made other contributions either to draft versions of this book or to topics related to the book: Dean Kansky, Colleen Kaffashan, Kathy Izzo, Jo C. Willems, Donna Cameron, Dave Ambrose, and Marcel and Teri Wester.
I especially want to thank Dean Kansky, Colleen Kaffashan, and Marcel and Teri Wester, who collaborated in exploring the limits of nonlocality and the use of this model in accessing esoteric aspects of the personality.
I want to thank all my patients who took part in my learning path, contributed to my understanding of the hidden reality and spiritual growth, and to the final version of this theory.
In particular, I want to thank AP,1 who led me to the Flux Theory web page and engaged me in many discussions about the physics of our virtual reality and its connection with humans. This person definitely had a major impact on the theory presented in this book, the importance of writing the book, and my life.
I want to express special thanks to James Cranwell for his enthusiasm, for reading the manuscript in detail, and validating the feasibility of my adaptations of his model to explain the hidden reality.
A special thanks goes to Philip Warren, who gave a fine-grain, thoughtful editing of the first draft of the book and made many suggestions about the text and the figures. Thanks to Stephanie McCleod, who gave excellent suggestions for Chapter 1. She also suggested rewriting the book, which I did.
A big thanks goes to the following friends and colleagues who read and gave feedback on the first presentable draft of the book: Lee Pulos, Teri and Marcel Wester, Carol and Glen Kepler, Marie Green, Debbie Bensching, Derick Curtis and Eileen Scharader.
Again, my colleague, Jo Willems, who created a spectacular cover, did the first grueling edit of the book and made many excellent suggestions. She also provided information that I was able to reference in the text.
Michael LaRocca did a superb job of editing the first version of this book. He was generous with his time and made many positive suggestions and corrections that made the book easier to read.
Al Desetta performed a heroic task of content-editing and transforming the book to make it more readable. This involved rewriting several chapters and reorganizing some of the others. I thank Al for the time and effort he put into this task.
Thanks to Susann Robins, who edited for clarity, suggested many significant changes, and freely pointed out where my writing was not clear, and Kay Gale at Writersservices.com for doing yet another copyedit of this manuscript.
Thinking I was done revising and editing, I let Heather Cameron read the manuscript. She voluntarily returned a five page, single spaced critique of content, organization and formatting of the text. For this I am greatly appreciative.
Then, I had Dana Flint do a final edit before the layout. She did an excellent job. As soon as I got over the shock of her thoroughness, I appreciated the changes and comments she made and the results in the manuscript. She clearly understood what she was reading and made many clarifying suggestions.
Finally, I want to thank Barbara Feiner for the final copyedit of the completed manuscript, and, especially, Blake J. Boulerice, eBookIt formatting expert, who brought many errors to my attention, which resulted in several final edits.
Though unusual, I am appreciative of the intruding voices heard by some people. I learned that listening to these voices either led me to treatment solutions, to significant insight in the issue at hand, or to information relevant to the theory.
In particular, I want to thank my wife, H. Jane Wakefield-Flint, and daughters, Dana Flint and Susan Flint-Rajkumar, who made useful comments and preserved my sanity and well-being while I was writing.
A few sections of this book were taken from The Theory and Treatment of Your Personality: A manual for change (Flint, 2006) and were modified to meet the requirements of their use in this book.
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Introduction
We are all creations in the universe, built with and governed by unseen rules — the same as those that apply to everything else in our world. Did you know that even the latest discoveries in the most advanced mathematical theories are also speaking about you? This book bridges the gap between those theories and your experience of life. Healing Your Mind and Soul does this while offering explanations for several seldom-discussed topics that affect our daily lives.
This book is based on my 15 years’ experience as a psychologist treating causes of unusual behavior in both normal patients and survivors of severe trauma. I explored a physics theory that was based on quantum physics research, which helped me explain the source of these behaviors. There was no readily available explanation because the cause was an activity in a different reality that we can’t see. In physics, they call it the virtual reality; I call it the hidden reality. I learned a theory about the structure of the hidden reality and adapted this theory to explain the source of these behaviors and, as it turned out, much more.
From a unique perspective, I describe our experience in 3D-Reality from the point of view of the hidden reality — the virtual, dimensional activity described by quantum theory. Using theoretical physics, I introduce a structure of many unique fields — dimensions — that underlies our 3D-Reality.1 It is taken for granted that this multidimensional, hidden reality affects our lives in many ways. In fact, the virtual fields cause everything we do and experience. I explain how dimensional fields in the hidden reality create our 3D-Reality. This includes our Personal Field — our history from conception to now — and how our behavior is affected by activity in the hidden reality. Some activities in the hidden reality can distort our behavior in unpleasant ways and sometimes get in the way of successful treatment.
More specifically, I learned about intruding spirits and how they affect our behavior. Intruding spirits can block therapy and negatively influence our experience of life. Working from a scientific perspective and with my clinical experience, I adapted the physics theory to explain the mechanics and treatment of these spirits.
Most assumptions about life, the afterlife, and 3D-Reality involve explanations that are not scientific. Normally, many facts about life usually require taking explanations on faith. I am not going to comment on that here. However, I do want to point out that there is a difference between taking an explanation on faith and taking one based on a scientific theory. The advantage of having a scientific basis for an explanation is that it connects the explanation to properties of our reality that have been established through scientific research. The theories in this case are string theory and quantum theory. Another advantage of a scientific theory is that credible, scientific explanations for phenomena in the hidden reality can lead to some control over our hidden reality and therefore control over our 3D-Reality.
The theory presented here is not a true scientific theory. It is an adaptation of a string theory that explains the 11 dimensions of the hidden reality. I altered the theory to describe what I observed in my clinical practice. My adaptation of the theory moved it out of the realm of a scientific theory with authentic validity. It is really a metaphorical interpretation of the hidden reality. My patients readily accept this metaphorical interpretation. Many of the resulting concepts are constructs of my own creation that have worked well with my patients. My experience is that the theory is close enough to the hidden reality to be useful in creating interventions using the hidden reality to cause change in a person’s behavior. This finding lends support to the efficacy of this metaphorical theory.
Most interesting is that this theory explains the existence of intruding spirits and how they can attach themselves to us. The mechanics and treatment of intruding spirits are conceptually consistent with the memory-based theory of the dynamics of the mind presented in my earlier book, A Theory and Treatment of Your Personality: A manual for Change (Flint, 2006). Healing Your Mind and Soul is written in a way that makes this physics theory easily understandable for both general readers and mental health professionals. It makes clear the connection between intruding spirits and our memories.
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