Scientists say our consciousness may alter reality

Respectfully, Duh

We had a saying when I was in middle school. “Duh.” We invented it. I’m sure of this because first, there was no such thing as “duh,” and then suddenly, when I was around 11, we were saying it all the time. It was brand new when in the early seventies. It meant, “obviously” and/or “you’re just figuring this out now?” It was sarcastic and was used when someone discovered a new fact to them that everyone else already knew. “No, duh” was used, but that was a later group of kids. At the very start, and for exceedingly duh moments, “duh” was expressed so emphatically it became a more drawn-out “doiiiiiii” sound, said while flipping your ear at the target. I have no idea why we flipped our ears while saying duh or doi but it was the height of insults and when done in that manner, really meant that the target was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

This is not an ear-flipping level event here. Here, I only mean it in the “you’re just figuring this out now?” sense, and that most respectfully. You see, it’s about science, and I love science, but science has spent a couple of centuries telling spiritual types we’re full of blue mud.

To be fair, lots of religious leaders were also telling scientists that they were the deluded ones, and in the early days arresting, torturing, or killing them for it. Galileo spent his waning years under house arrest. The Catholics didn’t like that he said the earth revolved around the sun.

So “religion” and science have long been enemies, and today they are enemies again, now that I think about it with folks blaming their religion for letting their babies die of a preventable disease like measles, or their elders die of a preventable disease like covid.

If you look at the history, science has always been proven right in the long run, but no one has yet managed to prove religion wrong. (Unless you use the “by their fruits you shall know them” sort of evidence.)

But spirituality is not religion. Spirituality is, to me, knowing there’s something more to life than this brief, physical experience—that consciousness extends beyond the body, exists both before and after death, and shapes our experience in the physical world. We learn about spirituality through experience, observation, meditation. It’s a one on one thing. Personal.

Religion, on the other hand is a system of beliefs made up by humans and used to control the behavior of other humans. Religious sticks a middle man between the person and their experience of the non-physical. It’s not even close to the same thing.

Science and religion will probably always be enemies. Science and spirituality however, have been getting to be pretty good pals as science, understandably skeptical of spirituality because of its experience with religion, has begun to find proof of what it thought impossible.

So here we are today, with a science article talking about spiritual things of the sort I’ve been teaching at the Bliss Blog since 2009, and that Esther Hicks was teaching for decades before me, and that a channel called Seth was teaching before her, and that indigenous shamans and healers the world over have been understood since the dawn of time, the world over.

That our consciousness extends beyond our bodies and that it shapes our reality.

The article I’ll link at the end of this post is fabulous, but the best part of it is how surprised the writer is, as if unaware (though they couldn’t be) that spiritual traditions have been teaching this very thing forever. That’s king of fun. And it’s nice to be acknowledged, but again, duh.

Be sure to read the article, though. It’ll make you feel smart. 😉

How it works

Author, teacher, scientist, and very spiritual guy Gregg Braden tells a story in one of his books, about being in the southwest during a drought. He was visiting with a Shaman, as he makes a practice of talking to indigenous holy men about their ways. The shaman asked if he’d like to come with him to a rainmaking ceremony, and he was very excited to witness that. But all the shaman did was, walk out into the wilds, make a circle in the dirt, and stand quietly in the center with his eyes closed for a few minutes. And then he was done.

When Braden asked him to explain what he’d done, he said that he’d been feeling the rain falling on his body. He was hearing its patter on the ground, and feeling its cool kiss on his skin. He was smelling the freshness of the air when it rains, that wash of freshness. He was tasting the rain on his lips and imagining a big drink of it sliding down his throat. He was appreciating the rain.

Not giving thanks for it, exactly, but appreciating it. Feeling it, loving it, basking in it, you know? In advance of its arrival.

A few hours later, or maybe the next day, it rained.

What happened?

The shaman shape-shifted from the version of himself who was living in a drought, to the version of himself who was standing in the rain. He shifted vibrationally first. “Frequency” is mentioned in the science article. It’s the frequency of vibration, the wavelength, so to speak, of the energy we emit. We are constantly beaming a signal out into the world, and matching wavelengths are drawn to it.

He didn’t create the rain so much as he tuned into it. He did this by imagining how standing in the rain would feel and by conjuring those feelings in his now. It’s like turning the dial of a radio in search of just the signal. You adjust your own feelings until you tune in the station playing what you want to hear. He tuned in rain.

To match the vibe of something we have feel it fully, really appreciate it, bask in it, before its physical arrival. If we can do that with something we don’t yet have, it has to manifest. It has no choice, it’s natural law. This is how thoughts become things. We match their vibration and tune them in.

How to tune in

The shaman had stood in the rain before. He knew what it felt like, and so he was able to conjure all those feelings, to imagine the rain through all five senses (that’s key) by calling up the memory of rains past.

If the thing we want is something we’ve had before, we can tune it in best, by conjuring the memory, experiencing all the sensations they bring, and feeling the way we felt when we experienced it in the past.

If the thing we want is something we’ve never experienced before, we have to imagine how we think having it would make us feel. And we know, because the way we think it will make us feel is the whole reason we want the thing. Only we have to figure out how to feel that way without it first.

We can find other things in our lives right now that give us some of those same feelings. There are always pieces of our desire already in our lives, and if we look for them expecting to find them, we will find them. That’s how it works. It’s natural law.

Focus is the mechanism by which consciousness shapes reality.

The best ways to get what we want

• Imagine we already have it, and feel the feelings of that.

• Find microcosms of what we want, miniatures or pieces of it in our life right now, and bask in those.

• Find other things that inspire the same feelings in us that having the goal will inspire in us, and fully appreciate and experience them often.

• Conjure memories of when we’ve had this thing before, or something like it, and re-experience it that way.

• If we start expectantly watching for components of the thing, we will find them. We’ll see other folks who already have the thing throughout the day. We should celebrate when we do, because we’ll know it’s coming closer.

Eventually, we step gently into the version of ourself who is living the new experience, with the new thing. It will happen so naturally, we might not even notice at first. With me, usually, the thing comes after I’ve forgotten about it and moved on to wishing for a new and different thing.

That happens so often, I’ve come to believe that sometimes, no matter how positive we are, our awareness of our desire not being here yet can throw static into our signals and keep them just off enough that we can’t tune in clearly what we want. (And the more we want it, the more likely we’re doing that.) So often times letting go of a desire can speed its arrival, but if you let it go in order to speed its arrival, you aren’t really letting it go. That part kind of has to happen on its own. Distraction helps. So wish it, and do all the above things, and if it’s still being slow, try moving on to a new wish or desire and start the process for manifesting that. And the previous thing will usually just show up and tap you on the shoulder. “Hey, you called. Here I am.”

Here’s that article

Give it a read. It’s a great piece, and it links to another one about the shocking and stunning scientific discovery that time is probably an illusion.

Duh.

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