Physics

It is well-known, even common knowledge by most high-school educated people, that "the world" - from the point of view of physics - is two-fold: the visible, touchable, material, "real" world, and the invisible, untouchable, immaterial, "atomic" world.

The material world, of solid bodies and such, are - according to current thinking by physicists everywhere - mostly empty space, and the only thing that keeps two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time, is the strong electronic forces of the constituent atoms. That is, the electron clouds of all the constituent atoms of each body define the physical limits of that body, so that another body can not penetrate it under normal conditions.

This model is, surprise, surprise, a perfect metaphor for an ordinary human being - with his outer, physical body, and his inner, non-material mind.

Regarding physical bodies, in general, at the quantum level of investigation, it is known that you can not BOTH know the path or course of a given particle, AND the speed of that particle. If you know the speed, you can't determine where it is. If you know where it is, you can't determine how it got there or where it's going.

Surprise, surprise.

In a human, at the mental level of investigation, it can be observed that there are, what are called, attitudes, or opinions, or beliefs -which are just three examples of what, at the subatomic level of existence, are called electron clouds. These clouds are not really material - they are only "in potential". In any given instance, a particle cloud may be here or there or everywhere, and it may be travelling this way, that way or anotherway.

Surprise, surprise.

In a human, opinions and beliefs are, in reality for that human, just "in potential", and there is no physical (based upon the laws of physics) requirement that an opinion or belief actually becomes "manifest". As such, a human being, with all his memories, beliefs, thoughts, ideas (all of which, in any given moment, are just "in potential") act as neuron clouds in the sky of the mind, and the individual - if there actually IS one in a particular moment - can control the actual organization of his OWN UNIVERSE!!

Surprise, surprise.