Free E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality by Pam Grout

sunset-beige cars and butterflies (or purple feathers), I will find them.
    Time Required: 48 hours
    Today’s Date: __________ Time: __________
    The Approach: According to this crazy Pam Grout girl, the world out there reflects what I want to see. She says that it’s nothing but my own illusions that keep me from experiencing peace, joy, and love. So even though I suspect she’s cracked, today I’m going to look for sunset-beige cars. Tomorrow, I’ll go butterfly hunting.
    a.   Number of sunset-beige cars observed: __________
    b.   Number of butterflies observed: __________
    Research Notes: ________________________________
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    “Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what is known in nature.”
    —St. A UGUSTINE , L ATIN PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN

EXPERIMENT #3
    THE ALBY EINSTEIN
PRINCIPLE:

You, Too, Are a Field of Energy
    “It’s right underneath your fingers, baby. That’s all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.”
    —R AY C HARLES , A MERICAN SINGER AND PIANIST
    The Premise
    I’m not going to bore you with an entire text on quantum physics. I’ve read dozens, and believe me, they’re not pretty. But there are a couple of rumors going around that must be quashed before we go any further.
    For starters, who you think you are is not who you really are.
    You think you have a limited life—something like 70 or 80 years—and then you wrinkle up, get rheumatism, and keel over. Ka-boom! It’s all over. But this isn’t any more true than that dream you had last night about the tall blonde.
    Your body is an impostor, a tiny fraction of who you really are. Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. This body that I think is Pam Grout—this skinny 5’10” woman with perpetual complexion problems—is just a speck of who I really am, no more the real me than those two-month-old baby pictures where I’m wearing the embarrassing pink bonnet.
    Don’t feel bad if you’ve fallen for the trap that you, your body, and the world around you are nothing but matter. It’s not easy standing on the brink of a revolution. These new ideas that scientists are finally starting to take seriously are challenging everything we believe about how our world works and how we define ourselves.
    The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth
    “Everything you know about the universe and its laws is more than likely to be 99.99 percent wrong.”
    —F RED A LAN W OLF , P H .D., A MERICAN QUANTUM PHYSICIST
    What Einstein discovered and what that famous equation E = mc 2 means is that mass and energy are basically two forms of the same thing. Energy is liberated matter, and matter is energy waiting to happen.
    There is a huge amount of energy—a preposterously huge amount—trapped in every living thing. You, making the assumption that you’re an average-size human being, contain no less than 7 times 10 to the 18th (710 18 ) joules of potential energy. That may not mean much to you now, but let’s pretend you want to make a point. If you were a bit more cunning and knew how to liberate this energy, you could use it to explode yourself with the force of 30 very large hydrogen bombs.
    In other words, the material world is nothing but dense energy patterns. Scientists put all these sub-subatomic particles into a particle accelerator, collided them, and ultimately discovered that there is no particle at the source. It’s all just pure unbounded energy vibrating so fast that it defies measurement and observation. So, despite how it looks to the naked eye, you are energy.
    In fact, nothing in the world is actually solid. Not you, not this book, not the chair you’re sitting on. Break the solid world down to its tiniest components and you’ll find dancing particles and empty space. It only looks solid because the energy is vibrating a little slower than the speed of light.
    That’s what energy