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The Way of the Explorer
Yet they can’t see their way clear to acknowledge psychic resonance or
intentional psychokinesis, which can be observed and verified and don’t
violate conservation laws, as they utilize nonlocal resonance, entanglement,
and coherence.
If the Many Worlds interpretation were true, we would never find
ourselves in a universe that disagreed with us, because we would always
choose what we believe or what we want to believe, even at the subconscious
level of our understanding. Humans will rarely choose pain unless
they believe it will lead to pleasure. Therefore, if by conscious choice we
could branch our universe and remain in a pleasant one, we would have all
doubtless done so by now. In such a universe, scientists would soon find all
their own theories and experiments succeeded, while those of their critics
blew up in their faces. In any form of the Idealist thought, it doesn’t seem
that nature could invalidate our cherished ideas, yet nature often does
just that. In a Many Worlds universe, most of us would find ourselves in
Neanderthal heaven, since we could have avoided the responsibility and
drudgery inherent in evolving a civilization, choosing instead to discover
lush, green fields and easy hunting grounds.
The mystical version of Many Worlds is a bit more difficult. Here, one
must put aside conscious, thinking choice and choose with the heart (the
subconscious). In Christianity one must choose with the heart and have
faith. In most East Asian religions, one must keep practicing the choice
until union with the godhead (heaven, nirvana, samadhi) is achieved in
this life or the next. I’ve personally worked closely with several of these
ideas, and my personal, internal world has steadily grown more pleasant. I
have not, however, noticed that the world I live in has improved correspondingly,
though I’ve consistently wished it so most of my life. Merely
visualizing world peace does not by itself beget world peace.
Einstein quipped that the moon doesn’t go away when we close our
eyes. Only if the Idealist position were in fact true would it be the case that
physical objects in the macro-world vanish when we cease to look at them
or don’t have them in mind. Only if the moon were just a probability wave
in the mind would this not be an absurdity. In fact, the wave equation for
macroscale objects emphasizes the particle aspect and diminishes the wave
aspect of such objects so that the probability of the moon being anywhere
except where Newtonian equations predict it to be is vanishingly small
over any finite time period. Therefore, we don’t really have to worry that
the moon might vanish the next time we close our eyes. However, the fact
that it could, even with a small probability, apparently provides sufficient
latitude for the intent of Uri Geller to affect recovery of Edgar Mitchell’s
tie pins.