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Physicists have trouble deciding where matter begins or ends. The more powerful our instruments, the smaller bits of matter (concentrations of energy) we discover. Biologists have the same difficulty identifying the smallest life forms (somatids, bionts, space-borne sperm, etc.). Metascientists now suggest the whole universe is conscious, with every aspect of creation possessing some self-awareness.

Cosmologists now use terms like "integral, singular, and seamless" to describe the indivisible nature of our natural universe. In a standing wave universe no facet exists independently of another. This raises the question, "Can anything be thought by a conscious being that does not already exist somewhere in this or other universes--or does the thought ultimately lead to its manifestation?"

We have just seen in the acts of terror that rocked New York City, Washington, DC and the rest of the world on September 11 the playing out of images that had earlier been created by authors and script writers. Observers of the disaster areas even made statements like, "This is like a Hollywood movie set." In all the acts of violence that filled the 20th century, can we be sure that someone's mind did not see them first as fiction? Conversely, how many wonderful acts of kindness and generosity result from fiction about such positive acts?

In my view, consciousness is one universal field of ideas, patterns, and images created by conscious beings currently and formerly living on this planet, and beings currently and previously existing in other locations or dimensions. These "thoughts" comprise the Logos or Akashic Records from which the phenomenal universe arose and continues to manifest. Human writers get ideas from this universal storehouse and feed their own back into it. The result is that "there is nothing new under the sun" or if some being creates a new idea (i.e., built on our collective experience) it is immediately absorbed into this noumenal field.

We must remember that from this noumenal Logos everything else manifests. Thus, if I think it, I am either picking up someone else's existing mental creation or I have started a new process of creation. If the latter is true, then I must be careful what I think because I am likely to see it manifested in my life. This circular process is why we see so much so-called fiction becoming reality. How can that happen?

There exists much evidence that thoughts with enough emotional charge create their own energetic presence, labeled Archetypes (Jung), Morphogenic Fields (Sheldrake), or Hundredth Monkey Syndrome. So writers of fiction and movie/TV producers are either drawing from or creating energetic influences that eventually shape human behavior. Each so-called creative work is a combination of the writer or artist's reciprocal interaction with the collective consciousness. Does this mean that every new imaginary tidbit manifests somewhere in the universe?

The evidence seems to suggest that an idea needs a certain amount of psychic charging by conscious beings before it can survive in the noumena. A passing fantasy may never materialize, but any idea that receives enough conscious attention from enough conscious beings will find its way into manifestation. So my poem that goes from my head into the bottom drawer is not likely to garner much from the physical universe. But my best seller or hit movie, with all its graphic images, will receive enough emotional attention to become an Archetype or Morphogenic Field that eventually manifests in human life.

These insights emerging from the frontier research in physics, biology and consciousness studies provide an explanation for the cliché, "Life imitates art." Before the deed must come the thought and the subtle energy charge sufficient to mobilize matter and energy, from the smallest particle to a frenzied human mob. Regardless of the origins of fictional material, I believe it is safe to say that it reflects physical reality somewhere in the universe and/or has the potential to create it.

If the connectedness among all beings and all ideas and all energy fields I have suggested here proves to be true, then all of us who would create ideas for the public must begin to take more responsibility for the implications of what we produce. As the Golden Rule suggests that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us, we should never create works of art in any imaginal form unless we wish to have it happen to us or someone we love.

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