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Chapter One
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e are living in an era of dramatically accelerating consciousness. The discoveries that scientists are making and have made in the past decade lead us to the undeniable conclusion that we exist in a field of consciousness that is ineffably, mysteriously Infinite. This field has been called the Mind of God, the matrix, the web, and in earlier days of scientific exploration, the etheric. The field embraces everything in the known universe: the cosmos (the word itself means “order”), our planet, and every creature on our planet and in the invisible universe. Science and spirit, after their lengthy estrangement, are coming together, and the field of consciousness is where they are meeting. On the scientific side of the equation, we are being shown that there is a single, unified field, connected on levels of which we are not aware. The evidence is clear: something that was once connected to something else will always remain connected—whether a photon, a strand of DNA, or a person. We are no longer observers in this field; discoveries in quantum physics have demonstrated that we are participants, because everything in the field is linked. The observer is an integral part of the world he observes. Mystics and wise ones have known this truth for as long as people have walked the planet: we are all One. Quantum physics and mysticism are telling us the same thing. Finally, modern science has come of age and is in agreement with ancient wisdom. The universe is an ordered field of energetic vibration—and it is permeated by consciousness. Mainstream science may not yet go so far as to say there is an intelligence in the universe that knows itself, is aware, and is one soul—but those ahead of the game (past and present) would. The physical world, the world of form in which we live, is one huge hologram—where every part contains the whole. It is an illusion, a dream world, a computer program, this hologram we call 3-D “reality.” (Whose reality is it?) And here we find ourselves.