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Junet 2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Solstice
Tao Te Ching
Quantum Physics<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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A Post In Pieces<\/h1>

by Rachelle Rogers<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Solstice<\/h4>\n

It is the twentieth of June 2025. The summer solstice in northern Colorado, where I now live, began tonight at 8:42. For the last hour, I\u2019ve been participating in an online meditation\/celebration that just completed. The energy is extraordinary in this pivotal year of unprecedented change.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Moonrise from my patio<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I am now on YouTube watching and listening to Malte Martin, handpan teacher and musician, make his beautiful music \u2013 part composition, part improvisation. He is sitting in what looks like a summer field at the edge of a forest. He is wearing a sleeveless white tank top. There are three handpan drums arranged in front of him. He is playing a work he calls Moments of Peace<\/em>. He has infused his music with a synth to 1111 Hz, and shaped that pure frequency using different effects to create a soft, atmospheric sound that blends smoothly with the sound of the handpan. The 1111 Hz frequency is believed to enhance spiritual connection and facilitate a sense of harmony. His is the only YouTube channel I know of that offers this transcendent musical synchrony free from commercial interruption for a whole hour.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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While the music plays softly in the background, I begin reading my dear friend Pat Riviere-Seel\u2019s new book, Because I Did Not Drown<\/a>,<\/em> which arrived this afternoon. It is a consummate collection of personal essays and poetry. Due to issues with my eyes in the past few years, I took to listening almost exclusively to audiobooks. Pat\u2019s is the first printed book I\u2019ve read in a long while.<\/p>\n

Malt\u2019s music prolongs the feeling of the solstice celebration and calibration, of new beginnings, higher frequencies, of visions of what is becoming possible within our selves, and even in our broken world. It complements what I\u2019m reading.<\/p>\n

I feel the solid smoothness of Pat\u2019s book in my hands, slowly turn pages filled with living words of beauty, sadness, wonder, courage that fill my heart. I believe that authenticity is as powerful a gift as love. The depth and honesty of her offerings inspire me to want to write. It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve posted anything. There are words rumbling inside me. I don\u2019t yet know what they\u2019re trying to say. I gently mark my page and close the book. I go to my desk to find a notebook and pen and wait to see what comes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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This Is What I Wrote<\/h4>\n

For quite a while now, I\u2019ve been living in what feels like a parallel reality, one that exists adjacent to what I call the 3-D world of chaos, fear, and seeming insanity. I live in a reality that sees and understands and explains what\u2019s playing out from a larger, more expansive perspective. I was taught a long time ago to forget appearances, that almost nothing is as it seems.<\/p>\n

For decades I\u2019ve been communicating with my Higher Self and Spirit Team through channeled information, and through my own intuitive transcribed dialogues. My Spirit Team has grown over the years and as a starseed, I have now been able to feel a deep connection to and communication with my galactic family as well. There is so much more information now being brought forth from our galactic family, those who are supporting and guiding Gaia and humanity through the unprecedented ascension process that is revving up in time and intensity. At the heart of everything is learning to choose Love over Fear. There is so much Light now being anchored on Earth. That is what makes all the darkness that\u2019s playing out in the world so visible. This is the time of no more secrets. This is the time when what\u2019s really happening behind the scenes will very soon be revealed. That is what I believe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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A Memory Resurfaces<\/h4>\n

A few days later, visiting with my friend Pat on Zoom, somehow the story came out about something I was asked to write in a Wisdom Healing Qigong mentorship program I participated in a few years back. Although I\u2019m no longer regularly involved with the Wisdom Healing Qigong community that I was part of for almost ten years, I still do online practice several times a week. In 2023 I was invited to join a year long Mentorship program with my teacher Master Mingtong Gu. It was called The Living Tao, an intense and intimate platform in which we explored the deepest parts of ourselves through the lens of teachings in the Tao Te Ching expansively presented by Mingtong. With honesty and courage, we laughed, cried, expanded our hearts, and shared our truest selves with our supportive family of participants.<\/p>\n

Near the beginning of the mentorship, Mingtong had asked for volunteers for various projects he had in mind to do down the road. One request was for editing. Since I had done editing for the The Chi Center for a couple of years, I again offered my services. A little later, I got a private slack message from Mingtong with a rather odd request. He asked if I had time to write a 500 word essay about the Tao and quantum physics. I must admit I was a little taken aback. I would have to do some research. It was before AI. I think Google was just beginning to test AI integration into its search engine. I told Mingtong I would get back to him shortly. Why was he asking me to write this? Part of me thought it might be a kind of audition for some writing he had in mind.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I said I would do it, and so I did. I had a fascination with quantum physics. It was a subject I had approached before in my writing, and maybe Mingtong knew that. But how much could I say in 500 words about something as grand as quantum physics and spirituality?\u00a0<\/p>\n

It turned out that maybe it was sort of an audition, because after I sent the essay to him, he proposed a project. It turned out, however, to mostly be transcribing and organizing and editing tons of information from a previous mentorship, not at all the kind of writing or editing I had any interest in taking on. I explained, and, of course, he understood.<\/p>\n

When I told Pat the story of the essay, she asked to read it. Only one close friend in the mentorship had ever read it before, and I didn\u2019t share my communication with Mingtong with anyone else. When I heard back from Pat, I was surprised to find that she actually found it both understandable and meaningful to her. So I decided to offer it here to you dear readers. As always, take what you can use and toss the rest:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Tao Te Ching and Quantum Physics<\/h4>\n

I\u2019ve been exploring the idea of a relationship between The Tao and Quantum Physics. My journey is spiritual, not scientific, but Quantum Physics, the little I can wrap my brain around, intrigues me. Especially since, in some ways, it seems to begin to bridge the gap between science and spirituality.<\/p>\n

Up until the end of the 19th century, physical theories describing the Universe were based on the same set of rules: The Universe is local (at the effect of the speed of light), real (exists independently of any observer), and predictable (has a determinate future).<\/p>\n

Then came Quantum Physics, which applies mathematical calculations to the behavior of matter and energy on the tiniest scales possible. Unlike previous physical suppositions, Quantum Physics is counterintuitive, consistently bizarre, and deals in probabilities. Upon exploring both Quantum Physics and The Tao, I discovered that there are things they share.<\/p>\n

Here are some surprising concepts found in Quantum Physics that seem to begin to point to a more spiritual perspective of the Universe.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Observer Effect<\/strong> has shown that the thoughts and beliefs of the observer or experimenter affect the outcome of the experiment.
\u2014 In The Tao<\/strong>, we see that we create from formlessness into form and back to formlessness through our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. We are never separate from our creations.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Entanglement<\/strong> suggests that a fundamental and profound interconnectedness exists throughout the universe.
\u2014 The Tao<\/strong> is<\/em> the fundamental, interconnectedness of everything that exists in all Universes.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Quantum Superposition<\/strong> states that until someone measures or observes particular particles, they possess the potential to be in various states at the same time. Simply put, it recognizes that anything is possible.
\u2014 The Tao<\/strong> is the limitless, vast emptiness\/darkness\/formlessness that contains the possibility of all <\/em>things.<\/p>\n

There are Truths in The Tao, however, a freedom to The Tao, that I don\u2019t believe Quantum Physics, as a \u201cscience,\u201d will ever be able to come to terms with.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Tao<\/strong> begins and ends with the I don\u2019t know<\/em>.
\u2014 Quantum Physics<\/strong> has a need to know, and will continue to formulate mathematical hypotheses to explain the behavior of nano particles, without considering that there is no mathematical calculation that can define from where the nano particles, themselves, arise.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Tao<\/strong> begins in vastness, the undefinable inner source of All That Is.
\u2014 Quantum Physics<\/strong> begins from what\u2019s outwardly visible, making its way inward to the more and more miniscule and invisible, needing to name everything along the way, not realizing it\u2019s heading toward the unnameable.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Tao<\/strong> has no need to define or measure anything. In fact, it can\u2019t be defined or measured.
\u2014 Quantum Physics<\/strong> uses numbers invented by humans, applying them to what is beyond human calculation. Numbers may reach to infinity, but can there ever be an infinite number large enough to explain The Tao?<\/p>\n

We are all on a search, even if not consciously. At some point, we are faced with the ultimate contemplation, the unanswerable questions \u2014 Who am I? What is Tao? <\/em>Quantum physicists are on the same search. They want to find a Unified Field Theory, a mathematical \u201cequation an inch long that defines the mind of God.\u201d But If God means Tao, the undefinable Source of all Being, the unnameable Essence of All That Is, in my humble opinion, they will never find it through science.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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