Question: What is the connection between quantum mechanics and healing?
Deepak Chopra: According to our current understanding of the universe, the physical universe is actually made up of energy and information. Wherever there are objects, there are fields of energy and also information. And if you go to the very fundamental levels of activity in nature, you’ll find that nature is a discontinuity. Which means even though our perceptual experience of the universe is continuous, in fact it’s going on and off at the speed of light. We know what’s in the “on” of the universe. It’s energy and information. We use it in our technology when we use cell phones, or surf the information highway on the Internet, or send each other e-mail.
But the deeper question is what’s in the “off”? What’s between the two “ons” in the discontinuity?
And many people in the world of quantum physics are realizing, or thinking, or hypothesizing that that discontinuity is consciousness itself; that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an expression of our brains, although it expresses itself through our brains. But consciousness is the common ground of existence that ultimately differentiates into space, time, energy, information and matter. And the same consciousness is responsible for our thoughts, for our emotions and feelings, for our behaviors, for our personal relationships, for our social interactions, for the environments that we find ourselves in, and for our biology. In other words, consciousness is the common ground that differentiates into everything that we call reality, including the observer and the objects of our observation. And this is a much deeper understanding of consciousness that is coming about as a result of some insights from the world of quantum physics.
Not everyone agrees on this theory. In fact, a number of scientists are still tied to the old paradigm, which is that matter is the essential reality, and that consciousness is the anti-phenomenon.
But it turns out that even to explain simple things; How do you perceive color? How do you imagine? How do you see pictures in consciousness and hear sounds in consciousness? You have to recognize that this cannot be explained by any reductionist model. When you experience a sound, or a color, or a taste, or a smell, the activity in your brain is just a quart of charges that goes on and off. How does that quart of charges going on and off become physical reality, and where does that happen?
If you understand this model of quantum physics, then it becomes apparent that we’re not in the physical world. The physical world is in us. We create the physical world when we perceive it, when we observe it. And also we create this experience in our imagination. And when I say “we,” I don’t mean the physical body or the brain, but a deeper domain of consciousness which conceives, governs, constructs and actually becomes everything that we call physical reality.
This is a model that is being explored by some academic scientists working in the field of neuroscience, and also in the field of quantum physics. But it is also a model that was explored by the great sages and seers, some of which were the authors of the Bhagavad Gita itself.
Recorded on: Aug 17, 2007
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Shannon Shiflett on April 15, 2008, 8:07 AM
This is sound advice; however, it's not solely about personal responsibility—banks such as Chase are charging up to 30% interest on credit cards as soon as you make your first (likely) mistake of making a payment late. Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton, voted in favor of legislation that legalized this predatory practice, which is one of the reasons I withdrew recently from the party.
Shannon Shiflett on April 15, 2008, 12:07 PM
This is sound advice; however, it’s not solely about personal responsibility—banks such as Chase are charging up to 30% interest on credit cards as soon as you make your first (likely) mistake of making a payment late. Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton, voted in favor of legislation that legalized this predatory practice, which is one of the reasons I withdrew recently from the party.
samim winiger on April 28, 2008, 1:12 AM
agree with his insightful commentary. would be helpful to get some links to current scientific studies he´s referring to. i´m wondering when the tipping point will be reached for a global paradigm shit.
samim winiger on April 28, 2008, 5:12 AM
agree with his insightful commentary. would be helpful to get some links to current scientific studies he
jeff delusio on June 8, 2008, 9:16 AM
Oh boy have I been waiting for the day.
I will offer a transcript of an interview with Mr Money Bags Bogus Quantum Hooha and Richard Dawkins that exposes this pile of pseudo-scientific baloney for the fakery and snake oil it really is.
Here goes folks, from the documentary Enemies of Reason
Dawkins: Irrationality is woven into the fabric of modern life. Isn't Deepak Chopra exploiting quantum jargon as plausible sounding hocus pocus?
Chopra: Quantum theroy? Healing for me is that a shift in consciousness creates a shift in biology.
Dawkins: Where does quantum theory come into that?
Chopra: Oh, it's just a metaphor. (METAPHOR GET IT PEOPLE!!! … comment by me, PJ)
Dawkins: Oh it's just a metaphor?
Chopra: Just like a photon or an electron is an indivisible unit off energy, a thought is an indivisible unit of consciousness.
Dawkins: (incredulous) So it's a metaphor? It has noothing to do with quatum theory as in physics?
Chopra: No! I think it has a lot to say about observer effect. There are (sic) a school of physicists who believe that quantum leaps for example (sic) are examples of discontinuity. Creativity and consciousness is (sic) also an example of discontinuity, and that healing may be a biological phenomena (sic) that relies on biological creativity at very fundamental levels. It may be a discontinuity phenomenon that something unpredictable happens in the proliferation of uncertainty.
Dawkins: That's a poetic use of the word discontinuity; it's actually confusion isn't it to bring in quantum theory other than as a metaphor, and also with a little tinge of what physicists are talking about as well?
(Dawkins is incredulous)
Chopra: Well there is a controversy. The offical (incomprehensible word) of physics have hi-jacked teh word for their own use. I think that what happens is that they're fundamentalists in science.
Dawkins: That's absolutely wrong. Science's quest is to tease out those bits that are..'
Copra interrupts
Chopra: Science has become so arrogant…
So Chopra, in debate with a real scientist has to admit that all his appeals to quantum this and that are all bogus. He is not talking about science, he is just abusing the language of science to support his very comfortable money making empire.
SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Don't believe him. He just wants your money and your incredulity to satisfy his ego and his bank account.
jeff delusio on June 8, 2008, 1:16 PM
Oh boy have I been waiting for the day.
I will offer a transcript of an interview with Mr Money Bags Bogus Quantum Hooha and Richard Dawkins that exposes this pile of pseudo-scientific baloney for the fakery and snake oil it really is.
Here goes folks, from the documentary Enemies of Reason
Dawkins: Irrationality is woven into the fabric of modern life. Isn’t Deepak Chopra exploiting quantum jargon as plausible sounding hocus pocus?
Chopra: Quantum theroy? Healing for me is that a shift in consciousness creates a shift in biology.
Dawkins: Where does quantum theory come into that?
Chopra: Oh, it’s just a metaphor. (METAPHOR GET IT PEOPLE!!! … comment by me, PJ)
Dawkins: Oh it’s just a metaphor?
Chopra: Just like a photon or an electron is an indivisible unit off energy, a thought is an indivisible unit of consciousness.
Dawkins: (incredulous) So it’s a metaphor? It has noothing to do with quatum theory as in physics?
Chopra: No! I think it has a lot to say about observer effect. There are (sic) a school of physicists who believe that quantum leaps for example (sic) are examples of discontinuity. Creativity and consciousness is (sic) also an example of discontinuity, and that healing may be a biological phenomena (sic) that relies on biological creativity at very fundamental levels. It may be a discontinuity phenomenon that something unpredictable happens in the proliferation of uncertainty.
Dawkins: That’s a poetic use of the word discontinuity; it’s actually confusion isn’t it to bring in quantum theory other than as a metaphor, and also with a little tinge of what physicists are talking about as well?
(Dawkins is incredulous)
Chopra: Well there is a controversy. The offical (incomprehensible word) of physics have hi-jacked teh word for their own use. I think that what happens is that they’re fundamentalists in science.
Dawkins: That’s absolutely wrong. Science’s quest is to tease out those bits that are..‘
Copra interrupts
Chopra: Science has become so arrogant…
So Chopra, in debate with a real scientist has to admit that all his appeals to quantum this and that are all bogus. He is not talking about science, he is just abusing the language of science to support his very comfortable money making empire.
SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Don’t believe him. He just wants your money and your incredulity to satisfy his ego and his bank account.
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