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Part 2 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension - What the Bleep style thinking & the Bicameral Mind

There’s a meme of growing popularity, largely due to the success of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, that can be summed like this:

We create reality through conscious observation. What we choose to think, decide, and observe has a literal input into the creation of the reality around us.

You write on page 64 that “we are doing more than just “throwing the dice” as quantum observers, and in fact each of us are actively influencing the outcome through the choices we make.”

To what extent can this idea be taken that we create our own reality? Is this a meaningful perspective to have over how we live our lives or is it an idea that only applies at the quantum level and not in our day to day living?

With the popularity of “The Secret” now, the whole “thoughts become things” movement (which has been around for many years) appears to have gathered new steam. I would describe the Secret as being a very simple and direct version of the What the Bleep ideas.

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Part 3 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension - ghosts and science fiction

Let me quote the following paragraph from page 122:

“Regardless of the position that mainstream science takes on the topic, a huge percentage of the general population have had personal experiences which show them that the idea of reading minds, “catching vibes”, supernatural connections to dead loved ones, or even just the positive effects of talking to their houseplants has a direct connection to their feeling of how the world really works.”

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Part 4 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension - drugs and the tenth dimension

The forum on your website has a section devoted to altered states and the use of psychoactive substances. Why do you think so many people make the connection between the ideas in your book and the altered states available to us through drug use? What role, if any, has the use of psychoactive substances played in the formulation of your ideas about reality and the 10 dimensions?

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Part 5 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension - Dreams and the Ten Dimensions

I was curious to know that some of your songs reference the world of lucid dreaming. In fact, this is what led me to reading your book. What thoughts do you have on the idea that dreams occur in parallel universes and other timelines and realities that are contained within the 10th dimension? Do you have any experience with lucid dreaming?

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An excerpt from the The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yesterday I was at Whole Foods drinking a Yuengling and reading The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in the outside cafe. This book is the best I’ve found so far on Buddhism - especially because it intertwines an understanding of quantum physics and neuroscience into a Buddhist framework for understanding the mind and the nature of reality. I love it!

Anyhow, I found this gem of a passage that I want to share where the author compares lucid dreams to our experience of reality while awake.

On page 82, we learn that:

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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot: a book review

With the Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot has succeeded in creating a wonderful book of what I call mind candy.

He pieces together an explanation for events, experiences, and phenomena that have no accepted explanation – or even an acceptance of existing – by modern science. Ironically, at base, his explanation is rooted in the quantum physics theory stating that the universe operates holographically.

He uses this platform to explain all sorts of strange things: out of body experiences, lucid dreams, near death experiences, the placebo effect, the power of the mind to control the body, psychic abilities, and other so-called “fringe” ideas.

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