Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

by Gary Zukav

It also points toward the possibility that intentions create the reality that we experience.

Life coaches and other self-help gurus tend to get this point wrong. It is not enough to adjust your intentions to create the reality that you want. If the act of observation is what picks one reality out of the many probabilities, then perhaps we should be adjusting how we observe rather than our intent.

Physics, in essence, is simple wonder at the way things are and a divine (some call it compulsive) interest in how that is so.

What is physics? Well answered here.

A Master teaches essence. When the essence is perceived, he teaches what is necessary to expand the perception. The Wu Li Master does not speak of gravity until the student stands in wonder at the flower petal falling to the ground.

In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch.

“Hydrogen atoms” is a speculation about what is inside of the watch.

This is the familiar picture of the atom that most of us learned in school, usually under duress. Unfortunately, this picture is obsolete, so you can forget the whole thing.

universe. Quantum mechanics is based upon the idea of minimal knowledge of future phenomena (we are limited to knowing probabilities) but it leads to the possibility that our reality is what we choose to make it.

But what if 2 different people create different realities simultaneuosly and collocated?

The new physics, quantum mechanics, tells us clearly that it is not possible to observe reality without changing it.

Some experiments show that light is wave-like. Other experiments show equally well that light is particle-like. If we want to demonstrate that light is a particle-like phenomenon or that light is a wave-like phenomenon, we only need to select the appropriate experiment.

This is an example of how our participation changes what we observe.

Every sixteen hundred years one half of all the radium atoms in the world disappear.

Does this mean there will come a day when no radium exists in the world? Is it counting down?