I scanned this page out ot Wayne Dyer's book. You'll see it when you believe it.
I love this page.
A few months ago I was reading a fascinating novel
called Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Toward the end
of the book, the author included a short chapter that was
completely separate from the story he was telling. I must
have read this chapter, `Nothing is Random,' fifty times
and I still had great difficulty in accepting it as I read it.
Today, I know it is true for me, and it is how I now see
this entire onesong. With the permission of the author and
the publisher, I reproduce it here
Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long
string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden
dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise
of a great city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has
never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time
the milkman gets up, the position of the electron, or the
occurrence of one astonishingly frigid winter after another.
Even electrons, supposedly the paragons of unpredictability,
are tame and obsequious little creatures that rush around at
the speed of light, going precisely where they are supposed to
go. They make faint whistling sounds that when apprehended in
varying combinations are as pleasant as the wind flying through
a forest, and they do exactly as they are told. Of this, one can
be certain.
And yet there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman
chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he
will dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from
Borough Hall, and the snowflake will fall as it will. How can this
be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how
can there be free will?
The answer to that is simple. Nothing is
Predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be
Determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an
Instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in
One glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been
Given - so we track it, in linear fashion, piece by piece.
Time,however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but
By standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe
is still and complete. Everything that ever was, is; everything that
ever will be, is - and so on, in all possible combinations, Though
in perceiving it we imagine that it is in motion, and unfinished,
it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful.
In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small,
is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to
the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones
are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue
days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue,
immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way
as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something
that will be, but as something that is.How radically different this point of view may be from that
which you likely have assumed over a lifetime. How could
everything be synchronized when it appears to the naked
eye that everything is happening in a random fashion? If
you want to begin to see how this all might be possible,
I suggest that you initiate a fascinating study of quantum
reality by reading Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li masters
and Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics. Both of these
books give an overview of the new physics and how `hard
scientific evidence' fits in with the metaphysics I have been
postulating: Here is a brief taste of The Dancing Wu Li
masters:
The astounding discovery awaiting newcomers to physics is
that the evidence gathered in the development of quantum
mechanics indicates that subatomic `particles' constantly appear
to be making decisions! More than that, the decisions they seem
to make are based on decisions made elsewhere. Subatomic
particles seem to know instantaneously what decisions are made
elsewhere, and elsewhere can be as far away as another galaxy
... the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics is that
all of the things in our universe (including us) that appear to
exist independently are actually parts of one all-encompassing
organic pattern, and that no parts of that pattern are ever really
separate from it or from each other
To me, this simply is the scientific world beginning to
catch up with all that spiritual masters have been relating
for centuries.