The vacuum

I definitely needed some more from Schwartz on the concept of the vacuum. I understood the energy vortexes, but I was still having trouble buying into the concept fully. My visualization process would generate the vortex in my mind's eye, but in the absence of A and B I saw it slowing and merging with the surrounding energy as to become indistinct.

He mentioned an interesting experiment by one Rupert Sheldrake that more or less confirmed this stumbling block. Sheldrake is a proponent of the morphic field. Such a field is constructed of energy that surrounds matter and lends it shape. A morphic field is then strengthened by the matter and a positive feedback loop results. Thus all phenomena have a self-perpetuating implicit character that could be tapped into in order to gather information about the object.

Sheldrake did an experiment where he had an artist draw 4 embedded figures, which is a type of illustration where the shape lines of an object are hidden by other lines in the drawing. Once the object has been shown to the viewer, however, it becomes easy to find it again. So he sent these 4 drawings via post (he's a Brit, no mail over there) to a series of subjects all over the world. He also hosted a television show with one of the drawings where he pointed out the embedded object to the viewers. Then the people who received the drawings in the mail (and had not seen the show) looked at their pictures and reported if they could find the object or not.

According to Sheldrake, if his theory is correct, people trying to find the object in the drawings that were shown on television would be affected by the morphic field and be able to find the objects easier. There was success, with a caveat. The further from Britain that the subjects got, the less likely they were to find the object that has been on TV. So this suggests a locality to the morphic field, and that it does "shine brighter" closer to its generating source.

Then, if we bring in quantum mechanics, we can add in "locality and non-locality" as Schwartz puts it. Quantum mechanics says that a particle can be anywhere at any time, but is more likely to be found at certain locations according to its energy level. So the morphic field, which follows much of the same laws as quantum mechanical wave-particles, can technically be accessed from anywhere and it is the energy level and resonance of the receiver that allows communion. Those folks closer to morphic field are already in a closer resonance and better able to pick it up.

My other issue with his theory is how fields in the vacuum interact with each other and perpetuate even in the absence of the original objects that generated them. I think the logic step there is to know that the fields are reality and what we see as "objects" are manifest from the vacuum, not the other way around.