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state of the world (since everything is connected to everything else at the quantum level).

These are only two of the myriad explanations for how we participate in a universe that not only is awash in information but that may be fundamentally comprised only of information. Whatever the mechanism by which we interact with nature, consciousness seems to be key, especially in terms of applying our attention and using our intentions. Physicist Euan Squires has said, “Every interpretation of quantum mechanics involves consciousness.” And Neils Bohr was not being facetious when he said, “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.” By extension, we are the universe’s way not only of looking at itself but also of interacting with itself, as at the quantum level there is no way to say where matter ends and information begins. Where do we (as in our physical selves) stop and the universe begin? This Zen koan-like question is no fool’s game. It is perhaps the most relevant question we face right now, as our very existence seems to be threatened by crises of our own making.

Maybe our precarious state is a primary reason why so many physicists, biologists and other scientists are ready to risk reputation and career to lecture and write books about “the self-aware universe,” “the God theory” and “the biology of belief.” It is becoming inescapable in a universe that appears to be fundamentally composed of information that consciousness is paramount to any and all scientifi c inquiries. In healthcare, for example, bio-informational medicine is an emerging trend, riding the coattails of mind- body medicine from the alleyways of alternative and complementary medicine into the arena of mainstream medicine. Biology and medical science stand to gain enormously from the switch from matter-based inquiry to information-based and consciousness-based explorations. In these conservative fi elds, the change so far has been spurred mostly by consumers, millions of whom are exploring the mind-body-spirit connections to health and well-being. Of late, however, the shift is increasingly attributable to researchers themselves, especially in the fi elds of epigenetics

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and environmental medicine. The evidence is that many subjects that were once deemed off- limits to the hard sciences or were considered outside the scope of their inquiry—such as the study of consciousness, nonlocal effects in the macroscopic world, mind’s infl uence on matter—are becoming areas of study that are not only acceptable, but necessary to the continued pursuit of science.

At the turn of the twentieth-century, budding physicists were advised to choose another fi eld because all the main work had been done— nature’s major laws had been revealed—and all that remained to do was mop up the details. Then physicists stumbled upon the quantum realm. Our entire view of the universe and of ourselves has changed as a result. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-fi rst century, we fi nd ourselves where we were at the beginning of the last one. If you listen to and believe the mainstream media today, you might think that science was on the cusp on the grand theory of everything and that soon only the details will be left to be fi lled in. We know this is not true. We have only to look at how the reading of the human genome—which was supposed to revolutionise medicine and provide cures for most diseases—has failed to live up to its epic expectations. The reason is that we are more than matter. We are information. And so is the universe, and nature at large. For all of the advances in modern science, the playing fi eld is expanding, not contracting. And humans as fully consciousness beings and not just as mechanistic bodies have fi nally been invited into the game. The next century is bound to be as exciting for science and medicine as the last one was. So let the games begin!

Joan Parisi Wilcox has been studying the spiritual arts of Peru since 1993 and has received the rites of the Q’ero and other Andean masters. She is the author of Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru, Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul, and co-author of Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50