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If you have seen the movie "What the
Bleep Do We Know" then you might have recognized one of the
interviewed experts in the film known as Dr. Amit Goswami.
Dr. Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of
the University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics.
He has written many wonderful books, two of which are "The
Self Aware Universe" and "Physics of the Soul: The Quantum
Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation and Immortality".
Monistic idealism is Dr. Goswami’s hypothesis concerning the
foundation of all reality and quantum physics. Monistic
materialism is the main competing view with Dr. Goswami’s
view. Most physicists are monistic materialist. They believe
that physical matter is the foundation of all reality and
that consciousness is just the latest after effect or
epiphenomena of matter. They do not believe that
consciousness can effect matter because then consciousness
would be effecting the very cause if itself. This is
impossible for to the materialist physicist. Yet, at the
quantum level of physics the very act of observing and
measuring a wave converts a potential wave into a physical
electron or photon.
If there is no observer then there is no collapsing of the
potential wave into a physical particle. To get around this
mind over matter implication, the material physicist insist
that this is only true on the subatomic level of reality and
has nothing to do with the macro world of large objects like
chairs, tables, planets, and galaxies. Thus, material
physicists have two physics, one physics for the micro level
and one for the macro level of reality. They have created a
paradox for themselves.
Dr. Goswami is able to answer this paradox by insisting that
it is consciousness that is the foundation of all reality.
Matter and mind are an after effect of the epiphenomena of
consciousness. The consciousness that Dr. Goswami is
referring to is transcendent and non-local. It is a
consciousness whose center is everywhere and whose
circumference is no where and unlimited.
According to Dr. Goswami we literally collapse the universe
into physical existence. Just like the micro level of
reality, the observer collapses the wave of potential into
physical existence. It only takes twenty four frames per
second on a movie clip to give us the illusion of continuity
and movement. The macro world is actually being recreated
forty times a second, so fast that our senses perceive it as
being consistently always there.
Why then is there so much consensual agreement that we are
all seeing the same thing? Should there not be a billion
different universes for a billion observers? Dr. Goswami
says no. Dr. Goswami insists that there is only one unified
consciousness underlying all of reality. We as human beings,
through our brain-mind experience the illusion of duality
through our senses. Our lower egos’ beliefs arise out of the
brain’s illusion of duality and are trapped by it.
How do we escape this brain-mind prison? We must meditate so
that our ego’s awareness can slip into the gap that exists
between our thoughts. It is in that gap that we escape our
brain prison and reconnect with the one consciousness we all
share. It is within that gap that we can begin to
consciously co-create a better world for ourselves and
others. It is here in the timeless gap between our thoughts
that monistic idealism can be experienced and fully
fathomed. It is here that enlightenment is remembered.
In summary, to be spiritual is to be scientific. Dr. Goswami
and many other physicists like him are now proving that the
spiritual world is real and can be pointed to as the cause
of all reality. I highly suggest to anyone who is interested
in this subject to consider reading Dr. Goswami’s writings.
They are an important connection between body, mind, and
spirit for the sincere seeker of light.
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