Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World

by Cynthia Sue Larson

Have you noticed things mysteriously move around? Keys don't stay put, wallets transport to different places, and socks go missing from the laundry. We observe reality shifts when things appear, disappear, transform or transport and when we experience changes in time. Reality shifts range from the sublime (missing socks and synchronicity) to completely astonishing (the dead seen alive again; objects appearing out of thin air; spontaneous remission; traveling far in a very short time). Learn how to live lucidly to create a life you love, positively influence the future and the past, and transform sabotage into strength. "Cynthia Larson helps restore a sense of majesty and wonder to our everyday world. If you think science has explained away the magic of existence, you need seriously to read this book." – Larry Dossey, M.D."I recommend this book for its clarity and for its message of hope." – Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D."Read, enjoy, be amazed, ponder REALITY SHIFTS." – Edgar Mitchell, D.Sc.

Genres: Nonfiction, Metaphysics, Spirituality

310 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2011

About the author

Cynthia Sue Larson is a best-selling author, life coach, and inspirational speaker who optimizes life possibilities with quantum physics principles. Known as "The Quantum Optimist," Cynthia helps people discover their many possible selves and jump into their favorite lives while staying focused on the question "How good can it get?" Cynthia is featured in numerous TV and radio shows including the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, and BBC. Learn how consciousness changes the physical world with Cynthia's popular RealityShifters ezine at: www.realityshifters.com

Reviews

[Tanya Masse · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Reality Shifts” is an inspiring, fascinating and insightful read that will captivate your mind, body and soul. Cynthia Sue Larson’s words are knowledgeable, encouraging, healing, powerful and mesmerizing. She encourages us to open our minds and heighten our awareness of the positivity, the awesomeness, the beauty and the magic that surrounds us. Things we often take for granted and overlook. Cynthia also promotes the power of CHOOSING to focus on the positive, the blessings and the humor in life. This is something I am extremely passionate about.

I have experienced many “reality shifts” throughout my life journey. However, I before I read this book I thought perhaps I was just losing my mind! My son has suggested that parallel universes do exist, but I never REALLY opened up my mind to the possibility until now. Cynthia has explained these mysteries and now they make perfect sense! I highly recommend this book. =)

[Chris Niebauer · Rating 5 out of 5]

For some, this book will challenge the foundation of Western thought. Perhaps the most common and yet unspoken assumption of Western culture is that reality is fixed and it certainly is not influenced by consciousness. What the author helps the reader to feel is that perhaps reality is alive and changing all the time. More importantly, our consciousness is as much a part of this picture as any thing. If you ever got up in a great mood and had a great day and then suddenly everything turned and you were in a terrible mood, perhaps you know how different two worlds can be. This author is asking us to feel this a little deeper. It’s not just the good and bad moods but the very fabric of reality itself that is created by the conscious mind. We might notice this when in one reality our keys are in one place, but a shift occurs and in a different reality they are in a totally different place. Now, who really cares about keys? Sometimes we do, but I don’t think that is the point. The author mentions these shifts to let the reader open up to a wider reality. Once you start to notice these small shifts you will feel how your consciousness is playing an active role in reality itself because reality and consciousness are playing this game together. One more important point. The author is sincerely aware of ego. That is, these reality shifts are not there to serve the ego, but to serve what one might call soul or spirit so this isn’t the idea that you can reality shift to instantly being famous or rich or anything that would only serve egotistical needs.

While the ideas in this book may be challenging to some that are scientifically minded, remember that science itself is flexible. The core assumptions of science have been challenged in the past and in the end, science became a more interesting and useful tool.

I would also suggest getting the audio version. So many audio books are over produced it is hard to sense a connection with the author. This audio version is like sitting down and having a genuine conversation and in the end, this interaction itself becomes a guide for navigating realities to the point you will feel that you (the real you not your ego) are creating your reality at every moment.

Chris Niebauer, Ph.D., Author of “The Neurotic’s Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment”

[Hitesh · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know what to say.

I've never experienced anything like someone coming back to life. Alternate realities sound plausible, but the author narrated so many incidents of reality shifts in and around her own life that it felt like I was listening to a novel by Stephen King.

There were some good points about positive thinking and belief systems, but I was looking for more about alternate universes. While the incidents might be true, the sheer number of them happening in and around one single person makes it hard for me to accept.

My rational mind took over the moment I heard about the cat rising from the dead.

Good ... Bad... This is not a genre of my liking to comment. But I am really getting hooked to a huge 5 Volume - Reality Transurfing Steps I-V by Vadim Zeland. That seems a much better book on the subject so far.

[Thomas Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hand by Hand into the Reality Shifts.

“(...) thanks to witnessing so many reality shifts on such an ongoing, regular basis, it is just about impossible for me to view the world we live in as consisting of one material, objective reality.
I now view reality as magical in the miraculous sense, in which sentient beings such as ourselves are engaged in conversation with the Cosmos at the deepest levels and core of our existence.
As we choose to become more of what we most treasure and value, we can witness how we can be of greater and higher service than we've ever before imagined.” (Cynthia Sue Larson)

We are living during interesting times where quantum mechanics becomes more and more in vogue - which I still find surprising, given that not so long ago it had been still more of a hermetic matter reserved for theoretical physicists and with no seemingly recognized application into everyday life, let alone humans’ spiritual growth (!).

But things have changed. Nowadays quantum matter more and more often catches even the mainstream media headlines. Quantum teleportation, quantum accumulator, quantum computers, quantum supremacy... more and more quantum buzzwords (or ideas to apply in everyday life) make the whole thing pretty close to an ordinary part of our reality, finally liberated from the fetters of science-fiction (although it’s not so certain will we find quantum a signifiant improvement - or our own salvation).

“(....) tomorrow’s technology (such as quantum computers) will be counting on what was considered to be quantum weirdness just yesterday.” (Cynthia Sue Larson)

The book I’m going to address, has to do with this matter seen from yet another, surprising angle of... consciousness. This contemporary physics’ pet peeve definitely doesn’t let itself to remain ignored, among other things surprisingly emerging from the XXI century ‘Christmas gifts’ for humanity :) . Who would expect such a turn in science, which brings the spiritual to the foreground of our attention, maybe once and for all, finally?

*****

One day while listening to Howard Hughes’s “The Unexplained” podcast I found myself especially surprised. The guest was about to speak on so-called reality shifts (which initially I found a modern version of the Law of Attraction). She described many examples of something which resembles influencing reality solely with Your will and intention; she mentioned that she’s still retaining memories from the time before this lifetime (in-between lives). It seems no surprise that she is an author of several books on the matter, which sole titles may be associated with spiritually/esoterically-driven self-help genre. But the real surprise has come when You learn that she has also a tangible scientific background (e.g., a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley).

Cynthia: - I’ve got the blessing of some of my physics professors for a lot of what I am doing and for the books that I’ve written.
Howard: - You said that You had the support and the approval of Your colleagues in science, many of them.
Cynthia: - That’s correct (...) in some cases they may not fully appreciate every aspect of what I’m talking about because remind You quite a bit of what I cover is rather cutting edge.

This was definitely something I didn’t expect. I think there is still a strong need for mainstream-associated people to come out with a message which previously had been spread mostly by the ones who were outside of the academia, therefore not being influenced and confined by it. Fortunately it seems that there is an increasing number of such people (like Howard Hughes I’ve mentioned, who himself origins from the very mainstream background, or a neurosurgeon Eben Alexander with his out-of-the-body experience). This time, however, is even more interesting due to a range of the matter involved.


## A contemporary “Secret” would be... quantum.

The first time I learned that so-called Law of Attraction may have its reflection within the quantum mechanics, it was definitely surprising. I hadn’t expected quanta speaking esoterically ;) . I didn’t expect that such an almost metaphysical concept may emerge out of physics itself, however spooky ;) . It definitely impressed me back in the days of early 2000’s (the documentaries “What the Bleep Do We Know!?” and ”The Secret” had been published in 2004 and 2006). Almost two decades later, however, I’ve discovered Howard’s guest mentioned above: Cynthia Sue Larson. Apart from the surprise regarding her scientific background, there is yet another one: she had written a solid piece of work on the matter years before “What the Bleep...” (!). And, if You take a closer look on her website, You will find out that (...).

» Unfortunately my review doesn’t fit the character limit so feel free to continue reading on my website:

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[Glenn Aparicio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cynthia Sue Larson opens her book by making a a disarmingly brilliant statement: "what we wish for, dream, and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create." With this pronouncement, she adds fluidity to our very definition of reality, too often defined in the negative: as not imaginary, not dream-like, not (only) theoretical. And she is spot on; everything, from a bird's nest to a completed book, existed first in the imagination and then became manifest. There is a fluid interface between imagination and reality, the same interface the quantum physicist David Bohm spoke about as "implicate and explicate order" underlying all of creation.

Larson, who has a degree in physics, shares another similarity to Bohm. They both recognize the limitations of thought when people are stuck in their assumptions of what reality is or is not possible. Larson bursts the bubble of restricted perceptions of reality, opening the reader up to new worlds of possibilities. Standard definitions of space and time are reframed to allow for discontinuous quantum jumps of shifting reality. Through the use of many stories, often personal, she takes us on a magical dive into an Alice in Wonderland underworld where all things are possible. You don't even have to pop a pill. All you need to do is read this book and pop the bubble of self-limitation.

[Andy Nieradko · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found the audiobook for Reality Shifts by Cynthia Sue Larson extremely interesting. The author does a wonderful job of explaining a new way of looking at life and how it shows up around us. Her unabridged reading of the text is wonderful, because she doesn't rush through it. That makes it easy to pay attention, and not get lost in thought while the book goes on to another point. The section on lucid living is incredible. Cynthia is very Zen-like in her approach, as she doesn't badger you into a philosophical corner and tell you what you should think or feel, but rather teaches ways of going inward and finding your own answers. That's where the true change and the power always comes from anyway. My favorite part of the book are the sections dealing with energy work. I got involved with Reiki several years ago with the idea of proving that it was all bunk, instead it had the opposite effect and changed everything for me. Cynthia speaks like a true master of this healing art. So if you're at all interested in energy work, and experiencing reality in a brand new way I highly recommend that you pick up this audiobook. It is one of a kind, you won't regret it.

[Trish LeSage · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a long time, science and spirituality have been separated. However, what I like about the book, "Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes The Physical World", is that it bridges the gap between science and spirituality. The author explains in detail that well known and well respected scientists have done experiments proving that reality shifts are real.

This book gives good examples of reality shifts so that one knows what to look for and provides good exercises to help us to prepare to experience reality shifts.

I would highly recommend this book to those who are interested in learning more about reality shifts and to those who want to begin experiencing them. As the author states: the more we pay attention to them, and the more we want them to happen, the more they will happen, and the more we will notice them.

[Claudia Soto · Rating 4 out of 5]

The topic of changing reality is truly fascinating. I applaud you for choosing and sharing such a vital subject for human beings. I agree that reality changes when consciousness shifts. However, in my humble view, there is a long road between the two.
1. The process of shifting from one reality to another requires deep inner growth shaped by the lessons found in painful experiences. When I truly understand and integrate those lessons, the shift in reality happens. This leads me to believe that reality, in itself, cannot be changed. It simply stops repeating when it has nothing more to teach me. Why? Because I’ve learned from my mistakes—without guilt—and that learning has helped me grow in maturity, appreciation, resilience, and the ability to value what I already have.
2. If I keep repeating the same patterns, I’ll get the same results. To make that shift—to take a quantum leap in my level of understanding—I need new knowledge rooted in wisdom. That kind of knowledge usually doesn’t come from ordinary human thinking. It comes from higher intelligences that understand the universal laws that affect everything. These same intelligences also gave us 7 tools for a fulfilling life and showed us how to dismantle the 7 agents of chaos—destructive behavior patterns that block our path to true fulfillment.
3.“Reality happens in the place where I am.” That’s why events happening in other parts of the world—though painful—are not part of my direct experience. That’s why we can say, “There is no such thing as one general reality.” Only my reality exists. It is the school where I learn to find happiness on my own and to respect all forms of life.
I share this perspective, received from the celestial realm, as a reflection on the true purpose of being here: the evolution of consciousness.