And so it begins...

One of my all-time favorite books is not one book but two, often lumped together as one: Alice in Wonderland. It’s all about improbable stuff and it’s where I got the title of this blog. This blog is about the impossible, though perhaps all things are, in fact, possible. Quantum physics suggests this is so, that a whole bunch of things that seem not to be possible just might be possible. Michio Kaku makes these theories accessible to the lay person in Physics of the Impossible (2008). Audrey Hepburn said it best: “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible.’”

One of my favorite movies isn’t one movie but six: Star Wars. The plot and dialog are kind of stupid if you examine them too closely, but their underlying premise is cool: there is a mystical Force behind everything. But the Force isn’t just for the movies. It’s real. The Chinese call it qi or ki or chi. It makes everything possible – and gives us great Scrabble words. Another name for the Force is God. (Exactly who said God is a person? A male person, at that? Humans need to put things into terms they understand, so they anthropomorphize things.) I was raised in a specific religion and was taught the tenets of that religion. I happen to think – believe – that this isn’t all there is. There is something valid to all religions. (Or maybe I should qualify that by saying I think there is something valid to all major religions. There are some fringes out there. I’m not talking about them.)

I have The Secret (Rhonda Byrne, 2006). I tried to read it. I really did. I couldn’t get past all the testimonials. Apparently, that’s all the book is, one person after another saying good things about some deep, dark secret. However, there is no secret. Basically, it’s about how if you look for something, you will find it. I’ve known that all along. Think positively, and positive things will happen. And vice versa. (Though for the longest time, it worked just the opposite for me: the things I worried about never occurred. Since worrying worked, I kept worrying. There was a payoff. But eventually, anxiety gets the better of you and you have a disorder. And then bad things start happening, the things you start worrying about start coming true. Or at least they did for me.)

Enter E-Squared: NineDo-It-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality (Pam Grout, 2012). Just as the label says, she has written a book with 9 experiments so you can prove to yourself that there really is – or is not – a Force out there rewarding positive thinking.

And that’s where I am right now. Reading the book and doing the experiments. We’ll see how it goes.