According to ancient beliefs - and several modern ones - we have entered an age of consciousness which transcends any we have experienced before, notwithstanding that civilisations before us have been party to significant changes of their own and there were times when capabilities we are now exploring were not as mysterious as they are today. We can be sure that modes of communication in the natural world take account of telepathy, and that relationships with nature have a profound healing effect on all concerned. Now that we have found the building blocks of life to be affected by thought, and know that the quarks of which we are made are constantly oscillating from one formation to another, we can afford more confidence in our quality of life being directly attuned by the mental processes we attribute to it.

This is not to say that the modern era is likely to dish up quick-fix remedies to psychological challenges faced by mankind. We've an uphill climb against the determination of power to be absolute, in the process corrupting itself absolutely. We have to contend with physical, mental and chemical warfare and be prepared to accept that things are not likely to get much better any time soon. But what we can do, with what we have at our disposal, is to accept the changes in our own thinking and actively cultivate those doing us most good, while guarding against those that do us most harm.

Were it not for the rambunctious uncertainty of my personal track, I would not be here reaching these conclusions and searching for the evidence pouring from all scientific corners which supports our endeavours in dealing more successfully with our existence. Were it not for those in my life who've had a direct effect upon it, I wouldn't have written Quantumology. The factors which brought me here were less of my choosing, more a circumstantial collection of events over which I had virtually no control. In assessing this to be the case, enter the Uncertainty Principle in making sure that nothing can ever be as we imagine it to be in detail, for if we imagine it, then it's happening somewhere else (across the Multiverse), and we know from our experience of life here and now that nothing happens exactly as it has happened before. We can ascribe this as a law, for it appears to be unshakable, that not only can one never measure speed and position at the same time, but that speed and position have to occupy a unique place in spacetime to satisfy this law. The unique position of every moment in which we exist cannot therefore be replicated, and nor can the position of any other party or particle, by default. Accepting uniqueness as a law frees our thinking to accept the uncertainty of the future.  

The events of personal circumstance have brought me face to face with non-locality as I never in my wildest dreams imagined it could occur. My connections in this respect were primed, for I was given to understand the principle before being granted the direct experience. Now that I appreciate fully how non-locality feels when applied to human connectivity (and believe me, you can certainly feel it), I'm in a position to give it credence across the board, and to believe others who are party to similar effects in the course of their own relationships.

​There is no teacher more commanding than experience, and we never forget the lessons directly learned in this way while we may forget the entire contents of a book, or all the writings on the blackboard (I'm old enough to remember those!) at school. We experience quantum effects throughout our lives, and the more credence we give them, the more capability we have to utilise the gifts therein. 

We can change our worlds simply by appreciating the two principles above, and if you then add wave-particle duality to consider that you only exist in particle format for a Planck time (if that) before your wave packet collapses into the next version of yourself, it makes absolute sense to abandon past-future anxiety and adopt the premise that the new You is in constant upgrade of manufacture. We are responsible for our quality control.

To forget quantum entanglement in this context would be rude, if nothing else. Although there is little differential between entanglement and non-locality, there is the multiplication factor applied here which brings us face to face with the fact that you are everything, and everything is you. Fibonacci was kind enough to provide a mathematical sequence to make sense of natural formations of beauty, while Mandelbrot convinced us that fractals are a feature of every aspect of existence, so we are part of a pattern while maintaining a sense of individuality, and if we are part of a pattern, we act accordingly as parts of a plan.

Ego is powerful stuff, whatever it may turn out to be, and while it has a place in the games we play it makes no difference what we think of ourselves in relation to others, we're clearly all in this together. Perhaps we have hit a turning point where we need to 'switch on' in quantum terms, so that we become accustomed to these laws being at work in our lives, and take account of the fact that it's up to us how we think, so that we can feel what we want to feel, which in itself would satisfy a clear need for compassion when it comes to the welfare of the planet - the planet of which we are part. 

All in all, it's been a tough year. Yet again, it's been a good one. too. A lot to learn and a lot to come to terms with, a lot to appreciate and a lot to leave behind. What's the plan, I ask myself. What am I supposed to do? I've tried - I'm good at trying. What's the sense in trying if it gets you precisely nowhere?
This week I discovered two things of notable importance. One, that telomeres are affected by the way you think. That's our core DNA changing according to our thought process, affecting how long we live and what kind of person we become. All along, all through life, we have the chance to change as we wish and to become what we want to become by virtue of our thinking. And that's quite a lot to account for, if you think about it, for we're free to change our minds anytime.
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The other notable thing of importance was the inescapable dependability of love. Love as an energy is something that we have no control over other than the way in which we translate it. So often we get tied up by our own shoelaces of assumption in believing people have agendas or are out to make life difficult for us or even that they know what they're doing when they've done something we see as 'wrong'. How we feel about these things is up to us, or down to us, according to which quark you want to assign the moment to. If it's strange, or it's charming, that's another kind of moment to appreciate. And if you want beauty and truth, well, they don't hang around very long so best to make the best of those while we can, when they're there. 

Right now, the world is a pretty harsh place with plenty of uncertainty spinning the bowl and people with power wielding it as if it were military-surplus candyfloss. We don't know what's going to happen next but I distinctly remember standing up in front of a crowd of superconducted scientists at Cryodet ll and warning of the potential uses of neutrino energy. We've yet to see where that trajectory is heading but we do know, now, that quantum particles interact with us and we have far more at our disposal than the model of Standard Anythings would have us believe.
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Now that DNA has been found to change according to our patterns of thinking, this could lead us to believe that our quarks are playing a significant part in the role-changing game and perhaps it's time to credit the Neutrino with being the one to carry information to us on a need-to-know basis. Both quarks and neutrinos oscillate - they are the only particles in the Particle Zoo known to morph from one version to another. Electrons might go up and down the energy value scale but they stay as they are, as electrons, while the quarks that constitute our particle mass and the neutrinos firing through us at immeasurable rates from the Sun are merrily transforming from one version to another, which if you think about it, is like exchanging code.  

My mum is one of the last surviving Codebreakers from WWll, who worked with Enigma and helped Churchill end the war two years early. The bombe machine she once operated was ancient technology, invented by Alan Turing, but it did the trick in cracking what the Germans thought to be an unbreakable cipher. She made a mark on the world with her efforts, and maybe there's a bit of genetic gearing in me that makes me want to do the same. Quantum mechanics is important to us, it makes us tick and drives our buses, affects our thoughts and actions, and plays tricks of the light with our emotional engagements.
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If a code exchange mechanism between quarks and neutrinos is discovered to be in action, then it's up to us to break the code just enough to read it when we need to, so that we know what's really going on when we need to know, and have something to trust that makes sense to every individual person in their own right. 

​We are being guided down this route from all quarters. Look at the number of products called Quantum, the number of TV programmes that make reference to Quantum ... the word has turned into a household name, even if most people are unsure what it really refers to. When I first started out on the quantum trail, no-one had heard of it and the consensus seemed to be that I was mad. Well, I wasn't mad. I created a development programme from what I'd found and that programme broke performance records from a standing start. I wrote a book which now has a waiting list for itself in American libraries. If Now has any power, I've got to trust it's going to be worthwhile, and so have you. Whatever you're going through, uncertainty is a great friend and will make sure that not only is everything temporary, but nothing - and I mean nothing - can ever turn out quite as you expect it to, so don't worry. Times will change.