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of the subconscious mind and why some people would want to manipulate it, you’re in for a big surprise. As you will soon realize, “the rabbit hole” goes even deeper.
    Once again, the information in this chapter might conflict with some of your current beliefs, but don’t allow it to stop you from reading further. If you keep an open mind, everything you’ve learned up to this point will make a lot more sense. Also, please keep in mind that if it seems like we’re deviating from the subjects of fear and anxiety, we are not. You will see how all this information connects very soon.
    Starting this chapter I want to fixate your attention on something that you might be able to recall learning about is school. To be more specific, in every physics class we were taught that all matter, or everything physical in the universe is made up of atoms. While this is absolutely true, I would like us to expand on this concept a little more.
    The concept of the atom was first put forth by a Greek philosopher named Democritus in the 4th Century B.C. He proposed this term as an explanation to the composition of matter. Democritus posed a question, if you were to cut matter, for example a piece of wood, into smaller and smaller pieces, when would you reach a point where you would no longer be able to cut it? This is why the word atom comes from a Greek word atomos, which means indivisible.
    Around the same time Democritus proposed this idea, another Greek philosopher by the name of Aristotle suggested an alternative explanation. He implied that all matter is composed of the “four basic elements” Fire, earth, air, and water. He would explain that if you were to burn a piece of wood, for example, there is fire inside of it that gets released. Some of it turns into air (smoke), and eventually the wood turns to dust and goes back into the earth, thus wood is composed of fire, air, and earth.  
    Due to the fact that Aristotle's ideas were widely accepted by his people at the time and because he could conduct a sort of experiment to “prove” his idea, everyone believed him and not Democritus. In fact, because Democritus‘ idea of an invisible atom seemed so outrageous, and because there was no way for him to prove it, his idea was quickly rejected.
    Aristotle's influence and the church’s support of the four basic elements caused this theory to be accepted as truth well into the Middle Ages, thus setting the progress of science back thousand of years. The concept of atoms was not picked up again until the 1600s by two scientists named Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton. Their theory of the atom also failed because of inconsistencies and lack of evidence. The existence of atoms didn’t become indisputable until the 1800s when technological advances were made that would allow certain experiments to be conducted.
    Today, quantum physicist have evidence proving that on a subatomic level everything in the universe is made up of energy, some even call it vibration. It is believed that the rate of speed (frequency) with which this energy vibrates that determines the nature of physical objects of the universe. To put is simply, everything we experience through our five senses is made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies.  
    A certain range of vibration creates what we call sound. It is said that on average, a human ear can detect vibration frequencies between 20 - 20,000 vibrations per second. As the rate of vibrations per second increases past what we call sound, these vibrations begin to produce heat. Going higher up the scale these vibrations turn into light. If it goes even higher you get violet light and if the vibrations keep climbing you will soon get ultra-violet rays and other radiation, invisible to the naked eye. So, the bottom line is that at the very essence, everything you can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste is made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies.
    This energy that everything in the universe is