Quantum Physics is at
the cutting edge of Western science and goes beyond Einstein's Theory of
Relativity. The interesting thing about quantum physics is that the original
impetus giving rise to it, namely the pursuit of the elemental building blocks
of the Universe (separate elementary particles), has become meaningless with
the discovery that the Universe would appear to be an undivided whole that is
in perpetual dynamic flux. Like Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Quantum
Physics suggests that matter is just a form of energy (i.e. matter could be
considered as 'slowed down' energy) and that like energy, it does not exist
with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies'
to exist. Even more intriguing is the notion that the existence of an observer
is fundamental to the existence of the Universe, known as The Observer Effect,
implying that the Universe is a product of consciousness. (i.e.
the Mind of God) 1
As American
physicist, Barbara Brennan, states in her book 'The Hands of Light': "Through
experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be
completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a
subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but
rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of
interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed
composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This
implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the
Whole." 2
Quantum
Physicist, Dr David Bohm goes further in his book
'The Implicate Order' in which he states that "primary physical laws
cannot be discovered by a science that attempts to break the world into its
parts." 3
Yet this is
the exact methodology of classic science still taught in most of our educational
institutions today. Bohm writes of an "implicate
enfolded order" which exists in an un-manifested state and which is the
foundation upon which all manifest reality rests. Bohm
calls this manifest reality "the explicate
unfolded order". Bohm goes on to say "parts
are seen to be in immediate connection, in which their dynamical relationships
depend in an irreducible way on the state of the whole system . . . Thus, one
is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness which denies the classical idea of
analyzability of the world into separately and independently existent
parts." 4
The recent findings of
Quantum Physics (especially Dr Bohm's work), about
the universe being made up of an "interconnected unbroken wholeness",
and the 'Observer Effect' implying that consciousness underlies all reality has
striking parallels with the ancient Esoteric concept that all reality is the
manifestation of single immense entity or creative principle. However, none of
this is surprising to those who have experienced the 'Oneness' associated with
a holotropic state. 5
1. The still-dominant "
(SOURCE:
David Bohm by
Will Keepin)
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2. Source: 'HANDS OF LIGHT' by Barbara Brennan (p24)
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3. Source: 'THE IMPLICATE ORDER' by David Bohm
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4. See: DAVID BOHM, HIS LIFE AND WORK by
Will Keepin
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5. See: ESOTERIC THEORY by
Alex Paterson
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Copyright © Alex
Paterson 1999