The world of quantum physics (as seen through my eyes)

Is there really something such as reality, as we think we really think we know it, or is it just an idea in our mind, our imagination? Even during the early years of philosophy, the antique philosopher, Plato, suggested that there might probably be no such thing as reality – that our reality is nothing but just a creation in our mind, an imagination. It can be quite daunting when you start thinking about it. Does reality really exist as we see it? Or is it just a creation, an imagination, or even just fiction being told in our mind?

Imagine waking up one morning, realising that everything you thought was real around you was just a creation of your own mind. Nothing truly exists except for the ideas within your imagination. Reality, as you know it, fades away into a mere illusion.

Life itself might be just one big dream. Have you ever had such a realistic dream that you could experience it as if it were reality, engaging all your five senses? Have you ever had such a vivid dream that you could even smell the food burning, feel the oven’s element burn your fingers when you take the cake out of the oven?
In your dreams, there really are other people; there is an environment; there is a context and there are real events. However, when you wake up, you realise that it wasn’t reality at all, but just a vivid dream. All the elements in your dream were just creations in your brain that you experienced as real.

What if all of life is just one big dream and that what you experience as real never existed and like a dream, everything is just creations in your brain? What if death might just be the Great Awakening? That life might have been just a lifelong dream? Or perhaps even just a nightmare? This may be quite a frightening thought.

I really hate pumpkin. I can’t get it over my lips. On the other hand, you might love pumpkin. The reality is that pumpkin keeps on being pumpkin. The pumpkin keeps on staying the same thing, but we as human beings experience the same thing differently. Point is: the pumpkin is not the problem here.

We can compare this metaphor with people with the challenge of anxiety. They create certain realities in their mind, that their subconscious then experiences as reality. What if other people are going to humiliate me? The moment you use what if thinking, you’re using the same part of your brain that you would use if the actual event was currently happening. According to your brain, and specifically your reptile brain, it interprets the event as if it is really happening at this point in time. This is why people are developing anxiety, simply because of a thought in their mind thinking that this is reality and is busy happening.

I guess it was Aristotle who struggled with the same problem. Aristotle thought deeply about Creation. Did God, as the Greeks believed in ancient times, have an idea of how Creation should look like, and then created reality according to the image in His mind? Or did God create the Universe, only to see what it looked like afterwards, and only then created meaning to it?

Is this all reality, or just an idea, fiction?

Please allow me to distract myself for a moment to be back in the here and now, and to equalise a Stephen Spielberg, a Guiseppe Tornatore or a Stephen King, and even a Leon Schuster to our philosophers – it appears that they have all one thing in common: they are creating a reality, and that reality becomes our reality (in our imagination) because of what we perceive with our senses.

Suppose we are watching a movie. We are aware of the fact that it is just a movie and a movie, in general, lasts about two hours on average. During these two hours or so, we might encounter real feelings, sensations, and emotions like stress, fear, anger, empathy, relief, and possibly more. We experience these emotions and feelings literally in our body. We feel the stress, we feel the emotion of sadness or excitement or whatever we are experiencing. Even if the stimulus of our feelings is not real, but just a creation in our head, mostly because of the film.

Our full reality might also just be an idea, of how we interpret certain realities around us in our mind. Our whole world can change, when we change our idea or our truth, almost as if we are hypnotically immersed in a movie.

Quantum physics also shows us that the world is not a solid and immutable entity, but rather a thought or an illusion we create ourselves with our thinking.

Our physical body, as an example, consists of different systems, and each system is made up of fibers and organs. Fibers and organs are made up of cells. And cells, in turn, are composed of molecules, and molecules are made up of atoms. Atoms are made up of sub-atomic particles, and these sub-atomic particles are made up of nothing but just energy.

Our thoughts, feelings, intentions, and expectations are nothing more than waves of energy vibrating at a certain energy level. At the end of the day, you and I are just energy. Our physical world is nothing but just the manifestation of energy.

We, as human beings are in essence a compound of energy. The entire universe is made up of energy – from the largest galaxy to the smallest particle of dust. The entire universe is an endless flow of energy. Even the most solid objects, such as steel pipes or cement walls are molecules in motion, as observed under a powerful microscope.

On the day of our death, everything dies except our energy. Although all fibers, organs, molecules, atoms, and sub-atomic particles may die, energy cannot die. That energy returns to the main source of energy. An eternal energy.

If I may inerrupt myself: Even in the Holy Scriptures, according to the Gospel of John (John 1:1), it is said that in the beginning there was the Word. And the Word was with God, and the Word itself was God. According to Genesis 1, all heaven and earth are created by Words. God spoke. Words are the energy that creates our reality.

I probably can’t elaborate enough about the power of words. Words can make or break. Words created the entire universe. Words, however, can also destroy it entirely. According to the Christian Scriptures, as seen in James 3:6, it is mentioned that the tongue is a fire. It has the ability to set a whole life, from birth to death, alight. Words make or break.

It does not necessarily mean that we are bad or have a negative intention when we create pain and chaos. However, we might have temporarily fallen out of touch with who we really are. We fell out of touch with love. We have, however, always a choice: we can flow with this energy or we can resist it. Resisting energy causes problems, anxiety, and discomfort.

If I may deviate for a moment, that’s exactly what happens when an autoimmune disease arises. Auto-immune diseases can literally be understood as the self attacking the self on an immunological level. A conflict arises in the body. The members of the body that are supposed to stand together in love begin to attack each other and at the end, the whole body becomes more ill until the body dies, regardless of the various antigens’ positive intention to protect the body from external dangers such as infections and diseases.

I guess that this is the reason why I will never understand racism, classism, sexism, and everything that ends with an –ism. We fight each other since we all believe that we know the truth that will cause the body to survive, but in reality we are destroying the whole body. Our anger, hate, reproach or holding things against other people, will just cause us to destroy ouerselves.

Just one last side note: someone once said forgiving is the most selfish thing one can ever do. If you cannot forgive, you are the only one dealing with all the pain, hurt, hatred, doubt, and resentment. The other person might probably not even know you are angry with them. And so, you destroy only yourself, and no one else. This is the moment when you decide to expend your energy fruitlessly. As Nelson Mandela put it: Anger is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die.

To get back to the point. We’re never supposed to be removed from who we really are. We are not supposed to be removed from our energy. We are all connected to each other in a way through energy. We are all part of one Body. By fighting each other, we are in actual fact just fighting ourselves. With hatred, bitterness, reproach, and resentment towards our fellow man, we only destroy ourselves, as the body can destroy itself through division on an immunological level. I think it is a Sotho tribe who have a proverb: a human being is a human being through human beings.

We are all part of the Great Mind. The Big Family. God. Love. We are all on the same side.

The choice is always ours. You create your own reality through the choices you make. The choice always remains yours. But it is also good to know that Eternal Energy is always there to help and guide us to make these choices.

Or maybe our entire existence is just one long dream. A dream of another reality that we will realise after waking up to our dream in the True Reality. Eternal Life trapped in a thought, a dream, in energy.

Have I wondered.