E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality (20 page)

But that’s not the case. We’ve now got a demonstrably more accurate model that proves that one object, without being anywhere near a second object, can influence the second object. Unfortunately, most of us still persist in hanging on to the old “chain-of-events” worldview, even though physicists have demonstrated time and time again that once an atom has been in the proximity of another atom, it will be influenced (or entangled) by that atom no matter how far away it travels. Even Einstein couldn’t bring himself to fully embrace this counterintuitive concept. An even weirder conundrum is that once the atoms have interacted, they’re entangled forever.

We have even proved that nonlocality and entanglement work on bigger things—like humans. In 1978, Dr. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (later replicated by London neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick) hooked two test subjects to electroencephalographs in isolated rooms. The brain-wave pattern produced by a series of strobe lights in one of the subject’s eyes appeared identically on the other test subject’s EEG even though he was nowhere near the same flashes.

Though nonlocality doesn’t make sense to our Newtonian brains, we can still use it to our advantage. Like your computer that is hooked up via the Internet to an infinite amount of information, you—by virtue of being a human being—are hooked up to everyone else in the world.

Sometimes, when I want to communicate to someone in another part of the world, I whisper my message to the giant oak tree in my front yard. Needless to say, trees, like the dogs in
101 Dalmatians,
are interconnected, and the oak can easily send messages to a palm tree in a friend’s yard in California through the concept of nonlocality.

In this experiment, you’re going to use nonlocality to send a message to someone from a distance, someone you will not see or talk to.

That Synching Feeling

“It is all about love and how we all are connected.”

—M
ARK
W
AHLBERG
, A
MERICAN ACTOR

When my daughter was in junior high school, she began answering every question with the same reply—222. If someone asked what time it was, she’d say 2:22. Even when it was 5:43. If someone wondered how much it costs for a lunchroom carton of milk, again she’d answer with $2.22. Her friends got a big kick out of it and started calling her at exactly 2:22 every afternoon. She even started a Facebook fan page called “The Amazingly Awesomeness of 222.” As I said, she was in junior high. That same summer, we took two trips. On both of these trips, with no input or planning on my part, we ended up staying in room 222 of our hotels—one in Seattle after we missed our connection to Juneau; and the other in London’s Langham Hotel, located across from the BBC headquarters.

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called events like these
synchronicity:
“the simultaneous occurrence of two meaningful but not causally connected events.” Some people view coincidences like these as amusing anomalies spit out by the random event generator, arguing that it’s only inevitable that eventually events from Column A will match up with those from Column B.

In this experiment, you’re going to permit yourself to suppose that synchronistic events are not the result of the law of averages or outright delusion, but rather valid products of nonlocality and entanglement.

In fact, in his book
Prometheus Rising
, Robert Anton Wilson claims that even “contemplating these issues usually triggers Jungian synchronicities. See how long after reading this chapter you encounter an amazing coincidence.” If you have any great stories, by all means, send them to me via my website:
www.pamgrout.com
.

As Wilson loved to point out, the fabric of the universe doesn’t play by human rules. In fact, let’s let him explain the theorem of nonlocality put forth in the 1960s by theorist John S. Bell. It was Bell’s now-famous theorem that led to actual experiments that conclusively proved the nonlocal quantum nature of the world:

Bell’s Theorem is highly technical, but in ordinary language it amounts to … this: There are no isolated systems; every particle in the universe is in “instantaneous” (faster-than-light) communication with every other particle. The Whole
System,
even the parts that are separated by cosmic distances, functions as a
Whole
System.

After this experiment, you’ll discover that synchronicity, a phenomenon people regularly shrug off with a “Wow! What a weird coincidence,” is nothing but experimental proof of the interconnectedness of all things.

Everything That Doesn’t Look Like Love Is Smoke and Mirrors

“We can slice and dice it anyway we like, but we cannot justify turning our face away from this evidence.”

—L
ARRY
D
OSSEY
, M.D., A
MERICAN PHYSICIAN AND AUTHOR

In 1972, at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a meteorologist named Edward Lorenz introduced a brand-new term into the American vernacular. The
butterfly effect
was his observation that an event as seemingly insignificant as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil could set off a hurricane in Texas. In other words, small, almost imperceptible things can have large and momentous consequences.

The cool thing about this experiment is that you can use it to draw love into your life. You can use it to brighten the world. When you generate uplifting thoughts about someone, it contributes favorably to his or her energy. Conversely, when you judge others, even if you keep it to yourself, you affect their energy and weigh down the quality of your interactions. You can literally uplift your world by lasering love, blessings, peace, and other high-frequency emotions to the people in your life.

As it says in
A Course of Miracles,
“You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere.”

There’s a story about a protester who was outside the Military School of America, taking a silent stand against the policies of the United State and its bullying behavior. Someone asked him, “What makes you think holding that little candle is going to have any effect on these governments? They’ve been doing what they do for decades now.”

He replied, “I’m not worried about changing them. I don’t want my country to change
me.
“

Your thoughts about other people change
you
.

Is it really possible in this us-versus-them world that we, as this energy principle states, are really one?

Well, to be blunt—yeah. We’re all in this together. And every time we judge or think anything less than charitable about anyone, we crucify ourselves. We inflict self-pain.

Our differences, as huge as we make them out to be, are superficial and meaningless. And it’s time we let them go.

When you meet anyone, remember that it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself.

You can change your relationship with anyone by simply sending them good thoughts.

Anecdotal Evidence

“All we want, whether we are honeybees, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?”

—D
ERRICK
J
ENSEN
, A
MERICAN AUTHOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST

My friend, whom I’ll call Ginger because that is not her name, had a rocky relationship with her mother for years. Finally, she decided that every night before falling asleep she would send her mom blessings. Her mom, of course, had no idea she was doing this. To this day, Ginger has never told her mother that for about six months, she spent a few minutes each evening envisioning her getting all the things she ever wanted and seeing herself being happy about it.

“I honestly don’t know how it happened, but our relationship changed. Now, we’re the best of friends,” Ginger says.

More Anecdotal Evidence

“Explore your own higher latitudes. Be a Columbus to whole new continents within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

—H
ENRY
D
AVID
T
HOREAU
, A
MERICAN WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER

Best-selling author Martha Beck was once like most of us: friendly enough, trusting enough, but not about to go overboard. After all, she was a scientist, a Harvard-pedigreed sociologist who needed facts to form any kind of conclusion. And the conclusion she came to, the same one most all of us come to on planet Earth, is that people are okay, but you don’t want to get too involved. Especially not if you’re at Harvard and trying to get your second graduate degree. Probably best to keep people at arm’s length.

As she describes it in her wonderful book
Expecting Adam
, “We go around like Queen Elizabeth, bless her heart, clutching our dowdy little accessories, avoiding the slightest hint of impropriety, never showing our real feelings or touching anyone else except through glove leather.”

But life pulled a fast one on Martha Beck. It gave her a son with Down syndrome (Adam) who taught her that everything she thought she understood about the world is a big ruse. Especially the part about not trusting other people. When she was pregnant with Adam, her husband, also a Harvard graduate student, traveled to Asia a lot, and she was left at home to cope with her demanding studies, their two-year-old, and a pregnancy that was not going well. Fires, potential miscarriages, and ongoing pregnancy ailments drove her to wit’s end.

As she says, “I felt like a load of gravel had been dumped on me.”

Every time she was about to snap, an angel (and I don’t mean metaphorically) or an acquaintance she barely knew would show up with kind words, groceries, or some other assistance. Keep in mind that this is a woman who had to be on the edge of desperation for anything this woo-woo to get through. She had long ago eschewed any notion of God and was sworn by education to follow “the good old Baconian logic of refusing to believe anything until it was proven true.”

Nonetheless, a woman she barely knew showed up on her doorstep with groceries one morning when she was about to pass out, an unseen force appeared out of nowhere to guide her and her daughter through her smoke-filled apartment before it burned to the ground, and she was able to see and talk to her husband even though he was in Hong Kong and she was in Boston. And, no, I don’t mean by telephone.

What she came to realize is: “Against all odds, despite everything that works against it on this unpleasant, uncomfortable planet, mothering is here in abundance. You can always find it, if you’re smart enough and know where to look.” Even if you aren’t smart enough, it tends to show up—especially if you really need it.

Says Beck: “I have to jettison every sorrow, every terror, every misconception, every lie that stands between my conscious mind and what I know in my heart to be true. … I have expanded my reality from a string of solid facts, as narrow, strong, and cold as a razor’s edge, to a wild chaos of possibility.”

The Method

“What now appear as the paradoxes of quantum theory will seem just as common sense to our children’s children.”

—S
TEPHEN
H
AWKING
, B
RITISH THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

In this experiment you’re going to send a message to someone you know using the concept of nonlocality. According to Laura Day, author of
Practical Intuition
, it’s as easy as sending an e-mail.

The good thing about this experiment is you don’t even have to leave your easy chair. The majority of your interactions with other humans occur in the nonphysical realm. All those thoughts you think you’re privately keeping to yourself? They’re not really private. Since we’re all connected, you might as well be bellowing them over an intercom. Subtly, everyone is getting the message anyway.

We’re all connected to this huge data bank, and we constantly exchange energy with everyone in our circle of influence, and in smaller ways, with every other being on the planet.

Forget therapy. You can save all kinds of cash by simply changing the dialogue within your own mind.

But be careful what you ask for. Sondra Ray, co-founder of Loving Relationship Training and a former teacher of mine, tells a funny story about communicating through the unseen energy data bank. She went to Leonard Orr, another one of my teachers, to find out why she kept wrecking her car. He told her to make a different intention in the form of an affirmation. She scoffed and said, “You mean to tell me that with nothing but an intention I could even get men to call me on the telephone?”

“Of course,” he said. “Try it.”

She began sending this intention out into the FP:
I now receive an abundant inflow of calls from men.
Within four days, every single one of her old lovers called, some of whom she hadn’t seen in months, some for years.

“Incredible as it sounds,” she says, “I began to receive calls during the night, wrong numbers from men I didn’t even know.” Needless to say, she changed that intention to one that worked.

Here are the steps: