Cases of mind influencing matter have been reported throughout history and across many cultures, more specifically in regard to ‘supernormal’ abilities which include telepathy, psychokinesis, and other phenomena that lie within the realms of parapsychology. This is evident in ancient literature, from the Vedic texts and the yoga sutras, to Jesus, Moses, Milarepa, Mohammed and more.
Modern day evidence is suggesting that these abilities are much more than folklore.
Fast forward to today and scientists
have been exploring the mind/matter relationship for more than a
century. We have established that consciousness, or factors associated
with consciousness, do in fact have observable effects on what we call
the physical, material world, albeit very small effects.
It’s important to note that these effects aren’t always seen by the observable eye, but they are known at the quantum level.
If you want to learn more about that, a great place to start is with Dean Radin, the Chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
The most commonly used experiment to
illustrate the connection between consciousness and our physical reality
is the quantum double slit experiment, which shows that observation
“not only disturbs what has to be measured, they produce it.” (source)
At the end of the day, our pioneering
physicists, as Max Planck (he originated quantum theory) said, regard
consciousness as “fundamental” and matter as “derivative from
consciousness.”
Eugene Wigner, a physicist and
mathematician sat that “it was not possible to formulate the laws of
quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to
consciousness.” (source)
You can read more about that topic in a little more detail here.
