FUTURE VOICE Magazine IV | QUANTUM PHYSICS
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The true Nature of Reality
This is the first of two consecutive magazines on the topic Quantum Physics.
In this edition, we focus first and foremost on the scientific basics. In the second magazine on the topic, we highlight the possibilities of making this knowledge concretely usable.
The Quantum Physics field of knowledge is comprehensive; we only can present a small insight here, which would like to encourage you to perform your own further research.
The opening to the vast universe takes all our ways of knowing: the rigors of science, the powers of imagination, embodied wisdom and mystical vision.
“Why do we keep re-creating the same reality? Why do we keep having the same relationships? Why do we keep getting the same jobs over and over again?
In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us how come we keep re-creating the same realities? Isn't it amazing that we have options and potentials that exist but we're unaware of them?
Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily lives ... so conditioned to the way we create our lives that we buy the idea that we have no control at all?
We've been conditioned to believe that the external world is more real than the internal world.
This new model of science says just the opposite – It says what's happening within us will create what's happening outside of us.” (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
Worldviews
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser
Ever since humans first developed the capacity to think and wonder, we have been awed by the magnificence, beauty, and sometimes terrifying forces of nature. Witnessing the journey of life from the miracle of birth to the finality of death, our ancestors wondered: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Like us, they wanted to know how we fit into the world around us.
To make sense of these mysteries, we create stories. Some cultures create stories about earth spirits embedded in nature, others about a single sky god who rules from above, still others tell us we are alone in an indifferent universe.
Can we say that any of these stories are truer, better, more valid than others If so, in what ways? How do we evaluate what is true? And what happens when the stories we have relied on stop making sense?
For the last 300 years modern society has relied primarily on scientific discovery to tell us about the nature of reality. On the one hand, we have all benefitted enormously from the technologies that science has made possible.
On the other hand, many may have felt uneasy when science cannot account for or explain our most significant personal experiences. Many find a deepening mismatch between what they know from their own experience and what they know from science.
Experiences such as out-of-body or near-death events, telepathy, clairvoyance or remote viewing, and the powerful healing effects of intention and prayer are just some of the anomalies that challenge the dominant scientific explanations for how the world works.
However, we are witnessing a remarkable convergence of discoveries on the frontiers of science that appears to support age-old wisdom from perennial spiritual traditions. We are learning, for example, from quantum physics about the ways certain aspects of reality transcend our usual understanding of time and space, and we are learning from neurosciences and consciousness studies remarkable connections between mind and body. Phenomena such as ‘quantum nonlocal interconnectedness’ and the power of mind and emotions to affect the body (and other parts of the physical world) do not fit the dominant story about how the world works.
Gradually, purely mechanistic views are likely to be replaced by the truly mind-boggling revelations issuing from quantum physics, systems and complexity theories, Psychoneuroimmunology, and other mind-body studies in consciousness research. For decades, news from these frontier sciences has been filtering through to the general public.
The emerging story tells us the universe consists not of things but of possibilities – those relationships and processes are more fundamental than substances.
It tells us that the world is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. It is a conscious, evolving universe, in which we participate through our every thought and action.
Reality is far more mysterious than they have been taught. And at the core of this mystery is the creativity and potency of consciousness.
We may wonder why it is so difficult to accept new science and update our version of reality. But worldviews change slowly over time. Consider that we have known for hundreds of years that the world is round and turning on its axis, yet we still talk in terms of the sun ‘setting’ over the horizon.
Likewise, the discoveries of quantum physicists are not recent. The theory was first developed over 70 years ago. And no matter how well we think we understand the implications of atomic theory and neuroscience, which tell us that matter is mostly full of empty space and that our brains ‘construct’ our perceptions of the world, the world still looks and feels very much like it is ‘out there’, solid and reliable.
We can't change our fundamental assumptions about the world without changing the way we gain knowledge about it. …
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