An excerpt from
The Breakthrough Experience: A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation
by Dr. John F. Demartini

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A physicist chronicles his exploration of the mysteries surrounding energy and consciousness.

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Lighten Up

"All great truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-- Schopenhauer

Did you know that your true nature, underneath all your hopes, fears, thoughts, and feelings, is nothing but love and light? The universe has an inherent balance and order whose expression is this love and light. You have unlimited access to a boundless energy, the same energy that permeates all life, from the core of our radiant star to the center of a crimson rose. This universal order of love and light resides in the heart of all things, including your heart, and it opens up to you the minute you unlock it with the key of gratitude.

Once you recognize and attune with your Divine Source, by balancing your mind, you have access to an infinite energy. This is not just a metaphor or wishful New Age fantasy. It is as real as the sunrise and as solid as the book you hold right now, because everything is energy. This chapter is about how to access that infinite energy. Since command of any discipline lies in the mastery of its details, this chapter may be the most challenging as well as the most rewarding.

Recurring Themes

At the age of 19, I was attending college and living in a dormitory with a bunch of physicists. I was rooming with a brilliant young man from Taiwan who dreamed of receiving a Nobel Prize. We would stay up until four o'clock in the morning trying to answer the questions at the cutting edge of physics and cosmology. We challenged each other to come up with more comprehensive theories than the Big Bang and Unified Field theories. I set out on a quest to know the essence of life and its energy source, as well as universal laws. I was driven to explore the mysteries surrounding energy, and to discover the secret of consciousness. Was it a science? Was it mysticism? Was it both? Little did I know the impact this quest would have on my life.

I discovered in my studies of physics, metaphysics, and theology that the theme of light kept recurring. The Bible says that God called forth heaven and earth with the words fiat lux, let there be light. The Old Masters painted holy beings with halos of light around their heads. Physicists and astronomers used light as the source and great measurer of phenomena. I wondered at the time, Is it possible that visible light and spiritual light are the same thing? Could the same universal laws govern both?

I noticed another recurring theme in physics: collapsing wave functions. Every atom or subatomic particle could function as a wave and also be reduced to mathematical equations involving spin, rotation, and other quantum numbers. When two complementary particles (particles of equal mass and opposite charge, like matter and antimatter) are brought together, they annihilate each other and birth light. But, when in turn, they are simultaneously generated from light, one seems to disappear. This instantaneous disappearance is called collapsing its wave function.

Then I came across the work of the world famous physicist Freeman Dyson, who presently resides at Princeton. He was quoted in a 1993 Scientific American magazine as saying, "No universe with intelligence is pointless . . . intelligence could persist for eternity--perhaps in the form of a cloud of charged particles (of light)--through shrewd conservation of energy."

If consciousness was somehow a cloud of charged particles of light, I wondered what that meant for humanity. Eventually I discovered that the mysteries of mind and the physics of light were related through the collapsing of full quantum wave functions. The long-term result became The Quantum Collapse Process', which is now the core of The Breakthrough Experience. By the end of this book, when you've had a chance to learn the foundations of this process and test it out for yourself, you will have a personal experience of its truth.

The next few chapters include some important fundamentals to prepare you for The Quantum Collapse Process. When you get to Chapter 9 and follow the instructions to the letter, you will experience this love and light. At that moment these principles won't be just a theory or opinion; they will become an integral part of how you experience and look at life. Once you experience a Collapse, the love will not be forgotten.

Being Here Now

As stated previously, when two complementary particles or those with equal but opposite charges, spins, and masses are brought together, they annihilate each other and birth light. In human consciousness, when two complementary emotions or those with equal but opposite charges (such as elation and depression or happiness and sadness), spins (forward and backward in time), and masses (burdening emotional distractions) are brought together and synthesized into perfect balance, the emotions annihilate each other and birth the feeling of love and light. Light and love are two aspects of the same phenomenon.

All positive and negative particles in the universe are created simultaneously, in perfect one-to-one balance, but your senses misperceive local imbalances and can mislead you. Every time you splinter yourself into positive and negative emotions, you scatter your light, dissipate your energy potential, and disempower your true and centered being. In this way, you separate yourself into past and future, and you are no longer present. When you bring your perceptions back into balance and become aware of how things really are, you reverse the process. The past and future disappear in an all-encompassing state of loving presence. In the state of love extraordinary things can happen.

You might ask, "How is that possible?" As long as you are attuned to your bodily senses you are subject to space and time, because that's where your body lives. Time consists of both future and past, neither of which can ever be in the now. The past holds memory, is emotionally based, and is dominated by the emotion labeled guilt. The future holds imagination, is also emotionally based, and is dominated by the emotion labeled fear. The loving essence of your true spirit is spaceless and timeless presence. Any time you experience a future or past emotion you dissipate your potential energy into a kinetic motion. But in a state of presence and love, you reintegrate your kinetic energy and birth a new quantum of creative potential. The purpose of this book is to help you take your imbalanced emotions and reintegrate them back into the enlightening potentiality of true love.

Would you love to be in a place but at the same time not be in that place? Would you love to have an entire room disappear except for the person you loved? What if you had a chance to see someone who died 20 years ago, and tell them how much you loved them? What if the person you despised or avoided for 20 or 30 years suddenly appeared next to you and you opened your heart to them, embraced, thanked, and loved them, and were set free from any emotional bondage or baggage? These are just a few of the experiences people report upon completing The Quantum Collapse Process.

Mothers and Fathers

Some time ago I presented The Breakthrough Experience in Los Angeles, California. In the audience was beautiful lady who had been given up by her Spanish mother and raised by a French woman. She did The Quantum Collapse Process on her birth mother, and upon completion I asked her who in the room reminded her of her true birth mother. She looked around the room and chose a middle-aged woman with asthma who was sitting by the outside door to get some fresh air. When the woman came over she spoke to the lady in Spanish, which was the lady's original language. She used words that the birth mother had used when the woman was a young girl, and she even somehow knew to call her by her nickname.

Afterward, the "surrogate mother" asked me, "How did I know her nickname? How did I know to say that? I felt like something was almost speaking through me and directed me on what to say. It was strange. It was as if I became her birth mother for a few moments."

When she finished that Collapse I said, "So what about your stepmother? What is in the way of loving her?" We worked a little longer on her Collapse and balanced out any remaining imbalanced perceptions or emotions about her adopting stepmother. I then asked her, "Who here reminds you now of your stepmother?"

She looked around the room and stopped at the same woman and said, "It's her again."

Astonishingly, this lady was trilingual. Now in the role of the stepmother, she spoke French and used the very words the stepmother would have said. It was so real to both women that they spoke as if they had never been apart.

Afterward, the surrogate mother returned to her chair, sat back comfortably, and had a new realization: Her asthma had momentarily cleared because of the impact of exchanging such deep love. Can you guess what had happened in her life? She had given away one of her daughters, and her emotions about it were partly the cause of her asthma. Psychosomatically, asthma is a frustration and anxiety associated with some kind of perceived loss, and also with feeling unworthy to live. The woman playing the role of both mothers then had the opportunity to clear her emotions about her lost daughter by doing her own Collapse. She had carried this emotion as a pain and an illness in her body since she was a young mother.

The serendipity and synchronicity of the people who attend The Breakthrough Experience seminars is quite profound and certainly no mistake. It was a beautiful experience, and it illustrates that when you love, the person becomes present with you and appears.

If it sounds way out or simply impossible, I say this now: My solemn promise to you is that I will not present anything here that is not true, that hasn't been tested and experienced by hundreds and thousands of people. If anything, I will understate what is possible, and let you experience it for yourself. One of the most profound things you will ever experience is a true open heart in the presence of the one you love. It doesn't matter if they're alive or dead, there is a parallel spiritual world and your loved ones, wherever they are, will be there with you.

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The above excerpt is taken from the new book The Breakthrough Experience: A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation, by Dr. John F. Demartini. Published by Hay House, Inc., it is available at all bookstores, by phone (800-654-5126), or via the Internet at www.hayhouse.com.

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