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Playing the Quantum Field - An Interview With Brenda Anderson by Connie Hill

Brenda Anderson is the author of Playing the Quantum Field: How Changing Your Choices Can Change Your Life. In this very practical book Brenda talks about the quantum field as the field of possibilities. Using her energy spectrum - which defines the energy choices available between Blackhole and Breakthrough as Magnets, Loops, Head Trips, Comfort Zones, Suspended Judgment, Lighten Up, Tune In, Scan, Tap the Truth and Believe - you can learn to manifest your clear intentions into reality, right now.

C: Your publicist said your book was based on concepts like those in the movie What the Bleep Do We Know?!

B: I think the important thing about this work is that it is very practical and it provides a tangible visualization of a new way of life. A lot of what is in the movie is great because it is very provocative. It gives you flashes. In my book, Playing the Quantum Field, you’ll see how to live this new way every day. You may find you understand the concepts, but the challenge is how do you make these concepts work in everyday life. You will still have to do life’s mundane tasks like picking up the kids at soccer practice, doing the laundry, fixing the meals, going to work. This book helps you overcome these challenges and use the concepts. 

C: I must say, I was not prepared for how easy this material felt. Tell me more about the energy spectrum and the energy choices.

B: The book leads you to emotional mastery, so that you have power over your desires, dreams and even your addictions. I believe very strongly that when you understand where you are on the energy spectrum described in the book you can find yourself within any emotional experience and make a different choice. It isn’t about transcending and getting it all right. It’s about accepting and embracing all of you, all of your choices. Then by default, transcendence happens. 

C: As you said it leads you through, it doesn’t force you or control you. I have the book open to the triple threat which is: •you have control •you can’t be yourself •you come last. You come last is a big one for many of us. When you move out of that place, it’s not that you put yourself first. It’s that you are no longer last, and that’s important.

B: You’re talking about the aspect of the book that opens the door to forgiveness. Often time we can’t move on because we get caught up with past issues and aren't able to forgive others, but mostly we can’t forgive ourselves. The act of forgiving allows us to move more freely on the energy spectrum.

C: A situation kept coming up for me as I was preparing for this interview. In this particular situation I was unhappy with the way things were. So finally one day I told myself that if I wanted things different I needed to do them another way, so I did. And I was amazed at the outcome. I felt energized afterwards and was able to do the task in less than half the time!

B: Do you know what you did? You went to neutral and then made a more conscious choice on the spectrum. By doing that you were able to move to a different place on the energy spectrum and you began to receive a much higher return on your energy. That was huge. By going to neutral you found courage. And playing the quantum field is all about courage, that courage that seems to come from somewhere outside yourself. It enables you to take action or not take action in new and more powerful ways.

You’ll notice, I never talk about choices as good or bad in the book. We cannot judge them. By embracing all of our choices, we come to transcendence. Playing the quantum field is for seekers, for someone who has a thirst for wisdom and truth, wherever they are on their path.

C: I like it when you say not to avoid blackholes.

B: Life without blackholes would not be complete. We need the blackhole. That message became so clear to me while I was writing the book. If I’m just on the breakthrough end of the spectrum, that’s not what life is about. You’re missing such richness when you only make it about right and wrong and transcending. We’re not meant to stay there. Life isn’t about being perfect. We need all that texture and richness from both sides of the spectrum.

C: How did you find this information?

B: It found me. Everything I’ve done in my life lead up to this book. I’ve always known that I would write it. What’s interesting, though, is the timeline turned out to be completely different than I’d thought. I did exactly what I talk about in the book. I became attached to a very specifically outcome. When this book didn’t get published in the timeframe I thought it was supposed to be, I thought “wrong path, I’m a failure” and went into one of the deepest blackholes I’ve ever been in. When a big aspect of your life purpose is to create and birth something and you’ve attached all of your value to it, where else do you go but the blackhole? But you know what, had I not been in that blackhole, I could not have written the book. The book kept me absolutely authentic, every step of the way! I had to live it and it’s been a wild ride.

C: I used to hear about procrastination all the time and I thought I was the worlds greatest procrastinator. But I have found that procrastination, for me, is usually a time of getting out of the way so something can happen. Is procrastination a form of going to neutral?

B: The first thing on procrastination is to suspend judgment. Maybe you’re wired so that is the way things come to you. It could be that’s when inspiration comes and the juices flow. To judge it negatively is one way we can go into a blackhole. So much of how we move around the energy spectrum is that judgment piece. Once again, this relates to forgiveness. When you can learn to be where you are without judgment it’s amazing how fast you can create a miracle.

C: Brenda, is there anything else you want to add?

B: I think my book is a magical book. It can help you manifest clear intentions into reality, right now. And for those of you who are pondering your purpose or how to use your gifts or how to live on purpose, when you start doing this work you become a magnet for miracles!

C: Thank you so much Brenda. It’s been a pleasure talking with you.

Connie Hill works at New Renaissance Bookshop and is a local astrologer. She can be reached at 503-542-4330 ext. 1287 or gmnite@yahoo.com.