Quantum Physics — The Holotropic State

The key findings of Quantum Physics point towards Holistic Quantum Relativity and the Holotropic State, especially: 1. Dr David Bohm’s work about the universe being made up of an “interconnected unbroken wholeness”; 2. The Non-Locality phenomena, ie, Bell’s Theorem; and 3. The ‘Observer Effect’ implying that consciousness underlies all reality.

Points 1, 2 and 3 — taken together — have striking parallels with the timeless spiritual concepts that all reality is the manifestation of an Infinite Singularity — Creative Principle — which we may choose to name Self-Designing Source, Supra-Universal Consciousness, Divine Principle or God. This demonstrates that Quantum Physics is moving the boundaries of our thinking towards the Holotropic State. Holotropic means “moving toward wholeness.” [Origin: Greek "Holos" = whole and "Trepein" = moving in the direction of]

However, none of this should be surprising to those mystics who have experienced the ‘Oneness’ via some sort of deep spiritual inner experience or Holotropic State.

The Growth of Quantum Physics beyond The Classical Model of Science
Many consider Quantum Physics to be at the cutting edge of Western science and in many respects it goes beyond Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The interesting challenge associated with 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 appears to be an undivided Whole in a perpetual state of dynamic flux.

Like Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, that latest experiments and associated theories of Quantum Physics reveal the Universe to be a single gigantic field of energy in which matter itself is just a ’slowed down’ form of energy. Further, Quantum Physics has postulated that matter/energy does not exist with any certainty in definite places, but rather shows ‘tendencies’ to exist. [Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle]

Even more intriguing is the notion that the existence of an observer is fundamental to the existence of the Universe — a concept known as ‘The Observer Effect’ – implying that the Universe is a product of consciousness, beyond Universe and Supra-Universe are product of the the Super-Consciousness. [The Mind of God concept]

“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.” [The Hands of Light, Barbara Brennan, American physicist]

On the other hand, the methodology of contemporary Western science, which still taught in most of our educational institutions today, works on the basis of breaking the world into its component parts. Quantum Physicist, Dr David Bohm stated “primary physical laws cannot be discovered by a science that attempts to break the world into its parts.” Bohm wrote of an “implicate enfolded order” which exists in an un-manifested state and which is the foundation upon which all manifest reality rests. He called this manifest reality “the explicate unfolded order”. He went 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 analysability of the world into separately and independently existent parts.” [The Implicate Order]

The classical perception of the ‘rules’ of the Universe are changing to reflect the multiple-universes predicted by the Quantum Physics based mathematics. In other words, the mathematical formulae that were initially developed to describe the behaviour of the universe — with multiple-universes — turn out to govern the behaviour of the multiple universes and planes described in spirituality. Thus, the mathematics which was thought to produce some absurd results, has in fact come to be relied upon to demonstrate that matter and energy somehow indeed change to behave in exactly that absurd manner to reflect the formulae!

Of course, all these notions completely contradict the understanding of reality held by most humans, whose perception of reality is still based upon “Linear Cause and Effect” Newtonian Physics, if only because Newtonian Physics seems to describe the observed Universe, as we knew it, so well at a preliminary level. (but not on a micro level such as sub atomic ‘particles’ etc or indeed at the level of accounting for acceleration and other unusual phenomena.)

Non-Locality is defined as that phenomenon in which occurrences on one side of the Universe can instantly effect ‘matter’ or ‘energy’ on the other side of the Universe. Non-locality has profound implications for the prevailing world view of reality in that it clearly demonstrates the inter-connectedness between all ‘matter’ and ‘energy’ in the Physical Universe and the illusory nature of Space and Time, something that those who have had some sort of deep spiritual experience are already well aware of.

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