Steve Goodman

"We do not see the 'space of the world', we live our field of vision projected by incoming connections from all over the brain. Since reality and its cognition are a mode of operation of the nervous system as a closed neural network, perception and illusion are indistinguishable. There is no independently existing objective reality. The world everyone sees is not THE world but A world which we bring forth with others."

- Excerpted from a lecture by Umberto Maturana

"There is no world at large - only a description of the world which we have

learned to visualize and take for granted.

We live in a bubble, the bubble of our perception

and what we witness on its round walls is our own reflection."

- Don Juan [from Carlos Castenada]

"The world of time and space is a projection."

- Robert Monroe in Omni, October '93

"There is always a triple correspondence -

(a) a mental image, which is in our minds and not in the external world

(b) some kind of counterpart in the external world, which is of inscrutable nature

c) a set of pointer readings, which exact science can study and connect with other pointer readings."

"To put the conclusion crudely - the stuff of the world is mind-stuff."

- Sir Arthur Eddington

"A rainbow only appears when sun rays, atmospheric processes and

the optical activity of an observer come

together in a certain relationship in space and time.

In Tantra's understanding, all other objects, no matter

how dense they may seem, like rocks, planets and men,

are so intimately interwoven with men's ideas of them as to be inseparable."

- Philip Rawson

Matter unobserved exists only in the form of probability patterns.

"These patterns can act together producing a new physical possibility - much as

superimposing a number of transparent images in a slide projector

can produce an image that is not contained on any of the individual transparencies."

- Fred Allen Wolf, Parallel Universes

"The world, in the Copenhagen convention, is merely potential before our observation of it,

and only becomes actual afterwards."

- Bryce S. DeWitt

"No photon exists until a detector fires, only a developing potentiality.

Particle-like and wave-like behavior are properties we ascribe to light.

Without us, light has no properties, no existence.

There is no independent reality for phenomena nor agencies of observation."

- Neils Bohr

"...The past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present."

- John A. Wheeler

"Instead of regarding the initial state of the system (whether described by hidden variables or not) as

determining the outcome of measurements made on it, we might regard the outcome of the measurements

as determining, at least partly, the initial state. If this freedom to choose the initial state is not available, the

whole causal thinking has no significance for man."

- Costa de Beauregard

"In a looking glass universe, the observed and the observer are codetermined.

If obstacles are placed in the way of an ensemble as it unfolds,

effects and causes interweave with each other.

A paradigm shift changes the data and the actual process of our looking changes nature's laws."

- Briggs and Peat, The Looking Glass Universe

"Cyril Hinshelwood, a Nobel Laureate in physical chemistry has suggested

that a more appropriate name for the particles (of elementary physics) might be 'manifestations'."

- Lyall Watson, Lifesteam

"...We ourselves can bring into existence only very small-scale properties like the spin of the electron.

Might it require intelligent beings 'more conscious' than ourselves to bring into

existence the electrons and other particles?"

Barrow and Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

I GUESS THAT ABOUT SAYS IT ALL...