Reality is Psychically Co-created

What an accidental pocket-dial reveals about the nature of the universe

As I write this newsletter, I discover certain ideas and complexes of thought to which I keep returning. My thinking takes a spiral shape, like a shell or a twisting ladder rising toward the pinnacle of a remote tower. But thought is, of course, nothing solid. 

Thought is mercurial, evanescent; it scatters like wave-forms, frequencies, pulsations of light or sound. Thought breaks apart, re-coagulates into new transitory forms, hardens, shivers, then shatters again. My innumerable thoughts, concepts, and idea-fragments are reflected, refracted, altered, crystallized, sometimes submerged or destroyed by what meets me in the world, what presents itself as seemingly “real” or “objective” in physical space-time, in the objective or intersubjective space within which things, people, arise and, sooner or later, dissolve and depart. 

I agree with Rudolf Steiner that thinking is not accidental or contingent; thinking is, in itself, part of the world. It is the part of the world, in fact, that is most accessible to us as our own intimate, internal process. Thinking is a hidden, invisible dimension of being. It is the only thing we truly know: I know my perceptions can fool me; but I know if I have had a thought, I have indeed had that thought, whether it was wrong or right, stupid or brilliant.

Thought must be, on some level, a quantum phenomenon. What are thoughts made of, actually? A thought must be a kind of quantum aggregate, a pattern of electrons forming some kind of coherent, persistent relationship. Thoughts are patterns, contained within morphogenetic fields, maintained via morphic resonance, to borrow Rupert Sheldrake’s lexicon.

One of the thoughts that intermittently attracts, fascinates, and transfixes me is the idea that reality, in itself, is psychically co-created. There is continuous subtle interplay between the “inner” and “outer” world. We see this expressed in synchronicity, for instance, along with other psychic occurrences.

Sometimes a synchronicity occurs in our lives so naturally, so effortlessly, that we don’t even take the time to stop and register it as a psychic event, as something remarkable. Such a threshold event reveals, if we stop to reflect upon it, the intrinsic nature or deep structure of reality. It is something like a “tell” in poker that can unravel many other ideas and false beliefs we still hold unconsciously.

A few days ago, I had such an experience: Someone I considered a friend accidentally pocket-dialed me.