Paul Levy - Quantum Revelation; A Radical Synthesis Of Science And Spirituality

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I t is said that it takes a village to raise a child. Even though writing is an isolated venture, I think the same can be said about writing this book. It has taken a whole community to birth it. This book would never have come to fruition in the way it has without the Awakening in the Dream community in Portland, Oregon, that has formed around my work. This group of people has truly been like a family to me. Id like to personally acknowledge what has become known as The Dreaming Eight, an amazing group of creative dreamers who magically helped to dream this book into being: John Thomas, Gene Latimer, Donna Zerner, Bob Welch, Kimberli Matin, Larry Berry, Neil Levenson, and Lucretia Hatfield. A special note of thanks goes to Larry Berry for his many years of unending selfless service. He has always been there in whatever way was needed. Id also like to express much gratitude to Mark Hartley.

I want to thank all of my many teacherswhether they be in the form of people, books, dreams, or nature herselfthat always seem to synchronistically show up at exactly the right time. Id like to acknowledge the great help Ive received from a thoroughly quantum-physicized friend of mine who, for his own unique reasons, wishes to remain anonymousyou know who you are. I cant sufficiently express in words my heartfelt appreciation for my beloved teacher of the Dharma, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche.

Id also like to express my appreciation for Kendra Crossen Burroughs, who generously offered her incredible gifts to help make this book as good as it could be. And a big thank-you to John Rose for his help when things got down to the wire. I also want to thank my publisher, SelectBooks, and particularly Kenzi and Nancy Sugihara for their belief in this book. And deep appreciation goes to my editor, Molly Stern.

Id be remiss if I didnt give a nod to the nonlocal fieldone of the key things Im pointing at in all of my workfor its active participation and collaboration in helping me write this book. I am truly unable to express my gratitude to everyonebe they local, nonlocal, fully embodied, or no longer in a bodywho has helped to midwife this book into living form.

H ow this book came to be incarnated is a living example of the creative nature of the quantum in action. After a few rejections from various publishers and agents, I felt stuck and discouraged. The manuscript was literally sitting on my computer for a number of months without me doing anything in the way of trying to get it out. Getting a book published these days is quite challenging. My friends who had worked in publishing warned me that unless I spent months working on a book proposal (something I didnt want to do) and had all sorts of connections and a big-time agent (neither of which I had), my chances for getting the book picked up by a publisher werent good. I decided to call a meeting with the dreaming community that has formed around my work for whoever was interested in helping me to dream into getting the book out. I remember feeling strong resistance and ambivalence about even going through with the meeting and I almost cancelled it.

However I decided to work through my resistance and go ahead with the meeting. Eight people from my various dreaming groups showed up. It was a very inspired, and inspiring meeting. Everyone there had one intention: to selflessly dream into and lend their support in helping to get the book out in whatever way they could. We threw lots of creative ideas around the room and imagined all sorts of possibilities. The dreaming field felt activated, alive, and filled with magic. The meeting ended with one of the participants spontaneously doing a short blessing, the energy of which was palpable. I think it is safe to say that all of us had the experience of somethingenergetically speakingbeing set into motion as a result of the process.

Within days of the meeting, the process around the book began shifting dramatically. Within a week or so I had found an agent who felt like I was the next big thing and was eager to represent me. While I ultimately decided not to work with her, this agent added to and was an expression of the energy in the field that was emerging to manifest the publication of the book. Then I received a Facebook friend request from none other than the visionary best-selling author and teacher Jean Houston, whose work Ive long admired. After accepting her request and becoming friends, I asked her if shed be willing to look at, so as to possibly endorse, my new manuscript on quantum physics. She happily agreed and a few weeks later sent me an enthusiastic email saying how much she loved the manuscript.

A little while later Jean called up her friend Kenzi Sugihara, who is the publisher and founder of SelectBooks, an independent publishing company in New York, and urged him to publish my book. As soon as he got off the phone with Jean, Kenzi picked up the phone and called me. As an author, you can imagine my surprise and delight to pick up the phone and have it be the head of a publishing company interested in publishing my work. Kenzi needed a week or so to look at the manuscript, and soon thereafter called me up and offered me a contract. He commented that it had never happened before that someone as esteemed as Jean Houston called him up out of the blue to strongly suggest he publish a book. Jean Houston soon thereafter kindly agreed to write the foreword.

Im not sure how to explain what this experience has to do with quantum reality, but I, as well as everyone else at that meeting, have a strong intuitive sense that it was related. As I point out in the book, the quantum realm is not separate from our own mind but actually reflects back to us our beliefs, expectations, and intentions. When a group of people gets their intention into alignment with each other, magic can happen. Their shared intention gets imprinted into the very quantum field that in-forms and gives shape to our universe in a way that can really make a difference in the world.

That dreaming meeting was like a sacred ceremony in which everyone involvedwhom I now refer to as The Dreaming Eight (Nine, if I include myself)put their energy together so as to clarify, express, and amplify to the universe the intention of getting the book published. The quantum universe, which just like a dream reflects the attitude of the dreamer, responded in kind. This is how The Quantum Revelation came to be.

PAUL LEVY was born in 1956 and grew up in Yonkers, New York. In the mid-seventies he attended the State University of New York at Binghamton (now called Binghamton University), receiving degrees in both economics and studio art. While an undergraduate, he was hired by Princeton University to do research in economics. Though not a physicist himself, Paul has been seriously studying and going down the quantum physics rabbit hole for decades.

In 1981, catalyzed by an intense trauma, Paul had a life-changing spiritual awakening in which he began to recognize the dreamlike nature of reality. During the first year of his spiritual emergence, he was hospitalized a number of times and was told he was having a severe psychotic break from reality and (mis)diagnosed as having a chemical imbalance. He was informed that he had what was then called manic depression (now called bipolar disorder) and that he would have to live with his illness for the rest of his life and would need to take medication until his dying breath. Little did the doctors realize, however, that he was taking part in a mystical-awakening/shamanic-initiation process, which at times mimicked psychosis but in actuality was a spiritual experience of a far different order that was completely off the map of the psychiatric system. Fortunately, over time he was able to extricate himself from the psychiatric establishment so that he could continue to unfold his inner process of awakening.