“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men.”   - Shakespeare To work with mind power you do not have to under­stand the laws of physics or how reality manifests itself, just as you don't have to un­derstand how a carburetor works or how spark plugs fire in order to drive a car. Few of us understand automotive me­chanics, but that doesn't stop us from driving. Likewise, in the science of mind power, anyone can quickly and success­ fully master the  basics and effectively put  them to work in his or her life. We begin by examining the nature of reality, especially the startling new discoveries in science over the last twenty years which have helped us to understand more clearly how the mind creates its own reality. These discoveries  explain why creating visualizations in our minds is not just idle daydream­ing, but is a creative process which helps us control and di­rect the same energies that hold matter together, change water into steam, or cause a seed to sprout and grow. Understanding the nature of these energies assists us in understanding the mind, and shows us why inspiration, prayer and intuition are not supernatural phenomenon at all, but follow patterns and laws which we can discover and use at our will. Like everything else in the known universe, the powers of the mind are governed by laws which, robbed of their scientific jargon and clearly presented, can be easily un­derstood by anyone. Let me take you on a short adventure into these new dis­coveries. Modern physics now sees the universe as a vast, insepara­ble web of dynamic activity. Not only is the universe alive and constantly changing, but everything in the universe af­fects everything else. At its most primary level, the universe seems to be whole and undifferentiated, a fathomless sea of energy that permeates every object and every act. It is all one. In short, scientists are now confirming what mystics, seers and occultists have been telling us for thousands of years­ we are not separate but part of one giant whole. "When a blade of grass is cut, the whole universe quivers."   - Ancient Upanishad saying Modern physics has changed our concept of the material world. Particles are no longer seen as consisting of any basic "stuff"; rather they are seen as bundles of energy. They may make sudden transitions, "quantum leaps," behaving at times like units, yet on other occasions like waves of pure energy. Reality is fluid. Nothing is fixed. Everything is part of a pat­ tern that is in constant motion; even a rock is a dance of en­ergy. The universe is dynamic and alive and we are in it and of it, dynamic and alive ourselves. THE UNIVERSE IS A GIANT HOLOGRAM The theories that enabled the development of the hologram were first formulated in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, who later won a Nobel Prize for his discovery. A hologram is an entity in which [...]