You’ve probably heard the riddle, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” What do you think? Does it? Have you really considered the answer?

This riddle is actually a philosophical thought experiment that raises questions regarding observation and perception. It’s unclear where this came from, but it’s been attributed to the writings of the Irish philosopher George Berkeley in his A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, published in 1710. For example:

In modern day, physicists performed the double-slit experiment not with light but with electrons—tiny charged particles that are components of atoms. When a stream of electrons passes through the two slits, one would expect that they, as particles, would make a mark as they are deposited on the surface of the back screen in two places right in line with the slits. But they don’t. They form the same pattern as the light waves, producing alternating bright and dark stripes on the back screen. What the heck? These particles acted like waves!

The crazy thing discovered about electrons is that they are not solid little balls; they are quantum objects—partially wave-like and partially particle-like. In the experiment described, they acted just like the light waves.

But here is another really odd thing:

When detectors are placed right at the slits to determine if any given particle is going through the slit or not, the interference pattern seen with the waves as light and dark bands across the back screen completely disappears. Instead, the particles arrive on the back screen in two spots right behind the slits, just as particles would be expected to behave. 

The sheer act of observing—applying consciousness—not only disturbed what was to have been measured, it also produced a different reality. In this case, the electrons acted like particles instead of waves.

In essence, if no one or nothing is looking, they behaved as waves. But when observed, they behaved as particles.

When this “observer effect” was first noticed by the early pioneers of quantum theory, they were deeply troubled. This challenged their assumptions behind all science which asserted that we live in an objective world regardless of human interactions with it. If the way the world behaves depends on how—or if—we look at it, what can “reality” really mean?

Let’s return momentarily to the home of the electron, the atom.

Atoms are the building blocks of matter and are the smallest unit of an element that retains its properties. Everything in our physical reality is made up of atoms. But atoms are mostly empty space. Each has a nucleus made of subatomic particles and a few electrons zipping around inside the empty space. On closer inspection, however, those electrons are not just speeding around; they’re winking in and out of existence. They momentarily disappear and reappear in another place inside the atom. 

Einstein proved that matter and energy are interchangeable (E=mc²). Matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. The wave is energy; the particle is matter. The particle of matter emerges out of the wave of the infinite field of energy and merges back into the field of limitless potential. The wave is really anything in potential.

Wave = Energy = Frequency = Light

A new revelation: Photons of light are both waves and particles.

With the realization that frequency patterns determine the function and form of matter and our perceived reality, we can more easily understand that all of our problems or symptoms of distress are also determined by our frequency wave patterns.

Popp says that light can either be coherent or noncoherent. Our state of consciousness will determine which. If our light is coherent, we will naturally be transmitting coherent information to every cell in our body, emotions, and minds. It’s all energy. Our physicality is a denser energy; our emotions are a higher frequency; and the mind is an even higher frequency. If our light frequencies are noncoherent, then, of course, noncoherent information will be transmitted to our physical body, emotions, and mind, to our DNA, and all our trillions of cells simultaneously.

So how are positive change and the healing of body, mind, spirit possible?

We may feel like our problems are unchangeable; however, if we look at them energetically as unique frequency patterns, we can positively transform them instantaneously. This is much like changing the station or frequency on a radio or TV to view as a different program within seconds with a remote control. Energy work is the “remote control” that enables us to identify and release negative, discordant, or unhelpful frequency patterns and transform them into positive, life-affirming frequencies.

With the double-slit experiment with the electrons and the photons of light, we saw that the act of inserting consciousness—the detector—changed the reality. Even though a thorough understanding of consciousness has not been completely nailed down, it’s difficult to avoid the implication that it’s somehow linked to quantum mechanics. Physicist Dr. Claude Swanson, Ph.D., and author of Life Force, The Scientific Basis, affirms, “A large body of scientific evidence shows that our minds can affect physical reality.” This realm called consciousness is where change must take place to experience a more whole and healthy life.

A skillful energy practitioner can detect the fields of energy that affect the various realms of consciousness as well as those that permeate and surround the body. These energy fields contain patterns of light and information in the form of wave frequencies, and they exist as potentials before cohering into matter, experience, “reality.” According to quantum physics, objects (as well as conditions, characteristics, circumstances, relationships, etc.) exist as possibility waves, called wave functions, before they show up in our reality. Waves (potential outcome) and particles (what we see or experience as real) cannot be observed at the same time. When a wave function collapses, it then becomes something we can see or experience.

An energy practitioner can use various tools and techniques to identify or measure the wave function of the problem and then allow awareness, focused intent, spiral up energy exercises, and Grace to configure the wave pattern to one of coherence and harmony. Then, the collapse of the new wave function shifts the outcome. The outcome is immediate, but the effects can appear to play out over time, depending on how congruent each person is to experiencing what may seem like miracles. Some observe dramatic and instantaneous results, and others experience a gradual movement toward their desired outcome.

If we want positive change and healing, and we want to heal our relationships, we must maintain or regain coherence in our field of light. Only in this way will coherent information be transmitted to all our trillions of cells, our DNA, our brains, our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes, which then impact how we respond emotionally and with our behaviors and habits.

Stay tuned for my next blogpost to learn simple strategies and exercises to shift your frequencies and therefore experience more coherent, positive outcomes.

 It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality.   –Eugene P. Wigner, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the                                                                                                                                                 leading physicists of the twentieth century.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.    –Max Planck, known as the father of quantum                                                                                                                                                                  mechanics