First Lady Michelle Obama speaks about the importance of poetry and self-expression as she hosts a White House Poetry Student Workshop with students and poets like Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Kenny Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, and Aimee Mann. May 11, 2011.
Quantum physics for kids doesn't exactly sound like the latest trend. But children's book author Kimberly Wickham - the artist and writer behind the new Angels and Horses children's book series sensation - is transforming the way parents, educators, and children themselves think about contemporary children's literature, with a series of books and artwork that explores the whimsical, fanciful, and even mystical possibilities available to creative children today.
The Angels and Horses series, which is comprised of Angels and Horses, Summer of Magic Horses, and the upcoming Angels, Horses and Other Worldly Lessons, manages to combine the warmth and humor of a children's horse story with hints of magic and an inspiring focus on positive and creative thought. Tina, our young heroine, begins the series as an insecure middle-schooler dealing with more challenges than she thinks she can handle, among them the illness of her mother and the taunts of bullies in the schoolyard. Her pet horse Dancer, her closest friend, gives her some solace, but Tina is still troubled. But when her guardian angel Marguerite arrives on the scene, Tina is introduced to the full metaphysical possibilities of the universe beyond the Cosmic Lattice.
But this isn't the magic of "Harry Potter." Rather, the ideas that underpin the Angels and Horses series are based firmly in the real-world concept of the "Law of Attraction," popularized in self-help phenomenon "The Secret" - that at a quantum level, the universe is filled with far more wonder than meets the eye, and that positive thinking can genuinely affect the way the world works. Thus, the lessons that Tina learns can be practiced by children themselves - an exciting treat for children heartbroken that they never received Hogwarts entry letters on their eleventh birthday.
Wickham's art, which ties into the themes of her book - from the "Cosmic Lattice" to her beloved horses, is available for purchase separately from her illustrations - in Giclee Print, Print, or Card format. The whimsical drawings and paintings bring Wickham's ideas to life, and are perfect decorations for a child's bedroom or classroom, or as greeting or Christmas cards.
The exploration on consciousness will be an increasingly subject in
Quantum Physics as any observation is changing the results of the
experiments we perform. At the very small the illussion of matter
becomes more obvious and the realization that nothing is independend
from each other more conclusive.
Dualism seems to be the biggest concept in history ever. Quantum Physics may lead us to a new paradigm shift in consciousness.
Our
consciousness is programmed with the basic concept of dualism. Either
it is this way or it is the other way, either it is good or it is bad.
If you think about this you may find hundreds of other examples in your
daily life. Wherever you look, look closely and you will find the
concept of dualism.
The belief in matter is another big concept
science has come up with. In the last century
Newton, Kepler and some other persons made sure this
concept made it into every school book in the western world.
Both concepts,
dualism and matter are living on such a big scale that most people
don't even realize that they are concepts.
Is there a Hidden Purpose Behind the Concept of Dualism? This
is more a philosophical question and it may lead to other concepts and
not to the truth. So what is the truth? The truth is that every concept
leads to an experience and by experiencing it we may fulfill it's
purpose.
If you build a house you start with a floor plan - a
concept. If you start your car in the morning than thousands of
concepts were necessary to achieve the outcome of a running engine.
There
was a time where science was holding a space of the spirit as it was in
Astronomy and Astrology. But spirit never fit into a formula and even
Einstein needed to leave out the spirit to come up with its famous
formula E=MC2.
But as more scientist are exploring the realm of
Quantum Physics they are finding out that without the spirit and
consciousness they are not really getting along with their
exploration. One of their biggest discovery is the state
of an electron in a superposition.
You may know that in
computers the information is saved in memory chips. A single
computer memory can hold either the information 0 or 1 - not both.
Either electricity flows or it doesn't . Either the lamp is on or it is
off. But in quantum physics you find that in certain circumstances the
light is on and off at the same time! From our understanding of
'reality' this is not possible at all. And this has to do
with another concept that we have adapted - time.
If you
take the time factor into the equation you find out that with time
the light can be on and off, just not at the same time. A good
example is an old radio. When you tune into a station you have to
calibrate to a certain frequency. You can tune into another
station but you cannot hear both stations at the same time.
But you know that both radio stations are sending their program at
the same time. Our consciousness state is most of the time
limited to receive signals in sequence rather than parallel.
Flipping the Coin - A Quantum Experiment Let
me give you another example, in which things get even more strange.
Let's assume you want to flip a coin to decide weather you go
to the movies or not. You take a coin and you know already that
there are 2 possible outcomes. Either you end up with head or with
tale.
Now you start flipping the coin...
What you just
did is creating the possibilities of two new time lines, if you like
you could also say the possibilities of two new futures. In one future
you are going to the movies and in the other you don't. Remember the
movie "Back to the Future'?
The coin lands in your hand...
Now
let as further assume that you won't look at your hand, where you are
holding the coin. The future is already created as the result of the
flipped coin in your hand. But, by not looking at it you are still in
the twilight zone and both outcomes are still unknown. So obviously it
doesn't matter on what side the coin falls as long as you don't have
the information of it.
Now open your eyes and look at the coin...
Either
it is on tales or on heads and it this moment 'you' made your choice.
And by making your choice you decided to go on this time line. What
about the other time line? It still exists in a parallel universe and
you are in there as well. You just focused your attention on one of the
universes by making a decision. Well, we are back at the duality where
we have to decide for one possible outcome.
What happens if we
don't decide? It's a rather difficult task for the mind and it needs
some training, but you are able not to decide and to have your
attention in a consciousness superposition where both worlds are
present at the same time. Does this mean you are going to the movie and
the same time you are not? Obviously our mind cannot grasp this idea.
Time Does not Exist in a Quantum Superposition Have
you ever experienced that you looked at a watch with a second tale and
it seemed to freeze? If you have, you were in a consciousness state of
a Quantum superposition. But what mostly happens is that as soon as you
realize it is not moving it starts moving. In the moment you realize
this strange state you are out of it. Your attention cannot be in the
superposition. However with a little training you are able to
expand in this state as 'long' as you wish.
Where does this all
lead us? It has a lot to do with being in a creative state of mind and
connected to higher form of consciousness. It's like a radio program
that you can suddenly hear, that covers a complete new topic which you
could not hear before.
A creative response to live is faster
than any decision you can make up. Decisions are based on experiences
from the past. It's like running a computer analysis and wait until the
result shows up. But the result is always based on the past and never
on the experience of the moment. Therefore always limited.
Sometimes
in our life we are at moments where it seems to us that we have to
decide which way to go. I am talking about one of life's
major decisions.
Next time this happens you may allow
yourself to have a creative response to it instead of looking up data
from the past. Meaning to allow your consciousness to be in a
superposition instead of looking up data from the past to process a
decision.
Thomas Herold
Discussing what an angel, literally messenger, actually is. The angel is actually the message itself, manifested as "one who brings the message." This message is, in fact, the very nature of God "him"self." The very nature of the Truth. Next I discuss how "The First and the Last" is one of the best ways of describing who I am, True Self, in dualistic terms.
