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Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness, Reality and Time

When I see a person (and even perceive an object by touch, smell, etc.), I seem to recognise various manifestations of a human being, but in reality I perceive a cloud of atoms and sub-atomic particles, which in themselves only come into being as a result of our consciousness, as, for example, seen by a theoretical physicist David Bohm [Ref. Quantum Implications in Hidden Variables and the Implicate Order, Edited by Hiley and Peat, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1987 ; also Ref. Karl Pribram “Languages of the Brain”, Wadsworth Publishing, Calif., 1977].

Also quoting from Carlos Castaneda: ”Tales of Power”, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1974, page 100: “We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description [and I would call it a deception – A.S.] that was created to help us. We, or rather our reason, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in our lifetime”....read more>>>...