ICRAVE Participatory Consciousness

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As part of all that we see, we’re participants in an ongoing conversation – a quantum dialogue – with ourselves, our world, and beyond. 

  • Within this cosmic exchange, our feelings, emotions, prayers, and beliefs at each moment represent our speaking to the universe. 
  • And everything from the vitality of our bodies to the peace in our world is the universe back.

Physicist John Wheeler suggests that not only do we play a role in what he calls a “participatory universe,” but we fulfill the primary role.  The key to Wheeler’s proposition is the word participatory. 

  • In this type of universe, you and I are part of the equation. 
    • We’re both catalysts for the events of our lives, as well as the “experiencers” of what we create.
      • these things are happening at the same time! 
  • We’re “part of a universe that is a work in progress. 
  • In this unfinished creation, “we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself – and building itself.

In a participatory universe, the act of focusing our consciousness – of us looking somewhere and examining the world – is an act of creation in and of itself. 

  • We’re the ones observing and studying our world. 
  • We’re the mind (or at least part of a greater mind). 
  • Everywhere we look; our consciousness makes something for us to look at.

Preaching and the Power of Imagination

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If consciousness really creates, then how much power do we actually have to change our world? 

  • The 20th century visionary from Barbados known simply by the name of Neville perhaps best described our ability to make our dreams a reality and bring imagination to life.
  • He believed that our ability to apply this understanding through the power of imagination is all that stand between us and the miracles of our lives.

Through the power of consciously focusing on the things that we create in our imagination; we give them the “nudge” that brings them through the barrier form the unreal to the real.

“Man is all Imagination.”  All that you behold, tho’ it appears Without, it is Within, In your Imagination, of which this World of Mortality is but a Shadow. 

Poet William Blake

Herein we find the secret of propelling our heart’s desires from the state of imagination to the reality of our everyday lives:  it’s our ability to feel as if our dreams have already come to life, our wishes are fulfilled, and our prayers already answered.

  • Rather than simply wishing for health, live from the “assumption of already being well and healed.” 

We must “enter the image” of our heart’s desire and “think from it”

  • The laws of physics are not universal; because on small scales things behave differently from the way they do in the everyday world.
  • Energy can express itself either as a wave or a particle, and sometimes as both.
  • The consciousness of the observer determines how energy will behave.

craving and resource from “The Divine Matrix” by Greg Braden

The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief: Braden, Gregg:  9781401905736: Amazon.com: Books