The Connections That Bind Us

Have you ever wondered if there's one belief that is shared across cultures throughout history? Well, there is. We see it in petroglyphs and signs and symbols and stories and holy books. That belief is that everything is connected. The universal symbol for the tree of life shares in that understanding. It arises in continents and cultures throughout the ages.

We can see versions of the Tree of Life in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, in Hebrew and Islamic creed, and throughout Europe. The limbs of the tree reach upward towards heaven, connecting us there. The branches and the leaves intertwine symbolizing connectedness to one another and to the earth. And the roots bury deep into the soil, connecting us to those who have gone before us.

This story of connectedness can be seen in modern science as well—in chaos theory, gravity and quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement was discovered in the 1930s by a group of physicists, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger—and it freaked them out! For decades, physicists argued the feasibility of entanglement until, in 1964, in the lab of John Stuart Bell in Geneva, he proved that quantum entanglement was in fact, reality. Well, what is quantum entanglement?

In the simplest terms, quantum entanglement means that aspects of one particle of an entangled pair depend on aspects of the other particle, no matter how far apart they are or what lies between them The only way that this is possible is if these two electrons are still communicating, they're still entangled, and the implications of that are that the entire fabric of the universe is intertwined.

The strange part of quantum entanglement is that when you measure something about one particle in an entangled pair, you immediately know something about the other particle, even if they are millions of light years apart. This odd connection between the two particles is instantaneous, seemingly breaking Einstein’s theory that nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Einstein famously called the phenomenon “spooky action at a distance.”

What does all this connectedness mean for us in our everyday lives? Albert Einstein went on to answer that question by stating, “our task is to free ourselves from this prison of thinking we are separate and widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Internationally bestselling author Lynn McTaggart agrees. She states, we are each a vital part of the whole. Equipped with the innate power to effect great change. By recognizing and honoring the connections that bind us, we could create a more compassionate, harmonious world where the well-being of all is considered.

Lynne is consistently voted one of the world’s top 100 spiritual leaders for her ground-breaking work with consciousness and the power of intention. As architect of the Intention Experiments, a web-based ‘global laboratory,’ Lynne was prominently featured in the plotline of Dan Brown’s blockbuster The Lost Symbol. Over the years Lynne has been called a ‘metaphysical rock star’, ‘the Madonna of the Quantum World,’ ‘the Malcolm Gladwell of the New Science’ and even ‘The Dalai Mama.’

Please join me, Carlene Cross, as I speak with Lynn McTaggart about the implications of an interconnected universe. I hope that you will agree with Lynne when she says, “The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.”

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