Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 13, 2025 • 0 Comment
Book News, Quantum Physics, Understanding Reality
Beyond the blue horizon
Waits a beautiful day.
Goodbye to things that bore me.
Joy is waiting for me!
I see a new horizon.
My life has only begun!
Beyond the blue horizon
Lies a rising sun!
– Leo Robin (1900-1984), from “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (1930)
We continue to be flat-out amazed by the simple fact that the mainstream scientific gatekeepers still cannot accept the simple truth that reality will not submit to their materialist dogma-based ideas. Fraud in the field of peer-reviewed scientific publications grows rampantly, while at the same time the most successful form of physics, which is of course quantum mechanics, harbors a fatal problem at its core that no one wants to talk about, although nevertheless that problem has existed for more than a century. Simply put, quantum mechanics requires an observer in order to collapse the wave function in a particle, to create a certain reality. So, is the past before that observation could happen not real? Was there no reality before no human observer existed who could collapse that wave? Or might a new understanding of causality somehow fix this whole causality problem?
As we generally know, in an earlier day, a very highly revered scientist faced a similar problem of being persecuted by the Luddite scientific gatekeepers of his own time. Do you recall the name Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)? He was a fundamental father of astronomy, physics, and the modern scientific theory who was tried and condemned for heresy by the holy Roman Inquisition for insisting that the earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around. His puzzled insistence, “And yet, it moves,” referring to the earth, still resonates today. We might as well say now of that vexatious wave to those modern scientific gatekeepers, “And yet, it requires an observer”! Because eventually, Galileo was proven to be right about the earth’s in fact orbiting the sun. And so will the observer’s role be proven to be primary in quantum physics as well, but in ways that we do not as yet understand or respect where quantum mechanics is concerned.
Of course, Dr. Max Planck, who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics as the father of quantum physics, solved this whole problem easily in his own mind. He readily accepted the fact that consciousness is primary, and it does in fact pre-exist matter, so we had better all just accept and work with that fact! This attempting to bend reality with our fake materialist dogma is just as stupid an idea as the Catholic Inquisition ever was. In 1931, Dr. Planck said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” Then in 1944 he said, “As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
For Newtonian physicist Albert Einstein, though, finding his way toward this amazing new reality was a tougher slog. Einstein never was a complete convert to quantum physics, although toward the end of his life he did see the inevitability of it. He was saying things like, “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have as matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” And, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
The plain fact is that quantum physics is at this point a failed theory of physics, while at the same time it is one of the most successful theories in science, and it makes much of our modern life possible. And yes, both of these facts can be true at the same time. Indeed, the fact that mainstream science is dead-wrong is pretty clear to those of us who are not scientists, and therefore are not held to their nonsensical pledge to assume that MATTER must be the base of all reality. Indeed, “matter” is not the base of anything. Like Galileo, and like Max Planck before us, we who continue to hold steadfastly that the earth revolves around the sun, and that consciousness is primary, are correct in our assumptions. And the Luddite scientific gatekeepers are flat-out, dead wrong, and they have stubbornly been dead-wrong now for more than a hundred years.
My goodness, are you aware that even insects are to some degree conscious? And plants are certainly conscious, and they cooperate with one another? It is harder to accept that simple fact about plants because they don’t move around. They simply sit there. But I learned that plants are conscious as a core truth way back in 1973. And learning that fact flat-out and forever transformed my life!
We’ll explain the amazing truths about plants in more detail in a moment, but of course mainstream materialist scientists have been forced to ignore all those truths. Just as their scientific gatekeepers have forced them to ignore the truths about so many things. In reality, the Catholic Inquisition that oppressed Galileo never ended; it only changed its name and who it worked for, since now, rather than working for religion, it works to suppress religion. But mainstream science is determined to fight the overwhelming evidence that consciousness is primary and it pre-exists humanity, so currently more than a billion dollars in the U.S., and the same amount in euros in Great Britain, is being spent to find a source of consciousness inside the human brain, all without success. When asked to define “consciousness”, these materialist scientists always define it in terms of human awareness in some way. For example, “Consciousness is defined as subjective awareness of oneself and the world, encompassing thoughts, feelings, sensations, and the “what it’s like” quality of experience (qualia), involving both arousal (wakefulness) and awareness (content of experience)” was perhaps their best consciousness definition that I could find today. But it’s always defined just in personal terms.
The most transformational book that I ever have read is The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Nothing else comes close! I first read that amazing book in 1973, its year of first publication, and I didn’t realize until years later the way it had formed a basis for my fifty years of afterlife research. It opened my eyes to a deeper awareness that nothing ever is as it seems. It primed me to accept the evidence that what we experience as human consciousness is universal. And never again, for the rest of my life, have I cut a tomato or grated a carrot without wincing. The fact that such a seminal masterwork which is so fundamental to our understanding of life has been steadfastly ignored by mainstream scientists because it doesn’t fit theirpredetermined narrative was my first clue that the mainstream science emperor is sadly altogether naked. And that science emperor appears now likely to remain naked, not only for the rest of my life, but perhaps naked even for my children’s and my grandchildren’s lives as well.
The Tompkins and Bird book’s fundamental insight is that plants are OMG conscious, and they mentally communicate with one another, and they also mentally communicate with us. And what an amazing revelation that is! Consider only the work of Cleve Backster, who in the nineteen-sixties was one of America’s leading experts on lie detectors. One morning in 1966, Mr. Backster decided on a whim to use his office plant as an experimental subject. He attached a galvanometer to one of its leaves. And, what do you know? He found that the plant in his office was reacting very much as a person would react as it sat there in its pot having its transient, amazingly human-like thoughts. He soon found that the most extreme reactions in his plant were produced when he decided to burn one of its leaves. Its reaction was less if Backster only imagined burning the leaf, without actually intending to do the plant harm. His plant would react, too, if other living things in the room were mentally threatened with harm. And Backster and other researchers later demonstrated that these reactions are present even in living fragments of plants. My goodness, plants can read the minds of their own keepers even from a distance of miles away! There is so much more to Backster’s work that mainstream science still ignores. These amazing revelations are now almost sixty years old, and they are all by themselves sufficient reason for you to pick up and read one of the most amazing and most unjustly ignored books in human history.
This discovery that plants are actually conscious still fills me with wonder, to this day. It formed a basis for my research-based awareness that what we experience as consciousness must be primary. There is no other explanation that fits all the evidence! So when I read the ultimate quantum-physics-for-dummies book, Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, and I found that the greatest of all quantum physicists had decades earlier reached the same conclusions, I had a profound and joyous eureka moment. As the genius quantum physicist Max Planck famously said, ”I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
Here is an astonishing video that gives you some sense of just how sensitive and mutually cooperative, and how oddly aware and almost human-like plants actually are as they intensively work and live together in their wild communities, right there in our own backyards. Please do take the time to watch this video, since I cannot conceivably do it justice. I only can tell you that after you have watched it, you will forever after see each patch of forest as a thriving community of sentient individuals in communication with one another, sharing their resources and caring for their young, and even fighting off anything that means to do their little community harm. You will never look at any plant of any size in the same way again. So, yes, what we experience as human consciousness is the base creative force, and it is governed by what we experience as emotion, just as you and I are.
Yet still, mainstream science remains stubbornly atogether clueless. Although, you know, with so much truth wafting around the scientists now, we have more and more hope that, just inevitably, they cannot remain so completely stupid for much longer. Any day now, the truth is bound to dawn on enough of them for the sun at last to rise!
I see a new horizon.
My life has only begun!
Beyond the blue horizon
Lies a rising sun!
– Leo Robin (1900-1984), from “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (1930
(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)
