How Quantum Science Helps You Build Your Dream Business

What does brain science and quantum physics have to do with growing a successful business? Understand how your brain determines your success and how to change your beliefs to achieve business success.

Written May 05, 2008, read 47 times since then.

By John Assaraf and Murray Smith

In 1902, two years after the physicist Max Planck first coined the term “quantum” to describe the core reality of light, a young British writer named James Allen penned a little book entitled As a Man Thinketh, which drew its title and its message from the biblical verse, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.” (Proverbs 23:7)

At the time, few would have associated the two men and their work, but with the hindsight of a century’s discoveries, we can now see the connection. While scientists spent the rest of the century pursuing the horizon set by pioneers such as Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Heisenberg, which would ultimately lead to discovery of the remarkable quantum world that has so radically transformed our understanding of reality, business philosophers like Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale and Bob Proctor worked to articulate its application to the practical world of human accomplishment.

This idea, that our thoughts have a direct, causal impact on our reality, had been observed before, but it had always seemed like something that rational people couldn’t buy into, an idea that created more questions than answers. Now science has given us that set of answers.

According to quantum science, what we used to consider “empty space” is not empty at all. In fact, the energy density of just one cubic centimeter of what science has dubbed this “zero point field” is about 1094 ergs—equivalent to ten thousand billion, billion, billion, billion times more energy than exists in all the matter of the known universe. And just as penetrating the heart of matter reveals that it is made of energy, penetrating the heart of energy itself has revealed that it, too, is composed of something else, best described as a field of information or pure consciousness.

When Victor Hugo said, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come,” we now know that this was more than a metaphor. He may not have fully realized it at the time, but he was giving us a literal description of how reality works.

Thought is the most powerful force in the universe. Our thoughts are the controlling factor in what we manifest and create in our lives. The idea precedes the thing.

This is at the heart of how every successful business is created. It starts as a picture, an idea in one’s mind, and before you know what has happened, you are living in it.

Science tells us that underlying what we know as the world is a field of pure consciousness, billions upon billions of times more powerful than any measurable energy, and that this field of absolute consciousness knows everything that happens, anywhere and everywhere in the universe, instantaneously and with absolute accuracy.

This is not so different from the kind of descriptions people have given for millennia in their efforts to grasp the ultimate nature of our universal source, what some of us call God. Whatever you call it, the picture that emerges is of a world bounded by an infinitely large, omnipotent, omniscient intelligence, which lies behind everything in the phenomenal world as its source, author and ultimate destination.

This is the dream world we live in, you and I, and it is the clay from which you will shape and give life to your dream business.

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This article is adapted from The Answer, by John Assaraf and Murray Smith (Atria Books).

Learn more about the author, John Assaraf.