New Book Tells How Thought Creates Reality
A new book called "How to Master Life: The Science Behind The Secret" proffers a scientific theory presented at the University of Edinburgh in 1904, and backed up by the findings of modern quantum physics research, that indicates thought is the "first cause" of physical reality. In humans thought functions as "relative cause," so that a person's thoughts create the individual's personal reality.
Richmond, VA (PRWEB) May 8, 2007 -- Life scientists have long held that evolution led to the development of brains and that brains produce thought. But what if thought came first and is in fact what underlies physical reality? The contents of a new book just published by The Oaklea Press called "How to Master Life: The Science Behind The Secret" indicate this.
In 1904 an Englishman, Thomas Troward, presented a series of lectures at Edinburgh University in Scotland which he later published called, "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science." Troward wrote his lectures in the scientific jargon of his day. Now prizewinning author and metaphysician ("Keys to the Kingdom") Stephen Hawley Martin has translated these lectures into modern, easily read English and published them along with commentary and the findings of a quantum physics experiment that support Troward's theory.
Martin said the book is meant to help those who want to put to work the Law of Attraction, now known as "The Secret" due to the popular book and DVD of that name, because it will give them a clear understanding of how to proceed. But he also hopes the book will cause scientists to take a new look at old assumptions.
According to Troward's theory, in addition to being the first cause, thought creates what he called "prototypes" in the subatomic realm that when left alone will eventually manifest in physical form. He also said that time does not exist at the subatomic level of thought because time is dependent upon space, and thought does not occupy space.
Martin pointed to a quantum physics double slit experiment that supports the contention that thought can affect physical reality.
Double slit experiments have been around a long time. In 1803, Thomas Young demonstrated that light is waves by means of a simple experiment wherein he placed a screen with two parallel slits between a source of light (sunlight coming through a hole in a screen) and a wall. Each slit could be covered with a piece of material. These slits were razor thin, not as wide as the wavelength of the light. When waves of any kind pass through an opening that is not as wide as they are, the waves diffract. This was the case with one slit open. A fuzzy circle of light appeared on the wall.
Alternating bands of light and darkness were seen when both slits were uncovered, the center band being the brightest. This pattern of light and dark resulted from what is known in wave mechanics as interference.
In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper that proved light also behaves like particles. When light hits the surface of a metal, it jars electrons loose from the atoms in the metal and sends them flying off as though they had been struck by tiny billiard balls.
Now consider an experiment in which what the person conducting the experiment knows or doesn't know, i.e., what he thinks, changes the outcome. The double slit experiment is set up this time using a photon gun that fires only one photon at a time. In this case both slits were open and a detector was used to determined which slit a photon passed through. A record was made of where each one hit. Only one photon was shot at a time, so there could be no interference -- at least a researcher would naturally think this. And as expected, the photons did not make the zebra pattern.
When the detector was turned off, however, and it was not known which slit a photon passed through, the zebra pattern appeared.
Noble-winning physicist Richard Feynman calls this the "central mystery" of quantum mechanics, that something as intangible as thought -- in this case, knowledge of which slit a photon went through -- changes something as concrete as a pattern on a screen.
This, however, is exactly what Thomas Troward's theory would have predicted, i.e., that thought coupled with belief would change the outcome. Troward was also correct that time does not exist in the subatomic realm. It made no difference whether the measurement was taken before or after a photon passed through the slots, or if it was taken before and then erased. The result was the same. What a researcher thought he knew or didn't know resulted in the different outcome.
More information about Martin, his works and an excerpt from "How to Master Life: The Science Behind The Secret" can be found at http://www.shmartin.com.
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