Quantum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life

Your body isn’t what you think it is. Or, to be more precise, your real body isn’t what you think it is. That’s because your real body cannot be seen in the mirror. It doesn’t get sick or grow old. It doesn’t fit inside the package of flesh and bones that occupies a few cubic feet in time and space. Very little about your real body is talked about in medical textbooks, and when medical students learn anatomy by dissecting the physical body, they never touch your real body, much less peer inside it with their scalpels.

Your real body is a quantum creation. It rises from the same quantum field that created the universe, but in your case, the act of creation is constant and new every second. Your genesis is here and now. This isn’t news to your cells. Their connection to the quantum domain is indisputable. Every thought you have requires your brain cells to exchange electrical signals, and electricity is quantum, being part of the electromagnetic field. You are a quantum creation even if you don’t realize it, because every cell, not just brain cells, emits a self-generated electric field. If this field goes dark, the cell has died.

Beyond these basic facts, your body’s electrical field, sometimes known as the biofield, connects you to some rich and unknown possibilities. The electrical impulses inside your brain aren’t random. There’s not a crackling storm of microscopic lightning in your brain but an organized process. Somehow, the brain’s electrical impulses know what they are doing. When you want to have a thought, words appear in your head; you don’t hear static or the white noise that random frequencies would generate. To imagine the mystery behind this, think of living in a house where electricity flows through the wiring and decides to operate all your appliances any way it wants to.

That’s an impossibility when it comes to household electricity, but as you read this sentence, the words mean something because the biofield flickers with meaningful activity. Now expand the picture. Not just individual cells or clumps of cells, not even whole organs like the heart and brain, but your entire body is held together by meaningful activity. Every cell knows what it is meant to do. It has even been proposed that the biofield is actually an electrome, a totality like your genome. Your genome is an encyclopedia of the knowledge contained in all 20,000 to 25,000 genes in the human body. Geneticists are constantly delving into the information coded in human DNA, but it would be impossible to approach your electrome the same way. Genes can be viewed under a microscope. Electrical impulse are invisible ripples or fluctuations in the biofield. Genes are stable—the ones you were born with remain fixed for a lifetime—but electrical impulses are in constant flux. No two seconds of your life so far have contained the same map of activity in your electrome.

This brief sketch indicates that you possess a quantum body already in a single dimension. Much more is happening at the quantum level than electrical signals. There’s a psychological dimension to quantum reality that needs to be explored, and a spiritual dimension that brings wonder and insight to the human condition. These dimensions are beautiful, but they will have to wait. For now, we need to understand the basic nature of the quantum body. The illustration below shows the setup in outline form, where physical reality exists above the line and quantum reality below it.

To use the accepted scientific terms, a physicist would refer to the world above the line as the macroscopic world, meaning the world of objects bigger than an atom. The quantum world is on the edge of being physical but is much, much smaller than the macroscopic world. The scale is almost unimaginably small.

In the everyday world, your physical body has a definite shape while your quantum body is blurry—it merges into the quantum field, which is infinite in all directions. At the finest level, all physical objects, including your body, dissolve into a haze of energy clouds. At an even finer level, these clouds lose their edges entirely, become shapeless, and vanish as invisible ripples in the quantum field.

Beyond this vanishing act, what is so astonishing is that everyday reality is controlled from the quantum level. Your physical body is like the leaves and twigs of a plant rooted out of sight belowground. If you water the leaves and twigs while ignoring the roots, the plant will die. The analogy holds true for the body as well, which owes its existence to the surge of energy from the quantum world.

Don’t be intimidated by the technical word quantum and its application in modern physics. It is enough to know one thing: Your true source—the origin of who you are—exists at the finest level of Nature, which is the quantum field. The fact that you occupy time and space is a quantum event. So is the existence of the matter and energy of your physical makeup.

You have been navigating the quantum field all your life, and this journey is all-important. The body you see in the mirror cannot exist outside the quantum field; neither can your thoughts, feelings, or sensations. If you want to solve the most troubling issues about having a human body, especially disease and aging, the answers lie only at the source. The same is true of mental and psychological issues, from anxiety and depression to Alzheimer’s disease. The reason these mysteries remain unsolved is due to limited vision. We have failed to look beyond flesh and blood to their origin.

Expand your vision, and new truths emerge. Here is the first and most important one: Nothing can happen to you, for good or ill, until it happens at the quantum level. A ripple in the quantum field determines whether you feel pleasure or pain, fall in love, feel hostility, experience an “aha” moment, or think the same routine thoughts. A cancer cell becomes malignant because of a distortion in its genetic activity that occurs as a quantum event before any physical manifestation of disease.

Expanded vision reveals a second truth of the most intimate kind: Your well-being, or the lack of it, depends entirely on the quantum field. This sounds like a sweeping generalization. If you feel vibrant and alive, you might explain it any number of ways: You have healthy self-esteem; your body is fit and healthy; your relationships are loving and secure. Finances, success at work, and even the weather contribute their part. But these separate elements have the same source, the quantum field. And the quantum body is your portion of the field, the part you call “me” in body, mind, and spirit.

We are offering a revolutionary perspective here, and in the pages that follow we will further explain what the quantum body really is and how to make it a daily reality. But the need for a new model of the human body is urgent. The existing model has run into many unsolved mysteries. Setting aside the ongoing struggle against disease and aging, the simple mechanics of the body are totally inexplicable. Consider some basic facts.

At this moment, your physical body is like a snapshot that exists only for an instant before everything that is you moves on, leaving the picture behind as a discarded image. The you that you see in a selfie no longer exists. Inside every cell, a thousand processes have changed in the time it took you to read this sentence. In the same instant, your brain fired in unpredictable patterns woven within its quadrillion connections. Billions of oxygen molecules entered your bloodstream while billions of molecules of carbon dioxide departed. The simple fact that you shed 20 million skin cells a day points to the transitory nature of life.

The current model of the human body is overwhelmed by such bewildering complexity. At every level—physical, mental, emotional, and beyond—constant change keeps surging forward, and 99.999 percent of this change is occurring automatically. You are either benefiting from change or being damaged by it.