Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Okay, it's a little technical this week.

So I got to go through it a little bit for you.

But it's worth it.

Stay with me.

Okay, so I believe that everything is made of consciousness. Okay, nobody knows what

consciousness is, but we know it exists because we have it, right? And Descartes, who said,

I think, therefore I am, did not actually just say that. He said, I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

I don't know what's going on. So I must be here because there's something here to not know what's

going on. Now, here's the part where I usually say, I'm not going down the new age path.

I really, really mean this. I'm going to explain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the

two-slid experiment, which Richard Feynman called the most elegant experiment in all of physics,

but I'm not going to do that. I'm going to cut straight to the point because I keep saying that.

Trust me, go look it out. It's true. All the things we see as objects are in actuality, clouds of energy

in an indeterminate state which can intermingle with each other unless they are observed by

consciousness and measured at which point the probabilities of that cloud of particles collapse

into a point and the thing

becomes a solid piece of matter. Go watch what the bleep do we know or whatever. But no, read

about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. It will convince you more than a movie. It's good.

Anyway, now we're going to another thing. It's an old Zen story where there are two monks and they're watching a flag blowing in the wind.

And one monk says to the other monk, what is moving?

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