The Zone by Rob Wood

Author:Rob Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Published: 2022-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

10. Journey into Science

as early as my teenage rock climbing and mountaineering adventures, I had inexplicable feelings of hidden connectivity, freedom and joy that led to an intense curiosity about the age-old question: Why do we climb mountains? It was easy to brush the question off by saying “because it is fun” or “because it is there,” but that was to deny the deeper mystery. To the vast majority of people who have never had the experience, anyone who deliberately risks their own life must seem crazy. I soon learned that any explanation of that mystery would require a fundamentally different understanding of reality.

Five years’ training as an architect did nothing to allay my early doubts about the veracity of the prevalent world view of modern society. Even though I wanted to believe in science, logic, objectivity and reason, their application to planning and urban management policies invariably seemed to lead to a standardized monoculture that omitted vital components of life. This presented another profound question: What exactly was it that I found to be so fundamentally wrong or missing in contemporary society? Answering that, too, would require a different world view.

Answering these two questions became a lifetime intellectual quest. I had an intuitive hunch that answering either of them would also answer the other. I knew society considered climbers insane, but I was not at all sure it wasn’t society that was insane.

I was interested in any subject that might shed light on or explain my beyond-“normal” experiences in mountains and wild places. Although I was fascinated by Eastern religious philosophy, I was more inclined to be convinced, if possible, by scientific proof.

From the sprinkling of general science in my high school education, I knew that, in any interaction of two energy fields, when the frequency of each field’s wave is in sync or in tune with the other’s, they resonate and harmonize to produce a new wave of higher amplitude (“constructive interference”). When the frequencies are out of sync, they cancel each other out (“destructive interference”).

The balance of the whole universal system is maintained by a self-regulating process in which the outcome of any energy transformation feeds back, through harmonic resonance, to enhance the original source. This harmonic convergence constitutes the intelligent and harmonious order of nature that we see and feel around and within us.

The possibility of a new holistic science that might explain my experience of “extraordinary” or “paranormal” reality took a quantum leap when I read Fritjof Capra’s 1975 book The Tao of Physics. It explains how, at the start of the twentieth century, a fundamental disagreement existed in physics as to whether light was made of particles or waves. The famous two-slit experiment of quantum physics showed not only that it was potentially both but also that the particles were choosing which aspect of themselves (particle or wave) would materialize at any particular moment, depending, among other things, on whether or not they were being observed. Subatomic particles knew instantly, over vast distances, what each other was doing and behaved differently when observed or measured.

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