You Are The Universe

I didn't have any premonitions yesterday night, though I was hoping to think of something. Anyhow, today I started reading a fairly recent book title "You Are The Universe" that was given to me by someone I know. This book tells about the supposed fact that you are a part of the universe: you are essentially the universe. And it goes on to talk about the fact that what our senses perceive is an illusion: In reality beyond our own mind, there is no such thing as pattern, sound, color, etc. We are fooled by our own senses. Anyhow, I have found that what this books says resonates with the most recent edition of Scientific America, which tells about quantum mechanics; In the magazine, it is stated that a quantum particle's behavior is dependent upon not just local changes or factors such as the movement of other particles, but also on the observer. In fact, it is also dependent on everything else in the Universe. In the book, it tells about the conflict between two opposing theories about the Universe; the theory of relativity VS the Quantum theory. It also says that the Universe interacts with us in the sense that we essentially create the universe. Hmm...this brings me back to an astonishing thought that I once had: does the Universe respond to our thoughts? Neither science nor religion has been able to explain the universe, at least not fully. As we discover more about the cosmos, we find new questions to be answered and it seems as though we must constantly revise our findings.