Space Weather

On 31 January 2011 Susan Joy Rennison held a presentation titled Space Weather: Implications for planet Earth and humankind. Here is a short description of this more than two and a half hour long presentation:

According to Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division: “Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. I believe we’re on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather. We take this very seriously indeed.”

For a long time we believed that we lived in a gravity driven universe. According to Susan Joy Rennison, and many others in the meantime, we do not; instead, we live in an electromagnetic universe. At this time thousands of scientists are studying the behaviour of the sun to predict Space Weather. Plasma and particle bursts can and have disrupted satellites, high frequency radio communications, GPS failures, power grids etc. and looking at the rather turbulent life our sun is presently leading, more is on the way.

Most textbooks and literature about cosmology are completely out of date, reason for Rennison to educate people about why scientists studying Space Weather find that they have had to abandon many old ideas. But the understanding of an electromagnetic universe is already over 100 years old, having been promoted by great Nobel Prize winning minds like Hannes Alfvén. Rennison thinks engineering students need to realize that during severe Space Weather events, uncontrolled electric currents will flow through virtually everything on the planet. Discussion of quantum mechanics will not help. It is more important for people to realise that in the bombardment of planet Earth we are also receiving dark energy and dark matter and scientists have tried to understand how that will effect Earth, but, Rennison claims, the astronomical impact is still discussed from an outdated point of view.

This is where Rennison combines modern science with a more spiritual approach. It has been over 35 years since Fritjof Kapra wrote his book The Tao of Physics, an attempt to bring Western science and Eastern philosophy together. Even as much as 100 years ago, physicists wondered about quantum physics and its consequences of a relation between mind and matter. Since that time science has been divided between those who believe matter stands on its own in a gravity controlled universe – the majority of scientists – and those who believe we, as human observers, co-create the conscious universe we live in.

Are all the world’s crises a sign that something really has to change in our way of thinking and acting? Susan Joy Rennison discusses the latest press releases from NASA and ESA and other books and articles published since she wrote her book Tuning the Diamonds in 2006, on the relation between electromagnetism and spirituality.

Since then, many of her ideas have become reality as Space Weather is becoming more and more of an issue in everyday life. Although hardly discussed in the media, Space Weather is strongly affecting our life. Both in the technology we use and in our bodies, which are after all electromagnetic systems as well. There is, Rennison states, a serious problem with the electromagnetic understanding of the human body. Most scientist prefer people to think of themselves in terms of chemicals. Yet DNA is a nanotube that obeys quantum mechanical laws. Progress in DNA research has shown that DNA behaves in a much more adaptable way than earlier assumed.

(Source: TU Delft – Online lectures)

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Thomas Campbell – The Monroe Institute Lecture

From Thomas Warren Campbell Jr on Vimeo

Campbell was one of the original consciousness explorers at The Monroe Institute (TMI) in Virginia in the 1970s and the explorer identified as “TC Physicist” in Bob Monroe‘s book Far Journeys. Campbell, working alongside electrical engineer Dennis Mennerich, discovered what is now known as Hemi-Sync, the binaural-beat approach to inner exploration that came to be almost synonymous with TMI.

As Bob Monroe’s protégé, Campbell worked in the TMI lab and participated in explorer sessions as a subject. He was one of the first trainers and finished his tenure at TMI as an advisory-board member.

Using his mastery of the out-of-body experience as a springboard, he dedicated his research to discovering the outer boundaries, inner workings, and causal dynamics of the larger reality system. In February of 2003, Campbell published the My Big TOE trilogy, which represents the results and conclusions of his scientific exploration of the nature of existence. This overarching model of reality, mind, and consciousness merges physics with metaphysics, explains the paranormal as well as the normal, places spirituality within a scientific context, and provides direction for those wishing to personally experience an expanded awareness of All That Is.

(Source: Thomas Campbell – The Monroe Institute Lecture on Vimeo)

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My Big TOE

The trilogy My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist Thomas Campbell in the language of contemporary Western culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds, are brought together under one seamless scientific understanding.

If you have a logical, open, and inquisitive mind – an attitude of scientific pragmatism that appreciates the elegance of fundamental truth and the thrill of breakthrough – you will enjoy this journey of personal and scientific discovery.

Based upon careful scientific research and logical deduction, this is a book for all who have an interest in the nature of the reality in which they exist. My Big TOE is not only about scientific theory, function, process, and discovery – but also speaks to each individual reader about their innate capabilities. Readers will learn to appreciate that their human potential stretches far beyond the limitations of the physical universe.

This trilogy delivers the next major scientific conceptual breakthrough since relativity and quantum mechanics raised scientific eyebrows in the first half of the twentieth century. No catch, no megalomania, no hypothetical wackiness, no goofy beliefs, no unusual assumptions – just straightforward science that better describes the totality of our experience and provides a wealth of practical results and new understanding that can be applied personally and professionally by scientists and nonscientists alike. This is the real thing.

My Big TOE is about life, purpose, personal significance, physics, evolution, and the reason why. The acronym “TOE” is a standard term in the physics community that stands for “Theory Of Everything.” Such a theory has been the “Holy Grail” of physicists for more than fifty years. My Big TOE delivers the solution to that scientific quest at the layman’s level with precision and clarity. This book is an adventure into the overlapping worlds of science, philosophy, and metaphysics. It is tightly analytical and logical as all good works of science and philosophy should be, while at the same time down to earth, easily understandable, and full of good humor. No leaps of faith or beliefs of any sort are required to get to where these books will take you.

Campbell did not put the “My” in My Big TOE to flaunt pride of authorship. Nor does the “My” indicate any lack of generality or applicability to others. The “My” was added to be a constant reminder to you that this reality model cannot serve as your personal Big TOE until it is based upon your personal experience. On the other hand, personal or subjective experience is only one piece of the reality puzzle. In the objective physical world of traditional science, My Big TOE delivers a comprehensive model of reality that subsumes modern science, describes our objective material reality, and is universally applicable. Contemporary physics is shown to be a special case of a more general set of basic principles.

Synopsis of the My Big TOE books

Book 1: Awakening provides in Section 1 a partial biography of the author that is pertinent to the subsequent creation of this trilogy. This brief look at the author’s unique experience and credentials sheds some light upon the origins of this highly unusual work. The unusual associations, circumstances, and training that eventually led to the creation of the My Big TOE trilogy are offered to provide a more accurate perspective of the whole.

Section 2 lays out and defines the basic conceptual building blocks needed to construct My Big TOE’s conceptual foundation. It discusses the cultural beliefs that trap our thinking into a narrow and limited conceptualization of reality, defines the basics of Big Picture epistemology and ontology, as well as examines the nature and practice of meditation. Section 2 logically infers the nature of time, space, and consciousness as well as describes the basic properties, purpose, and mechanics of our reality.

Book 2: Discovery develops in Section 3 the interface and interaction between we the people and our digital consciousness reality. It derives and explains the characteristics, origins, dynamics, and function of ego, love, and free will. It derives our larger purpose. It also develops the psi uncertainty principle as it explains and interrelates psi phenomena, free will, love, consciousness evolution, reality, human purpose, and entropy.

Section 4 lays out an operational and functional model of consciousness that further develops the results of Section 3 and supports the conclusions of Section 5. The origins and nature of digital consciousness are described along with how artificial intelligence (AI), as embodied in AI Guy, leads to artificial consciousness, which leads to actual consciousness and to ourselves. Section 4 derives our physical universe, our science, and our perception of a physical reality. The mind-matter dichotomy is solved as physical reality is directly derived from the nature of digital consciousness.

Book 3: Inner Workings presents in Section 5 the formal reality model in detail. In this section the mechanics of reality are explained. You will find out how the past present and future are formed, how they can be altered, and how you interact with the larger reality as an individuated unit of consciousness. Here is explained inter and intra dimensional awareness and is probed the theoretical possibilities of teleportation, time travel and a few of the more fun ramifications of this reality model.

Section 6 is the wrap-up that puts everything discussed into an easily understood perspective. Additionally, Section 6 points out My Big TOE’s relationship with contemporary science and philosophy. By demonstrating a close conceptual relationship between this TOE and some of the establishment’s biggest scientific and philosophic intellectual guns, Section 6 integrates My Big TOE into traditional Western science and philosophy.

Physics and Science

Modern science and technology are only now providing the combined knowledge by which metaphysics can be understood. It should not be too surprising that science, in its relentless explorations of the unknown, would one day arrive at the roots of existence itself. As it turns out, the nature of reality has both an objective and a subjective component. My Big TOE  provides a thoroughly scientific description of an objective Theory Of Everything that covers all aspects of reality in an entirely general way. Additionally, it provides a remarkably practical, personally significant understanding of subjective consciousness, and explains how you individually are related to the larger reality.

You will be astounded to discover that My Big TOE has explained, derived, and pulled together, within a single coherent theoretical framework, the best theoretical efforts of contemporary science. This trilogy represents serious science – it builds a logical bridge between physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, normal and paranormal. It delivers a comprehensive first look at a Unified Theory Of Everything – not the way traditional science expected it, but then, if it was the way traditional science expected it, it couldn’t actually be a Big TOE, could it? If you want to see the unified Big Picture, you must step out of the conceptual box that limits your understanding and knowledge to what can be derived from only local (little picture) experience.

Philosophy

Modern analytical (logic based, not belief-based) philosophers have been hot on the heels of a larger more primary reality that is based upon mind, consciousness, or spirit. They have been much closer to Big Truth for centuries than the scientists but didn’t know how to integrate their knowledge with the physical world. These philosophers did not fully appreciate the subjective component of reality, or that subjective information requires an objective assessment before its value can be determined.

Without these understandings it was difficult for philosophers to differentiate knowledge from pseudo-knowledge. In an age mesmerized by the results of objective science, narrowly focused critics had little trouble discounting the significance of philosophy’s contribution toward understanding a reality defined entirely by physical measurement.

A profound understanding of reality, a coming together of science and philosophy, can occur only within the Big Picture. When our understanding is complete and whole, all the puzzle pieces fit nicely together. As long as our understanding remains fragmented by our limiting beliefs, competing culturally correct cliques within the little picture will define and therefore limit our vision of reality. The breakthrough solutions that the scientists and philosophers have been seeking for many decades lie outside the little picture; one cannot get to them without stepping beyond the limitations of a local objective causality.

Metaphysics – East and West

The My Big TOE trilogy fully integrates a subjective, personal, and holistic worldview with objective science. East and West merge, not simply as a compatible or mutually reinforcing mixture, but as a fully integrated single solution.

The stunning success of science and engineering in the twentieth century would seem to prove the usefulness as well as the correctness of the materially focused Western view. The result is that many people, whether from the East, West, North, or South of our planet, view reality from an objective and materialistic perspective that often coexists with some culturally based traditional form of religious and social dogma.

Thus, a balance, or standoff, between our inner and outer needs evolves into a practical worldview that encourages Western material productivity. A pragmatic materialism that depends on objective causality is used to generate the appearance of a manipulatable, rational, stability on the outside, while a belief-system of some sort provides the necessary personal security on the inside. To eliminate the discomfort of these conflicting worldviews, the two ends of this bipolar conceptual dichotomy are typically kept separate and do not mix or integrate to any significant depth. Each supports the other superficially as they together produce a materially focused, responsible, upwardly striving worker with a good work ethic, cooperative values, an inclination toward dependency, and a high tolerance of pain.

Theology

A truly Big TOE must explain everything – matter and mind, physics and metaphysics, normal and paranormal – the spiritual as well as the material aspects of existence. An accurate and comprehensive Big TOE cannot help but shed new light upon the theological questions that have gone unanswered for millennia. Though My Big TOE is about science, not theology, it provides a new scientific basis for a grand rethinking and restructuring of fundamental theological concepts. No belief systems of any sort are required to clearly understand what lies beyond physical experience, or why.

Ontology and Epistemology

My Big TOE develops a theory of being that will permanently reorient the ontological and epistemological landscape. With its clear understanding of the origins, nature, and mechanics of consciousness, My Big TOE  answers long standing questions of the point, purpose, meaning, and mechanics of existence as well as the significance of human interaction within that existence. My Big TOE approaches these problems and founds its specific detailed solutions on straightforward scientific analysis. No beliefs of any sort and no unusual assumptions are used to unravel the mysteries of being, consciousness, and the larger reality.

Truth and Big Truth (relative and absolute truth) are formally and logically defined and differentiated. The fundamental difficulty of separating knowledge from belief is thoroughly explored and a methodology to facilitate the separation process is developed.

Cosmology

The Big TOE trilogy develops a detailed description of the origins of our physical universe within the context of a reality that is much larger than the physical universe. The Big Digital Bang is integrated within a larger picture of existence that clearly answers many of the outstanding cosmological issues concerning the origins of the universe. Our universe is described as one among many local realities within a larger reality system. The nature, origins and mechanics of this larger reality system are clearly and specifically described.

Consciousness – Artificial Intelligence

The My Big TOE trilogy develops a theory of consciousness that fully explains and models human experience – all of human experience – normal and paranormal, material and spiritual. The origins, nature, and mechanics of consciousness are described in detail. Consciousness, existence, values, emotion, experience, individual identity and group interactions all are integrated in one comprehensive detailed model of cognitive awareness. This model of consciousness not only accurately describes human consciousness in all its aspects, but also develops the theoretical connection between consciousness, reality, experience, brains, and digital computers. A blueprint for developing artificial or machine intelligence is discussed in terms of consciousness hosted within digital systems. The theory of consciousness and the theory of digital systems are merged to form one unified understanding of the origins, nature, and mechanics of both objective and subjective experience.

Paranormal Events

My Big TOE provides a sound theoretical scientific basis for the paranormal. Paranormal or psi events are shown to be normal events from the perspective of an expanded understanding of reality. Once the nature of reality and consciousness are clearly understood, paranormal events become entirely understandable and amenable to scientific analysis – no beliefs, hocus-pocus, or odd assumptions are required.

The apparent problems of measurement within the study of parapsychology are shown to be a function of the experimenter’s perspective and limited understanding. The purpose and methodologies for evolving and acquiring individual psi capabilities are clearly described. How the manipulation of psi energy works, its natural limitations, and the mechanics behind psi events are described in detail.

Readers will find out that what we experience as paranormal events within our local (little picture) reality, represents normal energy transfers and well defined scientific processes that obey a higher level (more general) causality within the larger reality. My Big TOE describes the physics of this more general causality and shows the paranormal to be as normal as gravity within its own local system. The allowed interactions between causal systems are described in terms of the psi uncertainty principle. Nothing spooky here – just good science that accurately fits the data and provides parapsychology as well as spirituality with a theoretical basis in hard science.

Time – Past, Present, and Future

Any successful Theory Of Everything (TOE) must include a thorough explanation of time. Once the larger reality is successfully and accurately modeled, a clear understanding of time falls naturally from that model. What is time? How is it created? Can the future be foretold, can it be manipulated? What are the mechanics behind precognitive dreams? Does the past still live? Is time travel possible? If possible, how can it be accomplished? All of these questions are answered clearly, unequivocally and in detail. My Big TOE takes you to the beginning of time and far into the future – it fully explains the origins, nature, and mechanics of time as well as explains the everyday experience of time in technical terms that you can easily understand.

Free will and Determinism

Once the larger reality is successfully and accurately modeled, a clear understanding of free will falls naturally from that model. The origins, processes, mechanisms, and limitations of free will are clearly and logically deduced. What is free will? What is its function? How is it generated and maintained? What is its purpose and where does it come from? What is the relationship between free will, consciousness, and experience? All of these questions are answered clearly, unequivocally and in detail. Additionally, the existence of a deterministic causality within each local reality system is shown to be a requirement of free will and the larger reality system.

Theory Of Everything – Reality Model

Albert Einstein began working on a Theory Of Everything (Unified Field Theory) early in the twentieth century. Since that time, physicists have been trying to unify all physical theory under one overarching theoretical understanding with little success. The My Big TOE trilogy explains why physicists have thus far failed to produce even a little TOE (unifies only the physics of our physical universe), much less a Big TOE (really does explain everything – physics and metaphysics, science and philosophy, normal and paranormal, body, mind, and spirit). Big TOEs are thought neither to exist nor to be within our grasp to formulate or understand. To the contrary, the My Big TOE trilogy derives a comprehensive Big TOE that scientifically and logically makes sense (accurately describes the data) of your total experience – subjective as well as objective.

Physics and parapsychology, hard science and philosophy, mind and matter, normal and paranormal, body, mind and spirit – we have always intuitively known that someday they would come together under one consistent understanding – that they are all coherently, purposefully, and logically (scientifically) interconnected within the Big Picture. My Big TOE delivers us to that day.

Mathematics

The My Big TOE trilogy introduces several new mathematical concepts. It clearly explains why geometric fractals accurately represent natural objects such as clouds, rocks, landscapes, and mountains. It introduces the concepts of a process fractal (as compared to a geometric fractal) and of fractal ecology.

Evolution

Within My Big TOE, the everyday concept of evolution is generalized and raised to an entirely new level of understanding as it is applied to technology, organizations, societies, economics, governments, and complex systems in general. The evolution of the larger reality and of local reality systems are followed from their humble beginnings to their present states.

Ecosystems – Ecology

The concept of ecosystems and ecology within complex interactive self-modifying systems are generalized and raised to an entirely new level of understanding. The concept of ecological interrelated wholeness is applied to consciousness, digital systems, and the greater reality.

Psychology

The My Big TOE trilogy delves deeply into the roots of human motivation. Once the larger reality is successfully modeled, a clear understanding of human psychology falls naturally from that model. This Big TOE logically and scientifically derives the nature, origins, and mechanics of human values, emotion, fear, love, ego, needs, wants, desires, humility, and compassion as well as defines an optimal personal mental balance and provides a fundamental non-relative measure of mental health. You will leave this trilogy with a deep understanding of why individuals and societies are as they are.

Systems Theory and Systems Analysis

The My Big TOE trilogy is built upon a theory of complex self-modifying interactive systems. Many of its results are generally applicable to all such systems.

Meditation and Meditation Techniques

In an aside in Book 1, a detailed analysis of the mechanics and function of meditation is offered to help the reader become personally acquainted with his or her consciousness. What meditation accomplishes, how and why it works, and a set of techniques, with instructions applicable to everyone, are described.

Personal Development

Once the larger reality is successfully modeled, a clear understanding of the dynamics of consciousness quality falls naturally from that model. Increasing consciousness quality is equivalent to spiritual growth. Thus spirituality becomes an attribute of individual consciousness – a dimension of being. The connection between consciousness, spirituality, psi, love, fear, and human development is logically developed without employing belief systems of any sort. How and why you are connected to the larger reality, the greater significance of your existence, and the purpose of your life are clearly derived from a scientific analysis of the larger reality. The direction and understanding you need to develop to optimize your personal potential is laid out in specific, easy to understand, detail. You will find out unambiguously how you fit into the Big Picture – how you are personally connected to the whole.

Potential Impact of My Big TOE

Any major new branch of science must begin its unfolding as a top-down big picture analysis of the pertinent data. New scientific paradigms generally begin at a broad conceptual level and then eventually move, over time, toward more specific applications. Such a top-down process often begins with the discovery of a more general relationship between common objects or events. Typically, the old paradigms become special cases of the new – applicable only under certain conditions.

The basic conceptual foundation must be clearly laid-out and thoroughly assimilated before the more traditional bottoms-up scientific approach can be constructed upon it. Only after scientists achieve a certain minimum level of basic understanding can they begin to profitably calculate and experiment their way toward a deeper and more productive knowledge.

The point is: The public message of My Big TOE is focused on developing the conceptual foundation upon which a more traditional future science will one day be based. You see, Campbell has not written My Big TOE to frustrate and torture left brained techies with incalculable theory; the time for massive calculation has simply not yet arrived. At this point in the conceptual revolution presented by My Big TOE, everyone can come along on the journey. Scientists have no particular advantage over nonscientists because Campbell has been careful not to couch his descriptions in techno-jargon or to be too techno-boring. In fact, at the front-end of discovery, right brainers, and better yet, whole brainers, have the decided edge in leaping new paradigms in a single bound.

Some patience is required. My Big TOE provides a rational, logically consistent Theory Of Everything, develops the required new paradigms to support that theory, constructs a solid scientific foundation for future explorations to be built upon, and explains the interfaces and connections between newly derived knowledge and the existing database of scientific and personal experience. This trilogy subsumes physics, redeems philosophy, and explains many public as well as private phenomena. A broad conceptual top-down exposition of the fundamentals of Big Picture Reality is where this train must start.

If and when the Big TOE conceptual brain-train begins to move and pick up speed, it may well initiate the beginning of an independent outpouring of Big TOE science, social science, and philosophy that will begin to take root immediately, and slowly produce fruit over time at ever greater levels of specificity. That is how science moves from concept to application – very slowly, and with casts of thousands. Increment by increment, discovery by discovery – the more people who get involved and apply their brain power, the more quickly the train picks up speed.

(Source: About the Books)

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Ervin Laszlo

The quantum computer in your head
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Is the quantum computer the computer of the future, or is it just science fiction? Whether or not it will be actually produced remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: quantum computers already exist. They are in your head. They are known as your brain.

If Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer, Can It Connect You To The World?
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Could it be that the Internet mirrors something about how we really communicate (or could communicate) with each other and with the world? I’d like you to consider the possibility that nature embodies within herself a kind of Internet, and that through our brain we might be able to communicate with it.

Using Your Quantum Brain to Connect to the World
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Put simply, the way to enhance your connectivity to the world is to cultivate altered states of consciousness. This means taking time to enter into communion with yourself: meditating, praying, daydreaming, or just relaxing, allowing your mind to empty and your thoughts and ideas to flow freely.

Quantum Brain, Spirituality, and the Mind of God
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Physicists seek the one equation that would account for all the laws of nature and explain everything that ever happened in our integrally whole universe. Of this equation Einstein said that knowing it would be reading the mind of God….

Cosmic Symphony — A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
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The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity — and could also enable us to surmount the problems that threaten our life and our future.

Design? Yes. Evolution? Yes. Contradiction? No. Then why the Controversy?
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The debate among conservative Christians, Muslims, and Jews (the “creationists”) and natural scientists and the science-minded public (the “evolutionists”) centers on biological evolution. But on a deeper look, it concerns the universe in which life has evolved—or in which it was created.

The Dis-ease of the Western Mind
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Western civilization—more exactly, the Western mind that creates the civilization—has a serious disease. It’s a “dis-ease” that affects all of us of in the West. And now we can have a better idea of what’s behind it.

The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The mission of The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality is to produce new thinking and language capable of integrating the age old schism between science and spirituality. The Forum grew out of Dr. Laszlo’s involvement in the Chopra Foundation’s Sages+Scientists Symposium in February, 2010.

Round 2 | The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The second round of our Forum’s discussions offers deep but entirely rational statements of the nature of spirituality, and throws fresh light on the factor that could link spirituality with science: a more evolved consciousness.

Round 3 | The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The third Round of our debates, discussions and consultations on the possible meeting ground of science and spirituality convey a message that’s clear and loud. The meeting ground exists—it’s under our very feet, we just need to open our eyes to see it.

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Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw

This is our chance to benefit with the strength of our global community! Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw, a founder of The Centre for Compassion and Wisdom in Burlington, Canada has written of her inspired inner journey from elite athlete in flat-water kayaking, to Tibetan Buddhist nun to everyday living – from a family of five Olympians and the power of the mind for performance to harnessing the potential of the mind for deepened understanding and healing.

In her book, Transforming Problems into Life Force – Four Simple Keys to Self-Healing, she also shares 20 years of inspired international stories of kids, teens, adults, elders and health care professionals who used simple methods distilled from the wisdom which Dekyi-Lee introduces in the book. These can show millions how to help their kids, loved ones and parents to quickly shift daily issues, illness, pain and emotional challenges into understanding and often physical healing.

She has been offered an opportunity to have her new book, Transforming Problems into Life Force – Four Simple Keys to Self-Healing, published by Hampton Roads Publishing, USA in a contest, Next Top Spiritual Author.

Wonderful news and appeal for help

Her book has advanced to a final round of 250 authors and the winner wins a publishing contract with a major publisher, Hampton Roads Publishing in USA. Her success is equally dependent on votes from the public and a panel including best-selling authors and the publisher. This next and last round of voting will help her make it into the final 25. To advance in this last voting round she needs to receive as many votes as possible from May 24 to June 28.

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Crop circle

85-minute documentary on crop circles
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Investigating the overall assumption of hoax, balls of light, sacred site connection, media and people’s reaction to the phenomena, and outlining the basic understandings arrived at so far.

The Square Root of One Percent
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Scientists have named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect: the finding that one percent (or even the square root of one percent) of the population practicing meditation improves the larger community’s quality of life, as indicated by such changes as reduced crime and sickness in the larger society.

Ervin Laszlo – Adventures in Quantum Coherence
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Ervin Laszlo, quantum, entanglement, big bang, Akashic field, David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, coherence, sub-atomic, intelligence, General Evolution Theory, System Theory, consciousness, quantum vaccum, quantum plenum, …

Ancient Maya’s Evolution of Consciousness and Contemporary Thinking
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Tadeja Jere Lazanski presentation @ http://www.upr.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Novice/Presentation_CASYS_09.pdf and CASYS 09 The Best Paper Award @ http://www.upr.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Novice/sporocila_za_javnost/Tadeja_Jere_Lazanski_CASYS_09-The_Best_Paper_Award.jpg

Toward a Scientific Explanation of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)
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ITC (communication with deceased persons through an instrument such as a radio) is a repeatedly observed phenomenon that has lately been experimentally tested. It is queried here for its authenticity, and an interpretation is explored in the framework of the vacuum field theory.

The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication | MIT Technology Review
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The growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of research.

“Science and the taboo of psi” with Dean Radin
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Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association.

Splitting Time from Space – New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime
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Buzz about a quantum gravity theory that sends space and time back to their Newtonian roots.

Does DNA Emit Light?
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Russian scientist, Pjotr Garjajev, had managed to intercept communication from a DNA molecule in the form of ultraviolet photons — light!

Sacred Geometry by Charles Gilchrist
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The Universe is Vibration, and the principles of Sacred Geometry are directly correspondent to ALL wave form phenomena … ALL vibration. Science agrees, the Universe Is Vibration, and geometry IS vibration manifest on the visual, time/space planes.

Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence! | International Space Fellowship
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Dr. Amit Goswami

Dr. Amit Goswami is professor emeritus in the physics department of the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon where he has served since 1968. He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called “science within consciousness” and founder of The Center for Quantum Activism. He has authored several popular books based on research into quantum physics and consciousness and appeared in the films “What the Bleep Do We Know”, “Dalai Lama Renaissance” and the recently released “The Quantum Activist”.

In his article titled “There is a revolution going on in science: View from a Quantum Physicist” he writes the following:

There is today a fundamental shift-taking place in science. This shift is propelling us from the traditionally divisive (spirituality-denying matter-based) science to one which integrates both science and spirituality; and is founded on the solid theory and fundamental truth of Quantum Physics. The fact that science itself must merge with metaphysics is an essential tenet of the new paradigm which has grown from a marginalized movement to a central debate within science. The arrival of this paradigm is now a foregone conclusion.

Decades ago scientific theory favored holism, a paradigm which best accommodated the spirituality of pantheism (Capra, 1975, 1982). In holism the whole is greater than the parts. Life, mind, consciousness, spirituality, are all are explained as a holistic emergent phenomena of matter. Hardly anyone at the time questioned the fundamental dogma of materialism, the idea that everything is made of matter.

Holism, however, was not the only integrative track. Depth psychologists, starting with Freud and Jung, were openly positing the concept of an unconscious that presupposes an irreducible consciousness. Yet, even Jung (1971) occasionally pondered aloud if his idea of the collective unconscious does not have a genetic basis after all. Then came Abraham Maslow (1971), Ken Wilber (2006), and other transpersonal psychologists who were echoing mostly ancient wisdom, and not blending enough modern science to be wholly credible to the more traditional scientists. The holistic paradigmers dominated the avant garde, new age thinking: Gregory Bateson, Fritjof Capra, Eric Wantsch, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, John Lilly, the Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine, Karl Pribram, David Bohm, the systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, and Roger Sperry, the Nobel biologist who made major contributions to the big hoopla surrounding the left brain-right brain asymmetry as the answer to everything. The list goes on and is very distinguished.

Many holists such as Capra depended on systems theory for their analysis, however, the scope of this kind of analysis is limited; only generalities can be discussed. Others, including Karl Pribram, David Bohm, and Edgar Mitchell tried the idea of hologram, both literally and metaphorically. But the hologram is an object, whereas consciousness is an object as well as a subject. How does the subject-object awareness come about? This “difficult question” cannot be addressed from a materialist point of view (Chalmers, 1995).

Spirituality is more than pantheism, and an integrative bridge was still lacking between holistic thinking and psychological thinking within consciousness. Such a foundation only came about when quantum physics was properly interpreted in a way free of paradox (Goswami, 1989, 1991, 1993; also see below).

Meanwhile Quantum physicists were not exactly quiet. During these early stages of the paradigm shift there was the work of David Bohm, who used the idea of quantum non-locality to define an implicit order, as well as John von Neumann (1955) who was the first to interject consciousness into physics by positing that consciousness chooses the actual event of experience from all the quantum possibilities. In the seventies Fred Alan Wolf (1970, 1984) popularized von Neumann’s idea with the slogan – We create our own reality. Even today, the book The Secret and the movie by the same name are recycling Wolf’s popularization of von Neumann’s idea.

The seriousness of von Neumann’s idea can be appreciated only when we engage with the so-called quantum measurement paradox, a most disagreeable thorn in the side of the materialist attempt to understand and interpret quantum physics. In the materialist model which is based on reductionism, elementary particles make atoms, atoms make molecules, molecules make cells, cells make brain, and brain makes consciousness. This is called the upward causation model of causality. However, according to quantum physics all objects are quantum possibilities; thus how can a possible consciousness coupled to a possible object ever give us an actual event? Possibility coupled to possibility gives you only more possibility. So the reductive thinking of materialist science about consciousness cannot explain the observer effect called the quantum measurement paradox. Hence, we get von Neumann’s idea that material interactions cannot change possibility into actuality, and therefore, our consciousness must be nonmaterial.

But materialists object to von Neumann’s approach to quantum measurement because it smacks of dualism. How does consciousness, an independent non-material dual object, interact with a material object? Such an interaction must require the mediation of signals which carry energy. But the energy of the physical universe itself is always constant precluding any such mediation.

The breakthrough idea is that consciousness is neither a material brain-product nor a dual object; instead, it is the ground of all being in which material objects exist as possibilities. In the event of quantum measurement, consciousness (in the form of the observer) chooses from all the offered possibilities the actuality that it experiences becoming in the process both subject and object (Goswami, 1989, 1991, 1993). In other words, conscious choice is responsible for manifesting both the proverbial falling tree in the forest, and the you that hears the sound of the fall. No observer, no sound, not even a tree. Consciousness is primary to everything.

Crucial to this breakthrough was the resolution of the classic paradox of Wigner’s friend which presents the case of two observers who are simultaneously choosing among conflicting choices; who gets to choose?  The paradox was resolved by three physicists working independently – Ludwig Bass (1971), Amit Goswami (1989), and Casey Blood (1993).  They all proposed non-locality, that is, signal-less interconnectedness of consciousness – as the solution. We don’t choose with total freedom from our individual local ego consciousness, but from a nonlocal, cosmic non-ordinary consciousness, termed downward causation by the psychologist Donald Campbell.

The idea of non-local consciousness is a breakthrough on several levels. First, it becomes clear that conscious choice is objective because consciousness, being nonlocal, is objective.  This validates why quantum physics is able to predict probabilities. Second, for a single event, the scope of creativity remains. The secret behind the secret is that we must choose creatively in synchrony with quantum consciousness to manifest our intentions. In our ego, our so-called free will is seriously compromised having become a choice between conditioned alternatives: what flavor of ice cream, chocolate or vanilla? Third, the nonlocality of consciousness is an experimentally verifiable idea.

Prior to this breakthrough was the work of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (1935) as well as John Bell’s famous theorem (Bell, 1965) which suggested that nonlocality is involved in quantum measurement, thus offering a means to verify the existence of non-locality itself. In 1982, following Bell’s lead, Alain Aspect and his collaborators did verify quantum non-locality in the laboratory (1982). In the same year, the physician Larry Dossey began making noise about the efficacy of quantum non-locality in healing, an idea that was backed by Randolph Byrd in 1988 (Byrd, 1988) demonstrating nonlocal consciousness and downward causation in prayer healing at a distance.

In 1986 Willis Harman coined the phrase “science within consciousness”, and three years later I published my papers on quantum creativity (Goswami, 1988) and the idealist interpretation of quantum physics in which God, in the form of quantum consciousness, was rediscovered (Goswami, 1989). Besides non-locality quantum creativity reveals yet another important aspect of downward causation – it reveals the idea of discontinuity. Creative ideas come to us via discontinuous events of insight. This is anathema to the old way of thinking in which all phenomena and their interactions are material and continuous. But in the primacy-of-consciousness paradigm, the discontinuity of creativity is explained as quantum leaps similar to the jumps an electron makes from one atomic orbit to another without going through the intervening space.

Last but not least, the physician Deepak Chopra (1989) independently discovered quantum consciousness and the presence of discontinuity in downward causation with his revolutionary idea of quantum healing owing to quantum leaps in consciousness. Quantum healing explains much anomalous data of spontaneous healing (O’Regan, 1997). Science within consciousness had gained real momentum.

I am giving you a flavor, not a history of how the new paradigm, confirming the existence of God, downward causation, and non-locality has come to the forefront of scientific thinking and experimentation once again.

And now the quintessential question. If the data and theory for a consciousness based paradigm of science has been adequately established in the past decades as is demonstrated by my review, then why aren’t the bulk of the scientists (the establishment) accepting the verdict? Why isn’t the quantum message getting through to the mainstream scientists?

To answer this I leave superficial reasons of funding, politics, and career opportunism aside to speak of the challenge and immense responsibility which consciousness based science implies for the personal as well as professional lives of scientists. What does it mean to take responsibility? It means that you become committed to transform yourself according to the need of the evolution of consciousness using the transformative aspects of quantum physics such as discontinuity and non-locality. When you do that you become a quantum activist. An ordinary activist tries to change the world without making any changes himself or herself; the spiritual activist tries to transform believing that the world will take care of itself. The quantum activist undertakes the journey of transformation always with the transformation of the whole in mind.

I assert that materialism is a wound on the body of the evolution of consciousness. And though slow acceptance of the new paradigm is in a sense good; showing that scientists are not naive, for they see what is at issue here, isn’t it prudent to heal the wound as fast as possible?

We must heal the wound before it shows signs of malignancy, and thanks to the influence of Eastern spirituality in the West, and a Western revival of esotericism, many more lay people are ready to take responsibility than scientists. In fact, I fully expect that it is the popular acceptance which will drive scientific acceptance.

So bringing quantum activism to science means that if we cannot convince the materialists to give up their old paradigm, let’s ourselves be supportive of the development of its alternative. We do not compete with one another, we cooperate. We don’t divide, we integrate. Eventually, the science which embraces this integration will become the new paradigm.

© Amit Goswami 2009

(Source: Amit Goswami: There is a revolution going on in science: View from a Quantum Physicist)

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