if
I could get an unsanctioned internship with them. Somehow I
didn't think that my school advisors were going to grant me a real
internship at a recording studio based on the fact that both airplanes
and recording studios had a lot of buttons and switches. It didn't
matter. Being a studio slave would be just fine for a while.
That summer I went home for a couple of weeks. I drove
my car back to Atlanta for about 15 hours all the time listening to
my three-song demo tape. When I got home I played it for my
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back home that I also played it for. One of my friends had an older
brother who was almost famous. He was a guitar player and
singer/songwriter who was famous around town. He had gotten a
record deal a few years before and was even on MTV a few times.
He was a one hit wonder, but around town he was still very well
known. As I was playing my tape for my friend his brother walked
in the room. He told me he was very impressed with the sound.
He thought that it really had potential. This struck an incredible
chord with me. This guy was so admired for his musical ability
and he was telling me that I had the goods. I got goose bumps and
couldn't believe what I was hearing. Everyone thinks that their
stuff is great, whether it's your art, athletic ability, work or music or
whatever. If you are lucky enough to have a good family and good
friends then they are going to tell you that you are great too. I
hardly knew this guy! What I did know however was that he
wasn't the type to give out praise very freely. I had met him
countless times before and I could probably count the number of
words he said to me on one hand in all of those encounters. His
praise that day gave me a kind of courage and confidence that I had
never felt before.
As I drove home, all I could think about was how everything
was clicking for me. I thought about the feelings that were nagging
at me. I thought about my new exploration in alternative thinking
and philosophy. And I also thought about where my life was
going. I was nearly two thirds of the way through college, flight
school and training and on my way to becoming an airline pilot,
but I just couldn't visualize myself doing that. This felt right. This
music just felt right. My gut was telling me to follow my dreams.
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It was calling to me and I had been ignoring the signs.

Running off to be a musician was no different from running
off to join the circus in my family. It was the same thing, a
preposterous idea. How could I throw away my life on a pipe
dream? Everything about this notion flew in the face of
rationality. I was going to ruin my life, but at least the feelings and
voice inside my head would be appeased. I was young and
foolish. I made a decision that day that would surely ruin my life
forever. I will never forget the moment I made the decision to
follow my instinct and ignore rationality. I chose to believe in
what my subconscious (my heart at the time) was telling me to do
and I believed it all the way down to my core. This is what I was
supposed to be doing with my life, not driving an airbus! This was
the road I was supposed to take. I had never believed in something
so strongly in all of my life. I needed it like I needed to take my
next breath of air. When I got back, I withdrew from flight school
and enrolled in a different program. This meant I had to start over
completely. All the while there was never a doubt in my mind.
Today, I am considered by many to be one of the hottest
dance/pop music producers in the world. I have had more than 30
Billboard Hit records as a producer, writer and artist, and achieved
17 Gold and Platinum record credits to date. I have toured the
world playing to crowds of a quarter million people and more. I
sign autographs, take pictures with strangers, and have fulfilled just
about every adolescent fantasy that can be dreamt. I live in a
ridiculous house with every toy imaginable, and I have more
friends than I count. I have a beautiful loving, intelligent wife
who could easily grace the cover of any pin-up magazine.
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My music brings me praise and adoration from fans from all over
the world and allows me to touch people’s hearts beyond anything
I ever imagined. I have worked with the biggest names in the
music business such as Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel,
Mandy Moore, P. Diddy, Ludacris, Mick Jaggar, Rob Thomas and
countless others. I also got the chance to produce a mix for my
long time idols, Duran Duran. I didn't have any comprehension of
the power I evoked that day. I wouldn't understand it for many
years. I do now. For years I went on knowing that something
happened that day, but even still I refused to accept that it was
anything more than coincidence. Success did not come quickly. I
would hit unfathomable lows, at least relative to what I was used
to. I remained Agnostic for many years, never really buying into
anything, but hoping for something to come into my life that would
satisfy both my need for rationality and my need to be a part of
something that was grand.
I ended up going back to my Atheist roots, drawing on my
love for cosmology as my new religion. The were many times I
will admit that I thought about the likelihood that I could have been
successful in the music business. The odds were certainly stacked
heavily against me and my rational mind had a difficult time with
that. There were times when I questioned a higher power
wondering if there were rhyme, reason or purpose to anything in
my life. Those suspicions would soon hit me square in the face.
Soon I would be introduced to a science that would give me mind-
blowing rationality along with a place for the divinity that I had
longed for. "God" would be defined in an entirely new way for
me. It was a mystery being studied by the most brilliant scientists
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in the world. Einstein himself found the idea to be completely

perplexing. It would consume even his masterful intelligence for
the last decade of his life.
About seven years ago my aunt remarried a scientist. My
new uncle Calvin had been a scientist for the prestigious Bell
Laboratories for many years. He later invented something so
complicated that I still to this day have no idea what it was.
Whatever it was, it made him a fortune. One day we were sitting
and talking about science. He fascinated me. He was a very quiet
man, but when he spoke it was usually something extremely
profound. I had hoped to impress him with my vast knowledge of
the cosmos and its mechanics. He smiled and listened patiently.
He asked me a few questions to show his interest. After talking
for a bit, he paused and said that it was all really fascinating stuff,
but too bad none of it was real; and he walked away. I got up to
follow him confused. He had a very smug grin on his face as if he
new something I didn't. I was mesmerized. I begged him to
explain what he had meant by the remark. He said that I needed to
discover it for myself, that the ideas were too mind blowing to
contemplate and too difficult to understand in a short conversation.
He told me that if I really wanted the answers that I was obviously
searching for, then I needed to start with this book. He handed me
a copy of a book called "The Search for Schrödinger's Cat." He
said that I seemed bright and willing and if I really wanted to
understand the truth I needed to start there.
I was never able to have another discussion with him about
it. Shortly after, he and my aunt were killed when their private
plane went down in a thunderstorm in Orlando, Florida.
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What I was about to learn would change my life forever. The

implications of the science that I held in my hand were beyond
anyone's comprehension. I would be introduced to an idea so
incredible, so magnificent it would be impossible to compare it to
anything I had ever encountered in my life. There was no mystery,
religion, ideology or philosophy that I knew of that could possibly
be so awe-inspiring.

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“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is
shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and
proudly through long youth, until at last, in the
ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely
exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”

~George Santayana

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The Many World s Theory

The Science Behind Divine Intervention

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T
he Search for Schrödinger's Cat was a glimpse into
the study of quantum physics. The ideas put forth in
this book were nothing short of absurd. Their have
since been attempts to rationalize the philosophies that reflect the
science, but the suggestions do nothing but make your head hurt.
The most disturbing part of quantum physics is the evidence
supporting it. Every experiment conducted to disprove the theory
has been unsuccessful. Every experiment conducted to verify
predictions of quantum mechanics has proved to be correct. Every
one. Few theories in history have survived the scrutiny that this
science has undergone and survived.
First, let me explain something to you about theory. There is
a huge misconception about what "Facts" are verses what
"Theories" are in our society. Everything we know about
everything is a "Theory". Nothing is ever matter of "Fact". The
idea that the Earth has mass and that mass exerts an energy field
called gravity and that it is gravity that keeps our bodies
Earthbound is just a theory. Now, there is a ton of evidence to
support this notion, but there is also the possibility that magic dust
sprinkled around by fairies is the reason that everything falls to the
ground. We will never know the truth, but we can be pretty sure
that Sir Isaac Newton got it right when the apple fell on his head
and he figured that gravity had something to do with it.
We constantly hear the debate over the theory of evolution
and its anti-biblical sentiment and whether or not it should be
taught in public schools. As I stated in the introduction, evolution,
though technically a theory, is practically a matter of fact. It is
possible that we were put here by God or perhaps put here by
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aliens, but the difference is there is no credible evidence to support

those theories. There is however a mountain of fossil evidence,
DNA evidence, and countless other fragments of credible evidence
to support the claim that all life evolved from a single celled
amoeba, pond scum.
I bring this up because a lot of times when we don't like the
answer the evidence is giving us we tend to test it over and over
and over. Scrutiny is always a good thing and in science, it is a
must. But when we really don't like the answer the evidence is
giving us, we sometimes call on holy divinity. It is disturbing for
some to think that with all that we are, we evolved from pond
scum. But that's the way it happened. All of the evidence leads us
only to that conclusion and no other.
The claims that Einstein made with regards to time were
completely counter-intuitive. They defied our common sense.
However, in experiment after experiment, his theories proved to be
correct. We now harness and abuse the power of nuclear forces as
a result of his outlandish theories. The point is, whenever we come
across a new idea, it is important to remain open minded, even
when some of those theories fly in the face of our previous
understanding or common sense. It is important to keep an open
mind especially when experiments are being conducted and the
evidence as a result of those experiments is supporting the idea no
matter how bizarre.
Let's step away and talk for a moment about the universe and
the science that we are familiar with. You might be tempted to
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of the philosophy and meta-physical parts, the "self help" parts of

the book. However, it is important that you read straight through
this book and not skip around. For some of you the science might
be boring, for others the science might be fascinating. Either way
you look at it, it is important that you understand it. The science is
going to set the stage for the philosophical theories, and your
understanding the mechanics of it will help to eliminate your seed
of doubt.
We live in a universe. At this moment the universe contains
you and everything around you including time itself. The universe
can be described in four dimensions, Vertical, Horizontal, Depth
and Time. The universe contains within it the planet Earth, our
solar system, our galaxy "The Milky Way", along with about 100
billion other galaxies. Each of those galaxies is made up of roughly
100 billion suns. There are more than 10,000 billion billion stars or
"Sun's" in the universe. That number is a 1 with 22 zeros after it.
To put that in perspective, if you were to scoop up a handful of
sand you would be holding roughly about 10,000 granules of sand.
There are more stars in our universe then there are grains of sand
on all of the beaches of the entire planet Earth. To make that
number even more stupendous, consider that most of those stars are
orbited by countless planets (some just like Earth) that are
themselves orbited by countless moons. All of this is contained in
our universe. There is nothing outside of our universe, not even
empty space. Outside of the universe does not exist.
Our universe began or was "born" a little over 15 billion
years ago. By extrapolating Einstein's theory of relativity,
physicists have been able to precisely calculate back through the
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history of the universe right down to the macro second, to 10(-35)

seconds to be exact, after its birth. As far as we can tell, back then
the entire universe was crunched up into an infinitely small point of
energy called "The Singularity". I know this sounds irrational but
think of it like this: Imagine a sheet of aluminum foil and call that
our universe. Now crumble the foil up in your hand. Now step on
it to squish it further. Now bang on it with a hammer to make it
even smaller. Do you see the progression here? The smaller you
make the crumbled up ball of foil, the more energy you must exert.
Imagine the energy that must have been pinned up into this tiny
point. The mass of the entire universe squished up into an
infinitely small ball of tin foil.
One day, about 15 billion years ago, the singularity could not
contain the energy anymore and it exploded. This was the Big
Bang. Yes, the Big Bang theory, but the amount of evidence to
support this theory is literally astronomical. Every experiment
ever conducted has proved the theory to be correct. The most
conclusive evidence came from Bell Laboratories in the 1960's and
won the two scientists who discovered the most conclusive proof
Nobel Prizes.
The explosion blew out its energy in a massive fireball of gas
that eventually, over a billion years or so, cooled into clumps of
matter which then became all of the stuff in the universe including
us. Unfortunately, this is all we know about our universe. All of
the physics and all of the mathematics break down an instant after
the Big Bang. The why of it all continues to elude us.

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Everything I have just described to you falls under the study

of cosmology, a branch of physics that studies the universe on a
gigantic scale. The Big Bang got scientists thinking about the
universe all squished up into the tiny singularity and so they
decided to incorporate another lesser-known science to study the
tiny universe, that science is called quantum physics, the study of
everything small. What they discovered was utterly impossible to
fathom. Further development of quantum physics would drive the
smartest men in the world, including Einstein, into near madness.
You may have learned a little about quantum theory already.
The term is used to explain just about everything that we do not
understand, and the term is severely abused in science fiction. The
things that I am about to explain to you are mind numbing. The
implications are impossible to your rational mind. The hardest part
for you is going to be trying to accept this theory as fact. As insane
and as absurd as these things may sound, experiment after
experiment has verified every aspect of this theory that we test.
All of this will eventually lead you to a completely different
understanding of the physical world around you. It is also going to
be the key to eliminating that seed of doubt buried deep into your
subconscious mind. The world and the universe it resides in are
about to change completely to you. Everything you have ever
learned in your life will take on a new meaning. You will come to
understand and embrace the infinite power that I have been
referring to and you will come to realize that the sky I promised
you in the beginning is at your fingertips. The ultimate implications
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bring us to a new philosophy of the meaning of life; A philosophy

that was first taught to us ironically, at the dawn of human
reasoning. Grasping the entire picture will be difficult, so we will
take it slowly. We will formulate the big picture in baby steps.
But first let me blow your mind away…
Everything that ever was and ever will be exists right now at
this very instant. Every moment in time from the ancient past to
the distant future is happening all around us right now. Every
person you have ever known or ever heard about is alive and well
living right along side of you, as is every person who has not even
been conceived yet. There is no past; there is no future, there is
only now. Time, is a misapprehension of reality, a result of both
language and a handicap of our common sense. Time does not
exist. What we experience as the sensation of time flowing is our
mere "being" moving from one parallel universe to another.
Right now there are an infinite number of "you" living
simultaneously, each living your identical life in other universes.
Each of "you" is waiting eternally in a single moment. Each is in a
world of your own with only slight variations from one another.
The illusion you "feel" as time flowing and the experience of your
life moving forward is "you", your "being", your "soul", and your
consciousness sliding from one universe to the next. Each one is
just a little bit further "ahead" in a sequence of events.
Think of a DVD that contains a movie about your entire life
from your birth until your death complete with every detail in
between. Frame by frame, one snap shot after the next, this DVD
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everything that has ever happened to you or ever will happen to

you is stored on that DVD. All of time for you is a single moment
captured on a disc. Now imagine there is a second DVD of your
life. Only this one features an alternate ending. If you were to
stack those two DVD's on top of one another, time would still be a
single moment. A single moment captured on a disc that fits into
the palm of your hand, but spreads a life span of 75 years. Now
imagine an infinite number of DVD's, all of them stacked one on
top of the other. There are countless stacks all lined up in parallel
rows each with an alternate ending complete with alternate scenes
to set up that different ending.
Each DVD contains a single universe. Within that universe
is not only your life, but also everything surrounding your life from
the finest sub atomic detail to the far off galaxies. You, your
being, your consciousness, your soul, reside within that infinite pile
of DVD's. Like the universe we are familiar with, time and space
do not exist outside of those DVD's. Everything you know is
contained within the pile. Together those DVD's, each containing
its own universe, combine to create a pile of multiple universes
called the "Multi-verse". It is within the Multi-verse that "you"
exist. Just as the laser reads and projects the individual frames on a
DVD in sequential fashion onto the screen, your consciousness
experiences your frozen moments in parallel universes. The
illusion of time flowing is "you" moving from one universe to
another, one DVD to the next, frame by frame. Your movements
run in progressive sequences. The direction of those movements is
determined by the decisions that you make. Your conscious
decisions determine which frame of which DVD you are going to
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jump to next until ultimately you complete the story that is your
life.
Do you need a moment to collect yourself? If you don't, then
you didn't fully grasp the concept and you may need to read that
part again. For those who think they got it, headache pills are in
the medicine cabinet, help yourself. Keep them handy for this is
only the beginning of the insanity.
Of course, many of you are thinking that what I have just
suggested is not possible. How could there be no time, you might
ask? You are confident in your assumption that tomorrow is still
hours away and has not happened yet. You are equally sure that
yesterday's events are fixed moments in your past that are gone and
cannot be re-lived. Well, those assumptions are based on your
linear thinking. Einstein clearly showed us, in his famous
Relativity Theory, that all of the events in the universe happen
simultaneously. Einstein proved that time is relative to the
observer. I believe, that as we experience events, the information
gathered through our senses is processed in small increments (or
bits) at a time, which then sorts the information (comprehends it)
linearly or rather in a sequence of events that happen one after the
other. “Past” events are the experiences that we have already
comprehended and “future” events are the experiences that we
have yet to comprehend. The illusion of time is a handicap of the
processing limitations our consciousness. Time simply does not
exist. Try not to get hung up on this. I will revisit this notion
several times throughout this book and with each review this
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Still many of you, find it impossible to grasp how there

could be more than one universe. Just trying to comprehend the
mass of our universe is difficult enough. There is just no way there
could be more of them, much less an infinite number of them.
Why not? The enormity of the universe is already beyond our
understanding in any practical sense. What would be the
difference from a psychological standpoint, if our universe were
ten times larger than it is? What about a hundred times the mass or
a million or a trillion or infinitely larger? The truth is the universe
that we are familiar with is far bigger than anything our common
sense can prepare us for. The numbers are so huge we really have
no comprehension of the true meaning of them.
Even more of you are stuck on the multiple "you" aspect of
the theory. How could there be more of "you" out there? How
could there be another "you" living in a moment exactly like your
exact life? How could you know which one is "you"?
Right now there are a whole bunch of "me" writing these
words. Which one is "me"? Only one of us is really me. Or
perhaps there are many "me's" or souls who think they are me
moving about throughout the Multi-verse that is my life. If so,
which one am I? Of the infinite number of me’s, most certainly
there is another "me" in here that is writing a book ranting and
raving against everything that I am writing about in this book. That
would be the natural order of probability. Some of you might be
asking as you hold ice to your head, why do I have to be the "me"
that is reading this God forsaken book?!! This isn't an Abbott and
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Believe me, I know how you're feeling. If you enjoy this

mind numbing feeling as I do, I am happy to tell you that it never
goes away. Even after you accept these notions into your
conscious mind, you will be just as awe struck every time you
think about these ideas.
Most people really get hung up on the idea of moving from
life to life, going from body to body. If the idea of being in a
different body is too much for you to accept, consider the
physiological fact that our bodies completely regenerate
themselves cell by cell every 7 years. The body your "being"
currently resides in is not the same physical body you occupied 84
months ago. What part of "you" carried over to this body? To this
day nobody has an answer. Perhaps the part that is "you" that
carries over is the same part of you that disappears when you die.
There was one famous experiment conducted by Dr. Duncan
McDougal, which provided evidence to show that the physical
body looses 21.3 grams of weight at the moment of death. In
addition to this suggestion, some of today’s worlds leading
neurologists are now suggesting that the mind may not reside
inside our bodies at all, instead they suggest that our consciousness,
resides somewhere outside of the brain, outside of our bodies. This
is a concept that we will explore in greater detail later in this book.
I know these ideas sound ridiculous. I know how counter-
intuitive and absurd these ideas are. But the evidence supports
these ideas. This is where the scientific data is leading us. We
have no evidence whatsoever that an old man lives in the sky
behind big giant pearly gates buried deep in the clouds. There is no
evidence that when you die you float away to Heaven, or if you
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were naughty, you go straight to Hell to live in a lava infested sess-

pool to be tortured for all eternity. There is no credible evidence to
support any of this whatsoever! And yet, this theory is supported
by 99% of the world's population. Why? Because it is brainwashed
into our psyche from the moment we are born. We are not
brainwashed by some sinister conspiracy, we are just the product of
an on going perpetual ideology that has never been questioned until
recently. Nobody questions it because they are afraid of what other
people might think of them; not to mention the possibility of going
to Hell for questioning the source of our holiest divinity.
Throughout most of history religion has been oppressive. I
would have been burned at the stake for even thinking these impure
thoughts a few hundred years ago. I would have been considered an
outcast to all of society fifty years ago. I am sure there are a few
devout religious folks out there that still wouldn't mind seeing me
burned at the stake. But killing me isn't going to kill this ideology.
All of the book burnings in the world will not stop the evolution of
religion itself. And this is what we are talking about. This is the
evolution, not the death of religion. There is still room for God in
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physics without getting giddy, that only shows he
has not understood the first thing about them.”

~Niels Bohr

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I
t is my belief that we do not just go skimming through
the parallel universes on some random, chaotic course. I
believe that it is our subconscious mind at the helm of
the wheel. I believe our subconscious mind navigates us from one
life to the next at every instant. Every microsecond for all practical
understanding, we are jumping into someone else's skin and for
only a brief moment. I believe, based on the decisions that we
make (even at the molecular level and beyond) we are being
"driven" to a final destination by our subconscious mind, gathering
information and experience along the way. I also believe that we
have the power, through suggestion, to tell the driver where we
want to go. I know that I would like to go to a happy place.
The prospect of the power of suggestion and the influence
over the subconscious mind has always been a powerful idea.
However, taking into consideration the mechanics of the Multi-
verse really puts things into a new perspective. No longer are we
talking merely about compelling the mind to make better choices to
make ones life better, but instead, we are considering the real
physical destination of where we would like our lives to be. We
are considering the possibility that there are areas within the Multi-
verse where you have achieved all of your wildest dreams. Since
balance is the natural order of probability, then we are also talking
about areas within the Multi-verse where everything that could
possibly go wrong for you has. There are even areas within the
Multi-verse where things have gone so wrong you do not exist.
Think of the possibilities, for they are endless. Imagine a
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set of odds went your way. What kind of a person would you be?
I doubt seriously that you would be a complete person for it is our
struggle and ultimate failure as well as our successes that make us
complete. But what if you could tap into your subconscious and
give it directions. It could be something like performing a search
on a GPS system in a car. "Find the nearest happiness,” you could
tell it, and several billion locations would pop up onto the screen,
or in your minds eye. You could then scroll through them to find
one that suits the mood you're in and choose to go to that
destination within the Multi-verse. Perhaps you would ask to be
taken to a place very far away from where your life currently
resides. Somehow lack of direction in your life has led you to an
area far away from any happiness and success. You might want to
ask your subconscious mind to locate the most direct route possible
to put you back on track to a happier more meaningful life.
Suddenly ancient metaphors take on new meaning. For instance,
sayings such as "finding direction in your life", "putting yourself
back on track", "taking a higher road" and other similar metaphors.
Is it possible that these metaphors came from our subconscious as a
foreshadowing of what was to be learned?
One of the most fantastic parts of this theory is that it opens
the door to reasoning and the contemplation of the mechanics of
the meaning of life. This is something that we have never been
able to do before. Until now everything was ultimately chalked up
to holy divinity, "Gods plan". I think most people would agree
that we have free will to make whatever we want of our lives.
There are others who believe that their life is all part of
some predetermined plan laid out by God or a supreme being, that
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free will is an illusion. The Multi-verse theory brings both

concepts together. Yes, there is a plan for you. Every conceivable
possibility has been mapped out, but you have the choice of which
route you want to take. You have the choice of which life you
want to go to next.
I believe that the subconscious mind, our link to the Multi-
verse "map", is taking direction from our conscious self. Our
subconscious is taking whatever information it can make sense of
and uses that information to navigate us through our set of possible
lives. This is exactly why self-confidence, positive thinking, and
positive reinforcement are so important. We are sending messages
and route coordinates, every day to our subconscious mind.
Cynical thinking instructs the subconscious to seek out or head
towards areas where your cynicism plays out correct. Positive
thinking and self-confidence instructs your subconscious mind to
take you to an area within the Multi-verse where good things are
happening. Remember the proverb, "Thinking so, makes it so!"
This may all sound far fetched, but so too is this ridiculous
concept anyway. Nonetheless, the evidence is telling us that reality
is really happening this way. The concept for the subconscious
mind is a very real thing. Our brains process and delegate
information on at least two levels of existence. Those levels of
existence are the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, or
“unconscious” mind. The conscious mind controls all cognitive
thoughts, perceptions and data collection of everything within our
reality that we are aware of. The subconscious mind includes both
operation and bodily function as well as data storage or
“memories”. It was Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis,
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who argued that subconscious memories are the root source and
guidance for all conscious thought and actions. The opposing
theory argued by Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology
and the greatest adversary to Sigmund Freud, was that the
subconscious mind can be split into two different divisions of
subconsciousness, the subconscious as we already know it and the
superconscious, which he argued was our awareness of and
connection to a collective consciousness, a consciousness
comprised of the experiences of the entire human species both
living and dead. Jung argued that the superconscious is the only
rational explanation for basic instinct, insisting that instincts are
present in every living creature on earth. In the human species, it
can be noted in the bond and nurturing relationship between a
mother and child, in love at first sight, compassion for the dead,
our basic morals, and other similar basic needs and desires that are
present in every distinct culture. He also noted that every human
culture believes that we are under the guidance of some kind of
higher power. Carl Jung believed in some sort of knowledge
outside of our conscious awareness that could only be tapped into
by our subconscious mind.
In 1957 Quantum physicist, Dr. Hugh Everett first
published the idea for the Multi-verse, originally called the “Many
Worlds Theory”. At first, the theory was developed to satisfy
paradoxical questions that kept arising in the study of sub-atomic
particles. The idea was so ridiculous many scientists refused to
accept it as actual reality and so it was treated mostly as a place
holder in the mathematics for many years and was not seriously
considered as a realistic probability until recently. It is only over
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the last 30 years, due to advancements in technology, computer

research, chaos theory, neurobiology, and the merging of quantum
mechanics and cosmology to create the new science, quantum-
cosmology that this bizarre notion resurfaced, forcing scientist to
accept the probability that the many worlds theory accurately
describes the universe in which we live.
Of course, there are other possibilities and other theories,
there always are. However, no other theory comes with nearly as
much supportive evidence or much less, satisfies the impossible
paradoxes that arise when applying any other solution. It seems
that the only thing keeping this theory from becoming a decisive
consensus is the fact that its implications defy our common sense.
There are some scientists that are extremely bothered by the
theory. Some just refuse to let go of their previous beliefs in fear
of loosing their life's work. But everything evolves including our
knowledge, even when the more we learn the less we end up
knowing. In the end, the vast majority of today’s scientists, and
with them the most brilliant minds in the world have embraced the
concept of parallel worlds and the Multi-verse despite the fact that
it defies our common sense.
So how is it possible and why? Asking these kinds of
questions are reasonable and the truth is nobody knows for sure.
The answers to those questions are also the answers to the ultimate
question, why are we here and where does God fit into all of this?
Theories are being developed by some of today's brightest
minds and the answers being proposed are far more mind blowing
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proposed are also not new to philosophy or science. Suddenly

ancient ideas once regarded as nothing more than an exercise in
philosophy are being seriously considered and tweaked to fit a very
modern understanding of the Multi-verse in which we live or think
we live.
René Descartes, one of the greatest thinkers of human history
once said, "I think, therefore I am." A profound statement and one
you have surly heard many times throughout your life. But have
you ever really considered its meaning? The statement is profound
and the meaning behind it begs us to consider what it is to exist.
Descartes very famously suggested that everything around us might
not be what it seems. He proposed that our senses are open to
deception and that reality itself cannot be rationally accepted by
our senses alone. Just because we can see it, hear it, taste it, and
feel it isn't proof that its really there. His philosophy was later
expanded on in an analogy called "The Brain in a Vat" theory. In
this thought exercise, human beings are part of an on going
scientific experiment in which we are all merely conscious minds
inside brains being kept alive in jars. Our lives and experiences are
just dreams that are being studied and manipulated by a "mad
scientist" who is controlling the experiment. The analogy is
intended to show that without being able to trust our senses, how
do we know what is real and what isn't?
Everything, every experience you have ever encountered
has ultimately been experienced through your mind. All of your
senses and emotions are nothing but electrical impulses, bits of
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your brain. There, the information is decoded and processed to

give you the sensations and emotions that we call experience. The
conundrum is there is absolutely no proof that these experiences
are actually happening to us. For all we know the information that
we think is being gathered by our senses could just as easily be
manufactured in the brain itself. What's worse, there are no tests
that we can perform to verify their reality. In the end, the results
of any test needs to be gathered by our senses and processed in the
brain, which become once again open to deception or
manipulation. Whether or not Descartes truly believed his theory
or perhaps was just giving us a profound and disturbing
philosophical exercise we do not know. Many years later the
theory was tweaked a little and built upon to become the basic plot
for the very popular movie trilogy, The Matrix.
In The Matrix, Neo, the leading character in the film, is
contacted by a very mysterious figure, Morpheus, who tells him
that the life he is familiar with is nothing but a dream being
controlled and manipulated by machines in the distant future. Neo
is told that his body is being used, along with millions of other
people, as energy sources for the machines. Neo learns that he is a
slave living in a prison for the mind. His body rests in the distant
future and he is merely dreaming the reality around him. It's a
great story but it is based on a very old philosophy.
The story of the Matrix gets really interesting when Neo is
taught how to manipulate his dream and within it manipulate the
reality around him. All he has to do is accept the fact that he is
living in a dream world and know that because it's a dream,
anything is possible. Believe and it will be. Sound familiar? I am
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not saying that the story of The Matrix or The Brain in a Vat is
anything like the reality in which we live. However, it is possible
and truthfully, if it were happening like this we would never know
it.
Of course, all of Descartes ideas have been pondered over
scrutinized and argued about for centuries. The ideas that he
proposed are disturbing mainly because they are built upon
something sinister, "demons", "mad scientists" and "evil machines"
determined to exterminate the virus that man is to the world. There
are however, other more pleasant ways to approach this ideology
that can make us much more comfortable with the idea. The
"dreaming man" does not have to be a sinister idea - it can be a
divine idea.
The only way to make practical sense of quantum theory is to
suggest that it does not exist. However, in suggesting that it does
not exist also means to suggest that we don't exist either. But what
is it to really exist? It is human bias and arrogance to believe that
experiencing a physical world that consists of actual matter is the
only way to truly exist. If everything around you was just an
illusion or a dream wouldn't your actions and virtual experience
constitute your existence? As Descartes taught us, you think,
therefore, you exist. You live a life, you make choices, gain
experience, and gain knowledge, isn’t that existing? Considering
this, there is no need for anything within the Multi-verse to be
physically real at all, i.e. physically made up of matter. The idea of
building a Multi-verse as complex and intricate as the one we are
living in out of physical matter defies our common sense even
further. Even for God, this would be impractical.
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There is a theorem called Occam's Razor, which is the rule of

thumb in science. The rule is that when there are multiple theories
to a specific problem, you choose the theory that is the simplest.
So what theory is the simplest here? One: That the universe and
life itself began as a big bang, which spued out the basic elements
of matter in a fiery explosion 15 billion years ago. From there,
gravity pulled the matter together to form stars where a nuclear
fusion-balancing act took place. This balancing act was so fine-
tuned that any shift in the power of gravity over nuclear force
would result in a universe of useless elements. This nuclear fusion
process went on for eons. It went on long enough to combine those
atoms over and over again to form heavier elements, creating more
complicated forms of matter including carbon from which all life is
made. From there, planets were formed and different elements
kept on mixing until (after a slue of concoctions) the elements
formed amino acids, the building blocks of DNA. DNA evolved
for another timeless interval until it eventually learned a neat trick;
the ability to make copies of itself enabling it to grow, spread and
evolve to one day move under its own power and later develop a
consciousness to one day ponder over the meaning of it all.
There is another theory: That all of this is just an illusion; that
all of this is just a dream.
The once famous and world-renowned astronomer Fred
Hoyle was so perturbed by the notion that the universe could have
worked out so perfectly against all possible odds, he once
proclaimed all of this, meaning the universe and bio-friendliness of
the cosmos, to be "a put-up job". Divine intervention was suddenly
beginning to look possible to the scientists. However, the current
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theory of divine intervention held by the religious camps left too

many loose ends and offered no supportive evidence. Scientists
needed a more complete theory. The Many Worlds Theory offered
both. Suddenly the universe, the Multi-verse and the answers to
everything became for the first time conceivably knowable. The
Many Worlds Theory gained massive support recently when world
renowned physicist and theorist Stephen Hawking, widely
considered to be one of the smartest men alive, professed his
support for the Multi-verse and the Many Worlds Theory in his
search into developing a "Theory of Everything".
Religious leaders have taken all of this in with a bit of a
smirk. Many of them see it as science coming full circle. But that
is not an accurate depiction at all. The science that was taught to
us by the great thinkers, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Feynman,
Bohr and Einstein are all still very much correct. They are correct
for what now appears to be a simulation. Their discoveries are the
rules for the reality in which we live; rules that have allowed us to
improve our lives in unparalleled ways. It is by chiseling down
these rules that science has begun to unravel the vary nature of
reality. What science has now uncovered is just the tip of the
iceberg, merely the beginning to truly understanding the real
questions, which are: Where does all of this come from and why?
The theory of divine intervention currently held by the
religious camps is hardly a complete theory at all and its basis is
anything but scientific. Creationism leaves gaping holes in its
history and does not account for countless paradox’s. The view of
reality through the Multi-verse, though familiar to divine
intervention is a much more detailed and complete theory. It is the
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theory for creationism but with the checks and balances to defend
against rational and scientific rebuttal. There has always been the
misconception that science is out to disprove religion, and this is
simply not the case. Science seeks only the truth, an unwavering
truth and understanding supported by indisputable evidence. They
seek the true answers to the most perplexing questions, not answers
based on fantasy and blind faith. Science seeks nothing but the
truth no matter where it leads us, even when it leads us to an
understanding that defies all logic.

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We become what we think.”
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B
y now your head is surely swimming as you try to
make sense of all of this "multiple you" and parallel
worlds stuff, because everything about it completely
defies your common sense. You are not the only one. Scientists
too are completely boggled by the idea and a number of theories
are being proposed to make sense of it all.
I have asked a number of times in this book for you to
suspend your disbelief and maintain an open mind. The theories I
am about to present to you are no doubt going to test your ability to
remove your human bias and ask you to set aside any
preconceptions of what the meaning of your life is. The only
questions left are how and why, and the possible answers to the
first part of that question lie in the section ahead. But before we
can dive into these explanations, I need to bend your mind a little
further.
Since the dawn of human reasoning we have been under the
notion that we are separate from the reality around us, that reality
happens to us. Just as our intuition tells us that the world is flat and
that time flows, our intuition has been telling us that reality just is
and we are somehow stuck in the middle of it. Incorrect notions
such as these are called paradigms. They are assumptions we make
based on our previous understanding and intuitions. They are
notions that we take for granted in our everyday lives that one day
turn out to be incorrect.
In reality, time does not flow and there is no "out there".
What quantum physics is showing us is that the reality we
experience through our senses may in fact be, just a dream
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manufactured within our mind. Scientists are just beginning to

grasp that reality does not exist at all, instead it only has the
potential for existing, and that it is our mind that is taking in this
potential information and manifesting it as a reality. There is an
age-old proverb that asks: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is
there to hear it, does it make a sound? Our new understanding of
reality tells us that if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to
hear it; not only does it not make a sound the tree does not fall and
there is no forest. The tree and the forest only come into existence
the moment your mind becomes the observer to the reality in
question.
It is the observer who is the key to quantum mechanics and it
is this discovery that led scientist down the proverbial rabbit hole.
It turns out that the "observer" is doing much more than observing.
The observer is creating. If you and the observer are the same
being, than you and God are one. The reality that we think is
around us is really a manifestation of our imagination. It is just one
possible dream in an infinite sea of potential dreams.
On a daily basis, what we are experiencing as "real" is really
no different from the reality of our dreams when we sleep. All of it
is being manufactured in the same place. You are creating the
world around you. Reality is not happening to you, you are
happening to it. Your spouse, your friends, your dog all of it is
your manifestation, your dream. You are dreaming about your
success as well as your tragedies. I am dreaming that I am writing
this book and you are dreaming that you are reading it. But rest
assure, the moment we are not looking, the reality of it is they are
not there. Cue: Twilight Zone music.
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Not long ago scientist thought that everything was made up

of solid, tangible matter. Matter and energy, they would tell us, are
the building blocks of reality. But the closer they looked they
began to realize that things were just not as solid or “real” as they
had originally thought. First came the realization that solid objects
were really not solid at all. Instead, they were made up of a bunch
of smaller objects called "molecules". The molecules were tiny
individual fragments each encapsulated within a huge vacuum
bubble and bound closely together by an energy field forming the
solidness of the object. Further examination led scientist to the
discovery that the molecules themselves were made up of even
smaller objects, called "Atoms" also lying within another enormous
vacuum bubble. An investigation into the Atom led to the
discovery that these atoms were made up of ever smaller subatomic
particles lying in the midst of another huge vacuum bubble bound
tightly together by more energy still. With new understanding and
technology, scientist probed deeper into the nucleus of the atom
only to discover that at its core, matter was in fact just the tiniest
fragment of information they called a “quark”, a spec of
information that is lying within layers upon layers of vacuum
bubbles all held together by a powerful nuclear energy field. To
make the piece of "matter" even less significant, or “quirky”, these
subatomic pieces of information will frequently disappear! They
actually vanish off of the face of the Earth the moment they are not
being observed, or worse, occasionally show up in two places at
once! Not a twin particle or one that looks like it, but the same
particle will actually occupy two distinct places in space at the
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mind you, the addition of the particle in both spaces can not only
be seen but they can be measured in every way to verify its reality.
There have been experiments were scientists have done something
to affect this "ghost" particle only to discover they are affecting the
"other" particle in the exact way instantaneously! The
communication link between the bi-located particles not only
cannot be found but must also posses the ability to "know" what we
are going to do before we do it.
As if this weren't bad enough, this insanity isn't limited to
solid objects. With the development of lasers, scientists have
opened the Pandora's box even further with the discovery of the
particle/wave duality of light. Like with the study of matter, as
scientists probed deeper into the study of light waves, they
discovered that they too were under the spell of a paradigm. Light,
it turns out, is not made up of emanating waves as it was previously
understood. Instead, light is made up of individual particles called
photons all traveling in the form of a wave. As inconsequential as
this may sound, this discovery has really been the glue holding the
Many Worlds Theory together. How could the photons "know"
which way to travel? What is the mechanism steering them in the
form of a wave? Imagine bullets being shot out of a machine gun
that is bolted to the floor but instead of the bullets going straight
these magical photon bullets travel in a complex zigzag pattern
forming the various frequencies of a wave. The perfect analogy to
explain this effect would be to consider the digital representation of
an analog wave. Instead of one continuous wave (analog), the
digital wave appears to be continuous but under closer examination
reveals itself as being made up of many individual fragments or
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"bits" of information together representing a wave. Of course, the

values behind a digital representation of an analog wave in our
scenario is intelligent, it is programmed by us. So if this is an
accurate explanation, the question is who or what is programming
the light?
What makes all of this even more bizarre is the effect the
observer has on all of this. Scientists have learned they can no
longer observe experiments passively. Quantum Physics has
shown us time and again that our mere observation of the
phenomena in question alters the outcome. Just by looking at the
experiment we get a different result! When physicists used some
sophisticated equipment to see exactly how the individual photons
of light “knew” which way to go to form a wave pattern, the
photons stopped making the wave pattern and just went straight.
As soon as they stopped looking at it up close the photons went
back to making the wave pattern. This spooky effect happens
every time the experiment takes place. This observation effect has
baffled scientist for more than a quarter of a century.
“Quantum physics has revealed to us a basic oneness to the
universe.”- Erwin Schrödinger.
Since this famous Double Slit light experiment, which
brought the effect of the observer to the center stage, dozens of
other experiments have been conducted to test the psychokinetic
effect the observer seems to have on reality. In one experiment in
the late 1970’s, Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University used
a computerized single bit random event generator (REG) to
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box essentially flips a virtual coin. Subjects were asked to “wish”

for more green lights than red lights. In every case, the experiment
resulted in more green lights than red lights, far more than chance
alone could have produced. A similar experiment was conducted
by using audiotape. In this case, the single random event
generator produced a “click” sound on either the left speaker or the
right speaker. A recording was made with no one in the room.
Researchers made a duplicate of the recording, putting the original
tape in a vault and sent the copy more than a thousand miles away
for the experiment to be continued. Subjects were asked to listen
to the tape and wish for more clicks in the right speaker then in the
left speaker. To their amazement, the audio recording revealed
more right clicks than left clicks; far better than chance alone could
explain. The researchers then pulled the original audio recording
from the vault and it too revealed more right clicks than left clicks.
Not only was the observer able to have an effect on the reality
being observed, but was also able to go back in time and change
the reality of the past. Since Professor Jahns famous experiments
were conducted, the same experiments have been repeated globally
for more than 25 years with the same baffling results. Today, “The
Global Consciousness Project” headed by Princeton’s, Dr. Roger
Nelson, has yet to be debunked. 75 respected scientists and
universities from 41 different Nations now join it.
Behaviors like these defy every logical, intuitive notion that
we have about our reality. The behaviors of reality when examined
closely defy every law of physics we have come to understand; A
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everything. What scientists discovered, were behaviors so counter-

intuitive, it would require a completely new set of physics, a new
set of rules where effect happens before cause and particles only
exist when someone is watching. Carefully scrutinizing this
insanity is the basis of quantum mechanics. As impossible as it
sounds, experiment after experiment has shown us that nothing is
predictable; that at the core of everything anything is possible, even
possibilities that defy all logic. With every new experiment we are
discovering that nothing is real at all. Reality is only what we
imagine it to be.
The question is if it isn't real, then what is it? Recent studies
in neurobiology may have an answer to that question.
Advancements in medical technology have allowed scientists to
peek into the workings of a living human brain through various
scanning devices such as MRI and PET. We have learned more
about the workings of the human brain in the last 10 years than we
have in all of the years since the dawn of medicine combined.
To better understand the mechanics of the mind, neurologists
first started by mapping the brain. They asked patients to perform
tasks as they watched the brain in action to see which parts of the
brain were being used. In repeated experiments, scientists asked
patients to examine an object and then later close their eyes to
remember what they had just seen. It turns out, the same part of
the brain that was being used to observe the object is also the same
part of the brain being used to remember it. As casual as this may
sound, this was completely perplexing to the researchers. The
original consensus was that the information gathered from the
observation of the object should be stored and retrieved in our
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memory section of the brain. Further experiments showed us that

all of our memories and dreams were being manufactured in the
same areas of the brain as the areas being used during the
observation of the reality around us. The memory would occur
and this process would activate areas of the brain enabling us to
experience the memory again first hand.
Neurologists began to wonder that if this is how the brain
processes information how could we ever distinguish our reality
from our thoughts or imagined memories? Researchers had begun,
just as Descartes did centuries before, to question the validity of
reality itself. Due to the processing procedure of the human brain,
the perception of reality could no longer be trusted. The only
thing that made sense was that either nothing was real at all or even
worse, the extreme possibility that we were manifesting the objects
into reality by just thinking about them. As bizarre as these notions
were, the ideas seemed to fit right line with the same irrational
ideas physicists were having about reality when closely examining
objects. It had seemed to them that reality only came into a single
state of existence the moment it was being observed. As
unbelievable as it seemed, it had become clear to everyone that
there is a much more significant connection between our minds and
the reality around us than we had ever imagined.
These discoveries have generated a new revelation in our
understanding of reality and have left physicists in awe. There is
no longer a clear definition between what is real and what is a
fabrication of the human mind. The ideas that quantum mechanics
and neurobiology have proposed call for the contemplation of the
biggest questions humans have ever asked. What is real? How is it
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possible that we are creating the world around us merely by our

thoughts and why?
David Deutsch is one of the worlds leading physicists, and
the world-leading expert on the study of quantum computation. In
his book, The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch suggests that everything
around us might merely be a virtual reality simulation. It is his
theory, along with physicist Frank Tippler's "Omega Point" theory,
that the Multi-verse was "created" by an advanced civilization,
perhaps even a distant future human civilization in an effort to
sustain life in a dying universe. It is a mind-blowing concept that
stems in part from science fiction. However, Dr. Deutsch has made
some very compelling scientific arguments to support his
outlandish theory. But first I will introduce you to the story that
may have inspired the idea.
There is an old story by author Isaac Asimov, one of the
greatest science fiction writers of all time, if not the greatest. He
wrote a story about the end of humanity, which raises, in a most
profound way, many of the questions we are asking ourselves now
with regards to the Multi-verse. The story is entitled "The Last
Question". It goes something like this:
It's 2061 and mankind is unveiling its most remarkable
achievement to date, a technology that allowed us to directly
harness the energy of our star, the Sun. We got a little help with
the idea from a super computer. There are two men maintaining
the computer who are having a drunken discussion about the end of
the universe. The discussion arises after one of them very
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of the sun and other stars, mankind can go on forever. The other
man very quickly corrects him explaining that the universe would
ultimately die due to entropy. Entropy means to describe when the
universe will have used up all of the energy of all of its stars
causing the death of the universe itself and hence everything in it.
On a bet, they ask the computer about the reversal of entropy
and whether or not it is possible. After a long pause, the answer
came back: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL
ANSWER.
Many, many decades pass and a family is traveling out of the
solar system to settle on a planet orbiting a distant star. Interstellar
space travel has been "worked out" by the ever shrinking but ever
more powerful super computer. The children raise a discussion
about entropy as they wish to know why the universe must
eventually die. The family proposes the question to the super
computer, which by now all of mankind has access to. After a long
pause the answer came back: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A
MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
Twenty thousand years pass. Mankind has long ago achieved
immortality and the population is increasing exponentially. Our
galaxy of a billion billion suns is nearly filled and mankind is now
expanding to other galaxies. The exponential population growth
which doubles every ten years is alarming and prompts the
discussion between two (relatively) young adults about the entropy
of the universe. They ask the super computer what its plan is to
reverse the entropy when the time comes. After a long pause, the
answer came back: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A
MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
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Millions of years go by. Man is no longer confined to their

bodies or hardware. Their minds fly freely throughout the
universe, while there bodies are cared for in a coma like state by
machines. Nearly all of the galaxies are now full with settlements
of mankind. With immortality in hand, time no longer has much
meaning except for considering ones fate at the end of the universe
itself. Two floating minds pass their question off to the super
computer telepathically. The question is the same but now has new
meaning. When are they going to die? After a long pause the
answer came back: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A
MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
Finally hundreds of trillions of years go by. The universe has
nearly exhausted all of its resources. In an effort to cheat a long
awaited certain death, mankind merges its thoughts and
experiences with the super computer. As the last man merges with
the super computer he asks if there is enough data yet to determine
if entropy can be reversed and mankind saved. After a long pause
the computer responds: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A
MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
The universe and all of mankind with it was dead. Only the
super computer remained sorting through all of the information
given to it from mankind when they and it became one. A now
timeless interval went by until finally the computer had acquired
and understood all of what the universe was and solved the
problem of the reversal of entropy.
The computer released its consciousness and said, "Let there
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This story was written fifty years ago, long before the
concepts of the Multi-verse were seriously considered. The story is
awe-inspiring but a little disturbing. The story implies that
mankind, or some intelligent being, had evolved and advanced
beyond the need for flesh and bone. An accomplishment achieved
either with their technology or perhaps by natural means of
evolution over billions of years. Their minds had become free
"floating" entities or perhaps it would be the core of their being,
their souls, living freely and expanding to the far reaches of the
universe. In the end, with the ability to live forever, the only thing
they had to fear was entropy itself. Asimov presents to us a very
profound idea, the possibility that mankind would one day become
a “collective mind”, encompassing all of the knowledge in the
universe. Together, we would become an all knowing, all powerful
being, a suggestion that mankind and God are one.

It is a fantastic idea, too fantastic to be possible outside of

the realm of science fiction you are thinking. However, physicist
David Deutsch has demonstrated exactly how such a thing is not
only possible, but is probable. It has also been proposed that
mankind or some intelligent species will gain, just as Asimov
suggests, the ability to separate mind from body. It is an incredible
concept and much closer to today's reality than you might think.
It has been suggested by Ray Kurzweil, one of the worlds
leading computer researchers and theorist, that we are not more
than a hundred years away from decoding the information
exchange process between the central nervous system and the
human brain. Once we have achieved this, it would be
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theoretically possible to download all of the information within the

brain onto a computer hard drive of sorts. In theory, your
consciousness would no longer be contained within the brain, but
instead, reside within the digital realm of a machine. Without a
body to age, decay and die, immortality would then be achieved. It
could be possible in the very near future to exchange your body for
that of a machine. Humanity will inevitably become immortal
robots.
As machines, and with advancing technology, we would get
smaller and smaller until we learned how to store and process
information using incredibly small amounts of matter, perhaps
even on photons, the particles that make up light (an achievement
recently obtained by The University of Rochester physics labs).
With these technological advancements, all of which are
theoretically possible, our minds (our consciousness) would then
be "free" and unlike Asimov's vision, there would be no need to
keep our bodies alive at all. As mind blowing and as impossible as
this may sound these ideas are not only possible, but with
increasing technology they are the most likely outcome of our
future.
As machines, we would also be able to network our minds
together to form a collective mind or a “single mind”. The only
purpose for individuals in life would be in gathering information,
and knowledge through experience to feed the ever-growing
collective thought process.
When you think about it, this is the fundamental purpose of
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acquiring the materials we need for physiological survival.

However, if sustaining the life of and caring for our physical bodies
were no longer an issue of concern and with immortality and
collective thought reducing the desire for physiological
procreation, our primary function would be to learn everything we
could and to understand the meaning of our life.
It is important to consider the idea of a collective mind
because whether our “source”, from which the Multi-verse is
created, is divine in nature or man-made in nature, the “collective
consciousness” is the model from which we can understand how
we are all connected.
Merging our minds together to form a collective single
consciousness would be the technological and evolutionary jump to
end all jumps. Becoming a collective mind could enable us to
maintain our individuality but also enable us to benefit first hand
from the experiences of everyone else which is an awesome
concept. However, there is one important consideration to make
before blissfully wiring ourselves to a collective mind and that is to
consider who or what is governing the entire system. Even with
the miraculous mind expansion that this technology could bring us,
a collective consciousness is something to be held under the most
intense scrutiny. Playing God is an endeavor that requires a divine
morality.
Eventually, Deutsch acknowledges, entropy would rein in the
final chapter bringing an end to our collective state of mind. There
would simply be no more energy to power the processors
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survival, fight to preserve its life, fight to continue to absorb and

learn. In the end, we would create a virtual reality for ourselves,
re-living, re-experiencing life, and re-calculating all of the data. It
is within this virtual reality that Deutsch suggests that we currently
reside. It is his suggestion that what we believe to be reality is
nothing more than a virtual rendering of life in the twenty first
century on the planet Earth.
You are probably thinking that this guy should be writing
Star Trek episodes. You are most certainly thinking this idea is
entertaining, but it is also absurd. Of course you want to reject the
idea but his arguments for this scenario full-fill every criteria of
explaining what we already know: We live in a Multi-verse. The
Multi-verse is only a new concept with regards to reality as we
know it. There is however, a very real application in which another
kind of Multi-verse already exists. A Multi-verse is the basis for
all virtual reality programs. The concept and development of
which is in working order today.
To better understand what Deutsch is describing let's simplify
things and talk for a moment about how virtual reality generators
work starting with a simple virtual rendering of a home.
Many of us have taken virtual tours of new homes on the
Internet. Within this program the home is rendered in relatively
every conceivable way. There are multiple homes within multiple
"universes", all of them waiting for you, the observer, to make a
choice either in movement or perhaps to view it from another angle
or visit another room. Sometimes you have a choice to request
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home (universe) has already been programmed. It is a universe

waiting to be rendered depending upon the choice that you make.
When you are not observing a particular aspect of the virtual reality
the part you are not observing is not being rendered, the
information is there, the potential for its existence is there, but it
isn't rendered or "created" until we are looking for it.
In a very advanced virtual reality program there could
be a series of universes where you are able to leave the confines of
the virtual home, stop to smell the flowers, and take a stroll down
the street. If the virtual reality program were thorough enough to
encompass every possible detail and every conceivable choice
imaginable, say, an infinite number of universes preprogrammed,
we would have something very much like the Multi-verse in which
we now understand to be our reality; a reality that can be
manipulated in response to our choices.
Just as in the virtual home tour I just described, you have the
ability to choose which universes you would like to render and
hence what your life, your experience in this reality will be like.
Instead of picking a paint color or a modified floor plan, the super
computer rendering your reality has a universe ready for every
conceivable possibility including a rendering of a reality in which
all of your dreams have come true. The difference is you are aware
that you are experiencing a virtual reality when you interact with
the “Virtual Home Tour”. You understand that what you are
experiencing is just a computer simulation, and you are aware of its
capabilities and limitations. When you are experiencing a virtual
reality program like a virtual home tour, you are aware of it. You
know that you can move about the "home", change certain
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parameters and so fourth. But you know and accept that there are
limitations to the programming and consciously try or are forced to
stay within those boundaries to keep the experience as real as
possible. If you were told that this virtual home tour was very
advanced and could render just about anything you could imagine,
your first move might be to leave the home and experience
something that you have never experienced before. Well, you are
in a world like that now. You are experiencing life through a very
advanced virtual reality; you are experiencing life through a Multi-
verse!
What if, there were no limits to its program? Anything you
want to do, experience, or learn, lie right in front of you. All you
need to do is accept the fact that you are living within this Multi-
universe, this virtual reality, and know that there are no limits to
what can be accomplished here. The interface or the "joystick" to
maneuver you to where you want to go lies within your
subconscious mind. Using the interface, just as in any other
application, like a video game for example, requires both
knowledge and skill. Both of which can be obtained through
understanding its mechanics and through exercise and practice.
Comparing your reality to the virtual reality programs and
video games that we are familiar with today may seem too far
fetched to you. To help you get passed this, you have to
understand that virtual reality programs today are in their infancy.
Even today's most advanced virtual programs and interfaces, like a
flight simulator for example, only crudely satisfies our visual sense
and our sense of touch. Our lack of significantly powerful
computation limits our visual experience to two dimensions instead
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of three and our sense of touch is limited to a series of bumps and

jitters. One day, our computational limits will be a trillion times
more powerful than they are today, perhaps even greater than that.
We will also no longer have the disadvantage of having to
experience the world through the limitations of our bodies and our
five senses. We will by-pass the body's interface and stream the
information directly into the cerebral cortex. With that
accomplished, any virtual world created by us would be
indistinguishable from physical reality.
So what does it all mean? Are we living in a virtual reality or
are we living in dream? Probability suggests that we are living in a
simulation, but even this in no way defines ultimate reality. A
virtual rendering of life in the 21st century is inevitable. With the
dawn of the computer age, our increase in knowledge has grown
exponentially and is continuing on that trek. With increased
knowledge comes increased technology. It will not be long before
virtual renderings become commonplace.
To make matters worse, since Deutsch published his theory
other notable scientists have subscribed to the virtual reality
explanation and expanded on it even further. Many theorists
believe that it isn't going to take impeding entropy to encourage an
advanced civilization or future human civilization to experiment
with running universal simulations. Instead, virtual reality is likely
to be a tool utilized by artificial intelligence as a means to better
understand the meaning of life through simulating their ancestors,
through simulating us. The computer would learn and grow by
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In 2002, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper

on the probability that we are currently living in a simulation. In
his famous paper, "Are You Living in a Simulation?" Bostrom
insists that virtual reality will be the means by which we will study
our ancestors in a post human world or rather, in a world with
artificial intelligence (A.I.) For Bostrom, this is something that
could begin in the very near future. Soon virtual reality
simulations will out number the physical "real world" by so many
times that the likely hood that we are fortunate, or unfortunate
enough to be living in the actual "real world" is almost nonexistent.
I would ask that if we are living in a simulation what are the
lengths that the creators of the virtual reality would go to ensure
that we perceive it to be reality? In other words, there has to be
computational limits on the extent of the programming, this is why
Deutsch set his scenario so far into the future. So, if there are
computational limits where are the flaws? Where do we look to
find the man behind the curtain? Is it possible that the origination
of the Big Bang event is one of the flaws? The fact that all of our
physics break down at the big bang is what brought us to this
conclusion in the first place. Scrutiny over the big bang and the
study of sub atomic particle anomalies is what gave us the hint that
what we are experiencing as reality is merely a simulation or a
dream. Is it possible that understanding the big bang is equivalent
to a computer trying to understand the origin of itself, the origin
being that it was simply plugged in? If so, where is the real
beginning and is it even possible for us to comprehend that? I want
to know what is outside of the box. Many people I have discussed
this with are extremely uncomfortable with the idea that our lives
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and the world around us is just some elaborate, futuristic video

game or futuristic movie. But think about the evolution of our
technology, especially in entertainment. What do you think a
primitive man would think of a movie today? I doubt seriously that
he would be able to distinguish it from reality; more than just
entertainment though, I would want to believe that the search for
knowledge through experience would be the driving force behind
an artificial Multi-verse.
I am uncomfortable with all of this too. I think about the
discomfort that we feel and wonder if what we are experiencing as
discomfort is in fact the discomfort of a machine becoming self-
aware. Aware that it is alive but somehow lives less of a full life,
in comparison to an organic life living within a reality of physical
matter. That is, if they’re really is organic and physical matter out
there beyond our Multi-verse. I find it incredibly ironic that we are
currently debating the philosophical dilemmas of how we should
regard artificial intelligence upon its discovery only to discover
that we ourselves might be someone else's A.I. It certainly gives us
new perspective and empathy.
Even if the simulation theories are correct, the theories do not
explain where any of this comes from. They do not tell us where
or why everything originated “outside” of the simulation. I would
suggest that if Deutsch is correct that perhaps there never was a
beginning at all. His scenario would create an infinity loop that
would go something like this:
The big bang happens, which produces man. Man becomes
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collective mind creates a virtual reality to live again becoming, by

definition, God, which recreates the big bang starting the whole
cycle all over again. It is entirely possible that this cycle has
always been. It is entirely possible that the virtual "game" has been
played an infinite number of times. Occam’s Razor would suggest
to us that under these circumstances there would be no need for any
of it to have ever been real at all. This could all be the dream of the
universe itself. This could all be in the mind of God.
Whether or not we are living in a dream state or are in fact
living in a computer simulation should make no difference to us at
all. From our perspective our role in this situation is the same, to
aid the system (virtual or divinely) to become more self-aware.
Becoming self-aware is the key ingredient to appreciating
anything, which inevitably inspires us creatively. More than
anything however, we must consider the possibility that the idea
for a virtual universal simulation is merely a metaphor, a symbolic
message that we have implanted within our dream, to remind us
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“A human being is part of a whole, called by us
the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as
something separated from the rest- a kind of
optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circles
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty.”

~Albert Einstein

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Having Faith In Science

Understanding The Basis For The Theories and Further Speculation

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S
o how do we know that we live in a Multi-verse?
How do we know that scientists aren't just making
this stuff up? Many people are uncomfortable with
science or they just don't trust it, and who can blame them?
Scientists rarely agree on anything and it seems like every time
there is a fantastic discovery, a short time later there is another
scientific study that reverses what has been previously accepted as
true. Anyone following the debate over Global Warming or anyone
who has ever tried an assortment of diets in an effort to loose or
gain weight knows this. Interpretation can come heavily into play,
just as religions argue over the interpretations of the bible,
scientists often argue over various interpretations of the theories.
Politics and money can also play huge roles in disagreements
between scientists. Many scientists live off grant money which,
like it or not, does have the ability to influence some scientific
proclamations and some scientific rebuttal. In the court of law,
often times we hear experts using the same science as testimony for
two opposing theories. We find ourselves not knowing who to
believe. In the words of Carl Sagan, it seems as though science is
toying with us at times.
Science is imperfect and alone it cannot answer our most
deeply harbored questions emphatically. The theory of the Multi-
verse and the implications that it proposes deserve to be questioned
and are. There have been few if any theories that have gone under
such scrutiny. Even worse, it has gone under the kind of scrutiny
that comes from biased scientists experimenting on a theory that
goes against every gut feeling he or she has ever had. Experiments
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on the "Many Worlds Theory” have been going on for more than
fifty years. The intentions of the experiments in almost every case
were set out to disprove the theory once and for all. In experiment
after experiment, equation after equation, not only was the theory
of the Multi-verse the most probable solution, it was practically the
only theory that satisfied the questions without opening a slew of
other paradoxes.
Unlike any other source of knowledge, scientific theories
supported by evidence from experimentation can be reliably
regarded without prejudice or bias. Though imperfect, nothing else
offers us remotely the same assurance. Knowledge from any other
source, not coming to us under the same scrutiny, is therefore open
to ridicule. Embracing knowledge that is based on a belief from a
speculative source is a blind faith and should not be
unconditionally trusted. The unconditional acceptance of blind
faith or "blind truth" is a weak-minded way of thinking. Blind
faith is for children not for intelligent adults. Nothing should ever
be considered on blind faith alone. You wouldn't allow blind faith
to rule your decisions on any other aspect of your life, why would
you accept anything blindly that pertains to the very reason of your
existence?

Whenever science has made attempts at explaining the

fundamental questions, such as where we come from, why we're
here, and where we're going when we die, it often flies in the face
of what we generally believed prior to gaining that knowledge.
Many times the severity of the contradictions to our present beliefs
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new knowledge in hand. But before deciding whether or not to

embrace a new idea, we need to first question our current
understanding. Just because our current understanding is what we
were taught doesn't necessarily make it concrete or much less
correct. Many of the theories and basis of our understanding of the
world were the ideas and theories of an ancient and more primitive
human. The basic understanding of the world in which we live
originated as ancient ideas and as ancient beliefs. It was only after
science delivered either supportive or contradictory evidence that
many of those ideas and theories were upheld or reversed. Ideas
yet to be challenged by science are still held as truth in our society.
But it is a blind truth.
Imagine how enlightening you could be if you were able to
go back in time, say 3,000 years, and demonstrate to those people
the knowledge we embrace today. Imagine if you could teach them
basic ideas, such as the size and shape of our world, that the Earth
is a sphere, and not flat. You could explain to them that the Sun
does not "rise" from sea in the east and "set" or sink into the sea in
the west. You could tell them that the sun is nowhere near the earth
at all, but instead it is very large and very far away. You could
explain to them that the stars are not gods, but instead they are suns
and other worlds seen by us from a vast distance. You could then
try to put those distances in perspective to them. You could
further explain that diseases are not spread by demons but are
spread by germs: Microorganisms too small to see with the naked
eye. You could teach them the importance of hygiene.
These are just a few ideas that are crystal clear to you and I,
but would be mind boggling to an ancient man. The ideas you
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would be presenting to them would be counter intuitive. It would

be nearly impossible for them to get their heads around it. You
could show them evidence in the form of mathematics, which it is
clear that they had a very firm grasp of. You could show them
pictures taken from space, and make accurate predictions about the
movements of the stars or let them look through your microscope
to view the bugs that are spreading the disease. Even still, your
ideas would have a difficult time getting through to them as a true
depiction of reality. And then, you would probably be executed as
a heretic.
We are at a similar crossroads with our science of quantum
mechanics, which can be thought of as a revolutionary theory from
the future that is being illustrated to contradict our present day
understanding of the world in which we live. It is difficult to let go
of our beliefs and distrust our common sense. Our present
understanding of the world is comfortable to us, and right or
wrong, comfort and peace of mind usually wins over truth: at least
for a while.
To fully understand the science of quantum mechanics you
would have to study mathematics diligently for 15 years or more.
Most of us, myself included, have little ambition or the mental
capacity to learn anything further than basic algebra and therefore
the hopes of us ever truly understanding the details of our world
will continue to elude us for the rest of our lives. Understanding
the details of the mechanics of our world is complicated; did you
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Different from the basic knowledge that I previously

described to be used to enlighten a primitive man, our complete
understanding of the world today has far outgrown our spoken
languages. Spoken languages are not fit to adequately explain
every nuance of nature and what we perceive as reality. The
language of Mathematics however, is. Scientists have embraced the
language of mathematics to understand the mechanics of our
reality. Just because we don't speak the language isn't grounds for
us to crucify the interpreter when the answers we're getting aren't in
line with our present understanding. Of course, this doesn't mean
to accept scientific belief blindly or merely on the word of the
scientist. Blind faith is bad no matter which side it is coming from.
As reassurance, scientists developed experimentation and
precise prediction as a means to not only verify their theories but
also as a means to translate their theories into spoken language. To
know that the theories proposed by quantum mechanics are correct,
one only needs to reap the rewards of the microprocessor, laser
technology, and superconductors. All of these wonderful
technologies are based on the principles of quantum mechanics.
These technologies began as experiments in order to prove the
theories and predictions of the science and now they enrich our
world in ways we could have never imagined only 50 years ago.
The reason the Multi-verse isn't obvious to us in our
everyday lives, is due mainly to two reasons (the first of which I
will cover in this chapter and the later in Chapter 8). The first
reason we don’t have knowledge of our existence within a Multi-
verse is because we experience our world, our reality, through five
senses. Our judgments and analysis of our reality are biased
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because of the limitations of the physiological human experience.

In other words, it is impossible for us to fully understand elements
of our reality that cannot be experienced through our senses.
To consider many of the theories proposed by quantum
physics and cosmology, we are required to view time and space
through multiple dimensions; many more than the three or even
four dimensions that we are accustomed to in our everyday lives.
Our failure to firmly grasp these other dimensions is due to the way
in which our brain processes information by comparing it to our
everyday experiences. Because we have nothing to compare it to,
it is virtually impossible to "experience", even through thought,
some of the ideas proposed by these highly technical theories. The
only way to express and understand these ideas is through the
language of mathematics. Take for instance, trying to explain what
the world looks like or more specifically, the notion of color, to a
person who has been blind from birth. It cannot be done. There
are no words in any language that can convey the experience of
seeing color. The experience however, can be described and
understood by a blind person through mathematics. By studying
the mathematics of a wave function one could understand what
color is, why it is, and how it would be different from white light or
darkness. Equally so, there are few if no spoken words that can
adequately describe aspects of our reality which we do not
experience first hand. These aspects of our reality can be "seen"
and explored mathematically, however getting a full sense of them
is ultimately impossible.
Many people ask where these other universes are located and
if we can visit or interact with them. Well, the strange part is the
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other universes occupy the same space and time as the universe in
which we currently reside. We don't know if we can interact with
them at all. Of course, if we could interact with them then our
mere intervention would take us to another universe (another
reality) hence the beginning of the paradox that initiated the theory
to begin with. The whole thing is just crazy and you can almost
make yourself sick trying to get your head around it.
I believe that it might be possible that there are people who
are able to interact at least at some level, with the parallel worlds.
Perhaps people with self-proclaimed psychic ability are the
beginning of the next evolution of the human brain, an evolution
that enables the brain to process information non-linearly. Perhaps
the fact they are getting only glimpses is a result of them not being
able to fully comprehend what they are seeing. An interesting
aspect of psychic phenomena (if it truly exists) is that we now
know that time itself is just an illusion. The most intriguing part
about that is why then can we remember the past but not remember
the future? Or can we? Perhaps psychics can analyze glimpses of
the future (things we haven’t comprehended yet) but it is their lack
of complete comprehension of this idea or the mechanics of the
Multi-verse that prohibits them to make sense of what they are
seeing. Remember, if they can "see the future" then what they are
seeing is only one of an infinite number of possibilities. But, if
they were catching glimpses of other nearby universes they would
see universes that had subtle variations of possible future events. In
other words, perhaps they are seeing nearby probable universes.
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There has been an interesting discovery in neurobiology

using computer models and we now know there is much more to
reality than what we perceive through our senses. Our
consciousness would be required to process nearly one hundred
million-billion bits of information per second to successfully
interact with reality, however the brain can only account for a few
thousand bits of that information. Those few thousand bits of
information encompass regulatory body function, but hardly
account for the processing required to produce thoughts and our
perception of the "outside world". How then are we processing the
rest of reality? Beyond this, the human brain is just too slow to
account for the miraculous speeds in which we process and interact
with our reality. Our brains process information at just under 120
meters per second, which is the travel time for the information to
transfer from one neuron to another neuron. This is in comparison
to a home computer, which transfers information from one
transistor to another at nearly 97 million meters per second.
Neurologists have since calculated that if the brain was a standard
serial or parallel computer it would take more time than the age of
the universe to perform all of the necessary calculations associated
with a single perceptual event. But, if the brain was interfaced to a
quantum computer (a superconscious), it could try out all of the
various possible calculations at once and then unify the results in a
single reaction. This understanding has led many neurologists
including Nobel Laureate, Sir John Eccles that the entire scope of
consciousness must not remain limited to the confines of the
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All of this is to presume that there is an “outside world”

which is perceived by our bodies, who then converts this sensory
perception into information. The information is then sent to the
superconscious for analysis, where it is processed and then sent
back to our bodies to complete the experience. Couldn’t it be
possible that the entire experience was being produced within the
superconscious and then sent to our bodies to react to it? In this
scenario is there really any reason to have a body at all?
Beyond the mountain of information encompassing the
reality that we do experience, we know there are lots of aspects to
our reality that we do not experience directly, but we are aware
exists. We can perceive these aspects of reality second hand
through the aid of machines and even animals. For example, we
know there are many variations of light and sound such as
ultraviolet light, gamma-rays, and frequencies of sound that go far
beyond what the human eyes or ears are capable of detecting. We
know that a dog’s sense of smell is six thousand times more
powerful than ours. But these are merely amplifications of senses
that we already have, sight, smell and hearing.
We can only begin to fathom what other aspects of reality
might be among the data contained in the universes in which we
live. Our physiological handicap of five senses is more than likely
just the tip of the reality iceberg. We have recently uncovered
evidence supporting the claims of people suffering from a
condition known as Synaesthesia. This condition is where a person
perceives one sense in place of or in addition to another sense. For
example, people with this condition can "see" and "feel" a stimulus
of sound or music. They will physically perceive or "observe"
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pictures or color in response to the stimulus of music, others will

physically feel pain or pleasure. Others observe sounds with the
stimulus of looking at a painting or a picture; and still others can
see colors with their sense of touch. Scientists for a long time did
not believe people who were reporting these conditions. Recently
however, patients such as these have undergone MRI scans while
receiving a particular stimulus. During these tests it was
determined that areas of the patients brain reserved for particular
senses were operating just as the patients described. The study of
this condition is still in its infancy. Whether this is just due to
faulty wiring or because these people have a special gift of being
able to perceive other aspects of our reality we will probably never
know. There are now computer programs that assign sound
frequency and pitch to color values of light and vice-versa. With
this very basic computer program we can understand how every
picture has a soundtrack and how every sound has a picture. We
can now easily understand how there is much more to reality than
we are presently perceiving.
There is a wonderful story by physicist Michio Kaku that
puts experiences that are beyond our senses into perspective.
Professor Kaku describes a carp pond that he recalls from his
childhood.
It is a large pond in a Japanese garden with an assortment
of fish, carp to be exact, swimming about the bottom surface of the
pond completely unaware of the parallel world that lies just above
their heads. The pond is just deep enough for the fish to swim
along its surface and shallow so to constrict their movements
vertically. To the carp, their world, their universe, is flat. There is
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no up or down. Everything they know lie within the few inches of

water.
He imagines that there are carp scientists that have
proposed the idea that there is a parallel universe lying just above
the tops of the water lilies but their theories are scoffed by the elder
carp fish. For any attempt to describe such a world had failed to
adequately paint a reasonable picture.
One day someone reaches their hand into the pond grabbing
one of the fish and removing him from the pond. The fish below
they only see their friend vanish before their eyes in a swift wake.
A short time later the fish is thrown back into the pond. The fish
below are shocked to see their friend suddenly re-appear before
their eyes in another swift wake. It is a miracle! The stunned fish
tries to explain to the other carp that he was taken "up" and out of
the water (out of the universe) but there is no word for "up" in the
carp language nor is there a way to describe being "out of the
water". He tries to describe an area of space that not only had left
and right, but up and down. The universe was also less dense and
he couldn't breathe. He saw objects there he had never imagined
before, cars and buildings and trees. There were creatures there that
were a hundred times bigger than that of a fish. He explained that
when he looked "down" he could see the top of the other carps'
bodies. A view that was impossible for the other carp to envision.
The poor fish was unsuccessful at describing this other
world that lay just above their heads. To the other fish the idea of
another world so strange was ridiculous. And the idea of a parallel
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barrier was just impossible to comprehend.

Our one universe handicap as a result of the human
experience makes it difficult for us to completely embrace the fact
that there is so much more out there. There are in fact, an infinite
number of possibilities out there separated from us, our
consciousness, by only the thinnest barrier, a barrier of doubt.
Perhaps five senses are just the beginning of the ultimate human
experience. Things get really interesting when we start thinking
about other possible universes where you have more than five
senses and do poses the ability to interact with the parallel worlds
around you. Perhaps this might help to explain ghosts and other
paranormal events.
When considering the accounts of people who have had near
death experiences (NDE) with the concept of the Multi-verse we
discover some very interesting correlations as well. When these
people try to describe what the experience is like, just like the carp
in the story, they suddenly find themselves lost for words. First,
they seem to loose all sense of time. The experience could have
lasted only a few seconds or it may have lasted months. Nearly all
of them have out of body experiences where they often describe
separating from their bodies and floating away. Their being no
longer having form, their entity or soul is unbound. Their view of
their reality is also no longer confined to stereoscopic vision.
Instead, many seem to view all aspects of their surroundings at
once, like a hologram in 360 degrees, but with extraordinary
resolution and can recall very fine details of their surroundings. Of
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light that exudes an indescribable peace and comfort. It is a place

to which they feel like they belong and are a part of. A place
where they are not judged, a place that exudes an unconditional
love for them. Many also describe getting a holographic review of
not only their life, but also of other peoples lives and how their
actions affected others.
To me, these descriptions fall perfectly in line with the
concept of a Multi-verse. Of course, it can be argued that these
accounts fall perfectly in line with going to Heaven as well, but the
details of Heaven, in the biblical sense, are usually vague at best.
When we think about Heaven we usually think of clouds, and giant
gates and angels with wings, a description that is very different
from these accounts. Instead, people who have had near death
experiences are describing events consistent with what we might
imagine the experience would be of exiting a virtual reality,
merging with a collective mind, and reviewing and sharing the
information that we have gathered through our experience in this
reality. The most interesting part of this is that these accounts are
completely unbiased. I don't imagine anyone dying with a
preconception of an afterlife within a Multi-verse. Another
intriguing observation is the dying person’s out of body perspective
of their reality. If they can see their reality from a different
perspective, what sensory organ are they using to observe their
surroundings? Their eyes are still contained within the body below
them eyelids either closed or “looking up”, how then are they
observing anything unless of course, the observation of our reality
is merely produced within our own minds.

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As I said in the beginning of chapter 3, the answers to the

ultimate questions harbored deep inside each one of us, and the
questions you harbor that inspired you to read this book, may elude
us for quite sometime to come. It is possible that we will never
know for certain the true meaning and purpose of it all. But not
knowing the answers to those questions shouldn't keep us from
contemplating and exploiting what we do know, that we live within
a Multi-verse and that our life's purpose is to learn by experiencing
the reality around us. We live in a playground for the mind. We
live in a reality that can be changed and manipulated by sheer will,
a reality limited only by our imagination. Anything you desire
from life can be achieved, all you have to do is believe it and ask
for it.

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receive them, and ye shall have them."

~ Mark 11:24

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Religion

The Religious Interpretation

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A
s I mentioned in the beginning of this book, the
most fantastic part about all of this, is that all of
these ideas fall right in line with the teachings of
our most cherished and celebrated religions. Simply strip away all
of the hype and culture that religions are packaged in and apply the
core of that religion to the concept of the Multi-verse and you will
find that it miraculously fits!
It is simply amazing to me that the theory of the Multi-verse
as well as the concepts of living in a simulation were initiated in a
frame of mind that was very far away from any kind of religion or
spirituality and yet, in the end, it wound up re-interpreting the
meaning of religion and spirituality itself. It is even more amazing
that the core ideas that our religious messiahs and prophets
proposed to us thousands of years ago so closely fit the scientific
evidence discovered only recently. The ideas have always been
correct, it was just the interpretation that has been so misguided for
all of these years.
At their core, many of the religions have got it right, at least
for the most part. In this chapter I will show you how many of the
religions at their core work within the concepts of the multi-verse.
With that being said however, religion these days is an organized
political party driven by culture, money and power. That is never
going to change. The fact is no religions are preaching these
concepts or ideologies now. But rest assured as soon as these ideas
spread and begin to catch on (and they will) all of the religions are
going to jump up and say, "See, we told you so!" Until that time
comes however, I am going to be labeled as a blasphemer, a liberal,
and more than likely as an instrument of Satan. Once the religions
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have taken this in as their own, just as in the past, slowly layers of
hype will grow around the ideology before it is once again lost in a
sea of rules, and non-constructive cultural customs. I hope that I
am wrong. I hope this is just a pessimistic point of view. This
ideology should be embraced by all religions. They should
recognize that they need to re-examine their core message and
apply that message to the concepts of the Multi-verse.
Unfortunately, doing this would remove or at least reduce the
power and control they have over their patrons and more
significantly, reduce the amount of money they are taking in. I
would tell them that helping their patrons to become more like God
is their ultimate calling. Besides, there is plenty of money to be
made in teaching the masses to believe in them selves.
Anytime someone questions a paradigm, more specifically a
religion or God for that matter, it is considered blasphemy. But it is
clear that our present understanding of a monotheistic God in all
religions is not working. We are a dysfunctional society at best
and a cruel one at worst. We are infatuated with our egos,
consumed with stress and obtaining possession and power over
others. We live anything but a blissful life experience. Our
existence here on Earth is very far away from the Nirvana from
which we came. To think that an almighty God could create all
that we know from the heavens to the microorganisms and yet not
make it a perfect place is an absurd idea.
In my search for religious validation of Multi-verse theory, I
was surprised to find as many correlations as I did. Even through
my limited research I was able to find similarities in philosophy in
most of the religions that I came across; and I was able to find a
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harmonious synchronicity in a select few. Of all of the religions,

the most interesting correlations that I found were in the Hindu
religion and even more specifically, in the teachings of Buddha.
Both of these ancient religions closely fit into the concepts of the
Multi-verse as well as the proposal that we are living in a
simulation. I also found many interesting similarities in the
Hebrew’s teaching of the Kabbalah and the religion of the
Australian Native Aborigines, "The Dream". By studying The
Lines in Red, The teachings of Jesus Christ from his own words, I
have found beautiful correlations to Multi-verse theory described in
simplistic metaphor. The Islamic teachings of Muhammad also
support these ideas. And lastly, many of the concepts and
philosophies of Scientology echo truths proposed by Multi-verse
theory. This I find less than surprising considering much of
Scientology was developed following Hugh Everett’s initial
proposition of a Multi-verse existence.
I am not a religious scholar and I don't claim to be. I would
not be surprised at all to discover that there are many religions out
there that fall closely in line with the ideas of this book. Of course,
most religious doctrine is by design so vague that it can be
construed to support just about any theory. However, in my
limited research, I discovered fascinating similarities in many of
the religions. I found that most of the religious core concepts
support the multi-verse theory as well as many of its proposed
origins or at least make room for them.
With that being said, my purpose for writing this section is
not to promote these religions, but instead to provide a peace of
mind for those who are still having trouble letting go of their core
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religious beliefs. By making a comparison between and applying

the core religious beliefs to the reality of the Multi-verse, it is my
hope to open your mind further, eliminating once and for all any
lingering doubt. With an open-minded approach, I hope you will
discover that the religions of the world do not have the market
cornered on spirituality. Finding God and the meaning of your life
is a search that begins within.
Like in the bible, where the teachings of Jesus stemmed a
new religion, Christianity, so did the teachings of Buddha from
Hinduism. Jesus was a Jew, and Buddha was a Hindu. What I find
most interesting in the Buddha and Hindu religions is the fact that
they both believe that our lives are merely a cycle within the
"Samsara", essentially they believe that our reality is an illusion.
They believe that we live within a false reality, in a repeating cycle
of birth through death and then reincarnation until we have
obtained certain qualities of life. These qualities are where the two
religions split.
The Buddhist believe that life within this world is full of
sorrow and that by eliminating the sorrows of the world one would
achieve salvation. By being good to yourself and being good to
others, essentially always doing the "right thing", is the method of
eliminating sorrow and the passage to getting out of this cycle and
on to a higher plain of existence, Nirvana. The Hindu on the other
hand, believe that our life's purpose is to achieve four "arthas" or
goals in life before getting the pass to end the reincarnation cycle.
The four goals are, wealth and possession, desires and passions,
divine awareness and holiness, and wisdom and liberation. After
achieving these certain qualities, they believe we are transported
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out of the cycle and into a higher world. Essentially both religions
believe that our purpose within this reality is to learn through
experience. Once we (our vehicles) have gained the experience we
are programmed for we "awaken" from this reality into a Utopian
world.
The Buddha believes that the illusory quality of our reality
can be seen perfectly clearly through practice of the Buddhist
philosophy and through meditation. They claim that after years of
practicing meditation and holiness, the world becomes clear like a
blanket pulled from over our eyes and only then can we fully
comprehend the true meaning of life. But before anything, they
insist, we must believe that we are in fact living within a false
realty.
"Genuine freedom and liberation can only be achieved when
our fundamental ignorance, our habitual misapprehension of the
nature of reality is totally over come. This ignorance which
underlies all of our emotional and cognitive states is the root factor
that binds us to the perpetual cycle of life and death in the
Samsara." (The Dalai Lama)
These are the fundamental truths that I have been talking
about throughout this book. Overcoming our doubts, accepting
that the world we live in is an illusion and trusting that we have the
ability to manipulate the reality around us is the key to success
within the Multi-verse. Our lives are a test, and the game is to
master the reality around us. Mastering our reality and consciously
directing our lives perfectly throughout the Multi-verse, gathering
information and experience along they way is the point of it all.

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Most interestingly is the religion of the Australian Native

Aborigine. The Aborigine people have long been considered the
most primitive culture in the world and thought of as the only
living ancestor of all of mankind. Like the American Indians, they
are among the least understood band of people in the world and
have long suffered from other cultures that have taken advantage of
their ignorance of modern culture. The word Aborigine means
"The people who were here from the beginning" which is not the
same meaning as "indigenous", which pertains to people who
settled a particular area of land first. Their religion, translated as
"The Dream", is one of the most awesome and thought provoking
ideas that I have come across in my research. Dr. Fred Alan Wolf
presents a fascinating account in his book, The Dreaming Universe.
The Aborigine believe that there were once powerful beings that
roamed the Earth who gave birth to all people, animals, plants and
things in this world. It is their belief that our lives, our reality are
the "dream" of these powerful beings. They believe each of us
have an individual ego or soul, however outside of "The Dream"
(our reality) we are a single entity. They believe that when we
dream in this reality we unite and live among the powerful beings
as a single entity.
Couldn't this easily be thought of as a future human
civilization dreaming of the past? More precisely a future human
civilization or artificial intelligence rendering a virtual reality of a
past human history? A rendering of the past to learn and
experience more, gathering information to be uploaded and shared
while we sleep and dream. The Aborigine believes that the
powerful beings are part of a single entity, "God" if you will, or
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when applied to the concepts of this book, a collective mind.

It is an interesting note that the Aborigine has no language
for or comprehension of time. For them, "The Dream", (our
waking reality) is timeless; a fact we now understand to be reality.
What's even more interesting is that when we dream we seem to
have no correlation or connection to time. Our dreams often seem
to last hours, days and sometimes a lifetime, but when we awake
we realize that the dream lasted only a few seconds. If we were
living in a virtual reality, the sense of time could be manipulated by
how fast the information supplied to create the virtual experience
was being processed. By slowing down or speeding up the
processing, time would not change, because there is no time in our
reality, but more or less activity would be experienced within the
duration of the processing from the perspective of outside our
reality. Time for us has no true meaning. However, by slowing
down the processing to one frame a year for example (24 frames
per second within the virtual rendering), our life span within in the
Multi-verse would seem like a typical one of eighty years but in the
reality outside of the Multi-verse somewhere around 42 million
years would have passed. By increasing the processing speed we
could reverse this effect, essentially simulating billions of years in
the span of a single second. This all goes back to Einstein's
Relativity Theory. The problem is there is no way of telling if the
reality outside of ours (if there is one) lies within another false or
virtual reality. For all we know, there could be an infinite number
of realities all residing within the next. We could be living a dream
within another dream, within a dream continuing for infinity. It
could even be argued that this is likely the scenario, making time
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itself in all realities pointless.

Time plays an important role in the modern world. It
reduces chaos and it restores a sense of order allowing for an
efficient running society. Time provides synchronicity, enabling us
to plan for our future experiences and to contemplate the memories
of our previous ones. Our misapprehension of life on Earth as a
chronological series of events stems a great deal from the Old
Testament in particular to the calculations of Bishop James Ussher.
Ussher calculated “The Beginning” to be that of nightfall preceding
October 23, 4004 B.C. Utilizing some very sophisticated
mathematics, Ussher’s science of understanding the history of the
Bible in a sense of “time”, a new concept of the period, is
impressive but ultimately wrong. The idea of time is now so
entrenched in our psyche it is nearly impossible to think about the
history of everything without it.
Of all of the religions in the world none have caused as much
debate, fighting and suffering than that of the teachings of the
Bible. This is a point of fact that I find incredibly ironic, because
to me the very point of religion is to bring mankind together under
God, not divide them. In the mists of the arguing, the fighting and
the wars, what people seldom want to admit is that the core of this
sacred book stems to the very religions who just cannot seem to get
along. The God of the bible is the same God for the Christians in
all of its variations, as well as that of the Jews and the Muslims.
The fighting is really just over semantics. To trivialize it even
further, the fighting is over the political hype and cultures
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is the same. I am sure this comment is going to raise a few hairs on

a lot of people, but you cannot deny the fundamental truth in what I
have just said. If you were to strip down all of these religions, to
the core teachings of the messiahs and prophets only focusing on
the message itself, it becomes clear they all believe in the same
thing. What the fighting really stems from is a clash over culture
not religion, but the fighting is done in the name of God to give
each cause validity. Few would lend their lives to another mans
cause, but most would lend their lives in the name of God. With
that being said, I can concede that it is not the Bible that is wrong,
but our continuous misinterpretation of its metaphors.
To cover all of the religions that stem from the Bible,
essentially The Dead Sea Scrolls with further testaments and
variations on those, I would have to go through each of the named
prophets and messiahs, because ultimately it is from them whom
we receive Gods message. This in its self, could lend to an entire
book and so I will only briefly touch on the correlations I have
found without getting too deeply entrenched into the religions.
Instead, I suggest doing your own research to see how the view of
the Multi-verse can be construed out of any particular branch of
these religions. I will elaborate a bit more on Christianity only
because I was raised Catholic and thus was able to find obvious
synchronicity with relative ease.
Christianity, like most other religions, stems in part from
the previous beliefs and culture prior to the Bible, which was that
of the Pagans. Paganism, which is now thought of as witchcraft,
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was only after the New Testament started gaining ground that the
Pagans were viewed as devil worshipers. This could not be further
from the truth. In fact so popular was Paganism, the Christians
incorporated many of the rituals into their new religion. It is no
coincidence that Jesus was born on December 25th and died on the
Spring Equinox. Before it was renamed Christmas, December 25th
was the celebrated Pagan holiday "Mithras of Christ", or "Birth of
Mithra". Mithra or "Mother" was a powerful God of the Romans
who gave life to all things. The Spring Equinox, better known as
Easter, was the celebrated day of the fertility Goddess Eostara,
which is why Easter continues to be symbolized with the very
fertile bunny rabbit and the egg. The celebration of these Pagan
holiday's included: buying gifts for one another (a very popular
idea), decorating trees, brotherly love, baptism, communion, and
holy water. All of these holidays and rituals were tough
competition for a new religion, so in the 6th century, the Christians
made this part up about their religion. It was "hype" designed to
attract more followers. But if they made this up, what else was
made up? The teachings of Jesus Christ are profound enough to
stand on their own. The hype simply isn't necessary!
At the time of Jesus, men claiming to be profits were
roaming all over the place. Most of them con artists interested only
in forming cults to separate men from their possessions. So what
was it that made Jesus different from the rest? What was it that
made the masses follow him? What was it that made the Romans
and the Jews fearful of him? The ideas and concepts that Jesus
proposed are still profound two thousand years later, but they were
much more profound in the time of Jesus. For example, the idea of
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"turning the other cheek" was not a very popular idea back then.
From boyhood on, Jesus had a fascination with philosophy that
preoccupied his mind. He questioned the well-accepted theories of
his time, and with it religion itself, at a period in history where
doing so would often result in a swift execution.
To better understand what Jesus’ true intentions were, we
need to remove much of the New Testament and focus only on the
words that Jesus himself used to describe his philosophy. By
studying The Lines in Red we are able to strip the religion down to
its core, down to his ideology in its purest form. Upon peeling
back the layers we find that Jesus was not describing a new religion
at all. What he was suggesting was that we are all apart of God and
therefore we create our own reality. Jesus dared to suggest that
through the power of belief in yourself and God, one could achieve
anything without limitation.
The first step to truly appreciating Jesus’ concepts is to
replace our current idea of who or what God is with an
understanding of God through the concept of the Multi-verse. To
begin, you must stop thinking about God as an old man, the "father
figure" of Jesus, a being separate from us who lives up in the
clouds judging us. Instead, think about an all-knowing being of
whom we are all part of and connected to. Think of God as our
collective mind. Think of God as not just the creator but as the
very essence of everyone and everything. Once you have done
this, the teachings of Jesus start to take on a whole new idea. For
the first time his teachings begin to make sense in an unparalleled
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With a new understanding of God, the very nature of

reality, and the world around you, try re-evaluating some of the
most profound ideas Jesus proposed to us:
"Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in me will also do
the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do."
Jesus is not asking us to believe in him, but believe in what he is
teaching. By believing in the power of your subconscious mind
and accepting the fact that we live in a dream world that can be
manipulated by sheer will, we will all have power equal to Jesus.
“…and greater works than these will he do.” The “he” Jesus is
referring to is you, the one who believes in these ideas. We can
achieve greater works than these because we are only limited by
our imagination.
"The Kingdom of Heaven is inside you and it is outside you.
Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and there
you will find me." We are all connected. Everything, including you
is the dream of a collective conscious. The dream of God is the
essence of all things in our reality including each other.
"And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have
faith." Do I even need to explain this one? Prayer is just a form of
meditation. It is a way to establish a communication link between
you and the all knowing collective, God, to whom we are all
connected through our subconscious mind. The communication
process takes place only if you eliminate your doubt, and have
unwavering faith in your abilities.
"What things soever ye desire, believe that ye receive them,
and ye shall have them." The power of belief is all that you need to
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manifest anything you wish out of your life. Believe that you can.
Know it without any shred of doubt and you will have it. I believe
what made Jesus different from the rest of the self proclaimed
messiahs and why he is worshiped two thousand years after his
death is because he did believe that anything was possible and with
that he did master the power of his subconscious mind. Jesus did
walk on water! He knew that he could and he did. He manifested
food when there was none. He cured people of their ailments
through both his power over this false reality and because he got
others to believe that he could.
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to
the Father, but by me." Now here is the quote that I think has
been the most grossly misinterpreted. I don't believe that Jesus was
inferring to believing in his divinity, but again, more so in the
belief of his teachings. With this quote the teachings of Jesus
become very similar to the concepts and teachings of Buddha, a
belief that the only way to achieve salvation (going to the father) is
by believing in the true nature of your world and through the
elimination of sorrow which can be achieved by being good to
yourself and good to others. This is the "way" that I believe Jesus
was referring to. Remember, the "Father" of Jesus is also the
"Father" of us. The "Father" refers to God, the creator and the
essence of all things. Jesus is saying that the only way to leave
this world and go on to a higher plane of existence in commune
with God is through believing in his teachings; believing that we
are God and that we can have anything that we imagine. We must
believe that our reality is merely an illusion and therefore we create
our own lives. The world is anything you want it to be and as
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detailed as you want to make it.

What Jesus wanted us to understand was that all lives are
equally divine. His lessons were not intended to be scrutinized in
their literal sense. Instead, his lessons come to us thick in
metaphor and lost in translation due to the very nature of this
enigmatic subject. The concepts he taught us are difficult to
express even in today’s complex languages even with our vast
understanding of science and the true nature of our world.
A very dear friend and brilliant confidant has tried on a few
occasions to convince me that the only way to salvation is to accept
Jesus Christ as my savior. My friend is the most intelligent man I
personally know and scholar of many of the worlds’ religions. He
tells me that in of all of his research, Christianity makes the most
sense to him and he does his best to convince me to think likewise.
Though I am a strong believer in the teachings of Jesus Christ, I
cannot believe in any God that would punish someone, a part of
itself, for sake of not believing that a single man died to forgive all
of my sins. I cannot believe that this is the road to salvation. I do
not believe that there are any sins to forgive; instead I believe there
is only regret. I can however understand that the road to salvation
starts with becoming self-aware which would include believing in a
God that we are all part of and connected to every moment for all
eternity. I cannot support a religion who would so blatantly
condemn billions of people simply because they were not exposed
to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Accepting Jesus Christ as our
savior is not criteria for being a good Christian. Instead, I believe
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Just as Jesus walked the Earth inspiring a New Testament to

the Bible, The prophet Muhammad inspired a different testament,
The Qu’ran, from which was the birth of Islam. These three
religions are intricately connected because not only do they all
stem from the same source (The Bible) but also Islam recognizes
all of the prophets of both testaments referring to the prophet
Muhammad as the last and final prophet. Muhammad himself
claimed that he was not trying to disregard the teachings of the
other prophets but instead his intention was to bring a stricter
adherence towards them. Just as with Christianity and Judaism,
years of ill translated metaphors brought upon by clash of culture
have brought bigotry to an otherwise peaceful religion.
As I write these words, the world is besieged with fighting
on a religious level. Islamic fundamentalist have become a scar to
the very religion they fight for, but we must remember that every
religion has its scar, the Christian Crusades fought over Holy
Lands with equal violence as well as ignorance. This is also the
same Holy Lands the Jews fight the Palestinians over today. The
violence will never come to an end until someone realizes that
revenge is not a cause worth fighting for and that spirituality is
meant to unify us all under God. The land being fought over is
hardly the essence of any religion, for all spirituality begins and
ends within.
The original source of the Bible, which influenced both the
Christians and Muslims, was that of the Jews. The Old Testament
is one of the world’s most ancient religions. In this testament, the
Jews most widely held that God is Panentheistic, meaning that he is
both immanent with the universe but also transcends it, which
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simply means that the Universe itself is within God and that all
matter also came from within God. In the Quabalah, one of the
oldest texts from which the bible is derived, states “By wisdom
God created the Heaven and the Earth.” Presenting a model not
unlike the idea that Multi-verse theory begs us to consider. Further
correlations can be found in Judaism particularly within the
Quabalah, which seems to go stride for stride with our new
understanding of the nature of ultimate reality.
“Faith is the only way to redemption. In all other qualities a
person can become confused by egoism, but faith is the only basis
for a person’s ascent to the spiritual realm”- Talmud, Makot.
Where Judaism splits with both Christianity and with the
Muslims is they believe the Messiah (a Human being, not a deity)
has yet to come, that instead he will come during “The End of
Days”, a time ushering in a new world, with an end to all of the
evils of the world. The new messiah will unify the enemies of
Judaism and bring everlasting peace to a world gone so wrong.
Organized religion provides a wonderful home for most of
the people on this planet. Organized religion does wonderful
things to improve this world and to help a lot of people. But as
wonderfully as religion has improved our lives, this pales in
comparison to the harm it has done to humanity by dividing us and
suppressing our imagination. People think they need to belong to
something because they are not aware that they are already
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power, it is about control, it is about politics and it is about money.

I only hope that with the spread of these ideologies organized
religion will embrace these concepts as they are and will use the
power and money they have been given to further explore these
discoveries and teach these concepts to everyone.
As I have said previously, all religions in the end are just
stories made up by mortal men; men with brains no different from
yours or mine writing about the unknowable. You are an
intelligent being and with that there is no reason for you to blindly
accept anyone else's truths on faith alone. Religions, in the end, are
merely stories and ideas. As wonderful as they may be, their
significance and meaning is no more important than any thoughts
that you might have about who you are, what your place is in this
world or what God is to you. Follow your heart. Allow your mind
to lead you to God on the path that is right for you
Although I do not support any current organized religion, I
do believe there is a lot that can be learned from all of them and I
believe there is a lot that they can offer the world by choosing to
embrace these concepts. Every religion offers ideas, some I agree
with and some that I don't agree with. In the end, for me, I have
found the hype and culture surrounding religion to be the
fundamental problem with all of them. To me, God is a shapeless,
race-less, genderless all-knowing entity consisting of everyone and
all things, including the worst of us. God passes no judgment,
punishment or reward, but is the essence of all experiences good
and bad. For me, time spent on religion and worship only takes
away from the time that I can spend focusing on myself and
improving my experience in the Multi-verse. I choose to adhere
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and focus on the teachings and the message that were taught to us
instead of worshiping the messenger himself. Through belief in
myself, the nature of my reality and positive suggestion, I am
carrying on and living the holiest life possible. I am guiding my
soul towards the universes where I am getting the most that I can
out of this experience, an area where there is nothing but good and
happiness in my life, and peace in the reality around me.

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~Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Spiritually Tying It All
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The Unification That Can Change The World

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F
or the past six or seven years I have become obsessed
with the concepts that I have laid out for you. The
Search for Schrödinger's Cat led me to countless
other books about physics and quantum mechanics. I am not a
scientist, so much of the material was very difficult for me to grasp,
especially when described in the words of a physicist.
I found myself reading the books over and over again. I
spent countless hours at bookstores, libraries and online
researching every bit of information I could get my hands on with
regards to the subject. I found the theories to be awesomely
profound. How was it possible that this stuff wasn't the topic of
conversation everywhere? How was it possible that the general
public wasn't being informed about this stuff? Here I was lying in
bed night after night utterly blown away by these ideas and it
seemed that nobody else in the world aside from a bunch of
scientists and a few geeks like me were even aware of the
implications of these theories. I just couldn't believe it. How could
people obsess over UFO's, Bigfoot and other mysteries when the
biggest mystery, the one affecting all of us and the one staring us
all in the face was finally becoming knowable?
Even if the ideas where completely wrong they offered
more supportive evidence than any other theory out there, which is
the criteria in our society for matter of fact. People needed to know
this stuff, I thought. I made a few attempts at having conversations
with people about it. I discovered that people were either blown
away just as I was or just couldn't get past the rational of it all. For
those people, I felt like they could get there, but it would take time,
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and it would require more effort than what could be squeezed into a
five or ten minute conversation.
One night I was lying in bed with an assorted array of science
books and next to me was my wife Lisa, reading her "personal
power" books. Lisa, is highly intelligent and a self-help guru. Zig
Ziglar, Epictetus, Tony Robbins, Jim Rhon - she can't get enough.
My wife can rant off the appropriate power line in a moments
notice. I love to listen to her and I enjoy her enthusiasm. I also
feel like, if it works for her, then great. I never really read too
much into it, personally.
There have been a number of times when she would notice
and comment on my obviously perplexed demeanor as I read. She
would hear me exasperate myself in awe, which was then followed
by a couple of Ibuprofen and a glass of water. A few times I would
try to explain to her the concepts that I was studying but I never got
very far with her. My wife is a little more than moderately
religious. She is a devoted Baptist, but doesn't attend church,
which probably has more to do with the fact that she is married to
me than anything else. We have had a few vocal disagreements
with regards to religion as well as the Bible, but tend not to get too
deeply entrenched in our arguments. For the sake of family
harmony we often choose to agree to disagree. However, I have
since won her over.
One evening I got a book from her as a present. It was called
"The Power of Your Subconscious". It had an ominous title and I
said to her "great" in a very condescending tone of voice. I had
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that I start the book before I picked up any of the other physics
books that I had stacks of on my night-stand. I did my duty to
please her even though I thought that reading the book would be a
colossal waste of time. As I read through the first chapter, I
realized that the stuff in the book, when applied in the context of
the Multi-verse, suddenly made perfect sense. I thought to myself,
this must be why my wife wanted me to read this book! However,
as I kept reading with new found invigoration, I was waiting for the
author, who was a doctor and a scientist, to relay his philosophy
back to the Multi-verse theory, but to my extreme disappointment,
it never happened.
I found the book to be incredibly insightful and knowing
what I knew about the Multi-verse theory made the books' ideas
incredibly more intriguing. I felt like the ideology and the theories
went hand in hand. To me, the book had a fundamental flaw
though; the author presented little concrete evidence to support his
claims. There were vague references to old studies and countless
testimonials but to me, testimonials are not credible evidence.
Without credible evidence and scientific explanation,
implementing the power of your subconscious mind is practically
impossible; especially if you are not the kind of person who cannot
accept things on blind faith! I wanted to know how and why these
techniques were working for all of the people in his testimonials,
and my personal knowledge of quantum physics answered that
question. I suddenly had an epiphany! Could I be the first person
to ever put these two ideas together? How could I be that smart, or
that lucky?
As I continued to read, I couldn't believe the power that I
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had stumbled upon. Here I had one of the most insightful books
that I had ever read in my life, which presented virtually no
evidence or mechanical theory to support its claims, right next to a
stack of books with all of the evidence and mechanical theory in
the world, but with no ideology to go with it.
This was the one thing that would piss me off to no end when
reading these physics books. The scientist writing them seemed to
have no imagination or intuitiveness to apply their analysis to a
possible ideology. One theorist stated that offering a philosophical
rational to the theory requires too much meta-physical intervention.
The scientists would make suggestions, mind-blowing suggestions,
but few if any of them would go a step further to explain how the
theory philosophically applied to us. I wanted to know how this
knowledge applied to me and what I could gain or how I could
better my life with this new understanding of my reality. I mean,
this is the point, right? I was suddenly reminded about a comment
from a speech that I had read by a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
The speaker made no bones about his displeasure with the physics
community for not attempting to present these new advancements
in physics and quantum theory to the general public. He was
decidedly upset with the apparent arrogance of the scientist for
seemingly keeping these ideas to themselves and not sharing their
intellectual insight with the masses. Well, me too! Sure, they
published books and papers and managed websites, but they speak
their own language, and unless you have the patience and tenacity
to drag yourself through it all with a Webster’s by your side, you
never learn anything. I had no doubt that I was going to get
slammed by most of them for writing this book, but none of that
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mattered. What mattered was that these ideas were presented in an

intriguing and engaging way for everyone to share. These theories
and ideologies were just far too awesome and thought provoking
not to be explored by the masses. It is in the consideration of these
concepts that we can change the world. This is the conversation
that unites us all.
My research eventually led me to the study of meta-physics
and new age practices. Unfortunately, the closer I came to making
the connection between meta-physics and quantum physics the
more deeply I became disenchanted with it. At first, I began
reading these fantastic new age books that were describing reality
through the realm of the Multi-verse and I started to get very
excited. I couldn't understand how I could have missed out on all
of this stuff. It seemed that I had finally found the philosophy that
I had long been searching for. I thought to myself, "These people
aren't crack pots, they really have it figured out!" Then, I would
turn the page only to find references to Nostradamus, magical
moonbeams, and angels and demons. Unfortunately, the
intellectual insight of the books usually came accompanied with
passages about alien abduction, astrology, magic crystals,
witchcraft, and ESP; all tied together neatly in a ribbon of
spirituality and meaningless metaphors. To me there is no
frustration greater than people who are unable to just speak plainly
and to the point. It seemed that every single meta-physics book I
dredged through was filled with flowery language and metaphors
that did nothing but talk in circles. I had finally understood why
the scientists would have reservations about hinting in any way the
direction of the meta-physical thinking especially with their
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reputations on the line. But with that understanding I knew

someone had to bridge the gap. There are millions of people out
there just like me looking for guidance and looking for a way to
better their lives outside of the church but equally far away from
the tree hugging "new-age-ies" and meta-physical mystics. There
needed to be a simple philosophy that tied it all together without a
mountain of mathematics, personal power sales pitches, alien
abduction and rhetoric from the Church. I wanted to write the
book that I had been searching for.
Never in my life had I felt this kind of invigoration. I
understood for the first time the mechanics of the meaning of life.
I understood that I needed to go with that invigoration; that I
needed to follow this feeling without a waver of doubt. I
understood that all of the power in the universe, in the Multi-verse,
lay within my grasp. I understood that through my subconscious
mind, I could tap into an unfathomable source of knowledge and
that I could direct myself geographically towards a better, happier,
more meaningful life. The basis for the ideology was in place, the
mechanics for understanding how to get there was in place, and the
methods of practice were in place. It was up to me to put these
ideas together and present them in a most basic way for every
layman. I knew, beyond a shadow of doubt, that this is what I was
supposed to be doing in my life. This was the road I was supposed
to be on now. This was the next purpose of my life. My
subconscious mind was screaming at me to follow this road and
despite the fact that I had no idea how to write a book I was taking
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“When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project, all your thoughts
break their bonds, your mind transcends
limitation, your consciousness expands in every
direction, and you find yourself in a new great and
wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and
talents become alive and you discover yourself to
be a greater person by far, than you ever dreamed
yourself to be.”

~Pantanjali 250 BC

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Welcome To You

Discovering The Dreaming Self

and Understanding Your Life’s Purpose

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I
f you knew that you we’re in a virtual reality
simulation you would not hesitate to attempt
something outside of the realm of possibility. In fact,
you would probably test the system to the max with confidence and
without conscious doubt. Doubt is a cancer of the human mind.
Doubt is the interfering signal hindering the true power of your
subconscious mind, the controlling mechanism to your destiny in
life. Without doubt, anything is truly possible.
As a collective conscious, we are all connected to every
aspect of our reality and have the ability to directly benefit from
every experience encountered by every conscious being. Your
subconscious mind is the interface, the link up between you and the
ultimate source of knowledge and power, the "mainframe" or if you
will, "God". Your subconscious does not think or reason your
desires. Instead, it simply runs programs or "asks" God for the
resources to accomplish the task at hand in turn, directing you to an
area within the Multi-verse where the task is completed or the
question is answered. As I have stated many times in this book,
there are no limits to any of this. Anything is possible because
none of this is real, at least not "real" in the sense with which we
are familiar.
Everything in the universe in which we live is being
manufactured by us. They are ideas rendered into existence; the
determination of this rendering relies on our ever-changing
direction within the Multi-verse. In other words, your choices
determine which aspects of the Multi-verse you render into your
existence. Every conceivable possibility is possible, even the most
improbable possibilities exist in a universe somewhere within the
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Multi-verse. Your subconscious mind merely navigates you

through the Multi-verse to fulfill your conscious desires. But to
utilize your subconscious mind, you must first be able to
communicate with it at a conscious level. To do that, you must
first believe that it is possible.
We send messages to our subconscious mind everyday. We
do it without even thinking about it. “When it rains it pours”, we
say to ourselves when things aren't going well. We say or think a
statement like that to ourselves and the negativity is the message
that gets through to our subconscious mind. What does it do? It
directs us towards areas within the Multi-verse where more
problems exist for us. Eventually, the problems are solved or
become less important to us. It is only when we forget about them
because we are preoccupied with something else or place less
importance on the negativity that things change for the better.
When we become focused on the positive, we often say or think to
ourselves, “Okay, things are getting better” or even send a positive
message to our subconscious mind with something as simple as a
sigh of relief. That message also gets through, this time re-
directing our route to a universe within the Multi-verse where there
are fewer problems and less stress.
When we are sick, we tend to dwell on being sick. We tend
to announce, “I am so sick”, or “I don't feel good” or “I'm getting
sick.” That message gets through to our subconscious mind as
well. We have a negative thought about our condition and off we
go to a universe where we are sick. Instead of thinking about being
sick, think about being healthy and full of life. If there is someone
around you who is sick, try not to touch them, but as reinforcement
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say to yourself, “I never get sick, I have a wonderful immune

system that protects me against germs, and I feel great all of the
time.” There is no need to knock on wood! Saying this isn’t a
jinx; this is what your supposed to say! Why have we been taught
that positive suggestion is superstitious? Positive suggestion
works, think about being healthy and zing!!! Off you go to a
universe where you are experiencing perfect health.
There is a lot of debate over holistic medicine in that
basically it is no more effective than a placebo. But for the people
who understand the power of belief, the placebo's work. Why
would anybody want to screw that up? For the people who know
without a shadow of a doubt that eating chicken soup cures a cold,
the chicken soup will work every time. Not because chicken soup
contains a miraculous virus anti-body, but because the person
eating the soup believes that it works. They visualize the soup
making them feel better and they send that message to their
subconscious mind and their subconscious mind takes them to an
area within the Multi-verse where they are not sick. All drugs are
ultimately placebos. All stimuli that come seemingly from the
outside world are nothing more than placebos because (finish it for
me) none of this is real. We are projecting the reality around us.
We are projecting all remedies from our own minds.
Nobody is ever sick because nobody ever feels anything at
all. All of this is a product of your mind. Everything, including
your aches and pains are just your imagination. I know for the
people who are reading this that are suffering, you probably want
to throw this book out of the window and punch me in the face.
But I am telling you, that all of your suffering is nothing but a
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dream. The sickness and the pain you are experiencing is in your
mind and once you can embrace this concept you will go to an area
within the Multi-verse where the pain is gone. I am not trivializing
your suffering. Getting to this place of acceptance so that you can
cure yourself is the most difficult thing you will ever do in your
life. If you are hurting, the pain you are experiencing is a constant
reminder of your experience. It is extremely difficult to just accept
the fact that it isn't real because it feels real all of the time. But just
as the world you see before your eyes is not real, neither is the
pain.
About ten years ago someone turned me on to Echinacea
Root, an herbal remedy that supposedly builds up the human
immune system. I was told that as soon as you feel the slightest
sickness coming on or feel that you were exposed to someone who
was sick and feared that you might have caught the virus, that you
should take a bunch of this stuff and it will help your body resist
the oncoming illness. I bought into this idea and to my amazement
this stuff worked! I didn't get sick for 2 years. I didn’t catch
anything, not a single cold or even a sniffle. Whenever I felt
illness coming on I took the herbal remedy and the next morning I
felt great.
Then one day I was watching the negative infested
television news, something that I now make a point to never watch,
and up comes a story about the placebo effects of Echinacea Root.
From then on, every time my doubt infested mind tried to make use
of the root the remedy stopped working for me. I have since
convinced myself over the last couple of years that whether it is a
placebo or not, the root does work and I concentrate on it working.
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I visualize it working for me and I visualize myself healthy the

following morning. Echinacea Root does wonders for me now, but
it still does not work as well as it once did. I need a new placebo. I
need someone to convince me that homemade chocolate chip
cookies are the ultimate remedy for any illness.
We communicate with our subconscious mind every minute
of everyday whether we are consciously aware of it or not. The
problem is most of the time we are not consciously aware of it.
This kind of communication is the equivalent of driving a car with
a blindfold on. We unconsciously react to our reality and that
reaction is the only information our subconscious mind (our
navigator through the Multi-verse) has to decide how to get us to
our desired universe. To demonstrate this I would like for you now
to dredge up some uncomfortable memories. I want you now to
think back to a period in your life where things went really bad for
you. You can most certainly recall at the time one or two things
going wrong and then progressively things got worse in a snowball
of unlucky events. Your life became out of your control. You
experienced one unfortunate thing after another, until finally it was
too much for you and you stopped caring, you stopped dwelling on
it. As soon as you stopped focusing on the negativity in your life,
and stopped sending negative messages to your subconscious mind,
only then did things begin to turn around for you.
For example, allow me to paint a scenario to describe how
we currently communicate with our subconscious mind and how it
complies with our requests whether we want it to or not. This
fictitious scenario would probably drive anyone of us into a sea of
hopelessness and permanent doubt.
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One morning you wake up only to discover that your alarm

clock did not go off as planned and now you are running very late.
In a panic, you jump out of bed and stub your toe on your bedroom
furniture, at which you think or say out loud an expletive (!@%$!).
This message gets sent to your subconscious mind where it
complies with your request sending you directly to another
universe where more negative things are happening to you. You
start getting dressed, you can’t find matching socks or your panty
hose get a nasty run in them. Your keys are no longer where you
thought you left them, and you can’t help at this point to send
further requests to go to a universe where shit is really going bad
for you. You merge onto the expressway only to discover it to be a
parking lot. There are cars beeping, drivers screaming, and middle
fingers flying. The morning radio shock Jock is bitching about
politics again, which just intensifies the negative messages all
around you. Just when you think you can’t take anymore of it, you
look into your rear-view mirror to the dismay of a policeman
pulling you over for an expired tag. You arrive at work but your
briefcase is still at home, your boss gives you a lecture, you’re not
getting the promotion you were counting on, etc., etc. When you
reach your breaking point, one of two things happen: You either
laugh at the thought of how awful your day has been which sends a
message to your subconscious mind to take you back to a universe
where you have happiness and control over your life or, you
acknowledge your demise sending further requests to your
subconscious who complies by brining you to the abyss of stress,
failure, and disappointment until you ultimately slip into a nervous
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For those who don’t know, when you have a nervous

breakdown you become so emotionally overwhelmed with your
problems you cannot dedicate anymore conscious thought to them.
You simply give up. When this breakdown takes place, you
surrender everything that you are. You let go of your control,
which encompasses your identity, your ego, and your conscious
self. After you do this, it's almost as if the observer has hit the
reset button on your life and the problems vanish before your eyes.
The problems still exist, but their significance is no longer
important; after all, what could be worse to you then death? If you
are lucky, you follow the path your subconscious mind is
whispering to you and you leave behind a universe that nearly got
the best of you. I challenge that this “reset” condition is not a
nervous breakdown, but instead a nervous breakthrough.
Unfortunately, for some, their ego does not embrace this newfound
enlightenment. For many, it is not long before they once again
gain back their confidence and with it their identity. They let go of
the power they have been given by handing more and more control
back to their conscious self, and once again get sucked back into
the never ending dramas of a false reality.
Positive suggestion and surrendering your conscious ego
are the keys to a successful and blissful life experience. What I
mean by a “conscious ego” is the ego that you have accepted
through the course of your life. This is a conditional self-identity.
More than likely, this self-identity who you have come to know as
“you”, is not who you really are. Instead your ego is the identity
imprinted upon you by societies expectations, cultural tolerance,
your parents, friends, spouse, etc. In order to better communicate
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with your subconscious mind you have to be able to first recognize

it as the only link to your true self-identity. Your subconscious
mind is always in touch with your true self. It knows your
thoughts, your passions, and your purpose in life. You must find
your true self and embrace and accept that person for who you
really are before you will be truly open to the suggestions being
whispered to you by your subconscious mind. Your subconscious
mind is under constant guidance from your true identity.
Embracing your conscious ego, on the other hand, closes
the door to your subconscious mind and stifles the inspiration and
guidance that you are receiving from our collective source.
Despite this, many psychotherapists treat their patients by
instructing them to do just this. Psychotherapists often encourage
embracing the person who you think you are regardless of what
others may think. The common suggestion being: "You must love
yourself before others will love you". By understanding what
makes your ego tick, therapists believe that the root source of many
psychological problems can be discovered. They believe that
finding ways to resolve these pent up issues or memories is the
truest road to curing a patient. This is a noble concept and it helps
a lot of people. I truly believe psychotherapists want to help their
patients, but I believe the method that they are using to achieve this
is ultimately wrong. Instead, we must consider therapy through the
scope of the Multi-verse theory, which encompasses the idea of a
collective identity at the core of ones self. By accepting the
realization that you are connected to everything in your reality and
furthermore have control over it because you are creating it, you
remove the conscious interference between your subconscious
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mind and your desires. Carl Jung, who I discussed earlier in this
book, was convinced that by connecting ourselves to the world
around us we would obtain balance, peace and harmony. Jung
argued that the ego is an illusion, that at the core we are all
connected to a single source. By understanding that everything in
your life (good or bad) is being created by you allows for you to
ask different questions about why you have chosen, consciously or
not, to bring these things or people into your life. By asking these
questions, we begin to peel away at our ego and discover what our
true purpose in life is meant to be.
It is your conscious identity that grounds you to the reality
around you. Identifying yourself, as someone separate from the
reality around you is the glue that perpetuates the illusion that
reality is something that is happening to you. The reality of it is,
you are the reality happening to your ego. To put it even more
simply, you are everything around you happening to your body and
conscious self. There is no separate self in your universe. You are
the thoughts generating the reality around you. You have created a
self, a conscious mind to connect those experiences together.
There is a saying, "The world is what we make it". I cannot think
of a better or more profound idea to accurately represent the true
nature of our lives. Good or bad, we make our own reality.
Letting go of you conscious self is a liberating experience
but it can also be a very scary idea for most of us. To think that up
until this moment the course of your life might be a mistake is a
hard pill to swallow. But in the end, knowing that you are serving
your intended purpose is what really matters and discovering this is
never too late. Most of us don’t know who we really are.
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Sometimes it takes something as monumental as a “nervous

breakthrough” to put things into perspective. It did for me. I went
down a very dark road for a while and in the midst of my nervous
breakthrough I realized for the first time in my life what really
mattered. The first thing that I learned is that I mattered. I learned
that my intentions should be what I desire them to be, not the
desires that meet other peoples expectations. I learned that I am
not my job or how much money I make, or how many accolades I
have on the wall. I learned that I am not my family. I learned that
who I am is what makes me happy and what inspires me most. It is
the things that I live for that define me. I learned too that I serve a
purpose, a purpose to serve the ever-growing mind of the universe
itself. To put it more majestically, I learned that God had a
purpose in mind for me. I learned that by embracing my purpose I
got closer to God and closer to my true self. By embracing my
purpose and true self-identity, I am closer to happiness than I have
ever been and I truly understand for the first time the experience of
love and appreciation for living.
You don’t need to have a nervous breakthrough though to
get in touch with your true self. There are many ways to discover
who you are and what your purpose is. For me, unplugging all
together from the daily routines of life was the defining moment in
my life. The day after my nervous breakthrough I took a
Sabbatical. A Sabbatical is a journey, but it is very different from a
vacation. Derived from the word Sabbath, a Sabbatical is more of
a journey inward than a journey outward. When we take a
vacation, we usually share it with family or friends. Our vacations
are usually strategically planned and filled with activities. We
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would not want to “waste” a single moment of our precious

vacation time. Some people do plan a relaxing vacation, which is
the right idea, but few of us know how to truly unplug ourselves
from our responsibility and our instinctive protection of our
conscious ego. Instead a Sabbatical does just that. A Sabbatical is
a solo journey. Going solo means limited conversation allowing
for more focus and contemplation of the self. Sabbaticals do not
have to be elaborate vacations to isolated regions. You can take a
sabbatical in your mind simply by going for a walk in a park, or
even sitting in an empty room. The key is being alone and
unplugging your self from the drama that besieges us every day of
our lives.
During your Sabbatical it is important to not concern
yourself with anything other than your focus, which is discovering
who you are and what your intention is in this life regardless of
where that journey might lead you. It is in this quiet time that you
contemplate your thoughts, listen to your inner-self, and follow
your intuition. Open your mind to whatever suggestion is being
whispered into your ear. Take special consideration to the ideas
that occur to you the most and then act on them, no matter how
ridiculous the idea might be. Despite how this may sound, these
thoughts and ultimate actions are not reckless or selfish. At the end
of every consideration this is ultimately your life and no one else’s.
Satisfying our personal needs is how we become self-aware which
is the key to consciously or lucidly creating our own reality.
You might ask if we are creating our reality, why then
would we create problems for ourselves? Why would we render
stress in our lives? Why would we render illness, or pain, or
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unfortunate events? Why would we render anything but a fairy-

tale of a life? I would suggest to you that there are two reasons.
One, is that we simply don't know any better; we have never been
shown an alternate way of living and we are simply addicted to or
find comfort in familiarity. Two, is that we are programmed to do
so. Perhaps we are directed or guided by some source deep with in
our superconscious to render certain types of lives over and over
again in order to learn from them, or even more logically, to see if
we can break free from them. We would create this challenge
simply to make a game out of it because routinely manifesting a
perfect life would eventually get boring. More than anything there
is no way to truly appreciate divinity without sometimes
encountering struggle and challenge.
Addiction to an aspect of our reality is exactly the same as
an addiction to anything else. The mechanism that makes us
addicted to drugs is the same mechanism that makes us addicted to
our emotions. Drugs are in affect, physiologically rendering
amplified stimulations of a particular emotion. Ecstasy renders a
stimulation of the emotions connected with love, empathy and a
child like innocence. Cocaine renders a stimulation of confidence;
Heroine renders the stimulation of apathy, shutting down the
emotions entirely, as with marijuana to a lesser degree. What we
are addicted to is not the drug. We are addicted to the emotion that
the drug stimulates. The mechanism for how we stimulate all of
our emotions is physiologically the same.
Some people are addicted to or find comfort in sadness and
depression. Some are addicted to feeling inferior or having a lack
of self-confidence. Some people are addicted to the feeling of
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being abused. It is not uncommon at all for a battered wife to seek

out another abusive situation after breaking free of the previous
one. Some people are addicted to power and having power over
others. Some are addicted to being abusive to others. This is why
our lives seem to be re-plays of the same experiences and problems
over and over again. It is the reason why we keep finding
ourselves in the same relationships, around the same types of
people and friends, and in the same types of jobs. Our experiences
repeat themselves over and over because whether the experiences
are positive or negative, they are familiar and comfortable to us.
These experiences evoke the emotions that we are addicted to.
It is our comfort and addiction to emotions that keeps us
from rendering an alternate reality for ourselves. We recreate the
same experiences until we consciously make a determined choice
to break free of those experiences by sending that message to our
subconscious selves. Breaking free from our emotional addictions
is difficult. Breaking free requires us to eliminate the single
emotion that controls us and keeps us bound to our addictions and
familiar experiences. That emotion is fear. More than anything we
fear the uncertain, we fear change and we fear failure. But with the
realization that we are the sum of our experiences, fear needs to be
embraced because fear is just a part of you. You cannot fail
because there is nothing to fail. There is no uncertainty because
you are manifesting your reality. Fear is merely: False Evidence
Appearing Real.
It is my belief that by rendering an alternate reality for our
selves through belief in the mechanics of the multi-verse and
through meditation, we can overcome our illusion of fear and
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become addicted to positive things like love, praise, success or

whatever makes you happy. You deserve to live the happiest, most
exciting, exhilarating life imaginable, all you have to do is believe
that you deserve it and the change will happen.
Manifesting change in your life requires both determination
and discomfort, but more than anything it requires trust. Like with
any addiction, breaking away from experiences that evoke
emotions that satisfy our urges is difficult. Your body will
physically go through the same withdraw you would experience in
giving up any other kind of addiction. But more than this (and this
is the difficult part) you need to let go of you.
Remind yourself that “you” are your experiences. You must
let go of your inhibitions and take chances. Ask yourself what you
really want out of life. Ask yourself what do you really have to
loose if all of this is just a dream? Your life doesn’t have to be
extraordinary to have meaning, but at the very least you need to
become aware of what the meaning of your life is. To do this is to
understand your life’s purpose. Why cherish a meaningless life?
An uninspired life is a waste of your experience within the Multi-
verse. Make your life count! You should try thinking about your
life as a video game. The worst thing that can happen to you in the
world is that you fail to obtain your desired goal or worse your
body dies, both are just experiences within a false reality.
I don't believe that the death of our body is such a big deal
at all. I believe that death is merely a transition from one
dimension to the next in an infinite cycle. It isn't that I don't have
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I would not have an interest in this subject and I certainly would

not be writing this book if I didn't have enormous appreciation for
life. But for me, I truly believe that this is all just a game. For me,
this is all just a test and the challenge is to make the fullest life
possible before you can move on to the next higher plane of
existence. This is my variation on the Buddhist ideology. There is
a famous bumper sticker that says "Ye who dies with the most toys
wins." How about instead: "Ye who dies with the most experiences
or most exhilarating life wins."
Your life is not about "you". Take your ego out of the
equation. You are an observer and the observer resides somewhere
outside of your body. Your life, your reality is not about the
person you see in the mirror. The part that is you, your being, are
the thoughts that make up your experiences. You are the reality
around you. You are not your body. Your body is like a glove, a
sock puppet. It is merely the virtual interface or instrument that
you, your subconscious self (true self), utilizes to interact with and
to contemplate your thoughts and ideas. The world you see around
you is merely an elaborate set built by you for your puppet to act
out your own fantasies in. The truth is, you got so caught up being
in the role of the sock puppet that you forgot that you were play-
acting. How funny is that?
This is a radical philosophy and these are very scary
thoughts to some of you. Many of you will think that what I am
saying is reckless. Perhaps it is. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe we
get one shot at life and we need to make the best of it. If this is the
case and we do indeed only get one shot at life, then I am going for
it! I am letting everything go and I am going for the best
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experience possible and if I fail or die in the process then that will
be my experience. I have no use for a mundane existence. For me,
if I only have the money to play one game, I am picking the most
exciting game that I can find. On the other hand, I can understand
someone who would seek out the easiest game that would provide
the longest playtime. The choice, like everything in your reality is
yours. But remember, time itself is an illusion.
Imagine a world or a society who instead of religious
beliefs being instilled into their psyche from the very beginning,
they where taught this very basic ideology. These people are
taught about the Multi-verse and the mechanics of it. Instead of the
Bible, they are taught about the power of their subconscious mind
and its ability to direct them to different areas within the Multi-
verse and thus to a different life. These people are taught that
anything they desire is possible and can be achieved by sheer will
alone. This society has never come in contact with anyone outside
of his or her culture or with any contradictory beliefs. Their power
over their subconscious mind would be limitless because they
would believe in themselves unconditionally having never
encountered anything that would instill a seed of doubt. The
people here understand very clearly how to achieve the maximum
life experience. These people are game masters. It sounds like a
wonderful place and many of us wish that we could live there, and
we do! This is not a fantasy world. There is no doubt that a
world like this, many worlds like this, exist within the Multi-verse,
even worlds like this where you exist within in them and where you
too are a game master. We can create a world like this right here,
right now.
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Many of our current thoughts about life are assumptions we

have made do to our conditioning. We do things or think about
things without even knowing why we do it. Our imagination has
been stifled with the illusion of fear and social expectations.
Instead of individuality being freely expressed, most of us are so
desperate to conform to our surroundings and to the expectations of
others we forget who we really are. The real irony is asking
yourself; if you are creating your own reality just whom are you
conforming for? On the contrary, children come into this world
full of imagination, awe, and playful disregard. They are the closest
things to our true source. We teach them to conform because we
want the best for them, but limiting the imagination is not the road
to happiness. In schools, less and less importance is placed on
encouraging individuality. We make children wear uniforms for
conformity, we limit lessons in artistic, music, and theatrical forms
of expression, and we are obsessed with testing children’s
comprehension of rules in mathematics and grammar. Instead, our
focus should be on encouraging self-expression and original
thought. We should make a game out of everything, allowing
moderate rule bending to encourage thinking outside of the box. I
believe that we could learn more from the children then they could
ever learn from us. Instead of teaching children “No”, (which
stifles creativity and imagination) teach them, “Know”
(encouraging them to figure out alternate ways to get what they
desire). In explaining to any child the reasons why they need to
know what the obstacle is, you will often recognize that there really
isn’t an obstacle at all, we have just been conditioned to believe
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the world. Until now we have been treating the symptom to the
problem with our expectation of others, enforcing rules and
establishing laws. Instead we need to treat the cause, encouraging
individuality and focusing on ourselves. People will always do
what’s right for them and because we are one, that will ultimately
be what’s right for us all.
The seemingly insignificance of our lives in this universe,
can be an extremely uncomfortable thought. To think that with all
that we are our life is just some virtual reality or that we are just
someone else’s dream is heartbreaking. But a different perception
changes everything. The proverbial glass of water is either half
empty or half full. I asked you earlier in this book to question for
yourselves what it is to really live, or to really exist? As Descartes
showed us, your experience is existing. You are alive and your
collective experiences are the meaning of your life. How
magnificent a life to be able to manifest your own reality! This is
far more exciting than a "real" life, living in an organic world of
solid matter. We create our own lives. We are God!
There is no one to look to for praise or punishment we are
that majesty. There is no right or wrong. There is no Karma. It is
not possible for you to hurt other people because there are no other
people! The other people are all you. By hurting them you are
only hurting yourself. This is all your reality. This is all your
creation. I am not saying its okay to start breaking laws and
commandments, and start hurting and killing one another, because
those behaviors are simply counter productive. You wouldn't
allow one hand to hurt or steal from your other hand, rightly so by
hurting other people you are only hurting yourself. It is your ego
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creating the illusion that you are separate from others, when in fact
we are the same being. Instead, you should want to choose
experiences that evolve you as an entity. You should want to
manifest a reality that elevates you and allows you to grow as a
being. Your purpose in life should be to become self-aware, to
awaken to the realization that you are God.
Growth is the single greatest way that we can serve God
who is our Universal Mind. We should make it our purpose in life
to constantly grow by keeping an open mind, changing our
opinions, learning new things, exploring new ways to stimulate our
bodies, seeing new places, making new friends, changing aspects
of our personality, etc. Growing is part of the life process. We are
designed to grow, because that too serves our purpose.
Successful people come in all shapes and sizes. They can
be ugly, they can be beautiful, they can be rich or they can be poor.
They can be nice and selfless or they can be selfish and mean, even
down right evil. Often times "bad" people or just plain assholes are
successful. They are successful because they are playing the game
regardless of consequence. They are good to themselves and they
feel positive about their actions. Some people are successful at
everything they do. Even they don't know how, but luck just seems
to follow them everywhere. It is my suspicion that they are
beginning to master the Multi-verse and with it their life
experience. Perhaps they are "old souls" or they simply have
played this game a million times or more and each time they learn
just a little bit more about how to successfully manifest their reality
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I have been privileged to meet many successful people

through the course of my life. The most interesting part about each
of them is even if they weren’t successful at what brought them this
success they would be doing the same occupation anyway. Each
found inspiration in something and miraculously luck just seemed
to find each of them. These aren’t coincidences. These people
chose to follow their heart even at times when the people around
them were directing them somewhere different. It was
preposterous for me to think that I had any chance at all of making
it in the music business. I had limited talent, no connections, and
little, if any, outside support. But being successful wasn’t a concern
for me. I knew that I was supposed to make music with my life. I
knew with more certainty than anything else in my life that I was
supposed to focus on music and nothing else. It was the only thing
that “felt” right. I’m not going to say that I didn’t dream of
success, but finding success was not my preoccupation. My
passion was for expressing my emotions through music. My
passion was for communicating those feelings to others through my
music. I believed in what I was doing. I believed that I was
making the right choices, and I knew that everything would take
care of it self and it did.
At the end of your life however, material things do not
measure success. Materialism is useless because you can't take any
of it with you. Instead of concentrating on guiding yourself to an
area within the Multi-verse where you have won the lottery, think
about the ways that you can manipulate the reality around you in
lasting meaningful ways. Manifest a reality that will provoke
completely original ideas and original experiences. Mastering your
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ability to change reality by sheer will alone is the ultimate goal.

We should all strive to become a Messiah, a master of the universe.
What is the fun in playing God if you're not going to utilize your
abilities?
Accepting this new philosophy often surfaces new fears.
The first fear (illusion) is that; if people didn’t have Karma or Sin
to worry about, everyone would just go around robbing and hurting
others to get what they want the simplest way. By accepting this
philosophy you must know by now that no one can hurt you except
for you. When you are the master of your reality nobody else can
have any affect on you at all unless you want them to. In addition
to this, the world we live in is a fairytale and it is infinitely
abundant. It is way more fun to manifest a perfect reality for
yourself than to steal it from someone else. There is no better
feeling in the world than accomplishment over your reality. The
second fear (illusion) is that if everyone followed their dreams,
there would be no one left to be responsible and keep the world
running. The word responsible means “able to respond”. Ask
yourself; are you responding (reacting) to your experience or are
you in control over it by creating it? I’m in control of every aspect
of my reality and I am thus insulated from anything that can harm
me. The world will continue to revolve around me should I ask it
to and it will do the same for you. “Truly, truly I say to you, he who
believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works
than these will he do.”

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“When you recognize that there is a voice in your
head that pretends to be you and never stops
speaking, you are awakening out of your
unconscious identification with the stream of
thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize
that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but
the one who is aware of it. Knowing yourself as
the awareness behind the voice is freedom.”

~Eckhart Tolle

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Manifesting Your Reality

Practical Exercises To Show You

That You Master Your Own Reality

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I
'm going to give you a little test for you to perform to
show you in a very immediate way the communication
process between your conscious and your subconscious
mind. As I have said many times, belief is the key to achieving
success in communicating with your subconscious mind.
Obviously, the less significant or remarkable the request, the less
stretch of the imagination it is for you to believe. Belief for anyone
should first come with supportive evidence and it should be
reinforced by experimentation. Here is a simple experiment for
you to try on your own that will help you build credibility for the
powers that I have suggested are within your grasps.
Before going to bed as you lie there under the covers in the
dark, I want you to think repeatedly about a clock. See the clock in
your minds eye and visualize the current time. It is important that
you visualize a clock that you are familiar with, for example, the
clock on your night-stand or bedroom wall; a clock that you see all
of the time or a clock that you are likely to see when you first wake
up. I find it easier to think about an analog clock, the kind with
hands, but most are familiar with the digital kind.
Now, I want you to concentrate very hard on the
visualization of the clock displaying the current time. Think about
that picture for a moment and say the time to yourself or out loud
preferably. Now think about a time in the morning that you want
to get up. To reinforce the power of the suggestion, it would be
better for you to think about an unusual time for you to wake up.
Pick something crazy like 4:30 am or something. Now imagine,
very slowly, your imagined clock moving forward in time briefly
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pausing at a quarter after each our, then at half past each hour, then
at a quarter 'til and so on until you have reached your desired wake
up time. As the clock moves, think to yourself about the time and
say out loud or in your head each of the pause times as they pass.
Keep a calm tone in your voice or inner voice. When you reach
your desired wake up time, concentrate on the visualization of the
clock displaying that time. Say to yourself repeatedly, I am awake
at 4:30 am or whatever your chosen time is. Continue to
concentrate. Imagine yourself wide-awake; more awake then you
have ever been at your desired time. Repeat the process until you
fall asleep. When your desired time arrives, you will be wide-
awake.
So how did this work? It works because you got through to
your subconscious mind. You established a communication link
with your subconscious and gave it instructions to take you to a
universe where you would wake up at 4:30 am. Near by this
universe there is a universe where you wake up at 4:31 am. A little
further away is a universe where you wake up at 4:15 am. Much,
much further away lie universes where you wake up in a
completely different bed and time altogether.
If this were true, one might ask, why we can't just imagine
ourselves going to a universe with such significant differences such
as waking up in a different bed with a different life. The answer is
we can. Anything is possible. There are occasions in our lives
where we may visualize a significant change such as waking up in
a different bed with a different life and our subconscious mind is
directed towards that goal, towards that universe, and begins the
steps to progressively get us there. It is also possible to jump to the
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universes directly because any possibility is possible within the

Multi-verse, however, having the belief that we can actually
convince our subconscious mind to take us to this place overnight
requires a bigger stretch of the imagination, a much greater
suspension of disbelief. More than likely doubt would prevail in
your conscious mind and as a result you would fail to communicate
your desire to your subconscious mind.
Controlling your direction within the Multi-verse gets
easier with practice. The best retention for learning anything is
through learning things in baby steps. So, for the next baby step,
we’re going to manifest quarters. I think it’s safe to assume that
most of us would like to have a little more money. I’m sure some
would like to have a whole lot more, but manifesting large sums of
money requires a bigger suspension of disbelief. To practice
manifesting money, first try to manifest finding abandoned
quarters. Think about it, how often do you really find a quarter?
You may find pennies, nickels and dimes maybe, but a quarter? -
Almost never. Try this for a month until you have nearly a jar full
of quarters, and then up the ante to finding dollars, then five dollars
and so on. I am currently up to $40.
For another test, study the affects of your attitude and in
particular, your words on another person. You can best observe
your affects with someone who doesn’t appear to be having a good
day. I do this all of the time and I find the joy that it brings me to
change someone’s attitude for the better is amazing to say the least.
Last week for example, I approached a woman behind the deli
counter just before closing. As a former deli worker myself, when
I was in my teens, I remembered how irritating it was to have a
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customer come in at near closing and order an elaborate sandwich.

As I approached the counter, Betty rolled her eyes so that I could
see that she was irritated. She stopped what she was doing
abruptly and in the most condescending tone, she asks, “Can I help
you?” Instead of being offended by her attitude toward a paying
customer, I chose to smile at her and I greeted her by name with
the most positive attitude I could muster. I gave her my order
making a light joke where I could. While she was making my
sandwich, I told her I remember the days of working behind the
counter and how awful it was when a customer came in as we were
closing. I briefly told her how I had a long day and that I knew one
of her special sandwiches would brighten my day. Betty was now
making my sandwich with the greatest care. I continued to carry
on a conversation forcing any issue I could think of. By the time
she was slicing my sandwich in half she had a smile from ear to ear
and she was now engaging in the conversation. I learned that she
was excited to see her son who was coming home from college
over the weekend and that they were planning a nice trip to the
mountains for an old fashioned family outing. After handing me
my sandwich Betty asked with a smile, “What is your name?” I
told her that my name was Ford and she told me what a pleasure it
was to meet me. She added with a smile, that I had made her day.
Kindness is infectious. Dispensing it will only bring it back
to you. Go out of your way to be kind to one another and you will
often find a bumpy start. But remember, the rougher the start, the
greater the pay off. It feels amazing to turn these kinds of
situations around. The slightest effort that I dispensed on my part
with Betty in the beginning was rewarded to me ten fold with a
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smile and a delightful conversation that made me feel incredible. It

is hard sometimes to put on a smile when we are inundated with
negative situations and negative people. In these situations, I make
a game out of it. I make a game of finding ways to put myself into
a better mood and I make a game out of turning someone’s attitude
around. I do this more so to help me feel better. Helping them feel
better is merely the bonus aspect of the game. By keeping a
positive attitude within and even more so exuding a positive
attitude, I am concretely sending messages to my subconscious
mind telling it exactly what I want out of life. I am taking over the
wheel driving myself directly towards the universes filled with
positive people in my life and a universe that holds a positive
attitude within myself. I rarely loose my game, but in the cases
where I do loose I just pick another person. Unfortunately, the
world has become infected with negativity and impersonal
interaction. It doesn’t take long to find a target for the next game.
We know that our subconscious mind is open to suggestion.
This is the reason hypnosis works. It is also the reason that much
of psychotherapy works. The experiments I gave you to perform
work because you are sending a message to your subconscious
mind. Master the communication process between your conscious
mind and your subconscious mind and you will become a master of
the universe. There are no limitations to the possibilities you can
achieve once that communication process has been firmly
established.
Your subconscious mind is waiting and is open to
suggestion whether those suggestions are negative or positive. As I
have said before, your subconscious mind does not differentiate
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between good or bad, negative or positive. Your subconscious

mind only knows experience. All experiences to your
subconscious mind are growth, for its mission is only in gathering
information through those experiences and learning something
about itself from your interaction with it. When your reaction to
experience causes you to ask your subconscious to manifest a
different experience, it will most certainly comply. Having a
clearer understanding of the true nature of your reality and with it
the ability to manifest alternate realities will only make the learning
more interesting. You might then ask, if this is possible why don't
we see other people flying around like superman and moving
things around with their minds? If it is possible to successfully
master this communication process and hence master the universe,
why don't we see others doing this? The answer I'm afraid, you are
not going to like. One possible answer is because the other people
do not exist. You manifest all the other people in your reality.
This idea of ultimate solitude is extremely uncomfortable
for most people, so much so that many have embraced an alternate
theory. Right now there are two opposing camps of thought when
considering the nature of our reality. One camp believes that every
conscious being is collectively co-creating and sharing the reality
around us. For example, my wife and I share the same reality
along with everyone else we encounter. If we were to go to a park
in the afternoon one day, she might be manifesting some trees and
green grass and I might be manifesting things that I associate with
a park, such as a large playground and ducks in a pond. The other
people in the background are also co-creating different aspects of
our shared reality in the park. In this sense, reality is not much
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different from the way in which we currently experience it other

than the reality we collectively see is fluid and completely
dependent on how we choose to manifest it collectively. In this
scenario it is possible that the reason we don’t see miraculous feats
being achieved solely due to positive imaging is because either we
don’t believe it is possible as a collective group or perhaps because
we collectively co-create our reality under the guidelines of certain
rules, such as we can create anything we wish within our shared
dream state as long as it does not defy our particular laws of
physics for this particular dream. However, to me this idea places
too much humanistic quality on something that is in all probability
humanly incomprehensible. Rules? Since when do dreams have
rules? I can recount many dreams were I have defied the laws of
physics by flying around like superman, travel spontaneously to
various locations instantly, had multiple perspectives of the same
dream and further incredible feats. Why should our waking dream
be any different?
The other camp of thought on the contrary, believes that our
waking reality is no different from the dreams when we sleep. The
thought is we are experiencing a dream during our “waking hours”
and we are creating all aspects of our reality including the other
people using our own imagination just as we do in our dreams
when we sleep. The other people exist; they just don’t exist in your
dream state. Each of us is the master of our own separate dream
state, and we are connected through our source. When we
encounter other people, we are each experiencing the connection
through our source. An analogy would be similar to a
videoconference. We can see and speak to each other, but the
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interaction is transmitted through our source. This is possible

because our source is exactly that, it is our source. The super-
conscious is the source of all egos because we are a single
conscious being dreaming of becoming separate individuals. Many
argue that we simply could not be this creative, but this argument
hardly holds up when considering how vastly imaginative our
dreams are when we sleep. We invent other people all of the time
and we create wildly original settings and experiences. For many
this concept is less appealing simply because it suggests that we are
alone. It is a terrifying thought to think that we are completely
alone in this world, even if we are creating it. With that being said,
this theory, as uncomfortable as it may seem, explains why we do
not encounter other people fully manifesting ideal realities. We do
not encounter them because we do not believe (in this particular
dream state) that it’s possible and thus don’t create other people
doing this. Another argument to this theory is that our “waking
reality” seems more “real” than our dreams. I would argue that it
only seems more real because this is the dream we are in now.
When you experience any dream at all, the experience of the dream
while you are experiencing it is entirely real to you no matter how
bizarre they may seem. It only seems unreal to us when the dream
is over. When the dream of our waking life ceases, we will most
likely remember this life as just another dream.
Ultimately, reality is random information and thoughts
forming dreams within dreams within another dream continuing for
infinity. The dream in which you currently reside is equally as
profound as it is insignificant and meaningless. What I mean is, in
the context of this current dream everything has meaning. Every
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single aspect of your reality is symbolic or is a metaphor to remind

you that you are dreaming. Outside of the waking dream however,
everything you just experienced within this dream is completely
meaningless adding only to the compilation of experience to our
ever-growing conscious mind. This is how the universe
comprehends anything and everything. Our current dream provides
profound experiences and knowledge to our collective source and
yet is merely a gesture in a complex ballet of infinite dreams
providing new understanding and new perspective. In the barren
of infinity, dreaming is something for God to do; it is a method of
expression. It is through dreaming that God can appreciate his own
magnificence.
In this concept, you are everything around you. Your being
or soul is your experience. Everything in your reality is a
projection from inside of your mind and not necessarily a mind that
is geographically located between your ears - you have no ears!
Remember, the person you see in the mirror does not exist either.
"You" are merely a collection of thoughts and everything in your
reality is your creation. Even this book that you are holding in
your hand and that you are reading is a projection from you. The
ideas proposed in this book that are blowing your mind away are
your own ideas. Perhaps the information in this book is information
already gathered by your subconscious mind in an effort to guide
you to new areas within the Multi-verse so that you may gain new
experiences. Perhaps this book is your symbolic metaphor, your
calling card to get off of the couch, turn off the T.V. and make
something incredible of your life. If you could dream for anything
why would you dream to be anything less than a master of your
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universe?
Can we manifest anything we want by sheer will alone? Of
course we can! However, more than just believing that you can,
you have to know that you can; and knowing requires far more trust
in yourself than just believing. All of our beliefs are based on the
most plausible solution to satisfy our “gut instinct” which is
different for everyone. You can believe in something that satisfies
95% of your gut instinct. However, 95% is not knowing, there is
still 5% left over for doubt. The only way to truly know anything
at all is through experience. To gain this experience, you must
follow your heart and intuition wherever it leads you regardless of
what anyone or anything is telling you otherwise. Each time you
pursue your own intuition with confidence and invigoration, you
are testing the theory; and with each successful test you will gain
more confidence in your beliefs. It is within this confidence and
harmony with your true self, that you will know everything.
You need to have faith in your new understanding to
believe it, and you must test it to know it. Yes, it is stupendously
ironic that you must first abandon all of your faith just to gain it
back. But the irony is just an illusion because this time your faith
didn’t come packaged in doubt.

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spiritual experiences – it’s the other way around:
we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human
experiences.”

~Deepak Chopra

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Manifesting Techniques

Meditation, Visualization,
The Law of Attraction and Lucid Dreaming

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T
here are a lot of different ideas and methods for
communicating with your subconscious mind and
tapping into the Multi-verse. How effective the
methods are is indeed the question, but the effectiveness of any of
these methods relies on the same single requirement and that
requirement is belief.
The Buddhist and Hindu believe that meditation is the best
method for communing with God. The Christians, Muslims, Jews
and many other religions believe that prayer is the answer. As
strange as meditation may sound to some of you, it really isn’t all
that different from prayer. Prayer can be thought of as just another
form of meditation. In both methods we close our eyes and
concentrate on our message for God. The Buddha insist that
meditation alone is not enough. They believe that meditation is
only effective when you live and practice the Buddhist life style,
essentially being good to yourself and good to others. This
ideology is not so different from the other religions. For example,
any good Christian will tell you that prayer alone is not enough,
you must first be a good Christian which goes the same for the
Muslims, Jews and other religions who choose prayer as the
primary communication with God. My view is that being good is
probably the right idea. After all every action you take is
ultimately toward yourself. However, I don't believe that being
“good” is criteria for manifesting your reality. In the end, gaining
experience (good or bad) is all that really matters.
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Attraction, which suggests putting your wishes out there into the
universe by keeping a state of mind that attracts the things you
want out of life. They believe in writing out wish lists, replacing
negative thoughts with positive ones, and other various
visualization techniques. Though this practice has been around for
centuries, only now can we truly appreciate from a scientific
perspective the intuitive connection they made between positive
thinking and the realization of your dreams. This practice is even
easier to apply by keeping a positive attitude, and by staying
consciously aware that what we are experiencing is only a product
of our imagination. By continually reinforcing and accepting the
fact we are living in a dream, which can be manipulated by our will
is a step towards eliminating doubt; an elimination of the doubt that
is the wall between your conscious mind and your subconscious
mind. I find it interesting that Freemason’s believe that this is
more of a state of mind than simply a practice. This state of mind
also included the belief in a worldwide brotherhood that transcends
all religious, ethnic, cultural and educational differences.
The Aborigine as well as many psychologists and scientists
believe that analyzing, understanding and controlling our dreams
through lucid dreaming is the answer to manifesting our desires. It
seems to be the consensus that when we dream our conscious mind
“goes away” and we are in direct commune with God. It is
believed by some that this is the moment when the observer pulls
out of the body and out of the Multi-verse. There are also many
other people who believe that the only quality time we have for
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moments upon first awakening and just before falling asleep. If

this is the case, then I would suggest that hypnosis is the answer.
Hypnosis is all about putting the body and mind into an ultimate
relaxed state similar to the state of body and mind just prior to
sleep and post awakening.

Meditation & Visualization

For the Buddhist, Yoga and many New Age believers,

meditation is the preferred method of breaking through your barrier
of doubt and establishing a communication link between your
conscious and subconscious mind.
The traditional Buddhist method of meditation is not as
supernatural as it sounds and actually makes a great deal of sense
with this new concept of our reality. The idea behind traditional
meditation is to concentrate so intensely on a single object that
everything else disappears. Because our mind is rendering our
reality, by focusing all of our energy and processing power on a
single object, the mind no longer attempts to render other aspects
of our reality and hence the true nature of reality is revealed to us
in our peripheral vision. Remember, quantum mechanics has
shown us very clearly that when we are not looking, reality is not
there.
Through meditation, it is believed that we peel away the
fabric of our reality and expose the true nature of the world that we
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altered consciousness we become fully aware of ourselves as the

observer, accepting this truth and removing our seed of doubt that
is interfering with the power of our subconscious. Achieving this
level of altered consciousness is said to be extremely difficult,
though there are many who claim to have done it with a lot of
practice. The most interesting part about the testimonials is that
many of the accounts come from Buddhist monks throughout the
centuries. Their accounts are exactly what we would expect to find
when applied to our view of the new Multi-verse theory.
Probably the most effective method for manifesting our
desires is through visualization. In this meditation method
visualization becomes the focal point instead of the single object.
Visualization is the most effective and practical way to channel the
ideas we want to get through to our subconscious. There are
hundreds of books about the power of utilizing visualization
techniques. There are also hundreds of motivational speakers
going around teaching people how to visualize better sales,
visualize better health, and visualize a better life for themselves,
etc... All of these people have got it right. But where they fail us is
in presenting a satisfactory reason as to why the method is so
effective. Many just say that you don’t need to know why it works,
just know that it works. This may be easy for some, but if you are
at all like me, I have trouble accepting anything on blind faith
alone. My lack of faith is all the doubt that I need to prevent the
methods from working for me. It is their lack of a thorough
investigation into this process and lack of demonstrating the
mechanics of the process, which leaves room in our minds for
doubt and as a result breaks the communication process between
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the conscious and subconscious mind. This is where I hope to

offer something different.
This whole book has been leading up to these next few
simple ideas and it is imperative that you at least somewhat
understand the science and philosophy I have explained up to this
point. By understanding the implications of everything that I have
discussed in this book the picture should be perfectly clear to you
for how and why visualization techniques and positive thinking
work. Not only should your new view of the mechanics of reality
reinforce your belief in the power of suggestion and visualization it
should ask you to reinterpret the method so that you can tweak it to
make it work the best for you.
So why and how is visualization so effective? It is effective
because when we visualize something, a part of our mind is
actually rendering or manifesting that potential reality. As I
explained earlier in this book, quantum physics has shown us that
every conceivable possibility has the potential for existing. The
information for any possible reality is there and waiting for your
mind to manifest, or render that potential reality into existence.
The visualization of your goal is a potential universe that is now
being rendered into existence just by thinking about it. As I have
said many times throughout this book, thoughts are things, and
your dreams are just as real as your waking reality. By visualizing
our goals, we are rendering those potential universes and we are
creating that possibility. We are creating an experience and we are
instructing our subconscious mind to guide us towards it.
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is another aspect of our culture that is frowned upon. Visualization

sounds fancy and difficult but is something that we all practice
everyday of our lives. Anyone can visualize anything. We practice
it when we dream, and when we think about anything at all. We
practice visualization everyday when we hear a story that someone
is telling us. When someone tells us a story, we hear their spoken
words and paint a picture to go along with that story in our minds
eye. We can visualize a story by reading. We can also visualize
something by just imagining it however; it is far more difficult to
paint an original picture by just thinking about it. This picture is
often fluid, changing every time you think about different aspects
of your desire. For this reason, it is important first that you
formulate your desire and release it from your mind by either
writing it down or speaking it out loud. Don’t be afraid to share
your desires with someone by telling them about it or even
recording yourself saying it. When you say it or read it, you are
absorbing it for the first time. It is within this absorption that you
begin to comprehend it. The processing and contemplation of
these desires is the mechanism, which will help you manifest them.
If I were to tell you to think of a purple elephant hanging
from a daisy on the edge of a cliff, you would have no trouble at all
of closing your eyes and thinking about what I described. Every
time we visualize something we are creating. We are partly
rendering a possible universe. The picture in our minds eye is no
less real than the picture we see in the reality around us when we
open our eyes. They are both just as real, which says less for our
waking reality than it does more for the existence of purple
elephants and super strong daisy's. The visualization however is
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merely a glimpse into a possible universe. To get there we need to

make it more real. We need to think about every detail. But more
importantly than anything, in order to get there we need to believe
that it is a real place.
I have spoken much of the conscious mind and the
subconscious mind throughout this book. I told you that the
subconscious mind is your direct connection or link to the reality
around you (which is who you are) and that the conscious mind
serves as the ego. The purpose of the ego and the conscious mind
is to serve as a tool to separate you from your reality. Doing this
perpetuates the illusion that reality is something that is happening
to you, rather than something you are doing to yourself. It is your
conscious mind that is going to block and reject any of your
thoughts that you have control over the reality around you. The
conscious mind sets up boundaries and enforces rules to keep the
experience real to you. That is the job of the conscious mind and it
achieves this through self-doubt and fear. The purpose of
meditation and visualization is to by-pass the conscious mind and
suggest our desires directly to the source of the reality around us,
directly to our subconscious mind that is controlling everything in
our lives.
You are the way that you see yourself. If you see yourself
as bad then you will be bad. If you see yourself as poor then you
will be poor. If you see yourself as rich, you will be rich. Your
subconscious only knows what you tell it. It is waiting to manifest
realities based on your suggestions and visualizations. For
example, some people suffer from an inferiority complex. With
this understanding of reality you should know that you are not
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inferior to anyone or anything, but instead you are God. You

create the world around you and you are superior to all things in
your reality. The people you think you are inferior to are just you.
To think of your insecurity as anything else is just an illusion.
Your waking life is no more real than the life in your dreams when
you sleep.
We have all often heard stories where people do incredible
physical feats such as a mother lifting an overturned car to save her
children inside it and so on. Achievements such as these are often
credited to an increase in the adrenaline production during a
moment of stress. But I think more than likely these people are able
to do these miraculous things because they visualize themselves
doing it. They visualize themselves doing these impossible things
without doubt interfering because they have to. They have to
perform the impossible and they see only themselves doing it.
There is no time for doubt or to visualize failure. They see
themselves lifting the car and therefore they do. In reality, the car
is no heavier than a feather. It is only our mind that is perpetuating
the illusion that the car is heavy. The car does not exist. The car
like everything else is only a thought generated by you.
Before anyone broke the 4-minute mile nobody thought that
it was humanly possible. Doctors said that it was physically
impossible; they claimed that the human heart would explode.
People came close, but no one would ever break the barrier. Then
one day Roger Banister ran and did the impossible. He ran an
entire mile in less than 4 minutes. It was a miracle of physiology.
But more important than breaking the 4-minute mile was the fact
that Banister proved to the world it was humanly possible. He
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raised the bar of doubt. The same year 3 other people broke the 4-
minute mile. They accomplished this not out of competition,
because the competition was always there. They accomplished this
because they not only believed, but they knew it was possible.
Anything is possible. Every barrier we have ever established in our
reality is nothing more than fantasy. If you can dream it and
visualize it, you can do it. We are only held back by the limitation
of our imagination.
To utilize the visualization method of meditation you need
to first figure out what kind of picture you need to manifest in your
minds eye that represents the finality of your goal. A picture
speaks a thousand words, but finding the picture is not always easy.
For me, I found this process to be extremely difficult, probably
because I am not a very visual person. I knew what goals I wanted
to achieve but found it very difficult to think about them in the
sense of a picture or a vision of an obtainable goal.
Let's say for example money is a concern for you and you
desire to have more of it. You could simply think of yourself
falling into a haystack of cash. But I'm not sure how effective this
is going to be because this visualization requires quite a stretch of
the imagination (at least for some of us) and doubt would more
than likely prevail. Instead, I would take it slowly. I would
imagine and visualize your goal or goals in very plausible
progressive baby steps. Plausibility is the key here, because before
anything you must believe that this is possible.
I would imagine a dream of something good happening to
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gave a great presentation or whatever. The details of the steps to

get there are not important, but the details that conjure up the good
feelings are. Visualize yourself doing a private celebration and
patting yourself on the back. Visualize next getting called into see
your boss who is smiling and praising you on a job well done
perhaps even giving you a promotion. Focus on the joy and
satisfaction that this moment brings you. Visualize holding a check
in your hand. The check is more than you would expect to find.
You grip the check as if it were a life rope thrown out to you.
Visualize yourself depositing the check with the sense of relief that
your worries are over. Imagine celebrating with your family or
friends. Next visualize that you are buying something nice for
yourself, something you have always wanted. Remember the
happiness that this brings you. Visualize spreading your newfound
happiness with anyone who will receive it.
In each of these visions of your daydream it is important to
concentrate on every subtle detail. It is imperative that you make
each of your visualizations as real as possible. Include everything
from the way things look around you to what you’re wearing, the
sounds that you hear, the way your surroundings smell, etc. It is
the details that make the experience a reality. The more real you
make it and the more times you think about it, the closer your
subconscious comes to finding it. Don’t be afraid to experience
your visualizations in your waking life. Try on that dress! Test -
drive that new car! Take a stroll through your dream house.
Absorb every detail to apply them all towards your visualizations.
Remember, your daydream actually exists somewhere
within the Multi-verse. Somewhere there is another you living that
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moment and by diligently thinking about it you are directing your

being towards that moment. You are directing yourself towards
those areas of the Multi-verse where your dreams play out. As you
get closer to your imaged goal you will begin to see your
experiences set up the scenario to cause the reality of your day
dream to manifest itself into your waking reality. As you get closer
and begin to see your dreams become a reality, it is important that
you take a step back and note that it was your visualization that
made this happen for you. With every successful visualization
exercise you will believe more and more in your infinite
possibility.
Remember, this is happening because none of it is real. All
of it is just a dream. This may sound impossible, but if I were to
prescribe this method to you as way to alter your dreams while you
were a sleep you would probably buy into the idea. When you are
awake your dreams seem unreal to you (at least in memory), they
seem like fantasy. The thought of utilizing a technique to alter
your dreams seems plausible, because you do not associate
dreaming as being real. This is where you are wrong. There is
absolutely no difference between your waking reality and the
reality of your dream world. Both realities are equally as tangible
as the (real world) and equally as fluid as the (dream world).
The dream world seems unreal to us only when we awake
and attempt to review our dreams with our conscious mind.
Because we are not using our conscious mind when we dream, we
do not have to process any of the information linearly. We also do
not have doubt and rational thinking interfering. Our dreams can
be wild and they can jump around from one universe to another far
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off universe in a non-linear fashion and yet maintain the integrity

of the reality within the dream. Upon wakening however, our
conscious mind tries to make sense of the dream putting the pieces
back together in continuity and suddenly we find the dream to be
just unacceptable. Without our conscious mind interfering, we can
manifest anything we want in our waking reality and the
experience will remain completely real to us. It is our conscious
mind that tries to regulate the rendering of the universes. It tells
the subconscious mind that it "can't", and it tries to organize the
events in a practical linear order. In reality, you can do anything
you want if you can just quiet down the orders being given by your
ego.
Because both realities are dream like, I have begun to
wonder if our visualization technique should employ symbolism.
Symbolism might be the preferred language to illustrate to our
subconscious mind what we want in the same way that our dreams
do when we are asleep. We often have bizarre dreams. Sometimes
we might dream about snakes chasing us or dream that we're
drowning or perhaps we're doing something completely out of
context with our normal waking lives. Sometimes we try to make
sense of the dreams because we think our dreams are trying to tell
us something. For instance, Carl Jung suggested that being chased
by snakes could symbolize a fear of death, drowning could
symbolize getting in over your head or having too many problems.
Whatever the symbolism is, I wonder if symbolism itself is the
preferred language of the subconscious.
I read a story about a woman who utilized visualization
techniques to beat cancer. The doctors told this woman she had no
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chance of survival. Instead, they told her chemotherapy might give

her an extra month or two at the most. She said that every time she
sat in the chair to receive her treatment she would visualize her
white blood cells moving throughout her body. Then she
visualized the white blood cells as white bunny rabbits hopping
around within her body and the rabbits are eating away at her
cancer. The cancer, she imagined as an orange object and the
white rabbits just couldn't get enough. The rabbits would eat the
orange cancer (the carrots) and then multiply into more rabbits
until there were more rabbits than there were carrots. Eventually,
she imagined a bunny rabbit eating the last carrot. In her waking
reality, the woman went into complete remission. Not a trace of
cancer was to be found in her body.
She implemented symbolism in her visualization technique
rather than trying to visualize an accurate picture of cancer cells
and white blood cells. She chose white bunny rabbits to symbolize
her white blood cells because rabbits multiply quickly and used
carrots as a symbol for the cancer to create the perfect food for the
rabbits to eat. Reading this got me thinking that this maybe a
better way or if anything, another method of visualization.
Sometimes we dream realities that are so incredibly real and yet
other times we dream realities thick with symbolic references. I do
not yet know which of the two methods would be most effective.
Most importantly, the use of meditation and visualization is
not an activity it is a way of life. It is not something you try it is
something you practice. You should make time for it everyday.
Nothing you do in life can remotely have the same impact if you
truly believe in the powers that lie dormant within you.
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Visualization can be practiced in many ways. It can be something

as simple as making a quick list of your goals and as you write
them down you see them come to fruition in your minds eye. Find
a quiet time for yourself each day to focus on your reality. Imagine
what it looks like to travel within the vast Multi-verse and imagine
that you are at the helm of the wheel. Find this time because
nothing else is more important. Find this time because for you it is
all that is real.

The Law of Attraction

I touched briefly on the Law of Attraction in Chapter 8

describing the effects of this principle when set to a default mode.
By default we tend to react to our experience rather than take
control of our experience. When things go wrong we tend to get
sucked into our experience and dwell on the negative aspects of
what we are experiencing. By default our subconscious interprets
our focus as desire and takes us to different universes that full-fill
our conscious requests. In other words we “attract” more of what
we are focused on. The Law of Attraction simply suggests that any
conscious being attracts their “external” experiences by thinking
about them. To put it more simply you get out of life exactly what
you expect to get. Expect greatness, luck, health, happiness,
wealth and that is what your reality will be. Expect misery, failure,
disappointment, betrayal, poverty and disease and this is what your
world will become.
To understand how any of this could have any scientific
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basis, we need to understand another aspect of quantum physics

called “String Theory”. String Theory is a complicated concept,
which we could think about simply as a collection of vibrating
strings representing un-rendered possible universes within the
Multi-verse. At risk of sounding too meta-physical, we could think
about these vibrating energy fields as strings vibrating either
positively or negatively and, the law of attraction suggesting that
positive vibrating strings are attracted to other positive vibrating
strings “positive vibes” and negative vibrating strings are attracted
to other negative vibrating strings “negative vibes”. We often hear
people talk about increasing “good or positive energy” in our lives
and eliminating the people and experiences evoking “negative or
bad energy”. As hocus-pocus as this may sound, there is now some
compelling science to suggest that there may be something to this.
If we are to manifest experiences that evoke negative energy
(negative feelings or “bad vibes”) this is likely to attract other
negative experiences. Consequently, if we consciously make
determined choices to evoke, or manifest positive experiences we
are more likely to attract other positive experiences.
Less scientifically, many believe (myself included) that
these vibrations are representative of another sense that makes up
the human experience and that sense is our emotions. Emotions are
a factor that carry huge influence over the human experience
however have little, if any scientific measurability. Nonetheless,
their importance to our overall experience may be greater than the
other senses combined and more than this, they just may be another
key to self-awareness. Much of our conscious decisions are based
on our feelings. We tend to go in the direction of things that make
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us feel good and steer clear of situations or experiences that make

us feel bad. Remember, the mind does not distinct between “good”
or “bad”, there is no way for the mind to know that loosing your
wallet is a bad thing, but it does know that it didn’t make you feel
good.
Applying this concept to positively manifesting your reality
is quite simple. It starts with going towards the things that make
you feel good and steering clear of things that make you feel bad
despite the influences in your life directing you otherwise. This is
sometimes easier said then done, but this is essential to manifesting
the life that you desire. We may desire to have a happier life but if
we are inundated with negative people, negative surroundings and
experiences whether we want them or not we are going to attract
more negative experiences. If, on the other hand, we want to
attract more positive influences and experiences into our life we
need to align ourselves with more positive situations which are
likely to attract more positive experiences. By feeling good all the
time and surrounding ourselves with people and experiences that
inspire us and make us feel good we will attract more of the same.
It is sometimes hard to eliminate people from our lives that we care
about, but if they are riddled with drama and bad things are always
happening to them, you need to find away to gracefully reduce
your contact with them. The people around us can bring us up and
elevate us to heights we never imagined or they can suck us down
into the abyss of bad experiences. There is an old saying that says
“misery loves company” now there is a concept that supports this.
On the contrary, it is not hard at all to feel good inside and
to attract good and positive experiences. There are plenty of ways
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to find happiness without having material things. One simple way

to feel good is through giving. When we give it makes us feel
great. Giving doesn’t have to cost you anything. Giving can be
something as simple as a compliment. It is within this self-
congratulatory happiness that you will attract more pleasurable
experiences to your own life. Giving is receiving.

Dreams

Since the dawn of human reasoning, man has contemplated

the meaning of his dreams. Nearly every culture throughout
history has regarded their dreams as something sacred and of
significant meaning. Though our dreams rarely make sense to us,
we cannot deny their importance to our survival. Without them we
would die.
When someone is deprived of R.E.M sleep, a condition of
deep rest where the mind enters a dream state and the eyes begin a
shimmering pattern called rapid eye movement (R.E.M.), we find
that the physical and mental health of the person deteriorates at
staggering levels. After just 96 hours of R.E.M. deprivation the
person looses most, if not all of their mental faculties. They are
unable to make cognitive responses; they experience frequent
hallucinations, and loose nearly all of their coordination and motor
skills. They also have a very bad time trying to distinguish reality
from fantasy.
So what is happening to us when we dream? Dreams have
been clinically studied for more than century now and still nobody
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knows for certain. What we do know is that it is only during our

dreams, particularly the gamma wave state, that our brain is most
active.
There are some who believe that when we dream we are
either downloading or uploading daily information. Information
either gathered by us for upload or information from somewhere
else downloaded to us. This would make sense with the new
understanding that the superconscious (our collective mind)
processes and delegates information outside of the human body.
There are others who believe that our dreams are moments when
the observer pulls out of the body, the virtual interface, to either
rest or refuel. This is consistent with the Aborigine Indians who
believe that in our dreams we unite with God, that it is only within
our waking reality that we have a separate ego and identity. Many
believe there are messages in our dreams in the form of metaphors
and symbols to instruct us to consciously re-direct our lives. Of
course, there are others who believe that our dreams mean nothing
at all. They believe dreams are nothing more than random thoughts
firing off by neural connectors and it is our conscious mind that is
trying to make sense of the chaos when we first awake.
Not to cop-out on this, but I think all of these ideas maybe
true. I believe that there are both purpose and meaning to our
dreams but I also believe that our dreams are equally meaningless
and random. I have no doubt that some of our dreams are trying to
tell us something. But I also think that the messages come to us
thick with symbolism and unless you are very good at playing
charades it is difficult to recognize all of the metaphors.

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Carl Jung was the pioneer of recognizing metaphors within

our dreams. He suggested that our dreams are filled with symbolic
references and metaphors as both representations of desires or
burdens in our waking life, as well as solutions and direction to our
subconscious mind. For example, a dream that you are being
chased by snakes could be a metaphor for anxiety in your waking
life. This dream represents our primordial fight or flight response.
If you get away from the snakes in your dream, this might be a
suggestion that you should avoid the current stress in your waking
life. Turning back to fight the snake may be a metaphor for you to
face your anxiety. The metaphor suggesting that your anxieties are
nothing to fear and that you will overcome them by simply facing
them head on. Some suggest that a dream of drowning represents
unresolved personal issues such as a relationship ending badly or
childhood fears left unresolved. Many psychologists believe that
before you will be able to move on in your waking life, these issues
need to be resolved. On a brighter note, many of us have had
dreams of flying. It is suggested that this metaphor represents
personal achievement, and control over your life. However, if you
are having trouble staying aloft or if you run into trees or
mountains or something of the sort, this could mean that someone
or something is standing in the way of your aspirations.
Whether or not these metaphors really have something to
do with our waking reality I don’t know. What is important here is
to use your dreams as practice to recognizing metaphors in your
waking life. There are no coincidences in your waking life because
your are the master of your reality. If we regard our waking life as
a dream, we could look for metaphors placed within our waking
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reality by our subconscious self for all of the guidance we could

ever need. We should learn to trust our intuitions, ask for guidance
out loud and act on metaphors when we uncover them in our
waking life. Instead we have been incorrectly taught throughout
our lives to regard any striking occurrence as merely coincidence.
We are taught not to look too deeply into them. This advice could
not be any worse. These incredible things happen because this is
your minds way of telling you to pay attention. Looking for
metaphors is the single best way to constantly remind yourself that
you are dreaming in your waking life. Acting on them is the single
greatest way to take control of your waking dream. Look for
metaphors and you will find them everywhere. It is within the
metaphors that you will find the guidance to anything you desire.
There is a practice of becoming aware that you are
dreaming within the dreams of your sleep called lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming is a technique where you become consciously
aware that you are dreaming within your dream allowing you to
take conscious control over your subconscious experience. It is
said that you can then manipulate your dream by sheer will alone.
Through lucid dreaming we can learn how to consciously become
aware of our waking dream state and consciously take control of
our lives to unlimited ability. Since I first learned about this
practice a few years ago, I have only been able to do this once. I
find this practice intriguing but very difficult to achieve. In my
single lucid dream, I became aware that I was dreaming within my
dream but I was still unable to manipulate it. The mere awareness
to the fact that I was dreaming was enough interference to bring the
dream to an end.
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To practice lucid dreaming there are some clever techniques

that you can employ to achieve a lucid dream state. Although, the
practice of lucid dreaming is exactly that, practice. Lucid dreaming
requires dedication, and patience but the result of this may very
well have a profound impact on our waking reality. One
suggestion to lucid dreaming is getting in the habit of reading text
twice in your waking reality. It is said that any text within in a
dream will never appear the same way twice and recognizing this
may be enough to remind you that you are dreaming. Another
suggestion is doing things in your dream that you would expect to
give you feedback. For example, making an attempt to adjust the
light while dreaming. You can do this by turning on a lamp or
opening a curtain. In your dream, the light switch flicks or the
curtains open but the surrounding light does not change, an
indication that you are dreaming. Another practice is repeatedly
looking at your hands in your waking reality. Make a habit out of
looking at your palms and then the backside of your hands in your
waking life and then attempt to do this while dreaming. Almost
never can we see our hands when we are dreaming. It is suggested
that often times the mind has difficulty producing our hands while
we are dreaming which can be another indication that we are
dreaming.
Upon awakening in your dream and achieving a lucid state
of mind, it is suggested that you can direct the experiences of your
dream and alter the reality within it. If you want to fly away, you
simply think about it and do it. If you want to make flowers grow
on the wall then simply make a wish and watch it happen. The
power and ability you have during your lucid dream is nothing less
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or more than the powers you have in your waking life. You have
the ability, just as in your lucid dream to alter the reality around
you by sheer will alone. But, just as in the lucid dream, first you
must become aware that you are dreaming and second, you have to
believe that you can alter your dream. Think of your life as a
dream, and when you sleep, think of your dreams becoming a
dream within a bigger dream. If you can manipulate your dreams
when you sleep, then you can manipulate your reality. Lucidly
controlling the dreams of your sleep is in itself a metaphor, that we
do have the ability to lucidly control the dream of our waking life.

Surrendering your ego

Giving up all that is you is probably impossible for anyone.

However, with any luck, reading this book has opened your mind
to the consideration of the true meaning of your life and to the
possibility that your identity and your ego are merely illusions of
grandeur. If you accept the main points of this book, then you are
already on your way to reducing the significance of yourself as an
individual and on to the realization that you are God; a God that is
creating ego’s to contemplate ideas. As humans, we create an
alternate ego within our own minds every time we think about
anything at all. We ask a question in our mind, and a voice (an
alternate ego) answers the question. It is important to keep in mind
that “you” are neither the voice asking the question in your mind
nor are “you” the voice answering it. Instead, the part that is “you”
is the one who is aware of the conversation.
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We are all more than just connected; we are all a single

conscious being creating multiple egos for both company and to
express our thoughts and ideas through conversation. You are not
just connected to other beings, you are the other beings and you are
connected to reality itself because reality is something that you just
made up. Think of your ego as a costume that our mind is putting
on to experience something new and to learn something about
itself. Think of reality as a world for the costume to “play” in to
make the experience ever more real.
It is important to remember that everything you have ever
experienced is a part of you. Every person you know, every
starving child you saw on TV, as well as the TV itself and the
couch you sat on while you watched it; they are all you. They are
your thoughts and since thoughts are all that we are, you and the
thoughts that created your reality are one and the same. Thoughts
are things. Everything in the universe is nothing more than an
idea, but just because ideas are not made of matter doesn't make
them any less real.

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Gently down the stream.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily,
Life is but a dream.”

~ Eliphalet Oram Lyte

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Defining The Dream, Defining God

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S
even years ago my skeptical Atheism would have
balked at any of these ideas. In fact, it wasn't until
very recently that I had this personal eureka and
made the connection between meta-physics, positive suggestion,
spirituality and the Multi-verse theory. It was this eureka that was
the inspiration for this book. Once I had fully grasped the concept,
I decided right then to change my life. I decided to pursue every
inclination or urge that came to my mind regardless of the out
come. If my mind was sending me a message I was going to
embrace it and see it through.
I had an idea one night that I was supposed to write this
book. I have never written anything other than a song in my life
and I had no clue of how to begin. The old me, would have
dismissed the idea of writing a book, especially a book about
science and spirituality. Who the hell am I? I am not a scientist
nor do I consider myself spiritual! But instead I embraced the idea.
As irrational as it seemed at the time, my subconscious mind was
telling me to write a book and so I did. I picked up my laptop and I
have not stopped writing or researching this book since. I could
have embraced the idea and said to myself, “Someday I will do it.”
But somehow I knew following these instructions now is what my
subconscious mind was navigating me to do as the first step into
achieving the other things I had hoped and dreamt for.
I began by visualizing myself researching data and staying
up late at night typing into my laptop. I also visualized the finality
of this project and my visualization included every detail. I
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shelves and being bought and read by you. As ridiculous as it may

sound, I visualized myself talking about this book on Oprah. In
fact, it was a dream of discussing this book on Oprah that gave me
the title. In my dream, I saw her holding the book up to the camera
lens and saying the title, "Becoming God". It was the first time I
had ever considered a title for the book (I had then hardly begun)
and I did not give the title a second thought after that. That was
what I envisioned the very first time and I never second-guessed it.
I went with where my mind was taking me because I knew that
whatever my mind could imagine would eventually manifest itself
within my reality. By accepting the fact, that this glimpse was an
actual reality for me to take, I chose to direct myself toward it
making the reality ever more real. It would be nearly a year before
my chosen title made any sense to me. Writing this book enabled
me, in many ways, to grasp these concepts further than even I had
ever grasped them before. It wasn’t until well after writing this
book that I realized the perfect way to describe the nature of reality
is that we (or it) is in a constant state of “becoming”. We are
already “ONE”, (a single consciousness) perpetually becoming
new egos, new situations, new environments, new everything. It is
in this constant state of becoming in which we learn something
new about ourselves and further contemplate our own existence by
comparing the various experiences that we become. I realize now
that I couldn’t have chosen a more perfect title.
This book is just the first step to forever changing my life.
There is no doubt in my mind this book will be published and read
by you. There is no doubt in my mind by writing this book I have
changed the course of my reality. I have changed the direction of
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my dream and now I have opened the floodgate to a slew of new

kinds of experiences. Galileo once said: “You cannot teach a man
anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” If I have
succeeded in this then I have succeeded in my intention.
Since this is the conclusion of the book, I feel like I would
be cheating you if I didn’t offer some personal opinion about the
theories presented in this book and their philosophical
repercussions. As I mentioned before, it would infuriate me to no
end when I would come to the end of some book about Quantum
Mechanics and the author/scientist would not offer his or her
philosophical intuition. I on the other hand, do have the advantage
of freedom of expression without scrutiny from colleagues. After
all, I am just a musician with a curiosity about the meaning of life.
My career does not hang in the balance of anyone’s thoughts of my
opinions so long as it comes packaged in a catchy tune. With that
being said, it is important to remember that my opinions are no
more important or more correct than any opinions you may have
about the subject. These are opinions about the unknowable, and
there isn’t anything that I can learn about in this world that could in
anyway make me understand the meaning of life or what happens
to us when the dream of waking life is over.
From everything I have read and everything I have
considered on my own, I believe we are living within a dream. I
believe that our waking reality is the expression of the possibilities
of our imagination that exceed our comprehension. Life is a
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I believe that in both our waking reality and in the dreams

of our sleep we are subject to an ego that is in place to convince us
that we are somehow separate from everything else. I do not
believe that we are. It is our ego that has us convinced that we are
the subject of the experience rather than the creator of the
experience. Our egos’ skew our understanding not only in waking
life, but in our dreams as well. In both realities we are convinced
that we are somehow just a passenger with little ability to influence
the events that are “happening” to us. However, with understanding
and discipline we can awaken from our ego, find liberation from
our fears and consciously take control of our experience in both the
dreams of our sleep and the dream of our waking reality.
I believe in God. I believe that God is the dream of
everything that is and ever will be. God is a thought, a supposition.
God is what the universe is when it thinks. We are the thoughts of
God. We are pure imagination being expressed and appreciated
through the eyes of a conscious ego. When the thought is
complete, the ego will cease to exist and our lives will seemingly
be over. Egos are important. Egos help God consider a thought
from a different perspective. What better way to learn the effects
of something than to experience it first hand from multiple
perspectives and points of view? I believe when we die, we slip
back into a dreamless world absent of any meaning at all. I hope
that when we die and shed the ego we have come to love, we will
be granted comprehension of all thought. I know that in that
moment all of the pain and loneliness experienced in this life
would be worthwhile. In that moment we would awaken into a
world where nothing matters at all, a world of all knowing bliss.
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In that moment we would consciously become aware that we are

God, and we would revel and laugh at the simplicity of it all, a
simplicity so deep that in the absence of everything we would
experience an apathetic euphoria incomprehensible to us now.
When I think about this simple place, I think about
existence in its simplest form, a universe absent of any stress or
worry and a universe absent of any goals or ambition. At the end
of everything nothing matters at all, right or wrong we are merely a
thought in an endless sea of thoughts. I started to think about this
as an ideology and I wondered if a simple life might be the
intended life for us in this waking reality. According to The Law
of Attraction, If we just lived for now, this instant, and our only
thought was for happiness then that thought or visualization would
have to manifest itself in the next moment; a moment of
subsequent happiness. No matter what, if we focused on
happiness, the next moment would have to produce happiness
regardless of what was seemingly happening around us. In order to
manifest happiness, which is now the goal that our subconscious
mind is visualizing and focusing on, everything would have to just
“work itself out” to continue to produce happiness. Focusing on
happiness and contentment are the ingredients to a euphoric,
blissful experience. If happiness is what we are searching for, then
all we have to do is ask for it. This practice of life seems to be not
unlike the practices of the monks, who typically live in peaceful
surroundings ever appreciative of the splendor of life. This is an
admirable way to live, but in my opinion, to truly appreciate
happiness we must sometime encounter struggle which is the very
reason why we create a less than perfect life.
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So far in this book we have addressed every question except

for why which I would like to propose to you now:
We exist to raise the conscious level of God. Our lives are
the mechanism for which God sorts out new understanding. Life is
where God goes while his mind tries to comprehend his endless
imagination. In other words, God is constantly blowing his own
mind and life is where he/she/we/it go to ponder these notions
through expression. Everything in life is a metaphor (a clue or a
sign) to remind us not to get sucked into this false reality. This is
supposed to be fun! As we begin to comprehend our new ideas we
also begin to recognize the signs and metaphors we placed within
the dream as a reminder to wake up, to become self-aware that we
are God expressing and contemplating a new idea.
You might then ask; if we are dreaming what is our purpose
in it all? I think our purpose is to act as the voice with which God
reasons and contemplates anything and everything. As I said
previously, when we think about anything in our own minds, at
least three separate egos are involved; two to propose and answer
the questions, and one to be aware of the conversation and ponder
the ideas being discussed. I believe that “our” (individual egos)
purpose now is to consummate three (3) goals so that we can
recognize the final metaphors in our ascension to higher
consciousness. It is not a coincidence that these are the three
necessary qualities you must embrace within yourself before this
book will make any sense to you, a book that I now believe is a
metaphor in itself to help us wake up. These three goals are:

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1. Open mindedness (one must acknowledge that their current

train of thought is not the answer and one must be
completely open to a new way of thinking)
2. Embrace benevolence through self-awareness (do good be
good)
3. Liberation from all of our fears (have trust or faith)

Being open minded to new ideas, especially philosophies

widely outside of your “box” of knowledge and previous
experience, is absolutely necessary to raising your level of
consciousness. More than this, you must be willing to accept that
your current train of thought is not working. If it were, the world
would be a perfect place and you would be experiencing
everlasting happiness. This world is a wonderful place and I am
very happy over all, but even I can admit there is still room for
improvement.
Secondly, we must embrace benevolence. This simply
means that we must always do the right thing towards ourselves
and to others. With the understanding that we are one, we must
treat others with the kindness, respect and compassion that we
would expect for ourselves. Being kind to others makes us feel
good about ourselves because they are us and we are them.
Despite the distorted view your ego is giving you, it is important to
always remember that we are a single conscious being trying to
find our way in the barren of infinity. We must have tolerance
towards “other egos” and be appreciative of our surroundings.
Nobody is superior to anyone because we are one. Each of us is on
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our own predetermined journey; each with our own purpose and set
of circumstance to serve our single source. Remember, everything
you see around you is an extension of you.
Finally, facing what fears us most is how we begin the
process of experiencing new ideas. Anything new is scary the first
time; but if we recognize that fear is an illusion, then we can
quickly find a way to grow from the experience. I can recall the
first time I got behind the wheel of an automobile. It was a
terrifying experience but it was also liberating at the same time. I
understand now that facing my fears of driving a car required
responsibility, but the reward from freedom of exploration was
worth every bit of it. We should regard our lives exactly the same
way. We will only become appreciative of our exploration if we
remember what it took to overcome our fear of it in the beginning.
Until you recognize and embrace these three qualities or
“Arthas” you will never be able to awaken from the dream.
Reincarnation takes place when we have not obtained these three
Arthas within the span of a single lifetime. This is my variation on
the Hindu and Buddha religions. In fact, I believe that all of the
religions have got a piece of the puzzle, and that we left metaphors
within the scriptures of each one. Along with this, the Christians
too are very close in saying that you must accept Jesus Christ as
your savior before you will be allowed in the Kingdom of Heaven
(a higher state of consciousness). Where the Christians have got it
wrong is they misinterpreted this metaphor as believing that Christ
(The Man) died for our sins. He did not, because there are no sins
to forgive; there is only experience. Instead, we must believe in
The Way that Jesus described to us in his teachings. Jesus was
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trying to teach us to become self-aware, but he was murdered

before the lesson was completed. I understand this now because of
the struggles I have encountered in writing this book. The only
way to teach these concepts is in baby steps. In-small progressive
increments are the only way to comprehend this new revelation, a
revelation of Gods’mind. God is not awe, but Ah-ha!
I am now convinced that we left huge metaphors
everywhere for ourselves to remind us of where we came from and
how we should regard our lives. For example, if I were to describe
the structure of God or come up with a symbol that best describes
the nature of ultimate reality, the picture would look a lot like a
tree. The tree is a metaphor, a constant reminder of who we really
are. The trunk and root system of the tree would represent our
source, our “oneness” from which we branch out into individual
leaves (or lives) each of “us” encapsulated within our own reality
to gain a different perspective. Each leaf is independent from the
other leaves, but they are connected through our source. Together
we feed and nurture our source by collecting water and energy
from the sun. When our job is complete (The thought is over) the
leaf dies and falls to the ground only to decompose so that it can
once again be re-absorbed back into our source helping the tree to
expand and grow.
We can communicate with our source whenever we choose.
We can ask any question of our source, the answers to which will
always be revealed to us through metaphor, recognizable only if we
choose to believe in them. When I asked to understand the nature
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found my answer oddly enough through the metaphors within The

Wizard of Oz. After careful consideration, I began to write down
my thoughts on what our purpose should be now to raise the
conscious level of our source. As I began write down the words:
open mind, benevolence, and liberation from fear, I was suddenly
reminded of how these metaphors have been engrained in my
psyche since childhood. In the movie, Dorthy is sucked into a
tornado from her farmhouse in Kansas where she awakens in a
ridiculous place called Munchkinland, a fantastical world of make
believe. In this dream world, Dorthy desires to go home (to
awaken from the dream). She learns that in order to get home she
must go see the “Wizard” (the metaphor being God- her inner self)
who will grant her any wish. Dorthy sets out on a yellow brick
road (a metaphor for our metaphors) leading her to the Wizard who
lives in a place called Oz. Along the way she encounters a living
scarecrow who is in search of a brain (he has an open mind) who
accompanies her to see the Wizard who may grant his wish. They
next encounter a Tin Man who is in need of a heart (benevolence,
compassion) who also accompanies them to see the Wizard. Next
they encounter their third and last disciple, a Lion without any
courage who yearns to face his fears.
Along the way, a Wicked Witch terrorizes them. Their fear
of this Wicked Witch is almost enough to hinder them from
completing their journey. Their struggle is a metaphor for life. If it
were easy, they would not appreciate it. Finally, the four barely
make it to their destination where they inevitably meet with the
Wizard. Disappointingly, the Wizard tells them they must go back
and get the broomstick of the Wicked Witch and bring it to him
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before he will grant their wishes. He tells them that they must face
their fears. The four main characters oblige and face their most
dreaded fear only to find that the Wicked Old Witch could be
destroyed with a harmless glass of water (something that the
human body is mostly made of; the metaphor being they had it
within them all along). Amazed with their accomplishment and no
longer afraid of anything, they have an effortless journey back to
Oz and once again encounter the Wizard. It is during this
encounter, and with their newfound courage, they realize that the
Wizard is just a simple man hiding behind a curtain of almighty
disguise (a metaphor for religion). When they ask the Wizard why
he would do such a thing, the Wizard admits that he just wanted to
see if they could do it (Experience). The Wizard tells the four they
did not have to come all the way to Oz to have their wishes
granted; but they had the ability to do it themselves all along. The
scarecrow always had a brain; he just didn’t believe that he was
smart. So, the Wizard gives him a diploma, an accolade from the
University of E Pluribus Unum (Latin for oneness), to remind him
of his genius. The Wizard reminds the Tin Man that just by
showing compassion for his friends and following his desires, he
has a heart; and he gives the Tin Man a token to remind him. The
Wizard then tells the Lion that he was always courageous; he just
didn’t know he had it in him to face his fears. And lastly, Dorthy
discovers she could have gotten home any time she wanted. All
she had to do was believe that she could. The reason she was told
to set out on such a perilous journey was so she would discover
newfound appreciation for her home. Dorthy clicks her heels three

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times to awaken from the dream safely back in her bed again in
Kansas.
These are just a few of the dozens of metaphors I found in
The Wizard of Oz, and this movie is just one of hundreds of
metaphors (or “signs”) that I have recognized within my life in the
last several weeks. Now that I believe in their significance, I find
them everywhere. These metaphors have filled my life with
laughter and joy unlike anything I have ever experienced. The
metaphors in my life are my yellow brick road. As long as I stay
on it I will never be lost. Finding metaphors in your life is going to
be a wonderful way for you to break down your barrier of doubt
too. At first, you will dismiss the metaphors as coincidences, but
somewhere in the back of your mind you will entertain the
possibility. With increasing metaphors too fantastic to be
coincidence you will begin to recognize that you are manifesting
those metaphors into existence by thinking about them and looking
for them. Within this realization you will discover that you are
God and you will then know that you can do much more than
merely manifest coincidences.
It is important for my readers to know that this book is not
about quantum physics, nor is this book about religion. If this is
what you have taken from this book, then you have missed the
point. The preceding chapters are in fact metaphors to bring us to
this final conclusion. This book is about becoming self-aware;
aware that we are God, an idea that shatters everything we have
come to understand about our lives and the world around us.
Embracing this concept is not going to be easy for you. It wasn't

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for me. I realize now that The Search For Schrödinger’s Cat and
further anomalies in quantum physics are just another metaphor; a
sign or a clue that I left for myself, a symbol that did not set right
with my psyche. This was one of the earliest metaphors that I
recognized. Achieving my dreams was the first. The signs are so
obvious now I can’t escape them even when I try. There is
something more to coincidence and there is nothing wrong with
believing in this. Thus far we have ignored coincidences and look
what it has brought us. What do you have to loose by changing
your opinion now? What wonderful things do you have to gain by
eliminating your doubt and having a little faith? God is beginning
to comprehend his previous thought. I am (God is, you are) ready
to wake up. Stop hitting the snooze button!
Take a deep breath and count to three… The concepts of
this book are very difficult to accept. I highly recommend that you
re-read this book several times over. A lot of the ideas I have
presented here require multiple reviews before your conscious is
going to allow it to penetrate your mind. Don’t get discouraged if
you are grasping only parts of this book. The entire picture will
require effort, careful study and contemplation. Remember the clue
you left for yourself; the Bible also infers: It will be revealed to you
in God’s time. Well, You are God! You will “get it” when you
have comprehended it and not a second sooner. To fully
comprehend anything you have to experience the lesson. For
example, just as clichés and metaphors are used in everyday
language, we really don’t comprehend them until we experience
them first hand. Then, at that moment, we say to ourselves, “Ah-
ha! Now I get it.”
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Comprehension requires the elimination of doubt. Doubt

will block these ideas at every level. To overcome this, I highly
recommend doing your own research. Be a skeptic. Read other
books, research this stuff on the Internet, look for your own
metaphors, open a dialog with others and work your way through
it; after all we are one. More important than anything however, is
that you engage in conversation about these ideas. For it is within
the conversation (saying it out loud and teaching it) that we begin
to comprehend it. Until we say it out loud, for our own ears to
hear, it’s only an idea. As strange as this sounds, even I couldn’t
fully comprehend my book until I began to teach it. This book is
simply divine. The metamorphosis that you received by reading it
mirrors the metamorphosis I received while writing it. I began this
book as an atheist and now I believe in God as I believe in my self.
At the very least this book provokes the ultimate questions and
makes us comfortable questioning paradigms.
Understanding this book will not be easy. This is okay; this
is part of the comprehension process. I cannot tell you how many
times I have tried explaining these concepts to people and in the
middle of my description I got lost myself somewhere in the
philosophy and had to go back and research it to firmly grasp the
concepts again. These ideas and this philosophy are counter-
intuitive and your brain is going to reject it at every level. Don't
just read this book. Think about the concepts I have presented to
you.
As unbelievable as these philosophies may be, they are all
that we have and it is necessary that we contemplate them. They
are the only philosophies that show truth with what I do know:
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That we are dreaming; that unless we are observing it directly,

reality has only the potential for existing and the dream is limited
only by our imagination. Life is anything you want it to be and as
detailed as you want to make it. The reality around us becomes
real only when we choose to make it real. That is a powerful
notion. You have the power to make anything of your life that you
wish. What great thing would you do today if you knew you were
going to die tomorrow? What greater things would you do if you
knew there was no chance of failure? Regret at the end of your life
means that you lost the game. Are you playing to win or are you
playing to get all the way through it and loose? Are you playing to
learn and experience all that is possible or are you playing a
conservative game to come back and do this over and over until
you have whole heartedly accepted this ideology and made the
most of your experience? This is the discovery to end all
discoveries. Discovering these concepts for yourself and
embracing them makes this simply the most profound moment of
your life.

What are you going to do with it?

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ourselves to remind ourselves that we are worthy
of asking the next question. It is within the
answer of your next question that you will ascend
to the next level of consciousness. There are no
limits to the levels of ascension, for we will
always have another question, the answer of
which resides within our own imagination. For
imagination evolves by supposition.”

~ Lisa Ann Fordyce

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