For the purpose to start to assemble a argument. there are more aspects of the quantum world that I need to present for your consideration.

The first is perhaps the most mind bending of the implications to come from research into the nature of matter. A physicists named John Wheeler conducted a experiment that solidifies the role of “participant” as the incontrovertible new concept of quantum mechanics. This new concept states that consciousness is embedded in the process it perceives, continually changing them while it is changed by them.

Wheeler set up an apparatus which split light and then could measure the photons as particles as they take a single pathway. or as probabilistic waves that travels both routes at the same time. After the beam was split the experimenters chose which property to measure. This choice seemed to have a retroactive effect on the beam , as it still demonstrated both wave and particle, depending on the scientist’s choice. It demonstrated that the quantum phenomena exists only in potentia, until a decision is made by conscious choice as how they are to be perceived---even if the choice is made retroactively. Although this immediate and non local effect happens beyond the speed of light and because it was thought that no signal could be transmitted in that way, Wheeler was left to wonder, “ May the universe in some sense be brought into being by the participation of those who participate?”

The existence of a four-dimensional space-time continuum means that what we perceive as the linear direction of time is only an illusion created by our particular perspective. As the physicists Arthur Eddington put it, “events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them”. Wheeler put it bluntly, “there is no space-time, there is no time, there is no before, there is no after. The question what happens next is without meaning.” Nietzche wrote, “every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment”.

Looking at all of this, and more, I began to realize the nature of matter that interested me occurred outside of my perceptions. I began to realize that I would have to combine my understanding of the science with the mystical or shamanic understandings of reality. The perspective of space-time of modern physics matches the Hopi perspective which states that all time is present now, and events unfold according to a preset pattern. The modern model put forward by physics is of a, “timeless space of a higher dimension”, this idea is echoed in many mystical traditions. Eddington was one of the first physicist to propose that relativity theory suggested,”the stuff og the world is mind stuff” and that this “mind stuff is not spread out in space-time; these are part of the cyclic scheme ultimately derived from it”.

The final push for this combining came for me with the reading of a 2000 year old quote from a Buddhist sage Ashvaghosha: “Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, not that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence”. Now “suchness” (Thathagatta) refers to the eastern tradition of enlightenment, the individual experience of reconnecting with the ultimate ground of being that supersedes all dualisms.

Besides the fact that this quote sounded identical to the paradoxical expressions of physicists attempt to grasp the existence of quantum objects, which are neither wave nor particle, do not exist yet do not not exist. He was expressing these concepts 2000 years ago, this was a sign on where to look and a kick in the butt. I was at least 2000 years behind in my thinking.