FlameTree: the personal development & healing system uses concepts from the Occam's razor; Quantum mechanics; Bell’s theorem; Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox (EPR); Bootstrap & dynamic systems theory; Delayed choice experiment; Information Science; Information Management
Even though these fields seem separate from the healing processes of the bodymind, they are an integral part of how the FlameTree practitioner is able to gather relevant information, quickly and easily from the client's innate.

"Quantum measurements inject our consciousness into the arena of the so-called objective world. There is no paradox in the delayed-choice experiment if we give up the idea that there is a fixed and independent material world even when we are not observing it. Ultimately, it boils down to what you, the observer, want to see. "

— AMIT GOSWAMI, The Self-Aware Universe

Excerpt from 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoat by Daniel Pinchbeck:
Advancing the work of Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics, the physicist AmitGoswami proposes that the paradoxes of quantum mechanics—nonlocality, action-at-a-distance, quantum uncertainty, and so on—can only be resolved through the hypothesis that consciousness, not matter, is the fundamental reality of the universe. Instead of a dualistic split between mind and matter, or subject and object, Goswami puts forth a philosophy that he calls “monistic idealism.” According to this position, “the consciousness of the subject in a subject-object experience is the same consciousness that is the ground of all being.

Therefore, consciousness is unitive. There is only one subject-consciousness, and we are that consciousness,” he writes in his 1993 book, The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World.Goswami posits a “brain-mind” system in which the physical brain functions as a measuring and recording device, following the rules of classical physics, while a “quantum component of the brain-mind…is the vehicle for conscious choice and for creativity.”
It is the activity of consciousness, determining the “quantum collapse” of a waveform into a particle that brings the world into being. “Consciousness is the agency that collapses the wave of a quantum object, which exists in potential, making it an imminent particle in the world of manifestation,” Goswami writes. Our subjective awareness arises as a result of a “tangled hierarchy” in the brain, a closed loop of self-reference similar to the famous “liar’s paradox” (the man from Crete who insists, “All Cretans are liars”).
Since quantum collapse can only occur through a physical brain, the ego is “an assumed identity that the free-willing consciousness dons in the interest of having a reference point.” Esoteric disciplines and techniques of meditation teach us to observe our subjectivity, our ego-hood, with its continuous babble of thoughts and worries, from an outside perspective, a “witness consciousness.” By doing this, we jump out of our individually conditioned viewpoint, the self-referential circuit, and take the transcendent perspective.

1. Bell started from essentially the same assumptions, as did Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (EPR), viz.

i) reality (microscopic objects have real properties determining the outcomes of quantum mechanical measurements) and
ii) locality (reality is not influenced by measurements simultaneously performed at a large distance)
Bell was able to derive from these assumptions an important result, viz.
Bell's inequality, violation of which by quantum mechanics implying that at least one of the assumptions must be abandoned if experiment would turn out to satisfy quantum mechanics.
In two respects Bell's 1964 paper was a big step forward compared to the EPR paper:
i) it considered more general hidden variables than the elements of physical reality of the EPR paper,
ii) more importantly, Bell's inequality was liable to be experimentally tested, thus yielding the opportunity to lift the discussion on the completeness of quantum mechanics from metaphysics to physics.
Whereas Bell's 1964 paper deals only with deterministic hidden variables theories, Bell's theorem was later generalized to stochastic theories as well, and it was realized that the theorem can even be proven without introducing hidden variables.

1. After EPR, quantum mechanics was left in an unsatisfactory position: either it was incomplete, in the sense that it failed to account for some elements of physical reality, or it violated the principle of finite propagation speed of physical effects.

In a modified version of the EPR thought experiment, two observers, now commonly referred to as Alice and Bob, perform independent measurements of spin on a pair of electrons, prepared at a source in a special state called a spin singlet state. It was equivalent to the conclusion of EPR that once Alice measured spin in one direction (e.g. on the x axis), Bob's measurement in that direction was determined with certainty, with opposite outcome to that of Alice, whereas immediately before Alice's measurement, Bob's outcome was only statistically determined.
Thus, either the spin in each direction is an element of physical reality, or the effects travel from Alice to Bob instantly.

1. In quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox is a thought experiment, which challenged long-held ideas about the relation between the observed values of physical quantities, and the values that can be accounted for by a physical theory. EPR argues that quantum mechanics is not a complete physical theory

1. According to its authors the EPR experiment yields a dichotomy.

Either the result of a measurement performed on one part A of a quantum system has a non-local effect on the physical reality of another distant part B, in the sense that quantum mechanics can predict outcomes of some measurements carried out at B; or...
Quantum mechanics is incomplete in the sense that some element of physical reality corresponding to B cannot be accounted for by quantum mechanics (that is, some extra variable is needed to account for it.)

1. As it was shown later by Bell one cannot introduce the notion of "elements of reality" without affecting the predictions of the theory. That is, one cannot complete quantum mechanics with these "elements", because this automatically leads to some logical contradictions

1. Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics as a "real" and complete theory, struggling to the end of his life for an interpretation that could comply with relativity without complying with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

As he once said: "God does not play dice", skeptically referring to the
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which says there exists no
objective physical reality other than that which is revealed through
measurement and observation.

1. The EPR paradox is a paradox in the following sense:

If one adds to quantum mechanics some seemingly reasonable (but actually wrong, or questionable as a whole) conditions (referred to as locality) — realism (not to be confused with philosophical realism), counterfactual definiteness, and completeness — then one obtains a contradiction.
Howeverquantum mechanics by itself does not appear to be internally inconsistent, nor — as it turns out — does it contradict relativity. As a result of further theoretical and experimental developments since the original EPR paper, most physicists today regard the EPR paradox as an illustration of how quantum mechanics violates classical intuitions

1. Quantum physicist Geoffrey Chew who developed the ‘bootstrap’ theory to explain the observed phenomena of sub-atomic particles:

The ‘bootstrap’ philosophy declares that we must leave behind our old notions of matter being the fundamental building blocks of matter.
The theory holds that there are no fundamental entities, no fundamental constants, laws, or equations. The material universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events. None of the properties of any singular part of this web is fundamental. All individual parts and events follow from the properties of other parts of the web and the overall constancy of their interrelations determines the structure of the entire web.

1. This understanding reinforces the concept of synchronicity. Concordant with this concept is the conclusion that everything within the body is in a dynamic, synchronized, interactive and totally inter/intra dependent state.

1. This concept is called Dynamic Systems Theory (DST).

Through the DST all branches of alternative medicine have the potential of developing a solid, theoretical framework for working with the body as an energy system. DST also goes a long way in explaining the nuances of the mind-body relationship particularly in relation to energy healing.
The diverse and controversial findings and observations of the human energy system are finally explainable in relative terms. (Dr. Rhett: new consciousness, non-locality and medicine)

1. If, as the physicist Arthur March put it, “the world is inseparable from the observing subject and is accordingly not objectifiable,” then any undertaking for knowledge prophetic or otherwise will in itself causes reality to quiver and alter, as new possibilities unfold.

1. Recent research in physics involves a feature of quantum mechanics that even Albert Einstein doubted.

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   1. When two identical particles are created and then separated, they can be "entangled" and influence each other over vast distances instantaneously.
   2. Disturb only one and the other must react immediately.
   3. This contradicts our notion of local reality and Einstein, in a famous remark, described it as "spooky action at a distance." Quantum mechanics demands this non-locality much to die chagrin of those who wish a local, separable reality.
   4. These predictions are known as Bell's Inequalities, named after the physicist John S. Bell who first put down the equations in 1964.

1. The French physicist Alan Aspect conducted experiments that confirmed non-locality.

More recent experiments in Geneva have shown that this entanglement does not diminish with distance, occurring over a span of ten miles.
These entangled particles, usually a laser beam, are split and sent off in different directions. Despite traveling down different paths, they affect each other as if no distance was between them.
Another recent experiment in Austria demonstrated that particles maintain this connection even across the Danube River. Since there is no physical contact between them, how they stay "aware" of each other is still a mystery. The results of these experiments lead some physicists and philosophers to view the entire universe as an interconnected, holistic system.

1. The subtle mystery of entanglement can be illustrated with a metaphor that uses coloured balls.

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   1. Assume that a "purple" ball thrower tosses one red ball and one blue ball out at the same time but in opposite directions.
   2. Which colour goes in which direction is always a 50-50 chance. According to quantum mechanics.
   3. Neither ball is red or blue, until someone or something looks at one of them. This is not because we just hadn't seen one of them yet. The colour of each is determined only when something designed to detect colour interacts with one ball.
   4. The other one takes on the opposite property or complementary colour instantaneously, regardless of the distance between them.

1. Rudolf Steiner proposed, that thought and language are creative aspects of being, tools for transforming reality. Superstring physicists speak of a universe with nine to eleven dimensions. So if our universe, our reality is projection, of our more subtle perceptions, then we may yet find that the universe is a series of yet undetected vibrational matrices that are intimately interwoven and inter penetrating that cannot be separated.

1. Wheeler used mirrors to split a beam of light into two paths that crossed each other.

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  • He then used an apparatus that he created to register the photons as particles that take a single pathway, or as probabilistic waves that travel both routes at the same time.
  • Once the light beam had passed the point where it split into two, experimenters made the decision whether or not to measure the wave aspect. This choice seemed to have a retroactive effect on the nature of the beams, which still revealed itself either as a wave or particle, depending on the scientists’ choice.
  • The experiment demonstrated that quantum phenomena exist only in potentia, until a decision is made, by conscious choice, as to how they are to be perceived-even if this choice is made retroactively. Although this immediate and non-local effect happens beyond the speed of light.