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The movie Limitless is about a writer who stumbles upon a drug that enables him to use something like 97 percent of his brain. He has been blocked for months on a novel, but when he takes the drug, he’s able to write the novel in several days. One young woman in the film who had used the drug, delivered a memorable line that describes it: “I read Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality in forty-five minutes.”
Rob and I laughed about that afterward. Wow, 45 minutes? And he wrote a novel in a matter of days? Maybe we need that drug.
I’ve been working my way through Greene’s book for weeks, reading a little here, a little there, and trying to digest and understand the material in between. This evening, I read something about string theory that really resonated for me.
Prior to string theory, Greene explains, the standard view envisioned “nature’s fundamental ingredients as point particles – dots with no internal structure – governed by the equations of quantum field theory. With each distinct species of particle is associated a distinct species of field. String theory challenges this picture by suggesting that the particles are not dots. Instead, the theory proposes that they’re “tiny, stringlike vibrating filaments.” Whether you’re looking inside any elementary particle or inside an electron or a quark, Greene contends you’ll find a string.
The theory argues that even though the strings within different kinds of particles are identical, the patterns of their vibration differ. “Much as different vibrational patterns of strings on a guitar produce different musical notes, different vibrational patterns of filaments in string theory produce different particle properties. In fact, the theory encourages us to think of a vibrating string not merely as dictating the properties of its host particle but rather as being the particle.”
As soon as I read this, I was struck by how similar this sounds to the Seth material and to a lot of what is written in the Abraham/Hicks books. In The Nature of Personal Reality, Seth talks about feeling tones, which he defines as “your emotional attitudes toward yourself and life in general. They give the overall emotional coloration that characterizes what happens to you. You are what happens to you. “ Even though our emotions fluctuate constantly, Seth says that beneath these transitory feelings are feelings that are unique to each of us, “that are like deep musical chords.”
Sometimes, these unique feeling tones surface, “but in great, long rhythms. You cannot call them negative or positive. They are instead tones of your being…they represent the core from which you form your experience.”
In the Abraham/Hicks material, a lot is written about the importance of emotions as a gauge of whether we’re in the vortex – a swirl of vibrating frequencies that represent the best of who we were – or outside of the vortex. When you’re feeling low or depressed, for instance, you’re outside of the vortex. That’s when the Abraham material suggests that you reach for “better feeling thoughts,” which raise your vibration/frequency.
String theory’s argument that particles are strings echoes Michael Talbot’s brilliant book, The Holographic Universe, where he makes an impressive case for the idea that we are all connected or, to paraphrase John Lennon, that we are all one. Greene addresses the holographic idea in a later chapter, where he talks about theoretical physics and the holographic multiverse.
During a conversation in 1998 with the legendary physicist John Wheeler, Greene asked what he thought the dominant theme in physics would be in future decades. Wheeler summed it up in one word: Information. As Greene explains, physics traditionally focuses on things – planets, atoms, rocks, particles – and then investigates “the forces that affect their behavior and govern their interactions.” Yet, Wheeler “believed that information…forms an irreductible kernel at the heart of reality.”
Information, then, possesses its own vibration, its own frequency. “…the universe can be thought of as an information processor,” Greene writes. “It takes information regarding how things are now and produces information delineating how things will be at the next now, and then now after that. Our senses become aware of such processing by detecting how the physical environment changes over time.”
Perhaps this explains why synchronicity is more frequent during times of major transitions in our lives: we have new information, a new frequency enters the picture. And at some profound level, that information transforms a root belief that we hold. It might explain a spontaneous remission of cancer, an abrupt rags to riches scenario, a pregnancy that occurs just before an adoption is finalized. It may also explain why some ideas reach tipping points and a new paradigm is ushered in.
I don’t know that Brian Greene would agree with these speculations from a non-scientist, but this book certainly stimulates a lot of what if possibilities.
Limitless and Source Code were the last two movie I saw – very recently – by the way. Didn’t know much about either of them – as usual I just followed the energy. I found Limitless very stimulating intellectually. So much so I also bought the book, and am enjoying reading it. It is interesting to note how similar some of the descriptions of the drug state mirror that of being in deep presence – everything starts to come alive and have colours and energies that you never realsised. The big difference though is that in deep presence thought slows dramatically or stops completely. I wrote about the experience of wonder on my own blog today, and you can see it does have remarkable similarities to the drug descriptions in the book version of Limitless. As pointed out, a few illogical plot twists in Limitless, but very watchable.
Source Code is an excellent movie too, with a strong humane element to it. It does get it wrong about consciousness: consciousness is not an emanation of the brain which can be captured by a computer. But it still makes for very good viewing. Not quite up there with the great sci fi movies like Bladerunner or The Matrix, but not too far behind.
The main issue i have with string theory and information theory is that these theories are extrapolations from mathematics, and those writing about them have little or no direct experience of “cosmic mind” (sorry, language is inadequate here). John Wheeler sees the universe as “information” because the part of his mind attempting to understand the problem is dissociated from the thing being “observed”, so it appears dry, machine like – information. The irony is that you can “learn” a lot more about the cosmos by admitting you “don’t know” much about it, than you can by going into the mind to try to understand it. Having said this, the knowledge gleaned from physics may prove to be useful in the end, as it may point science in the right direction. I am undecided about whether it is going that way at present. Time will tell.
Marcus
I don’t know a lot about string theory, but I enjoyed the blog. It makes a lot of sense.
Ray
I know next to nothing about it, Ray, but everything I read triggers a deeper need to learn more!
Synchro! This week in trance class, we were told that in future meetings we were to bring instruments in order to find our ‘tonal vibration’. We listened in fascination as an example of how this would play out. We were told that we would be working with a group of beings that resonated with our groups tone. Awesome.
I really loved this post too.
Natalie, I read your comments just after getting back from my meditation course this a.m. in which I led students into shamanic trance. I lead them behind a waterfalls and into a cavern and out the other side into another world where a spirit guide awaits.
What a great idea about the instruments! Does everyone bring their own? Hope you’ll update us on how this works out.
Yes, we bring whatever we have at home to share.
Bells, singing bowls, Tibetan cymbals etc. We are to put them in the centre of the circle and people can choose from the stockpile and find one that resonates for them. They hold that one and go into trance and then make a sound with it and then wait for the guide of the same tone to speak. We haven’t tried it yet, but I will certainly let you know how it goes.
This technique sounds great. I can’t wait to hear how it all turns out. I love the idea that each tone, each frequency, has a guide!
Hi Rob and Trish. Great blog post. Thank you for visiting my blog on the concept of Junoon and Synchronicity. I will be adding a link to your blog to my website.
Hi Razi, thanks, we’ll do the same.
So,how did you guys like the movie, “Limitless”?
I hope I didn’t inflate your expectations of it,before you actually got to see it,but I hope you enjoyed it,anyway.
I’m planning on seeing “Source Code” today,by the way.
It’s finally hit our screens down here in Oz.
We liked Limitless – although it had a couple of plot flaws! – but I think I Iiked Source Code better.Limitless moved so fast at times that it was definitely a thrilling ride!
I saw “Source Code”today.It was good,but I still liked “Limitless” a little better.
I tell ya,Duncan Jones (Zowie Bowie) is on a roll.I can’t wait to see what he does next.Did you see his first movie “Moon”?
It was a similar type of movie to “Source Code”.
I liked the line in “Source Code” where they say something like, “we’ll put out the strings,and see if we get any hooks”…speaking of string theory.
Haven’t see Moon yet, but will see if Netflix carries it. I loved that line in source code. Yeah, speaking of string theory…
I like Source Code better, Daz, Probably because the intent in Limitless was materialistic, the use of power for power’s sake, for greedy acquisitiveness. I wanted to see at least one act of benevolence toward someone. – R
Excellent post, thank you! I think your observation at the close of the post was very relevant.
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The information that she “was given” on her experience is exactly what we know to be cutting edge physics. Since I know she doesn’t read these types of books, I have to agree – she had an OBE, it wasn’t a dream.
I totally agree. I thought Jen’s OBE and her reference to sound was also interesting. That was the Fractal Times post.
Robert Monroe said the trick to having an OBE was to set up the vibrational field that helps you to escape your body. It’s why many OBE experiencers hear whooshing sounds. Jen definitely had an OBE.
I haven’t started Greene’s book yet, but I thoroughly enjoyed this post. String Theory is a fascinating subject and one that certainly parlays into Michael Talbot’s Holographic Universe, in my opinion. I think this segues nicely with my post yesterday with the frequencies of the brain and heart – specifically the heart – which has the same frequency as the geomagnetic field of the earth (Dr. Rollin McCurdy). It is all interconnected, and I think SOUND may be the next big breakthrough in physics. It may be that sound is the unifying principle.
Greene’s book sure isn’t something to read in a single sitting. But it’s filled with provocative ideas.I loved your post on the frequencies of heart/earth, Nancy. It all fits. Strings, vibrating at their own frequency.