Quantum physics and personal achievement. Part 1

I've been making references to 'life changes' as I write. I thought I'd explain where I'm getting some of my ideas:

The following is an overview of material I’ve come across in my reading. It has ‘opened a door’ into new thought processes for me, and as I attempt to organize this new information, sharing it with others and getting their feedback may help clarify it in my mind.

In other words: If it doesn’t make sense when I share it, then I really don’t understand it!

Before I get into this, let me offer this thought: Modern science has come to recognize that many of great-grandma’s herbal “recipes” have great healing power. Along the path of such recognition, unfortunately, came the ‘medicine show’, selling it’s various elixirs to cure everything from hair loss to impotence. Because of the fakery, some have been slow to recognize the truth that real power exists in many of the herbal formulas. It takes time and research to differentiate between fact and fiction.

My purpose here is to separate the reality from the ‘hype’ in what is being taught regarding “The Law of Attraction.” Modern science is now recognizing that many of the older teachings about the nature of our world held truths only now being  ‘discovered’ with the latest high-tech instruments. Here is a quote from 1910, “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe” 

Or, here is an example of knowing 'that’ something worked, without knowing much about 'why’ it worked: In 1883 Thomas Edison made a significant discovery in pure science, the Edison effect - that electrons flowed from incandescent filaments. With a metal-plate insert, the lamp could serve as a valve, admitting only negative electricity. Although "etheric force" had been recognized in 1875 and the Edison effect was patented in 1883, the phenomenon was little known outside the Edison laboratory. (At this time the existence of electrons was not generally accepted.) This "force" underlies radio broadcasting, long-distance telephone service, sound pictures, television, electric eyes, x-rays, high-frequency surgery, and electronic musical instruments.

How about this? Genesis 1:3  Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

          What is light? Isaac Newton thought that light was made of very small things that we would now call particles. Christiaan Huygens thought that light was made of waves. It was believed that a thing cannot be both a particle and a wave at the same time. Experiments proved that both ideas were right - light was somehow both waves and particles. Later, physicists found out that everything behaves both like a wave and like a particle, not just light.

Here is my point: You and I are used to thinking that things, people, ideas, etc., all exist as individual entities. We believe that we are interconnected with only a small finite group of people or resources. As Western, Rational Christians (I'm assuming you are one), we have been taught that we really are powerless; that we are dependant upon a Omnipotent God to move on our behalf in anything beyond the ordinary affairs of life.

And yet, Christians and non-Christians alike lay claim to miracles, healings, serendipitous events, a ’power’ beyond themselves that makes things happen.

As a believer, these ‘claims‘ lead me to a question: Did God make us weak, passive, impotent creatures, subject to the winds of fortune, or, as beings created in His image, do we have creative power to shape the world in which we live? In asking that question, I am not challenging  God’s role as CREATOR (I have no illusions!). I am merely wondering if He has ascribed some creative role to us in our existence on this finite world.

(More coming up in part 2) Comments invited!