What Is a Quantum Field? Intuition, Not Knowing & a Different Way of Knowing
There are some things you understand with your head.
And then there are things your body seems to understand long before you've found the words for them. This is one of those things for me.
I've been quietly exploring what my teacher and I call the quantum field. I've experienced readings. I've spent years learning to read the field myself. And somewhere along the way, this strange journey began intersecting with my doctoral research into super intuition.
I still don't have a neat explanation for what is happening. Perhaps that's precisely why I'm finally ready to talk about it. Because this isn't really a story about having answers.
It's a story about what happens when we become willing to not know and begin paying attention to information that doesn't seem to arrive through our usual ways of thinking.
What Is a Quantum Field in Simple Terms?
Let's begin here, because I want to explain this simply, and I want to be honest that for me, this stopped being a metaphor a while ago.
I didn't know the quantum field existed until a few years ago. I don't think most of us do. And that's part of why I want to talk about it, not less of a reason to stay quiet. I think this is information we all need. It's big. It's transformative. It changes how you understand what's actually happening underneath your life.
Here's the simplest way I've found to explain it — through The Matrix. If you've seen it: that green cascading code running behind the world Neo thought was solid and real. For twenty-five years, that was just a brilliant piece of filmmaking to me. A story. Nothing more.
But it's also, more or less, describing the quantum field.
There's the physical world — the one where we go to work, go to sleep, do the shopping, live our days. That's the reality we call real. And then there's another layer, the one that's actually the main stage, where things originate on an energetic level. The physical world we call "real" is the ripple. It's the echo of that energy moving.
That energy layer — endless, all around us, all inside us, existing beyond time and matter — is the quantum field. It's not surprising that it's hard for our very capable, very literal human brains to fully grasp. It goes beyond the categories our minds like to use.
In physics, quantum field theory is the branch of modern physics that researches this; fields, not solid separate objects, as the fundamental nature of reality. I'm not a physicist, and I'm not claiming to represent that field of research with technical precision. What I can tell you is what I've come to know first-hand: this is the way our world actually works, and it's the way our reality works, even though it's not what most of us were ever taught.
Because our senses are so restricted. We think we're perceiving reality when we see, hear, taste, touch. But those senses evolved to keep us alive, not to show us the whole truth. There is so much more to this world than what reaches us through them.
That's the part I find genuinely mind-blowing. As something I've now experienced enough times that I can no longer file it away as "just a theory."
It Started With a Five-Minute Reading
In August 2023, I had my first field reading with my teacher, Yvonne Arnold. She lives in Germany. I live in Finland.
I didn't really know what I was signing up for. I went into it with a healthy amount of skepticism and something along the lines of: Okay. Let's try this woo-woo thing.
The reading lasted perhaps five minutes. And something happened that I couldn't easily file away. Yvonne reflected things about me, my life, and what I was experiencing that felt remarkably specific to me, including things I hadn't discussed with her.
I walked away thinking: What just happened?
And that question was enough. I became curious.
From Skeptic to Student
That first experience led me into a six-month journey with Yvonne called the Flamingo Journey. During our work together, I could bring questions about my business, work, relationships, family, or whatever felt alive at the time.
She would read the field. I would listen. And then I would decide what—if anything—the information meant for me.
That distinction is important. A reading wasn't a command. It didn't replace my judgment. It wasn't: The field says X, therefore you must do X. It gave me another perspective. Another piece of information to sit beside everything I already knew.
And somewhere during this period, something rather unexpected happened. My future doctoral research topic began to take shape.
Super intuition.
How Do We Know What We Haven't Learned?
The question at the heart of my research is much larger than field reading. I'm interested in experiences of knowing that seem to arise beyond our conscious reasoning or established expertise. How do we sometimes know something before we can explain it? Where does a sudden insight come from? What is happening when someone experiences a strong sense of knowing without being able to trace the usual path from information to conclusion?
There are different languages and traditions for talking about experiences like these. And I don't pretend that they're all describing exactly the same phenomenon. But I've become deeply interested in the territory itself. So interested, in fact, that after my own journey ended, I asked Yvonne if she would teach me.
She said yes.
And suddenly, after decades of being the person who was supposed to know things, I became a beginner again.
The Intelligence of Not Knowing
Perhaps this is the part of the journey that has changed me most. My professional life trained me to know. I was a lawyer. Knowing was part of the job. Find the answer. Understand the facts. Build the argument. Reduce uncertainty. Be the expert in the room.
This work has asked something almost opposite of me: Can I stay in not knowing long enough to notice what arrives?
That's surprisingly difficult. Our minds want to fill empty spaces. We interpret. We project. We reach for the explanation we already understand. Reach for and grab the visible, because invisible is.. Invisible.
Learning field reading has involved practicing the opposite: receiving an impression without immediately deciding what it means. And perhaps, sometimes, not knowing is a space. A pause between the question and our habitual answer. A willingness to say, "I don't know yet. Let me listen.”
That has become increasingly important in how I think about intuition.
What Does This Have to Do With Intuitive Decision Making?
Quite a lot. Because most of us have been trained to make decisions using the information we can explain.
Data. Experience. Expertise. Analysis. Pros and cons.
And I love all of those things. Twenty-five years of law, business and strategy aren't disappearing from my toolkit anytime soon. But what happens when you've done the analysis and the answer still isn't clear?
What happens when two paths look equally sensible on paper? Or when the sensible choice is the one your entire body keeps resisting? What happens when you can't explain why you're drawn toward a new career, a business idea, a person, a place, or an entirely different version of your life?
This is where intuitive decision making becomes fascinating to me. Not intuition instead of intelligence. Not mystery instead of strategy. Both. The rigour and the mystery. The spreadsheet and the signal.
Perhaps our decisions become richer when we allow more than one kind of information into the room.
My own experience raises questions for me about information, distance, consciousness, and connection. But questions aren't proof. And I actually find that distinction exciting.
I don't need to force an explanation onto an experience before I'm allowed to be curious about it. I can simply say:
Something happened. I don't completely understand it. I want to know more.
There's something wonderfully freeing about that.
So What Is a Quantum Field Reading?
The way I'm being taught to work, a field reading begins with consent. I will never access anyone’s field without their heartfelt consent. I don't see it as fortune-telling. I don't use it to tell someone what will happen. And I don't believe another person—or a field—should become the authority over someone's choices. Free will is a fundamental value here. My only intent is always for the highest well-being for all.
Instead, I approach a reading as an opportunity to receive impressions and reflect what arises. Sometimes something resonates immediately. Sometimes it opens a question. Sometimes its meaning may only become apparent later. The information needs to grow. I still get insights from the readings I’ve received 3 years ago and only now I understand what they mean.
And sometimes perhaps it doesn't mean anything at all. The person receiving the information remains the person who decides what belongs to them. That's essential to how I want to practice this work.
What Could the Quantum Field Mean for Business?
This is one of the questions I'm really curious about.
I have spent much of my career working with entrepreneurs, leaders, businesses, change, and strategy. And business loves certainty. Forecast the numbers. Analyse the market. Build the strategy. Make the case.
But anyone who has actually built something knows there's another layer. At some point, you make decisions without complete information. You sense that an idea has energy. You know a partnership isn't right before you can explain why. You feel that a business model you've spent years building has reached the end of its life. You find yourself at a business crossroads, with two perfectly reasonable paths in front of you.
What do you listen to then?
I'm interested in what quantum business might mean if we take away the grand claims and keep the interesting question:
What changes when intuition is allowed to sit beside strategy? Not above it. Not instead of it. Beside it. That's the territory I'm exploring.
You Don't Have to Believe Any of This
And I mean that. I'm not particularly interested in convincing you that my interpretation of these experiences is correct. I didn't arrive here because somebody gave me a compelling theory. I arrived because I had an experience I couldn't easily explain. Then another.
And eventually I became curious enough to study the experience itself. That's a very different starting point.
You don't have to believe in field readings. You don't need to call yourself intuitive. And you certainly don't need to understand quantum field theory before you're allowed to be curious.
Perhaps you simply start noticing. Have you ever known something before you had evidence for it? Have you thought of someone seconds before they called? Have you walked into a room and sensed something before anyone spoke? Has your body ever said no while your mind was constructing an excellent argument for yes? Have you ever made a decision you couldn't logically defend—and later understood exactly why you made it?
I don't know what explains all of those experiences. And increasingly, I'm comfortable saying that.
Maybe the Interesting Part Is the Not Knowing
For much of my life, not knowing felt like a gap that needed to be closed. Now I'm beginning to wonder whether it can be somewhere we intentionally spend a little more time. Not knowing creates space for curiosity. For listening. For receiving. For noticing what our first, fastest explanation might have drowned out.
Perhaps that's what this journey into the quantum field has really been teaching me. Not how to know everything. How to listen differently. And perhaps that's also where intuition begins. Not with certainty.
But with enough quiet to notice that something is there.
Curious to experience a different way of listening?
You don't need to understand any of this—or believe any of it—to begin exploring another perspective.The Intuition Check-In is a free, personal voice note from me. A small pause in the middle of your day, offered with care.No answers. No predictions. Just an invitation to notice something from a different angle.