By Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra
Can decisions we make now change the past? Modern physics tells us that particles possess a range of possible states, and that it’s not until the actual act of observation that they take on real physical properties. Until this occurs there cannot be a past. Even eminent physicists Stephen Hawking and John Wheeler (one of Einstein’s last collaborators) agree it can be no other way.
According to a new scientific theory, the past is simply the framework of events that defines our existence (Biocentrism, BenBella, 2009). Much of it is still fluid and unwritten, and has yet to be determined. In fact, two years ago, a team of French scientists published a landmark experiment in the prestigious journal Science showing that what they did – now, in the present – could retroactively change an event that had already happened in the past.
When you walk through the woods and observe things, the ‘probability waves collapse’ and the past is locked in. For instance, when you look down at the ground, there is a certain degree of physical uncertainty as to what is underneath. If you dig a hole for a tree, there is a range of probability that there will be a pebble either here or there. Of course, the probability of finding a diamond is much less than finding sand. But all those probabilities exist, and at any given time you either experience hitting a boulder or loose soil. Say you hit a boulder, the precise glacial movements of the past that account for the rock being in exactly that spot in your yard will change as described in the Science experiment.
Some will ask “But what about dinosaurs – how can there be fossils?” Of course, once fossils are observed, part of the past has been determined. But dinosaur fossils are really no different than anything else you observe in nature. For instance, the carbon atoms in your body are ‘fossils’ created in the heart of exploding supernova stars.
The sum of the matter is this: physical reality begins and ends with the observer. We cannot go beyond the observer with our concepts of space and time. Without such an animal observer, space and time, and the evolutionary events thought to fill them, are altogether impossible.
As humans, we take the mind for granted. We are pleased with such books as Newton’s Principia, or Darwin’s Origin of Species. But they instill in us a complacency. Darwin spoke of the possibility that life emerged from inorganic matter in some “warm little pond.” Trying to trace life down through simpler stages is one thing, but assuming it arose spontaneously from nonliving matter wants for the rigor of the quantum theorist.
In 1953, Stanley Miller mixed together some gases in an effort to mimic the geophysical environment of the primitive earth. He then subjected them to electrical sparks, corresponding to the lightning present on the primitive earth. After about a week the fluid turned brown and was found to contain amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Subsequent experiments by Miller and others have also succeeded in producing more complex organic molecules, including nucleic acids, which act to store and translate genetic information in living organisms.
While it is true, a rich variety of organic molecules can be synthesized in any one of many different ways, and it can probably to done in your bathtub, the experiments do not fail to have an animal subject. Our intercourse with the molecules is such as is necessary for them to exist as real objects. Half of the experiment is the scientist, who does not recognize that their consciousness renders possible the space, indeed, the very reality of the reaction vessel itself. It cannot be otherwise than important to remember that the Universe does not run mechanistically like a clock, and that physical reality extends no further than the animal observer.
“We are participators,” Wheeler once said “in bringing about something of the universe in the distant past.” Before his death last year, he stated that when observing light from a distant quasar that’s bent around a foreground galaxy, we set up a quantum observation on an enormously large scale. It means, he said, the measurements made on the light now, determines the path it took billions of years ago.
Choices we make now really do change the past.
Robert Lanza, MD is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is the author of “Biocentrism,” a book that lays out his theory of everything. Deepak Chopra is the author of over 50 books on health, success, relationships and spirituality, including his latest book, “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul,” available now . To follow him on Twitter, go to www.twitter.com/Deepak_Chopra <http://www.twitter.com/Deepak_Chopra> .
Published: San Francisco Chronicle
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“Reflections on change”
Hope for change without true Humility won’t get us very far.
As It was reported, In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace. She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India, [stating that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world's needy. When Mother Teresa received the prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family." Building on this theme in her Nobel Lecture, she said: "Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society—that poverty is so hurtable [sic] and so much, and I find that very difficult.”
I know why Mother Theresa had many days of sadness. She could not possibly reward herself with the bliss of God, while knowing so many had not yet even understood a basic quality of the soul found In True Humility.
In this new age it seems everyone is talking about conscious evolution, being the best you can be, attracting abundance, following your dreams, and for goodness sakes, don’t settle for mediocrity. But in this new collective outlook for change, which I won’t at all deny is good and well needed in many instances; there is something very sacred that is getting covered over in the great changing shift, maybe even more so then before these changes were needed to be made. Once again we have begun to swing the pendulum to far over to the other side, even if that other side is considered in the world view to be the better side.
Let us not forget and in fact be certain, that through the process of shifting to a better world that we understand what really constitutes a better world, Let us not forget the true meaning of humility, that in essence there is not best, worst or in between, no higher no lower. Imagine if every person out there saw every individual in this way. People would be freed up to be themselves naturally and would probably innately be drawn to their true vocation in life and would excel just simply by being allowed to be who they are without labels or expectations of any kind from Societies worldly view point.
There is no measurement or comparison of any kind when looking out of the eyes of the changeless qualities of Soul. Kindness is Kindness, no matter if you’re working as a laundry attendant or a CEO of a billion dollar company. Love is love, no matter if you’re educated with a master’s degree or if you never finished high school. Let us not build up so much hype on change, while getting lost in making material abundance, economic recovery, education and career status the only evidence of this change. All those things may be the added things, or they may not, what should concern us more, is to more thoroughly understand that the true meaning of what change is, is a sincere change of the heart. If someone is innately drawn to a simple life, and has not the education the world expects that one to have, does that exempt that individual from being viewed by the collective people as being someone without value, intelligence or worth?. . Helen Keller once said “College is not the place to go for ideas”. The ideas of God are already established in us and we don’t have to go to school for them, as they are already innate to each and every soul. Human thoughts and expectations and God’s divine ideas are not the same at all….I can also really appreciate this statement from Helen Keller “that the world is moved along not only be the mighty shoves of it’s heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes by each honest worker.
Society should not make people feel that if they are not college oriented, that they are of less importance to this world. Let us make sure that all these new changes and spiritual, positive self help books that are emerging everywhere are not undercutting what is already innate in the soul. Let us make sure that in the process of great change we are not viewing that change in the eyes of what the human world standards are, but rather embrace and understand that the standard for a better world already is, and always has been, lets us meet it this moment. Love, compassion, humility, kindness…. no matter where you are, or who you think you are, or what you are doing, is everywhere present and can be expressed by anyone and everyone who chooses to express from the soul. Let that be the focus of change in this world, then Global healing will have found true hope, true humility and a “Real” change of heart. We will really then understand what constitutes a Real change in this w
Can someone find a link to this experiment that changed the past? I looked, it doesn’t exist. The only one working on changing a past event right now is John Cramer with Retrocausality and he didn’t even do the experiment yet. The other experiment Chopra could be talking about is one where they slowed down the speed of light in a fiber optic wire, but they DID NOT change ANYTHING in the past. I think Julia Sweeney might be onto something with Deepak. BUt hey if you make a statement like that you better back it up. I’d liket o see this experiment and be proven wrong. I’d like this all to be real too. I am into spirituality and wanting to know more about ourselves but I really can’t find any links to this one. Hmmmmmmm seems fishy.
Can someone please explain how things we do now change the past? isn’t the things we down change the future? I’m confused, can anyone clarify?