Quantum Mystic

This subject will take far more than the few paragraphs of any one post. But I have to try; the evidence for the mind side of the mind-body equation keeps materializing in front of me. Early this year, the science of the body was foremost in my research. Back in April, the news feeds I monitor had almost daily articles on diabetes and autoimmune disease related studies. Most aspects of my regimen (supplements, diet, activity, acupuncture) are derived from my interpretation of that stream. For the last 3-4 months, the diabetes relevant science news has thinned out. But as if to stave off any boredom on my part, science related to the non-material side of the system has become visible.

About 3 months ago, my close friend (an RN with eastern medicine training), called me to say she’d put together a class she wanted me to attend. It was free, one evening a week for 6 weeks, and presented by a Swami she’d met who’d recently arrived from India. I’m not much of a class guy, but Michelle is someone whose instincts are so right that you ignore them at your peril. And she was right. Swamiji was spellbinding. The class was titled “Spiritual Healing Through Eternal Wisdom” and had some focus toward the physicians and caregivers at the hospital where the presentations were given. That focus was not irrelevant to me since I’m primary caregiver to myself during this diabetes project. Swami Dharmananda has been teaching the science of yoga for 26 years in India, mostly to Americans, and has great skill leading western minds on a tour of the universe-system that traditional yoga comprises. The bits and pieces I had previously stumbled across had not made it clear that yoga was more than physical exercises. Swamiji described it as a super-science of physics, medicine, and psychology all rolled into one. I have yet to find fault with his assertion that there is absolutely no conflict between the science of yoga and western science. He suggests that every development in either hard or soft science is explainable and “fits” within the yoga system. Any phenomena still unexplained by western science can be explained by yoga and will, Swamiji says, be confirmed by western science too, eventually.

For me, most of this seemed vaguely familiar and certainly not hard to accept. After the first class, I was reminded of something I wrote in 1980 for a university Mythology class. I was pursuing a double-major in Astrophysics and Creative Writing. This project was to write a cosmology or origin myth. My “A Modern Cosmology” is a little dry to wade through; but its attempt to explain the meaning of the universe, in terms completely compatible with both astro and quantum physics, sounds a lot like yoga.

The compounding event that prompted this post is a documentary I saw last night. I had queued A Quantum Activist in Netflix a couple of months ago. I finally watched it. Lo and behold it’s a film about a quantum physicist who, after decades of teaching the standard western, material model, had a series of radical insights. I can’t possibly do justice to his argument here. You should watch it. His name is Amit Goswami.

The fact that quantum physics is all about possibilities led him to look at what happens in our brains. The current generations-long western mantra (that everything derives from the material or physical) doesn't explain all phenomena. The known chemical reactions and neurons firing in the brain still don’t account for instinct or intuition. Evidence of non-locality connections between people, and at the atomic level, are easily explainable if you turn the paradigm upside down. Instead, put the non-material (consciousness) as the basis that all phenomena derive from, instead of the other way around. As I said, no few sentences can begin to take you to this place. If you can’t find the film, A Quantum Activist, here are some you-tube clips of Amit Goswami, Ph.D. that are a good start.



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Refusing The Needle: A Diabetic’s Natural Journey To Kick-Ass Health by Russell Stamets
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