NON-DUALITY
Notes:
1) FUZZINESS: The Standard model which explains all this (currently our best quantum theory of physics), explains these are point particles with NO VOLUME taking up NO SPACE. What appears as volume is the fuzzy probability patterns of the nucleus and especially electrons. But really nothing is there until we observe it.
2) NO OBJECTS: This further helps to see the illusion of matter and the veil of separation. At the quantum level there are NO OBJECTS. Nothing that exists separate and outside of us until measured. And even when we do observe them into creation, they are all identical at the most fundamental level!
3) ONENESS: If we go all the way back to the Big Bang itself, all the forces merge into a unified superforce and all particles merge in a quark-electron plasma. Which then ultimately in superstring theory, forces and particles even merge into a simplistic Oneness. Scientific materialism actually preaches the Oneness of the Material universe at its roots, but has no satisfactory explanation to explain how complex life emerges.
4) FRAMEWORK: Using the materialistic framework of quantum theory, How could something so radically simple become something to unfathomably complex (our Universe and Life in it)?. How can something unreal create Reality as we know it (especially by chance)? It makes no sense in a material framework. Quantum field theory and Darwinian evolution is not enough.
1) FUZZINESS: The Standard model which explains all this (currently our best quantum theory of physics), explains these are point particles with NO VOLUME taking up NO SPACE. What appears as volume is the fuzzy probability patterns of the nucleus and especially electrons. But really nothing is there until we observe it.
2) NO OBJECTS: This further helps to see the illusion of matter and the veil of separation. At the quantum level there are NO OBJECTS. Nothing that exists separate and outside of us until measured. And even when we do observe them into creation, they are all identical at the most fundamental level!
3) ONENESS: If we go all the way back to the Big Bang itself, all the forces merge into a unified superforce and all particles merge in a quark-electron plasma. Which then ultimately in superstring theory, forces and particles even merge into a simplistic Oneness. Scientific materialism actually preaches the Oneness of the Material universe at its roots, but has no satisfactory explanation to explain how complex life emerges.
4) FRAMEWORK: Using the materialistic framework of quantum theory, How could something so radically simple become something to unfathomably complex (our Universe and Life in it)?. How can something unreal create Reality as we know it (especially by chance)? It makes no sense in a material framework. Quantum field theory and Darwinian evolution is not enough.
Tale of 2 Worldviews
In the simplest of definitions, the term “worldview” means:
▪ The way someone thinks about the world
▪ The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world
▪ A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group
The way you think of the world or Universe as a whole, really directs everything you do.
And it directs us globally. How it thinks of Nature. How it thinks of Humanity. How should be treated.
Education and what should be thought. Fundamental and Basic point to start.
Identify worldview today and what needs to change in this worldview.
In the simplest of definitions, the term “worldview” means:
▪ The way someone thinks about the world
▪ The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world
▪ A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group
The way you think of the world or Universe as a whole, really directs everything you do.
And it directs us globally. How it thinks of Nature. How it thinks of Humanity. How should be treated.
Education and what should be thought. Fundamental and Basic point to start.
Identify worldview today and what needs to change in this worldview.
Materialistic and Spiritual Frameworks
Science does not take place in a conceptual vacuum. It operates within a metaphysical framework that formulates the questions it seeks to answer, and that interprets the answers it obtains through experiment and observation.
This framework itself of formulating questions and interpreting results is not testable by the methods of empirical science. That is, the scientific method operates within a metaphysical framework that formulates questions and interprets the answers. This metaphysical framework is NOT testable by the methods of science. You cannot use the scientific method to test the validity of the scientific method.
One may adopt a materialistic framework of thought, ask questions that arise in this framework, and then try to make sense of the answers one obtains. One may instead adopt a spiritual framework of thought, ask questions that arise in this framework, and try to make sense of Nature’s answers to these questions.
Materialistic framework of thought (questions), we will ask: what are the ultimate building blocks? how do they interact? and how do they combine to form the objects of everyday experience?
Spiritual framework of thought (questions), we will postulate an Ultimate Reality. Because this exists independently of anything else, we may call it “Pure Being.” The question we will then ask is: how does Pure Being manifest the world? And to this question quantum physics offers an exceedingly simple answer: Pure Being manifests the world by entering into reflexive spatial relations. “Reflexive” means that the relations are self-relations: Pure Being enters into relations with itself. “Spatial” means that the relations have the character of relative positions — positions that things occupy in relation to each other.
Science does not take place in a conceptual vacuum. It operates within a metaphysical framework that formulates the questions it seeks to answer, and that interprets the answers it obtains through experiment and observation.
This framework itself of formulating questions and interpreting results is not testable by the methods of empirical science. That is, the scientific method operates within a metaphysical framework that formulates questions and interprets the answers. This metaphysical framework is NOT testable by the methods of science. You cannot use the scientific method to test the validity of the scientific method.
One may adopt a materialistic framework of thought, ask questions that arise in this framework, and then try to make sense of the answers one obtains. One may instead adopt a spiritual framework of thought, ask questions that arise in this framework, and try to make sense of Nature’s answers to these questions.
Materialistic framework of thought (questions), we will ask: what are the ultimate building blocks? how do they interact? and how do they combine to form the objects of everyday experience?
Spiritual framework of thought (questions), we will postulate an Ultimate Reality. Because this exists independently of anything else, we may call it “Pure Being.” The question we will then ask is: how does Pure Being manifest the world? And to this question quantum physics offers an exceedingly simple answer: Pure Being manifests the world by entering into reflexive spatial relations. “Reflexive” means that the relations are self-relations: Pure Being enters into relations with itself. “Spatial” means that the relations have the character of relative positions — positions that things occupy in relation to each other.
The Enlightenment
The last three centuries have witnessed the great rise of the empirical sciences, such as physics and biology. Indeed, who can deny the extraordinary achievements of science? The technology that we rely on everyday and the life-saving medical procedures that were unavailable to previous times are all the fruit of scientific research. It is so easy to be proud of our scientific achievements that many have come to view science as the pinnacle of human knowledge. In fact, some philosophers and scientists hold that science is the only way to knowledge. This view is sometimes called scientism.
The view that the aim of science is to discover objective truths about reality, where reality is understood as that which exists independently of our minds.
“the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be” is an example of ontological scientism. The reason is that in order to make such a claim, a scientist like Sagan must hold that science gives us complete knowledge of reality. If science does not give us complete knowledge of reality, or if we are unsure that it does, then we are not warranted in drawing a conclusion like that of Sagan’s above.
“to put a correct view of the universe into people’s heads we must … get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, … and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, [namely,] Science, as the only begetter of truth.”3
3 Richard C. Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review, January 9, 1997, p. 28.
How can one prove that the scientific method gives us a complete knowledge of reality?
In making this claim, I should note that I am presupposing a realistic conception of science, namely, the view that the aim of science is to discover objective truths about reality, where reality is understood as that which exists independently of our minds. As examples of such necessary presuppositions of science, I would offer the principle of non-contradiction and the concept of truth, which we shall examine next.
For Aristotle, the principle of non-contradiction is ultimately a metaphysical principle, which he formulates as follows: “[I]t is impossible for anything at the same time to be and not to be.” I
As the above makes clear, the activity of science, at least when it is understood in a realist way, presupposes a certain framework. And elements of this framework such as the principle of non-contradiction and the concept of truth cannot be investigated or justified through the scientific method. As such, they will have to investigated and justified in another discipline, namely philosophy, and, more specifically, metaphysics. This justification is necessary to the extent that scientists want to hold that their theories are true, or at least approximately true, and in order to respond to the postmodernist attacks on science that have challenged its status as knowledge
Metaphysics is inescapable, then, because a realist conception of science requires a philosophical foundation, part of which must be metaphysical.
Metaphysics, then, turns out to be the categorial foundation of knowledge. For in it we attempt to establish and understand the most general categories and the relation of all other categories to them. … As the view of these categories and their relations, metaphysics is logically presupposed by every other view that one may have. Any account of what we know or think we know, then, is incomplete until we provide its metaphysical foundation.
The last three centuries have witnessed the great rise of the empirical sciences, such as physics and biology. Indeed, who can deny the extraordinary achievements of science? The technology that we rely on everyday and the life-saving medical procedures that were unavailable to previous times are all the fruit of scientific research. It is so easy to be proud of our scientific achievements that many have come to view science as the pinnacle of human knowledge. In fact, some philosophers and scientists hold that science is the only way to knowledge. This view is sometimes called scientism.
The view that the aim of science is to discover objective truths about reality, where reality is understood as that which exists independently of our minds.
“the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be” is an example of ontological scientism. The reason is that in order to make such a claim, a scientist like Sagan must hold that science gives us complete knowledge of reality. If science does not give us complete knowledge of reality, or if we are unsure that it does, then we are not warranted in drawing a conclusion like that of Sagan’s above.
“to put a correct view of the universe into people’s heads we must … get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, … and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, [namely,] Science, as the only begetter of truth.”3
3 Richard C. Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review, January 9, 1997, p. 28.
How can one prove that the scientific method gives us a complete knowledge of reality?
In making this claim, I should note that I am presupposing a realistic conception of science, namely, the view that the aim of science is to discover objective truths about reality, where reality is understood as that which exists independently of our minds. As examples of such necessary presuppositions of science, I would offer the principle of non-contradiction and the concept of truth, which we shall examine next.
For Aristotle, the principle of non-contradiction is ultimately a metaphysical principle, which he formulates as follows: “[I]t is impossible for anything at the same time to be and not to be.” I
As the above makes clear, the activity of science, at least when it is understood in a realist way, presupposes a certain framework. And elements of this framework such as the principle of non-contradiction and the concept of truth cannot be investigated or justified through the scientific method. As such, they will have to investigated and justified in another discipline, namely philosophy, and, more specifically, metaphysics. This justification is necessary to the extent that scientists want to hold that their theories are true, or at least approximately true, and in order to respond to the postmodernist attacks on science that have challenged its status as knowledge
Metaphysics is inescapable, then, because a realist conception of science requires a philosophical foundation, part of which must be metaphysical.
Metaphysics, then, turns out to be the categorial foundation of knowledge. For in it we attempt to establish and understand the most general categories and the relation of all other categories to them. … As the view of these categories and their relations, metaphysics is logically presupposed by every other view that one may have. Any account of what we know or think we know, then, is incomplete until we provide its metaphysical foundation.
“In the gap between subject and object lies the entire misery of humankind.”
–Jiddu Krishnamurti
Two Competing Philosophies of East and West
1) Scientific Materialism or Scientism - Matter Primary, Upward Causation (Consciousness Epiphenomenon or Emergent quality of Matter)
2) Monistic Idealism or Consciousness Only - Consciousness Primary, Downward Causation (Matter is Mindstuff, dense and concentrated consciousness but Ideas only).
The Non-dual worldview - There is only Oneness (Ultimate Reality)
In the authors deep experience and understanding all the aforementioned worldviews are partial at best or simply wrong. They are all inherently dualistic that keeps us Stuck in the duality of observer and observed, subject and object, seer and seen, etc. And it is not just the author's opinion, all the great non-dual traditions like Vedanta Hinduism and Dzogchen Buddhism (as two examples), most assuredly tell us the world is "not two" or non-dual. That it, there is a radical Oneness, that permeates both our subjective and objective senses of reality. But even the word non-duality is but a conceptual pointer to something that cannot be conceptualized and concepts are inherently dualistic. Quantum mechanics also points to this non-dual reality when view with a right understanding. That is, when we put science in a non-dual and spiritual framework, it all makes sense. Religion/Spirituality and Science are also "not-two" in their mystical essence.
Spiritually, these Non-dual traditions, point out that there is only One all-pervasive non-dual Ultimate Reality, spirit, cosmic consciousness, pure being, God, Brahman, Tao or whatever word you want to use to point to this Ultimate ground of all being. The non-dual teachers further tell us, that the perceived duality through our body, mind, senses and conditioning is an ILLUSION and that in reality we are truly all One and THIS direct realization is the source and summit of all the great religious and spiritual traditions!
Asking Questions in both Frameworks
Materialistic framework: of thought (questions), we will ask: what are the ultimate building blocks? how do they interact? and how do they combine to form the objects of everyday experience?
But even so, one may adopt a materialistic framework of thought, and ask questions that arise in this framework, and then try to make sense of the answers one obtains which is what science as a whole does. OR, one may instead adopt a spiritual or non-dual framework of thought, ask questions that arise in this framework, and try to make sense of Nature’s answers to these questions.
Spiritual framework of thought (questions): we will postulate an Ultimate Reality. Because this exists independently of anything else, we may call it “Pure Being.” The question we will then ask is: how does Pure Being manifest the world? And to this question quantum physics offers an exceedingly simple answer: Pure Being manifests the world by entering into reflexive spatial relations. “Reflexive” means that the relations are self-relations: Pure Being enters into relations with itself. “Spatial” means that the relations have the character of relative positions — positions that things occupy in relation to each other.
–Jiddu Krishnamurti
Two Competing Philosophies of East and West
1) Scientific Materialism or Scientism - Matter Primary, Upward Causation (Consciousness Epiphenomenon or Emergent quality of Matter)
2) Monistic Idealism or Consciousness Only - Consciousness Primary, Downward Causation (Matter is Mindstuff, dense and concentrated consciousness but Ideas only).
The Non-dual worldview - There is only Oneness (Ultimate Reality)
In the authors deep experience and understanding all the aforementioned worldviews are partial at best or simply wrong. They are all inherently dualistic that keeps us Stuck in the duality of observer and observed, subject and object, seer and seen, etc. And it is not just the author's opinion, all the great non-dual traditions like Vedanta Hinduism and Dzogchen Buddhism (as two examples), most assuredly tell us the world is "not two" or non-dual. That it, there is a radical Oneness, that permeates both our subjective and objective senses of reality. But even the word non-duality is but a conceptual pointer to something that cannot be conceptualized and concepts are inherently dualistic. Quantum mechanics also points to this non-dual reality when view with a right understanding. That is, when we put science in a non-dual and spiritual framework, it all makes sense. Religion/Spirituality and Science are also "not-two" in their mystical essence.
Spiritually, these Non-dual traditions, point out that there is only One all-pervasive non-dual Ultimate Reality, spirit, cosmic consciousness, pure being, God, Brahman, Tao or whatever word you want to use to point to this Ultimate ground of all being. The non-dual teachers further tell us, that the perceived duality through our body, mind, senses and conditioning is an ILLUSION and that in reality we are truly all One and THIS direct realization is the source and summit of all the great religious and spiritual traditions!
Asking Questions in both Frameworks
Materialistic framework: of thought (questions), we will ask: what are the ultimate building blocks? how do they interact? and how do they combine to form the objects of everyday experience?
But even so, one may adopt a materialistic framework of thought, and ask questions that arise in this framework, and then try to make sense of the answers one obtains which is what science as a whole does. OR, one may instead adopt a spiritual or non-dual framework of thought, ask questions that arise in this framework, and try to make sense of Nature’s answers to these questions.
Spiritual framework of thought (questions): we will postulate an Ultimate Reality. Because this exists independently of anything else, we may call it “Pure Being.” The question we will then ask is: how does Pure Being manifest the world? And to this question quantum physics offers an exceedingly simple answer: Pure Being manifests the world by entering into reflexive spatial relations. “Reflexive” means that the relations are self-relations: Pure Being enters into relations with itself. “Spatial” means that the relations have the character of relative positions — positions that things occupy in relation to each other.
The BIG Problem with Scientific Materialism
Scientism is a branch of the philosophical doctrine of Realism. This philosophy holds that the fundamental elements of reality are independent of our subjective consciousness (perceptions, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc). This is the standard philosophical stance of science and academia which is epitomized in Carl Sagan’s famous remark that “the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be”. And by Cosmos, Carl Sagan (a professed atheist), was talking about the physical Cosmos. Scientism is inherently atheistic and considers matter (and it's extensions, energy and fields) to be the only fundamental reality. All else, including consciousness, are secondary phenomenon and are ultimately reducible to matter. As such, scientism is sometimes referred to as scientific materialism to emphasize this strong objective and atheistic stance and is in direct contrast to consciousness being the primary and fundamental reality (which is the correct view).
The Scientific Method Falsifies Scientism
Science does not take place in a conceptual vacuum. It operates within a metaphysical framework or philosophy that formulates the questions it seeks to answer, and than interprets the answers it obtains through experiment and observation. But this framework is not testable by the methods of empirical science. You cannot use the scientific method to test the validity of the scientific method! I think a lot of scientists don't realize this glaring oversight.
That is, do we know for certain, that science does or can give us complete knowledge of reality? Or is this merely an assumption? If it is an assumption then, obviously, there is no guarantee that it is true. Unfortunately, for proponents of Scientism, it does not seem possible to determine through scientific experiment that the scientific method can give us complete knowledge of reality.
How do you set up a scientific experiment to demonstrate that science or a particular scientific method gives an exhaustive account of reality? The problem is that since science can only obtain knowledge about reality by means of scientific method, we must use those methods whose scope is in question to determine the scope of these very same methods. If we used non-scientific methods we could never come to know the answer to our question. This leads to circular arguments.
We cannot use scientific experimentation to know that “the only reality that we can know anything about is the one science has access to.” As such scientific materialism and its atheistic baggage collapses under its own weight. Also, if we are able to know some things independently of science then scientific materialism is falsified. And there are things rooted in consciousness we can all know apart from science. These include (but are not limited to):
Memory
Observational knowledge,
Introspective knowledge,
Linguistic knowledge,
Intentional knowledge.
Truth and Non-contradiction
(The hard problem of consciousness laid out by David Chalmers provides many more examples).
As the above makes clear, the activity of science, at least when it is understood in the scientific materialistic way, presupposes a certain framework. And elements of this framework such as the concept of truth and the principle of non-contradiction cannot be investigated or justified through the scientific method (even though truth and non-contradiction are its very foundation). As such, the scientific method needs the discipline of philosophy or metaphysics to be investigated and justified properly.
Metaphysics is inescapable, then, because a scientific materialism conception of truth inquiry requires a philosophical foundation, part of which must be metaphysical. So this shows very poignantly that there must be more than the physical universe known through the five senses. Scientific materialism MUST be only a portion of reality, and a small portion at that. Metaphysical dimensions are more fundamental and as this article shows, an essential foundation to explore the physical realms via the scientific method.
This problem goes away when we realize non-dual consciousness is the foundation, source and summit of creation. All the aforementioned problems are resolved when we see all matter, energy, terrestrial and universal objects, and life itself as all made fundamentally of consciousness. And we as conscious human beings have the potential to AWAKEN to this truth Oneness and see directly the non dual beauty of all that is!
Reference:
Mikael Stenmark, Scientism: Science, Ethics and Religion (Aldershort: Ashgate, 2001)
Scientism is a branch of the philosophical doctrine of Realism. This philosophy holds that the fundamental elements of reality are independent of our subjective consciousness (perceptions, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc). This is the standard philosophical stance of science and academia which is epitomized in Carl Sagan’s famous remark that “the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be”. And by Cosmos, Carl Sagan (a professed atheist), was talking about the physical Cosmos. Scientism is inherently atheistic and considers matter (and it's extensions, energy and fields) to be the only fundamental reality. All else, including consciousness, are secondary phenomenon and are ultimately reducible to matter. As such, scientism is sometimes referred to as scientific materialism to emphasize this strong objective and atheistic stance and is in direct contrast to consciousness being the primary and fundamental reality (which is the correct view).
The Scientific Method Falsifies Scientism
Science does not take place in a conceptual vacuum. It operates within a metaphysical framework or philosophy that formulates the questions it seeks to answer, and than interprets the answers it obtains through experiment and observation. But this framework is not testable by the methods of empirical science. You cannot use the scientific method to test the validity of the scientific method! I think a lot of scientists don't realize this glaring oversight.
That is, do we know for certain, that science does or can give us complete knowledge of reality? Or is this merely an assumption? If it is an assumption then, obviously, there is no guarantee that it is true. Unfortunately, for proponents of Scientism, it does not seem possible to determine through scientific experiment that the scientific method can give us complete knowledge of reality.
How do you set up a scientific experiment to demonstrate that science or a particular scientific method gives an exhaustive account of reality? The problem is that since science can only obtain knowledge about reality by means of scientific method, we must use those methods whose scope is in question to determine the scope of these very same methods. If we used non-scientific methods we could never come to know the answer to our question. This leads to circular arguments.
We cannot use scientific experimentation to know that “the only reality that we can know anything about is the one science has access to.” As such scientific materialism and its atheistic baggage collapses under its own weight. Also, if we are able to know some things independently of science then scientific materialism is falsified. And there are things rooted in consciousness we can all know apart from science. These include (but are not limited to):
Memory
Observational knowledge,
Introspective knowledge,
Linguistic knowledge,
Intentional knowledge.
Truth and Non-contradiction
(The hard problem of consciousness laid out by David Chalmers provides many more examples).
As the above makes clear, the activity of science, at least when it is understood in the scientific materialistic way, presupposes a certain framework. And elements of this framework such as the concept of truth and the principle of non-contradiction cannot be investigated or justified through the scientific method (even though truth and non-contradiction are its very foundation). As such, the scientific method needs the discipline of philosophy or metaphysics to be investigated and justified properly.
Metaphysics is inescapable, then, because a scientific materialism conception of truth inquiry requires a philosophical foundation, part of which must be metaphysical. So this shows very poignantly that there must be more than the physical universe known through the five senses. Scientific materialism MUST be only a portion of reality, and a small portion at that. Metaphysical dimensions are more fundamental and as this article shows, an essential foundation to explore the physical realms via the scientific method.
This problem goes away when we realize non-dual consciousness is the foundation, source and summit of creation. All the aforementioned problems are resolved when we see all matter, energy, terrestrial and universal objects, and life itself as all made fundamentally of consciousness. And we as conscious human beings have the potential to AWAKEN to this truth Oneness and see directly the non dual beauty of all that is!
Reference:
Mikael Stenmark, Scientism: Science, Ethics and Religion (Aldershort: Ashgate, 2001)
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Quantum Physics in a Spiritual Framework
Quantum physics makes the most sense in a spiritually non-dual framework vs a materialistic and dualistic framework. Interestingly you can interpret Quantum physics from both paradigms, but it "fits" and makes much more sense embedded within a spiritual or metaphysical framework.
In the standard scientific materialism model, there exists two domains in the nature. The quantum world of the very small, and the large macroscopic world we see and experience through our five senses and perceptions. The quantum weirdness of non-locality, entanglement, wave-particle duality, superpositions, tunneling, quantum teleportation, etc., have no logical connection to the world we know if viewed with scientific materialism. What is worse is to know or learn about the quantum realm, the very acting of measuring, looking or observing it, changes it. That is, the wave function describing a quantum system collapses. So there are two discontinuous quantum theories. The first is the theory of the evolution of a quantum system guided by a wave function that contains all possibilities of the system. The second theory, called the measurement problem, involves the observation of the quantum system that causes a collapse or reduction to one outcome only. It is a problem because they have no connection to each other, and as such Quantum mechanics is taught in these two steps.
The crux of this measurement problem is the prevalent scientific materialism worldview, called scientism, that has particles as separated objects “out there” in space and time which are then further separated from the subjective observer. So you have separated objects in an objective reality, that exist in a different domain then our subjective reality of perceptions, feelings, impressions, thoughts etc. This mind-body problem is still very much a problem even to this day, and it is because of this split, that quantum mechanics makes no sense. But it only makes no sense, because it is embedded a worldview or framework for which it doesn’t fit.
By simply shifting the worldview or framework of quantum mechanics to a spiritual and non-dual framework, all these problems are resolved. And to be clear, it is the SAME quantum mechanical principles science has discovered, but these ideas are now nested in a spiritual framework where they find a much better home.
The shift is this: instead of separate material objects (including quantum particles) existing objectively and dualistically separately from subjective awareness, these objects are now seen to be made of only One Substance, as spatial reflexive relations that exist within this one universal awareness, or also if you like being, consciousness, emptiness, or whatever word you like. But this universal one substance, is radically non-dual and unified. The intimate awareness we experience subjectively is also the same awareness that is the source and ground of all creation. That is, space, time, matter, energy, light, emotions, thoughts, are all made of this One primordial awareness. And to be clear, I am using the word awareness in a non-dual fashion. There is no “other” to be aware "of". There is only awareness. And as such the apparent collapse of the wave-function in quantum mechanics is an illusion. And there is no collapse, if quantum entanglement is properly understood, even within standard quantum theory, because you can always look at any isolated subsystem from a greater system or perspective (see my article I wrote on this - link in comments). And ultimately creating ANY SORT of an isolated system or subsystem is totally an illusion. Everything always remains quantumly entangled. Besides, how can you separate ANYTHING from oneness? You cannot.
It takes quantum mechanics to really see and understand this non-duality scientifically because our five senses operating in the macroscopic domain paint the illusory picture of subject/object duality very convincingly and Newtonian Physics only reinforces this illusion. It really takes peering all the way down to tiny fundamental particles, for awareness to see awareness scientifically. It really is amazing to me having this revelation!
Meditation and spiritual practices allow us to have this powerful realization subjectively, which unfolds objectively into a non-dual understanding from the inside out. Quantum mechanics is going the other direction by seeing it objectively which then points to the non-dual understanding from the outside in. I strong feel by really “getting this”, if can really change your life! Science and spirituality are not-two, they are radically One and the same if we choose the spiritual framework or worldview to place them both in!
Quantum physics makes the most sense in a spiritually non-dual framework vs a materialistic and dualistic framework. Interestingly you can interpret Quantum physics from both paradigms, but it "fits" and makes much more sense embedded within a spiritual or metaphysical framework.
In the standard scientific materialism model, there exists two domains in the nature. The quantum world of the very small, and the large macroscopic world we see and experience through our five senses and perceptions. The quantum weirdness of non-locality, entanglement, wave-particle duality, superpositions, tunneling, quantum teleportation, etc., have no logical connection to the world we know if viewed with scientific materialism. What is worse is to know or learn about the quantum realm, the very acting of measuring, looking or observing it, changes it. That is, the wave function describing a quantum system collapses. So there are two discontinuous quantum theories. The first is the theory of the evolution of a quantum system guided by a wave function that contains all possibilities of the system. The second theory, called the measurement problem, involves the observation of the quantum system that causes a collapse or reduction to one outcome only. It is a problem because they have no connection to each other, and as such Quantum mechanics is taught in these two steps.
The crux of this measurement problem is the prevalent scientific materialism worldview, called scientism, that has particles as separated objects “out there” in space and time which are then further separated from the subjective observer. So you have separated objects in an objective reality, that exist in a different domain then our subjective reality of perceptions, feelings, impressions, thoughts etc. This mind-body problem is still very much a problem even to this day, and it is because of this split, that quantum mechanics makes no sense. But it only makes no sense, because it is embedded a worldview or framework for which it doesn’t fit.
By simply shifting the worldview or framework of quantum mechanics to a spiritual and non-dual framework, all these problems are resolved. And to be clear, it is the SAME quantum mechanical principles science has discovered, but these ideas are now nested in a spiritual framework where they find a much better home.
The shift is this: instead of separate material objects (including quantum particles) existing objectively and dualistically separately from subjective awareness, these objects are now seen to be made of only One Substance, as spatial reflexive relations that exist within this one universal awareness, or also if you like being, consciousness, emptiness, or whatever word you like. But this universal one substance, is radically non-dual and unified. The intimate awareness we experience subjectively is also the same awareness that is the source and ground of all creation. That is, space, time, matter, energy, light, emotions, thoughts, are all made of this One primordial awareness. And to be clear, I am using the word awareness in a non-dual fashion. There is no “other” to be aware "of". There is only awareness. And as such the apparent collapse of the wave-function in quantum mechanics is an illusion. And there is no collapse, if quantum entanglement is properly understood, even within standard quantum theory, because you can always look at any isolated subsystem from a greater system or perspective (see my article I wrote on this - link in comments). And ultimately creating ANY SORT of an isolated system or subsystem is totally an illusion. Everything always remains quantumly entangled. Besides, how can you separate ANYTHING from oneness? You cannot.
It takes quantum mechanics to really see and understand this non-duality scientifically because our five senses operating in the macroscopic domain paint the illusory picture of subject/object duality very convincingly and Newtonian Physics only reinforces this illusion. It really takes peering all the way down to tiny fundamental particles, for awareness to see awareness scientifically. It really is amazing to me having this revelation!
Meditation and spiritual practices allow us to have this powerful realization subjectively, which unfolds objectively into a non-dual understanding from the inside out. Quantum mechanics is going the other direction by seeing it objectively which then points to the non-dual understanding from the outside in. I strong feel by really “getting this”, if can really change your life! Science and spirituality are not-two, they are radically One and the same if we choose the spiritual framework or worldview to place them both in!