Are Our Minds Entangled?

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In the last hundred years or so, scientists examining the smallest, most fundamental units of matter discovered a subatomic realm where the processes they sought to understand were not governed by the separateness of things, but rather by the wholeness of existence. These quantum physicists uncovered a puzzling level of reality where subatomic particles influence one another instantaneously, faster than the speed of light, and non-locally, without physical contact. These results go so much against our everyday experience of the world, that it is hard to take in what the quantum research data implies. But the implications are huge, and there's a growing consensus among scientists and others that clearly, there's a deeper level of reality than our familiar experience of the physical world suggests.

Many scientists now propose there is wholeness to this deeper level of reality, a unified field of information that we and everything else are physical manifestations of. In essence, we are open fields of vibrations in a sea of vibrations. This is not to say that we aren't also active as agents within this field. We influence the field, and thus one another in myriad ways, overtly with our actions and direct communications, but also in ways we do not see. For instance, our bodies, especially our hearts and brains radiate electromagnetic fields that communicate our true state to others. We can't see these electromagnetic fields, but our bodies pick them up to receive important information about one another, and scientific devices can measure these electromagnetic fields; the EEG measures brain waves, for instance, and the EKG measures heart waves. Beyond electromagnetism, though, it also appears that our minds, as elusive and immeasurable as they are, also influence the field. More and more experimental research data is coming out in support of the idea that our intentions and thoughts are somehow entangled within the information field, the vibrational sea we're all swimming in.

In one groundbreaking study, quantum physicist, Amit Goswami, demonstrated that the phenomenon of quantum entanglement occurs between people as well as subatomic particles. He ran some experiments in which pairs of people were asked to meditate together for a period of time to establish “entanglement". Each pair was then separated over a large distance (often over 2,000 miles) and hooked up to EEG machines. One of the pair of meditators was rigged with an apparatus that would flash a red light in his eyes. Whenever the light flashed in the "target" meditator's eyes, the EEG pattern would change, and at exactly the same moment, the distant meditator's EEG pattern would also change in exactly the same way. There is no way that the conventional view of reality can explain such results.

Other researchers have found that our minds can influence random number generating machines; can change the physical properties of water; can lower crime rates in specific localities. The statistical data in these experiments overwhelmingly establish that these mind effects are not happening by chance. With this wealth of new science, perhaps we in this 21st century will finally absorb and integrate the profound implications of 20th century science and adopt a new, shared paradigm of reality - a truer, more comprehensive picture of what we can do and what we can be.

Entanglement in the non-local, unified field may explain why embryos and fetuses know whether they are wanted or not, and how very young children are so attuned to their parents' emotions. Their understanding of the world may come first from the realm of information, before it is recognized in material space/time. There's a growing body of research showing that people who are closely bonded easily entrain with each other, picking up one another's thoughts even at a distance.

My Mother and I seemed to have had this kind of closely connected bond. She often could sense when I was going through an emotional trauma in my life. I could be 1,000 miles away and out of regular communication with her, yet when a trauma hit, she would call me at exactly the time I needed her, and ask me what was wrong because she had sensed I was upset. When my daughter Breeze was three and four years old, out of the blue she would say, “Mommy, the phone is ringing, and it's Mary (or someone else). THEN the phone would ring, and it would be Mary (or whomever she had said). Her sensitive system was somehow picking up energy patterns before they became a reality for me. My own family is not unique in this regard. Larry Dossey, a medical doctor and researcher, also noted this phenomenon, which apparently occurs quite often between people who are emotionally close.

Perhaps it's time to think of ourselves as open receiver/transmitters of the vibratory fields around and within us, analogous to the way televisions and radios pick up electromagnetic vibrations from the air. Our feelings, especially our sense of connectedness or dis-connectedness with others, are picked up via our “antennas". When we're tuned in, we know when people don't like us, are judging us, or are afraid of us, and also when we are fully loved and accepted, just as dogs and other domestic pets do. We call it instinct or intuition - inner knowing. We also seem to be transmitters, directly influencing the information field with our intentions and thoughts.

What can a new paradigm of reality mean for us as human beings doing our best to live passionately and beneficially in the world? Here's a proposal for consideration: We are not isolated, powerless beings with no real influence on the greater universe. Evidence is mounting that we are indeed entangled within the unified field, and our thoughts and actions do influence the whole, thus giving us some responsibility for the way things are.

Because of our conventional view, our senses have only been trained to an electromagnetic field frame of reference that includes atoms, molecules and the physical world. Though the subconscious picks up over 40,000 bits of information/second, it only feeds the conscious brain what it has a reference frame for. Thus we tend to only open to ideas and concepts that are already established and acceptable, and may miss other possibilities. Are we shutting down our sensitivity to subtler information because we don't have a reference frame that allows it?

When our minds are elsewhere, where are they? Whenever we use our imaginations, we are leaving our current established reality behind for a time to explore other possibilities. And what of our intuition that instantly keys into our knowing? It is like hooking into the internet with all its possibilities, and with what we find there, we can choose to change our software, our reality and even our physical structure. How much more harmonious and vibrant could our lives be by simply expanding the reference frames for our potential and our interconnectedness?

Excerpted from Chapter 4 of Carla Hannaford's new book Playing in the Unified Field; Raising and Becoming Conscious, Creative Human Beings, a book applying science findings to help us live as dynamic, interconnected beings in this universe of real-time vibrational richness.

Dr. Carla Hannaford is an internationally recognized educator with a background in biology and more than four decades of teaching experience. She has presented more than 600 lectures and workshops in 35 countries over the past two decades, has advised ministries and departments of education in the United States, Russia, South Africa, Singapore and Scotland, and has contributed to education and science journals. This is her fourth book. Her earlier book, Smart Moves; Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head, has been translated into a dozen languages. Playing in the Unified Field has a Foreword by physicist William A Tiller, who was featured in the popular film, “What the Bleep Do We Know?" and is currently Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.