Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World

Reality Shifts Ebook is published!

I am extremely pleased to announce that my book, Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World is published in ebook form. This is the first book I wrote back in 1999 as a limited edition manuscript. It was immediately recognized as a significant contribution to the field of consciousness by three of my personal heroes: physicist and best-selling author Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, best-selling author Dr. Larry Dossey, and NASA astronaut and Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell. With endorsements such as these, one might think Reality Shifts would have been quickly snapped up for publication by one of the large publishing companies, but this was not the case, since the material in Reality Shifts was (and still is) on the cutting edge. My literary agent showed the book to many publishers, all of whom were concerned at the time that there would be limited interest in what appeared to be a rather narrow topic. This, of cousre, was many years before the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?!" would come out, and many years before Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra came out with books along very similar lines. What remains extraordinarily unique about Reality Shifts is the way it presents an amazing subject in such down-to-earth terms, with exercises for how to shift reality in useful, enjoyable ways, and with an explanations of the physics behind reality shifts. I've now posted an excerpt of Reality Shifts, which you can see by clicking, Look Inside the Book, at my web site. This excerpt contains the table of contents and the first twenty pages of the book, which includes an explanation of how we construct reality, and a story about some sand crabs I encountered one day at the beach:

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Excerpt from Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World

"When I was a child, I saw an extraordinary thing one day at the beach. My family and I were vacationing at a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, and we spent a leisurely day on a quiet, uninhabited beach. I sat by myself on a part of the beach populated by a whole colony of sand crabs. These little crabs lived in holes in the sand that each crab dug for itself, and at any sign of movement, the crabs would scurry quickly down into their holes for safety. I observed one of the crabs moving sand with a claw with absent-minded proficiency, and I was mesmerized to see the effortless way it obtained a scoop of sand and lifted it into the air. This activity looked like so much fun to me that I made a similar ball of sand and playfully tossed it over towards some crabs. The sand ball I tossed actually hit an unsuspecting crab, who immediately scooped up a ball of sand and held it aloft while standing up as high on its back legs as possible... looking as tense and concerned as a crab can look, as moist grains of sand from the sand ball I'd just tossed still clung to it's shell. The crab continued standing up high on its back legs as it carefully surveyed the entire area, assessing all the crabs in the vicinity to determine who might have been the one to toss a sand ball. After several long moments of careful consideration, the crab steadied itself as it fixed its gaze on one particular crab. It suddenly flung its ball of sand at this unsuspecting crab, who it hit with incredible precision! The targeted crab immediately scooped up a ball of sand and returned fire. In a matter of minutes, a dozen little crabs were all flinging sand balls at one another with reckless abandon... none of the crabs suspecting that the perpetrator of the whole sand ball fracas was not a crab at all, but a human. My experience with these sand crabs shows me that crabs interpret what happens to them in terms they can understand, which may not be the truest sense of what is actually happening. We humans are not so different from crabs, in the sense that we also are only capable of interpreting experience based on what we know of reality. Some forces are simply outside our realm of comprehension. The sand crabs had no prior knowledge of humans, so they did not imagine for a minute that I might have been the one who threw the first sand ball, although my interaction with them had the effect of moving almost every single crab on the beach into action."

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Endorsements for "Reality Shifts": "Modern science has now addressed the problem of consciousness. We each experience consciousness every day, in some of the myriad and fascinating ways described in REALITY SHIFTS. But no one yet quite understands why this is so. Speculations, theories and experiments from quantum science have now been entered into the debate which suggest that our world is far more mystical, complex, interactive and even humorous than the sterile, mechanistic dogma of classical scientific thought. Read, enjoy, be amazed, ponder REALITY SHIFTS". -- Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., author Psychic Exploration, a Challenge for Science (1974), The Way of the Explorer (1996); Founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1973); Astronaut, Apollo 14 (1971) "In REALITY SHIFTS, Cynthia Larson helps restore a sense of majesty and wonder to our everyday world. If you think science has explained away the magic of existence, you need seriously to read this book." -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine, Healing Words, and many other books "Ever wondered where that missing sock went when you last searched the clothes dryer? Thought about why those keys you so carefully tucked into your jacket pocket suddenly disappeared only to be found underneath the cushion of your favorite television sofa? If so then you have experienced what Cynthia Larson calls a Reality Shift. In her book of that title subtitled When Consciousness Changes the Physical World, she explains in clear and unambiguous language just what these reality shifts are, why they occur, and how they can be used to influence and change your life for the better. Larson even goes into how the latest ideas from quantum physics can help us understand these shifts and most importantly believe in them as part of our reality, not just our imagination.No, Martha, you are not going crazy, just witnessing the reality shift around you. I recommend this book for its clarity and for its message of hope. Readers will be encouraged to enjoy reality shifts both literally and in actuality-when they occur-and will be taught how to make them happen more often." -- Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., National Book Award-winning author of Taking the Quantum Leap, The Spiritual Universe, Mind Into Matter, Matter Into Feeling and many other books