Mary Morrissey and the Possibility of an Intelligent Universe

Reprinted from “Do We Live in an Intelligent Universe?Possible Planet, (2/11/2021)

The universe has been set up in an exquisitely specific way so that evolution could produce the people that are sitting here today and we could use our intelligence to talk about the universe. We see a formidable power in the ability to use our minds and the tools we’ve created to gather evidence, to use our inferential abilities to develop theories, to test the theories, and to understand the universe at increasingly precise levels. (Ray Kurzweil 11-05-02)

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Coming off the latest Mary Morrissey Dreambuilder Live[1] weekend has left me wanting to understand more about this question—since she asserts that there are forces, directionalities, frequencies, and vibrational levels that we can align ourselves with in order to have better results in the world.

These forces are invisible—like electricity is invisible. She states that there are natural laws, just like those of electricity, that apply to human affairs. Our understanding of these laws largely determines the outcomes we get in life; if we can decode these natural laws and align our actions with what “the Universe wants to happen through us,” we can use these forces to help us achieve our dreams.

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“A World that Works for No One”

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Unless people of good will join in common cause to build a truly democratic world that works for all, we will find ourselves living in a world that works for no one. —David Korten (2000)

There is a sense in which we already find ourselves living in “a world that works for no one”: not the rich, and certainly not the poor; not the believer or the agnostic, not the Ph.D. or the high school drop-out, not the pop celebrity or the homeless veteran still suffering from PTSD. It’s not just that the rich are as depressed, confused, and cynical as the rest of us, which is certainly true in many cases; or that the world we live in seems to be unravelling in a dozen different ways, which has certainly been the case during all of our lifetimes. It’s that the world cannot work for anyone unless it at least begins to work for everyone.

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