Dr. Theresa Bullard
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Further I dove into math and the further I dove into science, it always just validated that there is an intelligence behind this universe. Newton's laws of motion became a framework for a mindset that then got applied into economics, into business, into politics, into relationships. In our world today, a lot of people fear uncertainty because they can't control it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Thank you, Andre. It's a pleasure to be here.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
For sure. Right around the time that quantum physics was being discovered, just before that, I believe it was Lord Byron had said that science had reached the pinnacle of all the knowledge that could be gained from science. And it was just coming down now to a precision art. You know, just how much further behind the decimal point can we take our measurements?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And right at that time, it was just like, OK, the scientists thought they had all the answers. And then the whole thing gets upended as quantum physics starts getting discovered. And I think that we've reached that kind of point multiple times along the way in science, you know, that they get to this place where they think they have the answers.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then some anomaly comes up that starts to challenge science. what they think they know and then enough anomalies start appearing and then you end up with a scientific revolution as new generations start searching for what's the answer to those anomalies. So quantum physics, to me, it opens up so many more possibilities, so many higher dimensions
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
of where, you know, the creative process comes from. And then, you know, the more you study the quantum principles and some of David Bohm's work as well, where, you know, this, the hollow movement and the implicate order and higher dimensional realities, and that we have to look at things more holistically rather than as separate pieces.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like it just, it's so parallels, you know, these physicists are talking about things that really parallel
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
ancient mysticism and and what the mystics would all say is that you know it's all one and there's these higher dimensional realities and here what we experience in the physical is just the final step of a manifestation process but there's all these higher planes of creation that we can explore
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So the implicate order, there's the explicate order, which is kind of the what you see is what you get. It's like the surface physical level of things.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
External manifestations, the 3D physical reality that we can observe and experience with our senses and so forth. The implicate order is a deeper reality that is underneath all of that. And he used an example of like, let's say you have a big vat of some, you know, substance, you know, fluid, like, or a clay of some kind, and you can observe, you know, with a, with a
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
camera let's say you can observe what's happening on the surface but you don't necessarily see what's going on underneath it especially if it's opaque and you might put a drop of some dye you know but there's this movement that's happening throughout and underneath it and you might see a little trail of what it's doing on the surface but you have no clue what's happening underneath
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that's one analogy that he used for the implicate order is that deeper reality, the more whole picture versus the explicate being just what's on the surface and what's observable. And so he kind of compared...
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
the quantum reality to this implicate order, this whole movement where there's a deeper reality to things, whereas the kind of Newtonian way of looking at things is more what we just see on the surface. Another way of looking at that is if you have a higher dimensional object,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
let's say, you know, just for the sake of understanding it, let's say we have a cylinder, right, a three-dimensional cylinder. And then you shine a light on that cylinder and it casts a shadow on a screen and you might see a circle. But if you shine a light on that cylinder and it casts a light on another screen, you're going to see a square or a rectangle.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, you know, then you have the scientists arguing which one's correct. Is it the square or the rectangle or is it the circle? But you have to kind of shift to this higher dimensional view to see that, oh, it's a cylinder. It's both, right? And so the quantum view is very much this is both. And there's so many more possibilities here.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Whereas in our sort of explicate order way of looking at things, we only see this or that. And we think they're We think they're contradictory to each other. We think they're separate from each other, but they're not. And in order to see that they're one whole thing, we have to shift to a higher dimensional perspective and reality to see what the whole is.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's kind of like the six scientists who are blindfolded are trying to identify what's an elephant. One has the trunk and one has the tail and one has a leg and they're all kind of experiencing different things, but none of them are seeing the whole elephant.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You know, the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, you had two generations, really. You had like the Einstein kind of older generation who were a part of discovering like, oh, electrons are not just particles, they're also waves. But then you had the younger generation, like with Niels Bohr and Heisenberg and Schrodinger, like they were kind of a younger generation coming through.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And they were like very excited and ready to run with this. And there was some during those days when it was first being discovered, like between 1900 and 1920, it's like the major period of discovery of quantum physics. They had some amazing debates and philosophical conversations, and a lot of them believed in spirit and even Einstein.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
That's a great question. Actually, that's a big part of what, as I started my search to try and figure out how can science and spirit rejoin, you know, how can they complement each other? It set me on a search that ultimately led me into studying alchemy again. And
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
He believed he was very mystical in his own way, but he was still in his personal view, he was a bit of a classicist to his deathbed. feeling like there had to be an elegant, singular formula that could explain everything. And, you know, he's famously known for saying God doesn't play dice with the universe.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
He didn't like this uncertainty principle and that things weren't predictable and so forth. But then the younger generation were coming through and they, you know, created the Copenhagen interpretation that, you know, really relies on the observer. to observe something that is a quantum object. And when we observe it, we collapse the waveform into physicality.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that until you have an observer that actually observes the result of something, it's still in a superposition of infinite possibilities. And so they really brought the consciousness into the equation. But it was so radical at the time that scientists weren't really ready to accept it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's really taken 100 years for scientists to just keep testing the various predictions that quantum physics makes to see, like, is this entanglement thing really real? Can we really, like, separate particles, you know, by... you know, hundreds of thousands of miles and then still have instantaneous transfer of information? Is time really like, does that not matter in the quantum world?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You know, because it definitely matters in our experience of reality, but in the quantum, it's like, no, time doesn't really matter. It's non-temporal, non-local. And, you know, so it's only like they've continued to devise experiments to test, is this true? Because it was so radical. And it was like Alice going down the Wonderland and, you know, and everything getting kind of turned upside down.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And only, I would say, in the last... five to 10, five years especially, have I start beyond just sort of the science and consciousness kind of community. I've started to hear more and more public conversation, more and more acceptance of quantum as a way of viewing things.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so there's been a shift in the last five years that's like, oh, people are more ready now for this conversation than they might've been 10 or 15 years ago, and let alone a hundred years ago, you know, so-
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
you know, as I was going through grad school and undergrad, you know, the history that we would get in science is that the alchemists were a bunch of pseudoscientists who were just trying to turn lead into gold. And we know that can't be possible. So they were just, it was waved away as a sort of an embarrassment, if you will. But so my mindset was that, but it kept coming up synchronistically.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I haven't seen that.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, and the more the esoteric continues to be revealed and validated, right? It's like it's having revival, but it just keeps pointing back to ancient wisdom that's been here all along. It's just almost like we had to go so far away from it to come back to it to realize, you know, there is truth here. There's a deep, deep meaning here. And I think sacred geometry is one of those...
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
ways in which the two really meet. Like every time you talk about sacred geometry, we have to talk about numbers. We have to talk about mathematics. We have to talk about harmony and frequency. And, you know, and then of course you have symmetry and beauty and things like this that come in, but there's practicality to it as well.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
the reason those geometries are the building blocks for the physical world is because they're the most energy efficient way of organizing the various components. And so there is this beautiful dovetailing between real physical science And taking all the principles of energy conservation and efficiency and so forth.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then, you know, the geometry that arranges the whether they're the particles or the molecules or, you know, whatever, whether it's crystals or the DNA itself or whatever. even at the subatomic levels and atomic orbitals, like everything. The deeper you probe, the more you realize that geometry is at the core of all of it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It is a language of creation of how things are built, not just in the physical, but also in the metaphysical or in the kind of the blueprints of this energetic realm that then ultimately governs how the physical components come together.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And I think even just like from a purely mathematical perspective, I remember in my undergraduate studies, I was in an honors calculus class. And the professor started getting into things like pi and phi and E, you know, these fundamental constants that we have in the universe.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then seeing ultimately through like Euler's identity equation that they all came together and what seemed like they were separately discovered and they seemed like they were separate constants and they didn't really know why is it that number other than that's just kind of how it emerged through the formulas.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But then to see them all come together in this like perfect unity, to me, the further I dove into math and the further I dove into science, and especially into quantum physics, to me, it always just validated that there is an intelligence behind this universe. There is beauty and reason and divine design, if you will, behind this universe. And even to the point of like, if we were to just...
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It kept coming up and the alchemist. So when I finally opened up my mind, because it's synchronicity, just kept saying, look at this, look at this. As I looked at it, I realized, oh, that alchemy isn't what we were taught at all. This is actually a goldmine worth of wisdom. And it was the origin point of where science even came from. The alchemists were the original scientists.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
If we were to just change the mass of an electron by just a fraction of a percentage, the whole universe wouldn't have been able to come to bind together in the way that it has. And so there's such beauty behind it. And to me, the more I discovered and explored, the more I was like, there's got to be intelligence. There's got to be a consciousness. There's got to be a purpose behind it all.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
This is my favorite subject. Me too. We, yes, this, you know, so Newton's laws of motion back, you know, several hundred years ago were extrapolated and became a framework for a mindset that then got applied into economics, into business, into politics, into relationships, into psychology. You know, that became a framework, those principles that we talked about at the beginning.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And yet, you know, in our world today, and we're still, people are still very much operating on that way of living. You know, they still see themselves as separate from other things. They still think they can control everything. They still think, you know, that they can just be rationalistic about everything. And yet our world today is different.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
like very different than it was three, 400 years ago. And that mindset isn't keeping up with the fast pace, the highly complex, the highly uncertain world that we live in today. And so I see the quantum principles as, and I've experienced it myself, that the more I came to really wrap my mind, but also my intuitive kind of relationship with these quantum principles,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
it informed a whole new way of looking at life. As you're saying, you know, it opens up possibilities. You know, in the uncertainty, for example, a lot of people fear uncertainty. They fear moving into the unknown because they can't control it. They don't know what's on the other side. And the separation kind of mindset makes them, you know, react with fear.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And maybe they'll go forward ready to fight. Maybe they'll freeze and just do nothing. Or maybe they'll retreat away from that. But in a quantum mindset, for example, the uncertainty actually is where we have this opening up of superposition of many possibilities. And then it's a matter of like, what do you want to do with all those possibilities? What are you going to create?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
What are you going to choose to observe and make happen and make manifest in the uncertainty, right? So the uncertainty opens up the door for free will and choice and opportunity to come through again. and many possibilities, but you got to approach it with a positive attitude. You got to approach it with a certain embracing and optimism, moving towards it in a positive way.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
The connectivity, right? So instead of seeing things as separate and just isolating all the little parts, A quantum mindset says everything is connected. There's entanglement. And, you know, that by our own interaction, we're entangled together. There's a connection that's established. And that connection can be non-local.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But when it was alchemy, science and spirit were interwoven, like you couldn't separate the two of them. And, and it was very practical. You know, so, so, so many of our forefathers of modern science were alchemists. Isaac Newton was a great example. You know, Bohm. I mean, there's so many. And we separated at that time after, you know, the scientific revolution really came in, I would say.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So even when we leave this time and space, there's still a connection that happens because in the quantum mindset, there really only is here and now. Because in that quantum field, everything is a oneness field. So it changes everything as we start to embrace these quantum principles.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And this is one of the things that I've become really passionate about teaching is how we can take the quantum principles as a new framework that will really serve us in today's world. And it's not to say that we would throw the Newtonian principles out the door.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's more like we have to learn to, instead of just playing the game of life on one level, this 3D level, we have to learn to play the game of life on multiple dimensional levels. And on this level, we got the 3D Newtonian principles. And on another level, we've got the quantum principles.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
They don't know what's on the other side. But in a quantum mindset, the uncertainty actually is where we have this opening up of many possibilities. It changes everything. It set me on a search that ultimately led me into studying alchemy again. So alchemy is the process of transformation. There are seven stages.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And when you can learn to shift between, you can make leaps, quantum leaps, if you will, in your life, and then bring that new possibility back down into your 3D reality. And so it's about becoming more multidimensional in our way of living life and knowing what's possible.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And yet there are still rules and principles, if you will, in the quantum and how to operate in that way correctly, where you really are accessing quantum potentials versus just imagining that you're accessing quantum potentials. So I do believe that the world right now needs this kind of a mindset and it dovetails beautifully with ancient wisdom.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so I'd like to see how we can draw from ancient wisdom and we can show how modern science is matching and saying the same thing so that we can come back to this era of a conjunction of a union versus a separation.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yes, exactly. And even in quantum physics, there's this realization that everything has to be understood in its proper context. There's no like black and white, one size fits all. In the quantum world, everything's contextual. And so the new paradigm, if you will, doesn't discard the old paradigm.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It builds upon it and expands it to a new level of perception of a greater whole where, yes, this is true in those contexts. And then there's these other truths that are valid in other contexts as well. There's a great quote by Bohm where he said that the opposite of a fact might be a falsehood, but the opposite of a profound truth might be another profound truth.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that, you know, Newtonian science is a profound truth in its day, and it's not that it's false. It's true in this, you know, it's very practical for this 3D macroscopic reality that we experience, but it's not the whole truth. And, you know, there's the quantum physics seems very opposite and contradictory to Newtonian physics, like they turn all the principles on their head.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But it's not false. It's another profound truth. And it's and it's really a profound truth that operates at the deeper layers of reality that are at the foundation. of your being, of my being. Like we are quantum at every particle in our body, you know, and not just the particles, you know, the fields. We are a field of energy, a field of consciousness.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And if we want to really understand that deeper essence of who we are to know thyself, we got to dig deeper into the quantum.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
That's a great question. You know, when people, let's say they're going through a big life change, right? Maybe the rug got pulled out from under them and they are forced to make a change. Or maybe they're just realizing, like, I'm not, this isn't me and I can't continue this. I have to make a change because otherwise my soul is just feeling crushed. And they start looking, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it could have been before, you know, it was a long, many hundreds of years worth of like trying to find the math and the, but I think there was a political reason ultimately why science and spirit separated because the church was the authority of all things spiritual in the European world anyway.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And they open up to a new search of discovery. that's when they go into a time of great uncertainty. Or maybe they're trying to identify like, what's my greater purpose? And they feel like they should have a purpose, but they don't know what that is. There's a lot of uncertainty in that.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Those times are the times where I would say the A to B kind of approach isn't really going to support you right now because you're just, like Einstein said, you can't solve the problems that you're facing right now from the same level of thinking that you were at when you created them. And so we need to rise to a higher level of thinking, a higher level of consciousness to solve those issues.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So those are the times when we really want to rise up into a more quantum space. Uh, and, and to me, uh, there's certain keys that come with like, what does it mean to actually access a quantum space? And I think in, in some of the new age sort of, you know, way that people are throwing quantum around these days, it's not really quantum.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's, you know, it's just kind of another name for saying is everything is energy and vibration.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's a bucket term. It's a, it's a fancy catch all term. But it's not always being used properly. Most of the time it's not being used properly. But sometimes it is, you know. And so there's certain keys and coherence is like a really important key and stillness is a really important key to really being able to access a higher state where you can tap into the quantum.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And if you're not in that stillness and coherence, then you just got a lot of scattered thoughts and subconscious versus conscious and things are kind of conflicting within you, then it's gonna be difficult to really access that quantum state. But when you can access the quantum state, when you learn the right methods and practices that will support you in doing that,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
then you can tap into these infinite possibilities. And not only that, inspiration, like there's so much energy and so much like sense of like limitlessness that starts to flow through. It really fills you with this like excitement and confidence and like,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
a flood of ideas that come through and passion and it ignites, you know, these like, oh, this, you know, and the aha moments start coming in and you start putting like pieces together. And as that all starts to flow down into your mind, okay, I'm grasping it now. Now, how do we go A to B, right? Here's where we start taking the practical steps. Okay, now I've got the vision.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Let's plan it out, right? Let's get practical. Let's do the to-do steps. Let's do the organization, the time management, all of these kinds of things, and then start taking the actions, right? And so there's a transition point that happens from the quantum to the Newtonian. And even in science, you know, they say Newtonian science is a statistical average of quantum phenomenon.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And the alchemist wanted to be able to research and study and understand nature and the physical laws. but it was going against church dogma. So there was a reason why they had to sort of separate. They just said like, look, let's leave anything spiritual to the authority of the church and let us just research the physical world and how this works so that we can understand.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so there is this transition point where we come into, okay, many pieces are coming together. And then at some point, the quantum phenomena kind of averages out, if you will. And then we get into our Newtonian way of operating. So we need to know both games.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. So like stillness is going to be kind of like coming to zero point. You know, you have to reach that place of just like you're in the emptiness. You're in the nothing. You've let go of any attachments, any assumptions, any biases, any expectations. You've let it all go and you've just like really opened yourself up. Another way you could say is like really humbling yourself.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But there's a stillness where you almost like kind of go into this void space. space and just be and and there's nothing but then that becomes a portal that we can step through into a quantum space where those infinite possibilities start to become accessible and um And in that quantum space to really like access those infinite possibilities, that's where coherence comes in.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And coherence means everything's aligned, the same frequency, it's in phase, it's all in the same direction, right? Versus kind of being scattered. And so within our consciousness, like our conscious mind has to be aligned. Our subconscious has to be aligned. Like at every level of our being, we have to be aligned and feeling like a yes, a resonance.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
when we have that yes and that resonance at every level of our being and it's aligned at a higher level, then we've got coherence and we can create from that space.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yes.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Ultimately, their goal was to understand God's creation. But down the line later, it became more and more and more secularized and more and more removed from anything spiritual. But it wasn't because there was a fundamental difference. or conflict between spirit and physical or physics. It was more political.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Thank you for that observation. And yeah, you know, science is a precision process. It's very precise. And I mean, this is why they have so much terminology in science, because they're like really precisely trying to define everything. And in the new age, we get a bit hand wavy, right? And loosely using terms. And that becomes...
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I mean, it might sound fancy and it might get in the mass consciousness, which is great, but then there's a misunderstanding of what it really means, which then doesn't serve people. And that's when scientists, you know, traditional scientists tend to just say, oh, that's pseudoscience.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And they just kind of wave it away because they also have their own intellectual elitism, if you will, around what is an acceptable use of scientific terminology and what's not. So I like to find that middle path, if you will, that we can explore into the metaphysical with this.
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And I think even Nikola Tesla said that the day that science begins to explore non-physical phenomenon, it'll make more progress in one decade than it has in all the previous centuries of the scientific process. And so we're kind of coming to that bridge point right now. And I think from the perspective of where the New Age has gone, it's gotten too loosey-goosey, too airy-fairy, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's too... I don't know. I don't want to offend anyone, but there's like too much image-oriented stuff. Like if you sound really cool and if you got the latest, greatest buzzwords, you know, then you've got the, you're the in-person, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Well, and sometimes people feel really good about themselves because they've got the concepts and they wear that identity badge, if you will, but they aren't living it. You know, they're not embodying it. And there's a huge difference between having knowledge of something or a concept about something and having understanding about something. I think that this is where we need to evolve.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
We need to shift from just concepts and knowledge and identity badges, you know, because we believe certain things and yet not live it, right? The difference between knowledge and understanding is you're living it, right? And to get to understanding, you have to apply it. You have to take it into action. You have to test it out against the world and your life. You have to live it and embody it.
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And once you've like really come to a place of embodying that concept and living it in your life and not just talking a good talk, but walking the talk, if you will, then you really know. And then you can be somebody who can share that with others. But if you just have a concept and you try to be somebody who shares it with others, you don't know what you're talking about.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You're just trying to sound fancy. And so we do have this, unfortunately, in the world today. There's a lot of people who claim to have the knowledge and the answers, but they're just using the buzzword. But there are also really genuine teachers out there who have the understanding But I find that to really come to a place of understanding, you have to do the work.
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And a lot of people don't really want to do the work. And that's really where you start to figure out if somebody is just going to stay kind of fluffy about things or if they're really going to make progress in their life. And to me, with people I work with, I want to work with people who really want to make progress.
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They actually want to take these tools into application and live it and embody it and really come to understand it versus just know about it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
OK, so one example that I hear is, you know, when people say it's all energy, therefore it's all quantum. Have you heard that before?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Okay. So when we say it's all energy, that's actually not a quantum view. That goes back to Einstein, right? E equals MC squared. Everything is energy, matter, you know, it's all energy, but that's actually a classical paradigm. In the quantum view, energy is an epiphenomenon that emerges out of the quantum. So is time, so is space, so is matter, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So time, space, matter, energy, all these things that are in the phenomenological world, they're Newtonian, if you will, they're classical. But in the quantum, it's all information, possibilities, potentialities. but nothing actualized. And energy is an actualized form.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So that's one sort of, so we can, in quantum physics, we talk a lot about information and we talk about wave functions, but wave functions are about possibilities and probabilities. They're not about actuality or energy even. And there is this like bubbling sea of, you know, it's constantly in movement. Like there is like a vibration to it, but it's not a physical vibration.
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It's a potentiality vibration. So there's a subtle shift there that can happen. Another example, you know, I heard somebody saying recently, like, you know, if we're really grounded, could you say that we've collapsed our waveform into presence? It's like... that sounds really cool, but I don't know what that means. As a physicist, it's like, what do you mean?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So it's like taking these fancy words and putting them together in something that sounds cool and it makes you look good, but it doesn't really mean anything. Um, and so this is about really understanding more of the true definitions of things. You know, I think that it starts by really digging in to, to understand what does that really mean?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Um, and is this the proper context to be using that term or am I just, you know, hand waving with, uh, my use of it sound cool. Yeah.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, I mean, Isaac Newton, he wrote Principia, and that was like the big thing that all the laws of motion came off of. And it was one paper. But meanwhile, he had hundreds and hundreds of journals that were all about alchemy. And he even warned, you know, the scientists and his fellow alchemists, like, don't take the divine out of the picture, right? And don't make the world a great machine.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You know, there's a teacher in the mystery school that I study with, the modern mystery school, who's got a great way of putting that. And he says, you cannot share what you do not have. And if you don't have true understanding of what it is you're talking about, you can't share understanding with anybody. So you got to first make sure you've got it before you start professing it.
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And that doesn't mean we have to be perfect. Because I also am a firm believer that you're going to master something by helping serve with it in some way or teach in some way. And then through the reflection of the people you're working with, you're going to learn more and you're going to advance your knowledge. And in fact, you can't master something until you've served with it.
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You have to take it into service so that it goes beyond just you and your relationship with it. And you can then see how it applies to other people. And so for me, like the fastest path to coming to know thyself is actually a path of serving other people and helping them to come, you know, to come to know thyself. And the more I help others come to know thyself, the more I come to know myself.
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And, you know, it's this reciprocal kind of thing that happens because we're all connected. And the more we really work with that from a place of humility, as you're saying, you know, that it's not about me. It's not about my ego. It's not about whether I'm liked. It's not about how popular I am. It's not about any of that.
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Like, I got to take the me out of the equation in a way and just serve, you know, because I want to make a difference or because the world needs, you know, to become a better place. And it's about something much bigger than just the individual.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So alchemy in its most fundamental kind of definitions is the process of transformation, but also the process of raising vibration. So how to take something from its raw state where it has impurities and
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and it's maybe corrupted or it's not in its ideal form, and then how to take that through a series of steps, alchemical but also scientific, if you will, steps, very specific procedures that ultimately purify it and refine it and bring it to a more perfected form. So for example, if we want to go and make a herbal remedy,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Don't make the universe a great machine. But that is exactly what they ended up doing. So I think that if we hadn't gone in that direction, if we had gone in the direction that Newton originally intended, you know, we would probably be very much ahead.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You go out and you gather the herbs from nature and they're in their raw form. They're not yet in the, like at the purest way in which we can consume them. So we have to take them from nature and take them through a series of steps in a lab and break it down, like let the plant die, if you will, let it dry out, take that. Then, you know, maybe we extract, like a tea is an extraction, for example.
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or an essential oil is another kind of extraction of that plant. And then herbal remedies where they're in the tinctures, there's another extraction, homeopathic kind of remedies are another extraction. So these are different physical processes that we can do that will extract the pure essences of the plant while discarding the impurities or the parts of it that are not
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quite conducive to our wellbeing. But like, for example, distilling the spirit or the alcohol, making the essential oil, making the homeopathic or the supplement, like the salt, these are all like one essential out of the whole plant, but there's actually three essentials. So they can each become a different branch, but in alchemy, you'd actually bring them all back together, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So you'd perfect the form back to where all the essentials come back together and they're in this highest sort of elevated pure vibrational state that when you partake of that, it works on all levels. Like it works with the homeopathic, it works with the essential oil, it works with the herbal remedy, and it works at all levels.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So there are seven stages in the traditional kind of way of looking at alchemy. And each one of those is, you know, when you're going through it at a personal level, because we also go through personal transformation.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
We will feel very uncomfortable through different stages of the alchemy because some of it's the breakdown and some of it's the like disillusion where you have a lot of emotion come up and some of it's like trying to find clarity, but you got to pick out the pieces of and discern. And then you come to a place where you feel good again.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, you know, in a way, I see that there was an alchemy within science itself, you know, because the alchemical formula is to separate, purify and recombine. And so it's almost like science had to go through its own phase of separation to to really hone its craft and purify the way it operates.
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And it's like, okay, we've gone through the transformation and now we're here, but you're not actually quite fully there, but you're feeling good again. And it's very easy to step back into a comfort zone. And just say, okay, I'm good now. I've been through the ringer and now I'm good. And they sort of stop the process about midway through the alchemical transformation.
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To go the final stages, you have to really participate with it. You have to really continue to... to keep the fire under you, if you will, so that you continue to improve and refine and keep digging in deeper and finding those subtle places where the ego still has its attachments and the weeds kind of have their roots and you keep pulling them out until you finally kind of break through into...
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The ego is not involved anymore. I mean, you still know who you are, but the ego doesn't have so much attachment. It's like it's surrendered. And then we can move to a higher level of just, I'm here to be a vessel. And I have a unique purpose and a unique way of delivering that essence, if you will. But it's not about the ego anymore.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. So in my book, The Game Changers, Social Alchemists in the 21st Century, I do this analogy of the caterpillar becoming the butterfly and aligning the metamorphosis stages with the alchemical stages. So the first is like, you have the caterpillar, it's It's feeding off of the leaves and the fat of the land and it's very earthbound. And all it's really doing is feeding.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's just kind of consuming resources and getting fat. And then at some point, there's like this little timer that goes off inside of its DNA and it says, okay, it's time for a nap. And it goes and it spins itself a chrysalis or the cocoon and it kind of settles in for this nap.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that's the stage where it goes into the first alchemical stage where in alchemy we call it calcination, which means burning it to ash. But here in this case with the caterpillar, it's not a burning, but it's a dissolving process. where all of the old form of the caterpillar breaks down.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But now we're coming into this age where we need to recombine again and bring the spirit back to the physics. So for me, when I was in physics, it was like, Okay, our knowledge is advancing, our technology is advancing, and it's going to start... We're now in this exponential curve of rapid advancement that's happening.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So once it's in its chrysalis, if you were to at some point go and like cut it open and look, you would not see anything that resembles a caterpillar. You'd just see a soupy gooey mess because the whole structure has broken down. So that's the first stage. And then we have the dissolution stage, which is this dissolving. And so all the cells kind of become dissolved into this mix, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
When I know what the stages of the alchemical process are and I know where I am in that process, then I can know what's next. The universe is trying to help you grow and transform so that you can really achieve your greater purpose in life. The negative of that is it's not comfortable. The positive of that is that transformation is happening.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And the DNA, meanwhile, is putting out a new signal. There's a new type of cell that starts getting created. And it's called the imaginal cells in the metamorphosis process. And these imaginal cells have the blueprints, if you will, for becoming the color of the wing or the antenna or the structure of the wings.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
They're mad. They have a greater imagination. And what happens is that there's like a bit of a battle that kind of happens inside that chrysalis with the old cells. thinking that these new cells that are coming in are the enemy. They think it's a virus because wait, you know, we're breaking down, everything's breaking down.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And with the immune cells of the old caterpillar start to attack the new cells that are coming in. And so this disillusion stage is very like confusing, if you will. So when we're going through that, we feel a lot of emotion, a lot of confusion. We might actually be at war with ourselves over that process.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Um, but as the caterpillar, uh, or the, the butterfly metamorphosis starts to continue, the imaginal cells start to find strength in numbers. They start to kind of combine together. And in that they're, they're able to, um, fend off, you know, the attacks that are coming.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then soon as there's enough of them that start gathering in numbers, they start realizing, okay, now we can start to diversify. You can be, you know, a digestive cell. I can be a color cell and so forth. And they start to diversify. And the very, very beginnings of a new structure starts to form.
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This is what we would compare to like the separation stage where we're starting to kind of divvy out so that we don't all have to do everything and be everything. We can have our unique roles and we can serve a greater whole and a greater function.
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And as that continues to progress and the new structure of the butterfly starts to form, we move forward into the conjunction stage, which is, okay, now there's a coming together. Because those old cells can still be purposeful. They can align with a new structure. And so the old cells sort of have this choice.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Well, we can either go over there because something's working over there and we can like take our skill sets and whatnot because a digestive cell can still be a digestive cell, for example. And we just have to align with a new structure. And if they don't, then they end up becoming obsolete and dying off.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So there's that sort of separation and then this conjunction where all of the cells start to come together into this new form. And that new form then starts to make it clear what is this new thing that's emerging out of the soupy mess. And then as the old cells all die off, right, there's this fermentation, which fermentation is kind of like the death of the old, the final death of the old.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Within just five years from now, the world's going to be completely different than it is today, just based on science and technology. But unfortunately, our wisdom wasn't keeping pace with the advancement of the science and the knowledge, and therefore...
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And everything else that makes it past that fermentation is meant to be part of this new structure. It's part of the essential form, you know, the essential aspects of it. And then there's a stage where we go into what's called distillation.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So the end of the fermentation stage in alchemy, they talk about the peacock's tail where there's this like yellow rainbowy film that comes in and there's all this color that comes in and there's this light that comes in. It's like this kind of epiphany at the end of the dark night, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
We all go through that dark night of the soul, but when you get to the other side of it, there is this epiphany of who am I and all this light that we start to see.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And in the caterpillar, it's kind of like as the chrysalis starts to break open and the light starts coming in and the butterfly that's emerging starts to move towards the light, but it still has to go through a process and it's actually having to struggle to get out of the chrysalis. Now, if you were to come along and say, oh, that poor little butterfly, let me help it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And you open up the chrysalis and bring it out, it would not be strong enough to fly. And it would have a very short and boring life because it wouldn't be able to do what it's meant to do. So we can't actually rush that stage. It has to go through the struggle. And in that struggle, in alchemy, we would call it a distillation. You're going through many cycles of elevating and...
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accessing more of the spirit of the higher frequency energies and then recondensing it back into the physical. And we go through like seven cycles of this in alchemy. They call it the seven eagles flying, where there's this distillation of elevating and then recondensing and elevating, like kind of sublimating and recondensing.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Um, and in the Emerald Tablet, he says it ascends from earth to heaven and again descends to earth and thereby it revives the powers of the superiors and the inferiors and kind of brings them together into this sort of perfect union, if you will. So this is the distillation stage, that struggle getting out of the chrysalis. And I think humanity is kind of going through that right now, right?
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the way in which humanity is choosing to apply the knowledge and the power and the tools that we have available to us isn't necessarily towards the greatest good. And so I felt like it was more important for humanity to tap back into wisdom
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
We're starting to final stages of these like the fermentation and we're struggling to get out, to break out of the chrysalis. There's a new paradigm that's really emerging and we're starting to see it, but we got to, it's not quite there yet to be implemented fully.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And even then there's another stage where once the caterpillar or the butterfly fully gets out of the chrysalis and it's done, okay, it's free, it needs to dry off. It needs a little bit of a rest before it can then take flight. And when it finally takes flight, it's like the final stage of alchemy, which is the coagulation where it's crystallized.
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It's in its new perfected form and it can go and bring its beauty and its joy to the world, if you will.
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Well, no one can ever tell me that I'm not detailed. I'm thorough, if nothing else.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. And I think it applies also to us individually. And you can see where you are in those alchemical stages as you kind of look at them. And I think that that's why alchemy is such a great roadmap, if you will, to our transformational process. And to see when you're at the midpoint, like, oh, I got to get... There's more to do, right?
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So that I don't give up and just sort of relax and then slide backwards and have to start it all over again. It's like I can just keep it moving forward and keep gaining ground, but it's going to require more will and more discipline, if you will, more patience as well. And that letting go of the ego. But I also see that humanity as a collective is going through this alchemy.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And alchemy is this transformational process is just, it's part of nature in the universe. It's just a universal like flow that happens. Even stars go through alchemy, right? As they go from just sort of plasma of particles to coalescing to then, you know, creating and generating light to then at some point becoming a supernova, you know, they're going through their own alchemy.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
The formation of galaxies is now chemical process. So alchemy is something that happens universally from the smallest of structures all the way up to the largest of structures. And so I love how alchemy parallels with quantum physics as well. And the more I looked into alchemy, the more I saw actually the alchemists, their attitude was very quantum. Everything is connected. It all matters, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I can't separate myself from what I'm experimenting on. I have to take all of these things into account because they all matter and we're all connected. Um, And they brought together the sort of non-physical and the physical working together into the alchemical process.
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in order to bring the two together so that the wisdom could guide the scientific applications, that we can take these tools and technologies and this knowledge and power and apply it towards a greater good versus just the good of a few. Mm-hmm.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, I think it's really helpful to know not only who am I and what am I, but where am I, right? Where am I at right now? And in what stage am I in? And when you can relate to the various stages One, it lets you know, okay, this is, yeah, it's part of a process and I'm in the mix. I'm in the alchemy. And the, you know, the negative of that is like, it's not comfortable.
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The positive of that is that transformation is happening and it's going to lead to something better if you participate with it rather than resist it. And so the more you can be compassionate towards yourself, rather than beating yourself up about the fact that you're going through change right now, you can be like, well, this is actually, I'm in the alchemy.
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And, but when I know what the stages of the alchemical process are, and I know where I am in that process, then I can know what's next. And if I know what's next, and then what comes down the line from there, then I can be like, okay, what do I need to do to get from here to there, right? How can I keep moving forward through the alchemical process rather than getting stuck
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in it because I'm resisting it too much, right? Or I'm beating myself up about it or I'm wondering why this is all happening to me. It's like the universe is trying to help you grow and evolve and transform so that you can really, you know, achieve your greater beauty in life and your greater purpose in life.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So it's like we have to take that more empowered approach and become the alchemist of your own life rather than just sort of being the passenger and letting it happen to you. Because if you just let it happen to you and you think of yourself as a victim to life, then... you're not really gonna get all the way through it, right?
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It's only when you take your power back and realize, oh, I can participate with this. I can harness this energy of change and I can be more intentional with how I direct it. Then you're gonna start making really great strides in your life and breaking through.
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100%.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, you know, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius put it that the obstacle is the way. That, you know, by taking those obstacles and those struggles head on, rather than trying to avoid them or shortcut them or run away from them, by taking it head on, you do become stronger. And in meeting the challenges of life,
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you discover resources and capabilities within yourself that you would have never discovered otherwise. You would have never known that you were capable of it. You would have never even known that you had that gift or that ability had it not been for the challenge. And then sometimes the challenge is forcing you to rise above. And in that push, they say, what is it? Necessity is the...
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generator of all innovation, we reinvent and we become something greater than what we were before.
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So I agree with you that there is sort of this cultural mindset in our modern day that's so used to everything being done at the push of a button that we should also be able to have that magic pillar, that, you know, magic bullet that just is, or the one size fits all that's just going to be, this is the thing that's going to solve all my problems. But it's not that simple. we're not that simple.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
We're very complex, multifaceted, multidimensional beings. And we have much greater capacity, much greater potential than what we're currently manifesting. And the universe is trying to get us, you know, in spirit, you know, it's trying to push us in some way to evolve towards what it is we have the potential to become. And then we have a much greater purpose to fulfill.
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And I believe that anyways, that there is purpose to it all. And we're going to be far better off getting to that place in our life where we're ready to work with it and put in the effort and have some discipline and be consistent and not try to take the shortcut road or like step around and bypass things. Because when you bypass, you're cheating yourself of
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Sure. So the first one is determinism. It basically says that if we were given an initial set of conditions, we should be able to predetermine, based on the laws of science, all future evolution or all future progression of that initial state, right? So it's deterministic. Therefore, we can predict it. We can control it. We should be able to know what's going to happen next.
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foundational strengths and capabilities that you need ultimately to serve you when you're getting into fulfilling your greater purpose.
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Yeah, I would say you're sacrificing versus losing. And there is a difference. So, you know, honoring what strategies worked for you to get you to a certain point in life, which is better than where you were before, right? And that served me to a point. And yet sometimes that thing that served me in the past can become the impediment to my continued growth into the future.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And when you reach that place, you can honor it by saying, okay, thank you for serving me and getting me to this place. Now that I've got this figured out, it's time for me to grow in new ways. And I can honor that, that past strategy.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But I don't, you know, the key is to not stay attached to what worked for you, you know, especially when those methods that worked for you were your way of like kind of running in survival, like it might've gotten you and it helped you survive and maybe even get ahead in some ways, but you know, there comes a point where that became too much of an egoic strategy.
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that we have to let it go to really rise to our full potential. And so it's like, I'm sacrificing this. Now sacrifice, people sometimes don't understand the true meaning of it. Sacrifice means to make sacred. Sacrifice, you know, it's where to make it sacred by offering it up to the divine, if you will. And I'm surrendering this thing.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So as an offering of something I value, but I recognize that, you know, there's something greater calling me forward. So it's like a humbling of the ego before a much higher source that we want to move towards and honor. And there is no growth without sacrifice, right? So every step of growth is gonna require sacrifice of some kind. Maybe we're sacrificing the lesser for the greater.
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Maybe we're letting go of like bad behaviors in order to start embracing good behaviors. For example, we're letting go of some addiction in order to have a better quality of life or these types of things. But sometimes the sacrifices are actually like, I actually have to sacrifice things I value.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like maybe I have to sacrifice some time, you know, personal time or living a normal life so that I can achieve something even greater than just the normal, you know, kind of average person. And when you talk about our nature, yeah, our nature...
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Nature left to, this is an alchemical philosophy, nature left to its own, it will evolve and grow and transform in time, but it'll be a really slow process. Like it's nature left to its own devices is a very, very slow process. That's what Darwinian evolution is all about, right? But nature aided by human creativity and intelligence and knowledge and so forth.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So the alchemists would say nature aided by man is going to be accelerated in its transformational process. So when we bring our creative and intelligent and abilities in and work with nature, we can speed up its evolution. And that's what alchemy is all about. So it's about ultimately rising above. We have what we call our first nature and our second nature. Right.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
The second is separation. They would look at every piece as separate from the others. And if I then and they also separated out mind, you know, and spirit and whatnot from matter. Right. So there is that separation that happened as well. And then, you know, we take that and we go to the next one, which is reductionism.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Our first nature is more like our animal instinctual way of being, which is easy. And, you know, it's just it's our default position, if you will. It's it's just the instinctual way. And it's it's the part of us that tends to kind of be in the comfort zone. our second nature is something we have to develop, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's something we have to push ourselves to grow, to educate, to become more skillful at, to get your 10,000 hours of doing that thing. And then it becomes second nature. And when you can harness yourself to pursue your second nature, more so than default to your first nature, that's when you're growing, right?
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That's when you're really transforming and you are becoming like the alchemist in your life. Whether it's like you want to play piano and you got to learn how to do it and put in all the hours of practice, or whether you want to become an amazing like athlete, or you want to become
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An astronaut, whatever it is, you know, that's the second nature is something greater than what we were given as our first nature. We have to cultivate and develop into it. And that's where transformation really happens versus just aligning with our first nature.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Well, first of all, you got to find what you love and find what you're passionate about. And when you find that thing that, you know, I love this, this inspires me, this is like, I'm super passionate about this, that becomes its own fire that can motivate you, that can drive you, that kind of propels you to pursue it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's purely out of interest and you can dive deep into it and, you know, you'll find that like, it just, it thrills you, you know, it fills you with energy when you pursue that thing versus it draining you. And that, so it adds to your fire, if you will. So that's definitely a part of it in terms of like, um, what motivates you to move forward.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, and, and, but you also, people have to watch out for falling into apathy because if you fall into apathy, like, you're just like, I'm not passionate about anything. I don't have motivation to do anything. That's a very dark place to be and there's no fire there, right? So fire internally, if you will, is the thing that motivates us, that moves us.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it compels us to go in some direction and apply ourselves and pursue something that's exciting, that makes life worth living for. And so you got to find that thing that makes life worth living for. And, you know, I think personally, like I felt that through pursuing a spiritual connection, that that brought fire as well.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like there's something greater, you know, there's something hidden, there's a mystery to be, you know, revealed that can be known. And the more we cultivate a connection to the spirit, the more we cultivate a connection to our own deepest self, the more we will feel that filled with that inspiration.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so that spiritual practice, whatever tradition, every tradition has different methods, but most of the mystical traditions ultimately all come back to the same kinds of things, right? Knowing thyself, having a personal connection with the divine, feeling a sense of awe, being humble, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So if I take a whole thing and then I can break it down into its components and its different parts, and if I understand how each part works on its own, then I should just be able to sum them up and know how the whole works.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
There's these same kind of essences and principles that come out of it, these keys, if you will, for life that come out. And when we have that connection to spirit, it really gives you the fire that inspires you, that motivates you, that makes you want to do something greater, do something positive, do something meaningful, do something in service.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
you know, to a greater good versus just being focused on yourself and your own problems.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I feel OK, so there is certainly the point where I went through my own what I would call self-initiation, which was during that time in grad school where I realized, OK, something's got to change here because this is not like how I usually am. And this is I need to find that joy again.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So that that pursuit, like actively realizing something needs change and actively applying myself to start making a change in my life and bring different aspects of life back in. And ultimately, when I realized spirituality was a major key. and I dove deep into it and I really applied myself, like that was a real transformative point in my life. So that was in 2000, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so I've been on my path now for 25, 26 years. And since then, I feel like I've been through many different transformational points along the way, really because of my work with the Mystery School tradition, like in every initiation that I've received was another catalyst. It was another big transformational point. And there are places, you know, along the way where,
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you face fears and you wonder, am I, you know, am I enough to do this? And you have to overcome that internal battle. And then there's other places where you face your doubts and you're like, is this really true? And is this, does this really be real?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But the problem with separation is it ignores all the interaction of things and the emergent phenomenon that comes out of those interactions and those relationships and the synergy and And so forth. And then the fourth real principle that came out of the Newtonian science is realism.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, you know, the doubts, I mean, that was like the big struggle for me early on going from a very scientific way of thinking and kind of leaning into the metaphysical world. And it was like the skepticism of the science that was programmed into me, you know, had a lot of doubt that I had to struggle through early on.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Um, and, and then, you know, even, even coming, shifting to the point where it was like, okay, I'm just going to teach, work with people one-on-one or teach in small groups to, you know, shifting to, it's time to play on a bigger stage, if you will, and get on Gaia and, you know, speak at big events. And, you know, you have always have these internal hurdles that you got to overcome.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But I would say for me personally, that when I really made the commitment to myself to to make my spiritual development and personal development be a priority in my life. And not just the pursuit of knowledge and career and money and, you know, typical matrix stuff. That was a massive turning point. But then every time along the way, it's like you have to keep making that commitment again.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's going to lead to something better if you participate with it rather than resist it. have so much more potential in you than you've ever been taught. Believe in yourself.
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You have to recommit to it multiple times because otherwise it's easy to get to a place where you're just like, I'm good, you know, I've reached a good level and that's good enough, right? And then it's like, that's that inner voice saying, don't keep pushing.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You know, it's like the ego keeps coming up and you gotta quiet it again and have that mastery over yourself and push yourself to the next level. And when you do, Sky's the limit. There really is no limit. It's really just your own mind and what you believe is possible for yourself and what you're willing to, not just what you believe, but what you're willing to put your efforts towards.
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That's what's, you know, that's what determines how far we can go with things.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So in our DNA, yeah, there's like what science tends to know right now, at least about what it understands of the DNA since the Human Genome Project and so forth, is they understand the genes and the genes that code for the amino acids and the proteins and that all build up the body, the physical body. But then that's only 1% of the total DNA sequenced.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Then there's another 4% that they say these are like the coding instructions. It's the stop and start codes. It's like kind of what tells the switches to turn on or off, for example. So we have 1% and 4%. So that's 5% of our DNA. And then the rest of it, 95%, they call it non-coding. And science doesn't currently really get it. They don't understand what it is. Not mainstream science, anyways.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
They used to call it junk. They don't call it junk anymore. They just call it non-coding. Yeah. So they have a less charged word for it now.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And realism kind of goes hand in hand with materialism, where it's saying that there is a real, physical, tangible, objective world that is the only thing, you know, taken to an extreme, it says it's the only thing that's real is the material. And it would say then, therefore, that even consciousness and who we are is all just an epiphenomenon of physical processes.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yes, exactly. It shows once again, the arrogance of science, right? But what's fascinating is that in the human genome, there's more non-coding sections of the DNA than there is in like various animal species or a banana. You know, there's less of the non-coding sections. So there's clearly something important about these non-coding sections that
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that is important to more intelligent and advanced forms of life. And so there's some alternative science that's happened like in Japan and in Europe and in Russia that is talked about, that's actually gone in to investigate these non-coding sections. And they've seen
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
that there is evidence that the non-coding sections of our DNA are used to transmit and receive coherent light that they call biophotons. And so they believe that this non-coding section is in charge of that, the generation, transmission, and reception of biophotons. And it's like this light, this coherent light is used like an information superhighway
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that operates at the speed of light within the DNA to communicate and really send the signals rather than it just relying on chemical kind of signaling. So that's like Fritz Popp, Albert Fritz Popp kind of discovered biophotons and there's some Japanese scientists who looked into that as well.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then there's a Russian scientist, Dr. Peter Garyev, who's, none of them are with us anymore, but, you know, they were alive in the last couple of decades. And Dr. Peter Garyev also looked at these non-coding sections and he saw that the DNA is able to almost like... receive language modulated upon coherent light into the DNA and respond to it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And when linguists kind of analyze the code, the letter sequence of the DNA in the non-coding sections, there's actually more repetition. There's a little more order to it. There's more, you know, they used to call it a stutter. Like you'd have the same letter over and over and over again.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So scientists would call it a stutter, but then the linguists came along and analyzed and they said, actually, it resembles more of a human language with syntax and grammar and all of that than the coding sections do. It's almost like the ability for humans to have language, spoken language was almost like programmed, if you will, into these non-coding sections of the DNA.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then Dr. Peter Garyev also saw that they put the DNA into a vacuum chamber and they shined coherent light, like laser light or LED light on it, and then saw that the DNA took that light and it actually organized it around its DNA double helix structure.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so it ordered the light, you know, it took it in and it kind of like your DNA almost like takes light in and it processes it and it structures it and it makes it, it uses it somehow. And then the more interesting phenomenon than that was that they then took the DNA out of the vacuum chamber, but they didn't otherwise disturb the vacuum chamber. They sent light through it again.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And even when the DNA wasn't in there physically anymore, it was almost like it left an energetic blueprint Or it had structured the vacuum itself that when they shine the light through, the light still formed according to that double helix. So it's almost like your DNA has a way of communicating with the quantum vacuum and structuring it.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So those are the four major tenets of the Newtonian science. that goes back like 340 years. And then we kind of add, you know, in terms of today's mindset, we added on to that Darwinian evolution, which was that sort of competition, survival of the fittest. And then you add on to that Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is also that you have to take care of survival first.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's like this bridge from the quantum to the physical, to the macroscopic. So there's some super fascinating things that are there within our DNA. We even have within our genes, we have the same gene in our DNA and the human DNA as a salamander has that it uses to regenerate limbs. So we have huge capacity that is within us that is yet to be understood and discovered within our DNA.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
There's possibilities for super intelligence, for super super regeneration and healing, for super immunity. All of these things are possible within our DNA. It's just like we're still in a process of awakening and evolving into being able to turn on these abilities. Now, science today wants to use genetic engineering and CRISPR sort of technology to try and
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
bioengineer and hack our way into superhuman designer baby stuff. And it's already happening in China. So it's coming. So just be prepared for that. But I believe from a metaphysical perspective that we have had ancient spiritual technology, such as, you know, activations and initiations that turn on our DNA and In the Kabbalistic tradition, our DNA actually relates to the tree of life.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And the tree of life is a sacred geometric blueprint for our DNA. It's like the scaffolding that the DNA kind of binds around. And so we have methods of going in and really turning on those codes within our DNA.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It first starts as a spiritual blueprint awakening that then, you know, as we take the intuitive actions, you know, that as our mind and our consciousness awakens and we become more self-aware, we start taking different actions. We start making different choices. We start living in a different way. You start having different habits of what you eat and consume and expose yourself to.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And all of that affects your epigenetics. and the switches that are responsive to the local environment within our body, all of it starts to shift and it will then integrate its way into your physical DNA.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Well, it's definitely a thing. It's real. And, you know, so yeah, we're only visibly seeing 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum, but then we're only consciously using maybe 10% of our brain capacity to be consciously aware of it. The rest is subconscious. So you're really only seeing 0.1% because you're only consciously perceiving 10% of that 1%.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So what we think we're experiencing as reality is like the snowflake on the tip of the iceberg, right? Not just seeing in these... We can hear a broader range and we can maybe feel a broader range. Like I think, you know, we see one octave, we hear 10 octaves, we feel 10 octaves. And then, you know, smell and taste is, you know, very individual, but they're all vibrational energies, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And we know that there's vibrational energies on either side of the spectrum of the range that we can perceive. And so, for example, we know that dogs hear certain sounds that we don't hear. And we know that cats see certain things that we don't see. Because you just watch them and you're like, what are you looking at? What are you hearing?
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Then you can start pursuing, you know, more like education and Purpose and self-realization and so forth. So those are like the major principles that got extracted from various scientific mindsets that have come to dominate our world, especially since the Industrial Revolution last, you know, 100 years or so.
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And the octopus has like eight or nine brains.
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Yeah. So yeah, there's these other ranges. And yet, so there's, what are we trained to believe and perceive, right? Because a lot of times our beliefs filter what we're perceiving through our senses. Other times it's like, how much of your brain capacity are you consciously accessing versus how much of it is happening subconsciously or unconsciously?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, very veiled reality. Yeah. So what some people call extrasensory perception is really just people who've learned to broaden their range of their five physical senses. And we know that that's possible when you look at like someone who becomes blind, right? They're limited in their ability to see.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So then they have to have extrasensory perception through hearing and touch and smell and other things. or if they're deaf, you know, they have to learn to read lips. And, you know, so there are ways to train your physical neurological senses to have a broader range, but you have to exercise them. That's one piece.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. Well, in both in your inner ear and in your pineal gland, you have these micro crystals of calcite that have piezoelectric effects that are used to have a sense of orientation and a sense of connection to the magnetic fields. And, you know, we may, most people have it. They just aren't always aware that that's an ability, you know, cause it's so subtle.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But you learn to tune into this more subtle frequencies, if you will, and you can start to perceive more of you just bring your awareness to them. Right. So awareness starts by caring about it. Like if you care about it, you're going to pay attention to it. If you're paying attention to it, you're going to be more aware of it. Um, and, and then there's exercising, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So you can exercise your senses to broaden your, your perception. And this is something that, that we teach people to do is how to broaden the senses. And you, when you exercise your senses, you can actually increase your conscious use of your brain capacity from 10% to 20%. And, you know, just by doing these exercises. So that's one piece. Then there's what we call the biofield, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
We are not just physical beings, we are energetic beings. We have bioelectromagnetic, we have etheric, we have all these different layers of energy within our field that surrounds us. And if you, again, if you start to pay attention to that, if you become like, if you start to just tune in to the subtleties and there are ways to start feeling and perceiving these energy fields that are around us,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And the more you exercise that, the more those will also turn on for you. So for example, when I learned to do healing work, energy healing work like Reiki, I learned to do something called a life activation through the mystery school training. And as I did it more and more and more, I went from not being able to perceive the energy to now I really can perceive the energy.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So it's an exercising process. And then on top of that, there is quantum consciousness where consciousness is not individualized. You know, there's in the quantum realm, it's like we're all, it's one mind. It's a unified field. And we can have non-local phenomenon, non-temporal phenomenon happening where you have ESP, for example, or
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you know, I think most people have experienced where they were thinking of somebody and then all of a sudden they're getting a call or a text message from that same person that they were just thinking of. I mean, that's an example of ESPN. We all have these abilities. We just have to exercise them.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And some of those autistics who don't even speak are completely telepathic, like 100% accuracy telepathic ability.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. I mean, I recently came across the telepathy tapes that are talking about the non-speaking autistics and it was like remarkable to hear their stories and to know that this, you know, it's fantastic that this research is finally being done and being recognized that there's just actually a new human capability that's coming through almost as a
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a reflection for the rest of humanity or almost like as a remedy for the fact that humanity has gotten so caught up in the physical and the ego and relying so much on speech and sight and all of these things and not developing this capacity that's really within everybody, but it's just, we haven't developed it.
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And yeah, I mean, there have been spiritual societies on the planet in the past that, you know, even shamanic times, I mean, everyone was sort of brought into, you know, their education was around mythology and they had rites of initiation as part of their growing up stages. And, you know, they learned to be more in tune with nature and read the signs.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's really only in our technological world in the last hundred years that we've really lost that. that understanding of those ways, because we've gotten more and more modernized, removed more and more away from ancient traditions and mythologies and rites of initiation.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And I think we've discarded some really important rites of passage that humans are meant to be going through by discarding the practices of initiation, like proper traditions that had ancient lineages of initiation. And I think that there's also plenty of evidence on the planet that showed
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11,000 years ago and beyond that, that we had some ancient civilizations on this planet that were able to make these magnificent temples and structures and have them like perfectly aligned with the stars and the solstices and equinoxes. And they had some kind of knowledge that we still today can't even replicate.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So there had to be, there are markers of definitely advanced civilizations that were achieving a greater human capacity than what we are today. But somehow we got
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So I think of prana or chi as a life force energy that's very close to the physical, but then there's also higher levels that kind of come through and it manifests itself at different frequency levels, if you will. And that the more that we use breath, right, the breath
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
is the breath of life and that there's so much life force that can come in just by being really focused on breathing, properly breathing and drawing in that energy, being intentional because it responds not just to breathing, but it responds to intent.
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and you're bringing your attention and awareness to it, as whether you're doing, you know, some kind of pranayama, or you're doing qigong, or, you know, any of these sort of practices where it's focused presence and breath work and movement and, you know, various mudras and so forth that help, you know, create the right flow and channels and That's all like internal body alchemy, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And we're learning to harness the essences of the body and use the breath and the movement as a way of circulating things and creating that distillation process. And the endocrine system, which connects into the chakras, are the glands that create all the hormones, which then become these molecules that can ultimately create transcendent states and experiences.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
when I see that somebody is like ascending, if you will, their consciousness is expanding, you know, meaning they're aware of this, but they're also aware of this, you know, so it's not a higher, lower, it's an expansion of more holistic, more all encompassing, more awareness of the greater field rather than just the myopic kind of way of looking at things. And coherence is super important.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Okay. So I would say that actually started when I was in undergrad. I, you know, were educated in the classical first, right? So classical mechanics, physics. electromagnetism, you know, just basic statistical mechanics. You know, these are the classical things first. And how does the macroscopic physical world work? And what are those rules that govern that?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I mean, But people can be coherent in a negative frequency, meaning they're so focused on that negative thing that that's all that they're thinking about, you know, and they're going to be very coherent. But it's a it's a frequency that's not necessarily going to be positive for their body or for the people they're around.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So the different frequency levels, you know, if we just look at the chakras, for example, Each one we often associate with different color on the rainbow spectrum because that represents their frequency from like a purple, which is a higher frequency, down to a red, which is a lower frequency.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And then each of those chakras have a different sort of correspondence to a different quality, a different, you know, the spiritual being more, you know, higher. higher elevation and a sense of divine connection, the heart being more like relational and kindness and love and, you know, coming down to the root.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's going to be more about the physicality and, you know, being grounded, but also like pursuing the lusts of life. We can shift into coherence in any one of those areas, but what we ultimately want is all of them coming into alignment, all of them being opened on board and
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
operating in a clean way and then being aligned with each other uh and you know from an from an energetic perspective i would say your central core is clear right there's no blockages in the central core where if that energy were to that prana that kundalini whatever was to rise up it wouldn't hit any obstruction on its way and it would just be a free flow.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But in order for that central core to be clear, we have to have done the emotional clearing. We have to have done the healing and the forgiveness work. We have to, you know, we have to have really come to this place of exercising each of those levels together.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Sure. I mean, entrainment is this idea where if you have, just for those who maybe don't know the word, if you have a certain oscillating body, for simplicity, let's just take a tuning fork that you can strike a tuning fork, it'll vibrate at a very particular frequency.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
If you can bring that near another body that can oscillate at the same frequency, you don't have to have struck that other one just by the proximity, the vibrational travel through the air and then it'll start to move it and they'll start to vibrate together in sync. And that is what we call entrainment. And we are multi vibrational beings, right? So we can vibrate at many different capacities.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And but let's say you go out into the city. Right. You go out into Los Angeles. It's a bit chaotic. It's kind of crazy, especially if you're on the freeway and you get a bit frazzled. Right. And and it's stressful. And it like that kind of creates a negative state within your own being, mind, your emotion, your physical state.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And the way we can take something like entrainment and it's a tool that is a power that we can take into our own hands where once I, well, one, don't get into road rage, right? You have choice around that, right? So just exercise like, okay, I'm just going to be patient here and I'm just going to be mindful and bless them rather than curse them. I mean, that's going to go a long way right there.
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And to me, it was actually like a grind. It was a bit like, it didn't inspire me. Let's just say that. And I kind of often wonder, like, why do I need to know this? And what am I going to do with this information? And it was just like, it really didn't click for me. I actually struggled with the classical mindset.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Two, when you get back into your own environment, your own home, like put on harmonious music, right? Use tools like things that stimulate your senses in a positive way to create a positive entrainment field.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So putting on some classical music or some meditation music or, you know, doing some aromatherapy, like all of these are ways that we can stimulate our senses with vibrational energy intentionally that can bring us back into a harmonic state. And then also your thoughts, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like Dr. Emoto showed with the water crystals, like your thoughts really can influence the water into being more harmonious or disharmonious. And so if we're 70% water, your thoughts have a major influence on whether your cells of your body and all the water in your system is going to be in a beautiful and harmonic symmetric state or if it's going to be in a less symmetric state.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And not only your environment, but who you choose to hang around with.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, and the people are really going to have an influence on each other, right? So you can be the master tuning fork that brings that positive frequency out. But some people may not want to align with that. And there could potentially be conflict or they abreact to, you know, the positive light that you're bringing, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Sometimes light agitates people in their stuckness and they, you know, you have to kind of choose, okay, do I want to be in that environment? Can I continue to maintain my own, you know, centeredness and coherence and be in those, you know, like going to the bar, for example, or...
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
The nightclub, I mean, certain environments are going to have an ab reaction on you, depending on your own level of mastery, self-mastery. Or you can choose to go into the yoga studio or the meditation, you know, kind of group or other places. Or you can go and have fun, just have fun.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But where it's fun and it's clean and it's pure and it's, you know, it's not really relying on the substances to get people out of their shell, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But when I got into modern science, modern physics, and then ultimately got into high energy physics and particle physics, and that, you know, went in deep into the quantum world, I went, wow, this is different. This is exciting. This, for me, it actually intuitively made more sense than the classical paradigm.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. And the sacrifice is one of those sacrifices sometimes that we make along the way. And, you know, when people hit that point, it can be very, it can be a lonely place when you're starting to explore and awaken into these things, but your friends and your family are not, and they don't get you. It can be very kind of, you can feel a bit isolated.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, and sometimes we have to let go of old relationships that aren't like aligning, you know, if they don't, you know, when you talk about entrainment, it's just alignment. Are you going to be supportive of me in this new frequency or this new way of being? Or are you going to try and drag me back into the old way of being?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And those who are supportive, like, great, they're ready to continue aligning and and being supportive of you as you grow. But those who resent you for it or, you know, try to drag you back into the old dynamics and like, hey, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you doing this? You know, you used to do this. Well, you used to be fun.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You know, they kind of make you feel bad for like the fact that you're choosing something different. It's really because they're not secure with themselves. And so... Those sometimes we have to go through that separation, if you will, that there's part of the alchemy and we have to make certain sacrifices.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And when you do that, you create a new room for and making new choices and aligning with a new group of a new community, if you will, that will get you. So this is all part of the alchemy that we go through on a personal level as we grow and transform and evolve. And, you know, the key to being able to be that person who brings the positive frequency of entrainment into a group is to know thyself.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
The more you know yourself, the more you can maintain your own frequency. You know who you are, you know your center, and you usually won't have so much attachment to people needing their approval, if you will. And then that allows you to really maintain that frequency that you cultivate and generate for yourself through your own practice and your own choices in life.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Well, first of all, it's a dedicated practice that, you know, every day you do something that's just taking some intentional time to connect spirit. You know, for some people, they might do meditation. For some, it might be prayer. For some, it might be some form of ritual or ceremony. For some, it might be doing mantra work. You know, there's lots of tools. For some, it might be yoga or qigong.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it opened up so many more possibilities and a lot more interest that I felt dovetailed with just at an intuitive level, like I knew things were more connected. I knew things were, there's greater possibilities and so forth that opens up from the quantum. But then I got into grad school and in grad school, I was immersed my first year of 80 hours a week of physics.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
There's a lot of tools. And any of those tools are going to be good if you're committing time every day. Here's the thing is like our foundation in life, our subconscious programming is going to be based on the things we think, say, and do every day. And so it's not the big things.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It's the little things that you do day by day that really make a huge difference in terms of the strength of your ability to stand in the resonance that you want to create for your life and your ability to hold that regularly, even when you're challenged, it's going to be based on what you're doing every day.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So I would definitely recommend people have some kind of a spiritual practice every day that they do. And then one of the things that I teach is, you know, we're not just one dimensional beings, right? So one tool isn't usually going to give you the full spectrum of ability to master yourself. So we need multiple tools to learn. For me personally,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I love to do various rituals, you know, they like, I'm very action oriented. And, you know, it's, but it's something that I can do. It's a pattern I've created for myself, but that gives me time for that spiritual connection. And I do it every day. I do it twice a day, you know, morning and night so that I can just have, I can bookend my days with that connection to spirit.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it really shifts the flow of my energy through my day. And it also clears the energy from the day off before I go to bed. And that's like a really big thing that I've made a part of my daily life. Meditation is also like really important for quieting the mind and getting new intuition and inspiration coming through and clarity coming through. And then just having some sense of
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Communication with the divine, you know, whether you call it prayer, you call it ritual, whatever you want to call it, having that communication and recognizing that I'm not alone. You know, even if I'm physically alone, I'm not alone. Like this is an intelligent universe that we live in and there's intelligence all around me. Even the plants are intelligent.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
100%, I 100% agree with you. When I originally was on my search, I was just sort of doing a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I was kind of skirting the surface of things and I would take the pieces that resonated for me and then discard the rest of it because it didn't resonate. And I just sort of formulated my own little philosophy of life. But when it came time to really grow,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And to go beyond what I could kind of create for myself, it really took like finding a path. And in finding a path, it was finding teachers who had walked that path longer and who could guide you along the way. And I think that when people try to do everything self-guided and get everything off the internet,
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Not that there, you know, there could be some good things out there, but there could also be some other things you might end up dabbling into that could actually be harmful to you. So you really need to have a guide who knows the rules of the road, so to speak. They know the pitfalls. They've been there before. They can give you the, like, I wouldn't go down that way if I were you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like, here's the better path to, or better sort of way to do this, if you will. And it helps you avoid those pitfalls. I often see that life is like a maze. There's dead ends, there's things that'll kind of come out from behind certain corners, and you have to know the map, right?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like so between classes and study and testing and research, you know, 80 hours a week, no room for anything else. And that so I went from having, I would say, a life of diversity in undergrad to a life of just only physics and the only left brain for a year, two years as I got into my first bit of grad school. And after that first year, I found myself really disconnected from myself.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And by following a lineage or a deeper path, it has a deep tradition that goes back farther than the New Age, at least a couple hundred years, if not a couple thousand years. They have tried and true and tested modalities and methods and they have understanding that's been passed down through the generations that they know what pitfalls to avoid.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
They've been down that road before and they say, well, that's not really gonna work out so well. Try this, we know this works. And then you can walk a tried and true path and you don't have to grope your way through the maze anymore. It's like they can help you navigate your way through the maze and you'll get there faster.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And so I feel that, you know, like a ritual, for example, should always be handed down through an oral direct transmission from the teacher to the student versus you like taking it out of a book or off the internet or off some YouTube video. There's an energetic transmission that comes with these lineages as well.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And they're going to work better for you when you've received it in the proper way and you have the proper keys. There is not just knowledge. There's also an energy. There's a link, you know, that comes from that tradition that helps make it work properly for you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So one of the questions that I have never been asked that I think is a good question is what of all the things that I've achieved and accomplished and created in my life, what's the thing that you're most proud of and why? And I have created a lot of things in my life from doing my PhD in physics to really becoming a teacher of the universal Hermetic Great Kabbalah system and revising.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
There's books and so forth coming. But of all the things that I've created, the thing I'm most proud of to date is something that is actually a relatively new birthing that my husband and I co-created. And it is the iQuantum event that is called The Awakening. It's the first step called iQuantum One. The Awakening is part of a seven-step journey that we are curating.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And in that, we have put together our... creative abilities my quantum knowledge his creativity and visual and we've worked with some other collaborators with some an animator and musician and a producer and everything we've created this amazing both a guided meditation that is called the quantum meditation technique that is available and It's really trippy. Don't do any drugs.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Don't be mentally unstable if you use it because it's really trippy. So like if you're like sound and sober, go for it. It's an amazing experience that gets you into the quantum gap, if you will. And that stillness point that we talked about earlier. And then the other thing that's more part of our actual immersion weekend called I Quantum the Awakening is there's an open eye meditation.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's this amazing journey from our origins, even prior to the Big Bang, all the way to us here now. And it's very informed by my background in Kabbalah and meditation. quantum physics and hermetics and all of this. And it's just this incredible journey of remembering who you are and where you come from and the potential that's within you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And yeah, of all the things I've created, I'm most proud of this because it is truly going to awaken people when they watch and experience it. And it's a thing of just pure beauty, pure beauty and goodness.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
You know, I think that what's important for people to realize, if I can just say that, is that One, you have so much more potential in you than you've ever been taught. Believe in yourself. If you can just start believing in yourself, then you can progress from belief to knowing, right? You can then start to know thyself.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that is like, you know, the ancient mystery traditions all said, know thyself. right? Because you are the microcosm of the macrocosm. Like the macrocosm is in you as above, so below, and the divine is in you. And if you want to know the divine and you want to know that greater potential, you got to look inside. And far too many people these days are looking outside.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that led to feeling depressed, really dissatisfied with like, why am I doing this? You know, because it's coming at the expense of my well-being and my sense of happiness. Do I really want to do this? Do I need this? And I just really started questioning a lot at that stage. And I knew, like, okay, something's got to give.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
They want something that's outside of them to be their solution. They want the magic bullet. They want this, you know, the shortcut. They want that teacher to be the person that gives me my enlightenment. Fix me. You know, that's not the way to know thyself. You can be guided, right? And you can be aided along your path with different tools. But ultimately, the answers are inside of you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
The potential is inside of you. And the only way to awaken that potential is to use the tools in your life and make, like, awaken yourself. through the inner work versus trying to have something from the outside hack in. So we're in this age of biohacking right now.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And not that there couldn't be some great new modalities and methods and supplements and all of that kind of stuff out there, but it's not the answer. The answer is within. And when we talk about your quantum potential, you have to get to the very core foundation of your being, which is in every atom of your being. It's in every particle of your being. It's not outside, it's in you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's through learning to tap into the inner resources. And as you cultivate and develop through your own practices and having the right tools and the right knowledge that can guide you You can awaken those inner resources in a way that now you have the key, you know the door, you can unlock it anytime you want. You don't need anything outside of you to do it for you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And that's when you'll have like created the new neural networks within your being that allow those pathways to stay open all the time versus only when you've used the outside fix. It's all should be endogenous, not exogenous. And so I really truly believe that people need to look within again, other than getting so caught up in whatever fad is out there.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But yet find the proper guidance system that can support you in awakening to your true potential versus thinking that your potential is outside, you know, has to have something outside of you to awaken it for you. So there's a lot of tools out there, but not all those tools are going to really support you in awakening to your true potential. And so just remember that the knowledge is inside you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And you just need to remember it, right? So you just need to reawaken to what you already know. The power is inside. You just need to activate it. And all the potential is inside of you to have that beautiful life, to have that beautiful connection, and to achieve your purpose. And the answers are going to be inside.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like, I got to bring some balance back into my life if I'm going to survive this process. Because, you know, the grad school in physics was very much a weeding out of the weak ones. And it was quite a grind. And so I started bringing very systematically, like... everything that I had in my life before, what's the key?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
I found that most of the most essential keys of enlightenment were things that once they were like said, it was like, yeah, I know that, but I needed to be reminded of that, right? It's like, I forgot, or I know it, but I wasn't living it. You know, it's that. And it's all, they're very beautiful, they're very simple, and they're very practical.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
But, you know, we just, we get so disconnected from ourselves. Not just ourselves at a personality level, but our true self. And that's what we need to reclaim.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, I love that. Beautiful. And trusting, learning to trust yourself. Again, I think a lot of people disconnect from what they intuitively know because they don't trust themselves. And if they can just start to have a better relationship with themselves and keep their word with themselves and start showing themselves that they can trust themselves, it'll shift everything.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And, you know, so we kind of shift, we progress from belief to knowing, from knowing to understanding, from understanding to wisdom, and from that wisdom to our divinity, these stepping stones. And this is the path, you know, I mean, this is what I help teach people, you know, through multiple ways, whether it's through like the quantum mindset work with the Quantum Learning Academy,
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that my husband and I have started, or whether it's with the modern mystery school work and the Kabbalah and the alchemy and the hermetics and so forth. There's many ways to kind of navigate it, but the essence of them is always the same, but it definitely helps to... that guidance, if you will.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And I think what you've done with your podcast and exposing people to, you know, some really great resources is also a huge service. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to be on it with you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Like if I were to just bring in one or two of those things that I can be efficient with, what's gonna be the major key to that sense of wellbeing? And brought back creative hobbies and social time and athletics and all the things that you think create a well-rounded lifestyle. And another year goes by as I'm doing all of that.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, I loved it. Thank you.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yes, great questions and you have great, you know, input and, you know, share and resource that you also have. So thank you for the opportunity.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Yeah. Just, you know, remember who you are and believe in your potential.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And it's like, okay, well, things are better, but there's still something missing. What is this thing that's missing? I've brought everything back in, but there's still something missing. And there's just this one day I was at the gym and this little voice I was contemplating in the back of my mind.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And this little voice kind of came in and said, well, there's one thing you haven't brought back in. And that was spirituality. And I was a bit surprised at that stage. But as I started to explore. I thought, okay, anything I'm going to explore spiritually can't negate what I know to be true scientifically.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So I'm going to have to find where the two can at least align, you know, and I couldn't go with blind faith and religious sort of approach at that stage. So I looked for all the science and consciousness, science and spirituality, Tao of physics kind of stuff, like Eastern esotericism meets quantum physics. And as I started reading into it, it got me super excited.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
It reminded me of why I was pursuing science in the first place. And I realized like these actually dovetail beautifully. Like they're saying the same thing. You know, one thing led to another where I was ultimately saying, okay, it's great to have the philosophy. The concepts that these two can complement each other, but it's not practical. It's not grounded. Like, how do we apply this?
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
Because I was an experimental scientist and it's like, we need to round it into physical reality somehow.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
So that's what ultimately led me on the search to finding things like sacred geometry and alchemy and hermetic teachings and more of the Western mystery tradition and how that I think worked really well with the modern scientific mindset because it really wants to understand the deeper underpinnings of how things work and why they work. And so there's where I found like a real deep connection.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
And even in, I remember being in an astrophysics course at one point, and they were talking about astrophysics cosmology. And then there was, on the other side, I was reading like, Kabbalistic cosmology and ancient wisdom teachings cosmology. And at the same time, I was reading these two things. I'm like, wait, they're saying this essence is the same.
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E145 - Dr. Theresa Bullard: Physicist Explores The Missing Link Between Alchemy & Quantum Mechanics
They're saying the same things and just have different ways of talking about it. But it's the same. So I thought, well, if these Kabbalists and these ancient mystics knew this thousands of years ago, and modern science is just kind of reaffirming and catching up with it, what else did they know that could help guide our science today?