This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at all.

Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten science.From a shamanic or alchemical perspective, atoms aremore like sentient waves, their intelligently responsiveexistence a blur of potential until they magically appear to materialize.

Quantum physics, the study of the universe at its mostminute level, unveils a startlingly different picture fromwhat today’s hyper-materialist humans so glibly dub reality.

One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself.This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature of the LEGO pieces of our world—atoms—as material objects that appear to become so only through an act of creative focus. This may strain credulity, but at the fundamental level of energy, it’s just how ‘things’ are.