Wheeler's Tokyo symposium paper states it: every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation; what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, all things physical are information-theoretic in origin, and this is a participatory universe. Bohr had already warned: physics concerns what we can say about nature. Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment gave it teeth: the past of a photon, he insisted, does not exist independently of its recording in the present. Zeilinger's summary of the late Wheeler: the observer is not only passive; in certain situations the observer makes reality happen.
The wellness-and-quantum circuit runs the slogan without the apparatus: your observation creates your reality, therefore your words, as continuous measurement, collapse possibility into the life you get. What drops out: Wheeler's observer is equipment plus registration, not attention, and his claims target quantum measurement, not mortgages. The participatory universe does not say the universe is listening to your affirmations. It says something stranger and narrower: the record and the reality cannot be told apart.
The claim: Wheeler's deep point is linguistic after all, not that words create matter but that there is no matter without a record, no it without a bit, so the universe only contains what it can, in principle, say; reality is the subset of being that fits in a register. Verdict: that is close to Wheeler's own formulation and as metaphysical as physics gets while staying physics. The archive's note: if existence requires registration, then archives are not about reality. They are one of its load-bearing walls. File accordingly.
If every it comes from a bit, what asks the first question?