I’d love to read this. Double slit experiment and quantum really enable a lot of interesting hypotheses about reality and experiences. There’s not much as liberating as the realization that “I don’t know”.
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Dr. Robert Lanza's book Biocentricity was a fascinating read on that subject.
I’ll check it out! Thanks for the recommendation!
Couldn’t agree more, and would like to write about it so I could condense the ideas around this. Double slit experiment almost opens up the door to “believing is seeing” possibility.
I have been working my way through listening to every physicist that Lex Fridman has had a long form convo with, and so far the biggest take away is that the closer we try to get to the fundamental fabric of reality, the more things diverge from anything even close to being in the realm of historical “scientific” logic
Just like the mathematical understanding of gravity changed when we understood relativity. “Normal” is also relative and I love that what happens at the extremes flip all of that on its head. Early science is so egotistical - planets circling the earth. I do like the idea that progress in both spirituality and science requires surrender - especially for two areas that at times have been made to seem so diametrically opposed.
Yep I am completely on the same wavelength as you with this. I think that it could be liberating for a lot of people to lose the sense that you are either spiritual or scientific and find that there is actually a lot of logic in the fact that each individual’s relative experience is based in a realm that we are merely trying to find consistencies in (“scientific fact”) which are helpful but also that relative experience by its definition is in the eye of the beholder so there is room for unlimited ways to shape that experience (the spiritual).
And who knows, maybe, just maybe, what you believe is to come is what you end up experiencing.
Obviously lots of interesting cases of belief changing medical outcomes that most of us are familiar with, it’s interesting to see that it could be even more fundamental with the questions now being raised by studies at the quantum level.
I think at the root of this, there is a lot of fear. Of the unknown, sure… but also of what humans have done with spirituality/surrender, and the ways something so fundamental has been used to manipulate and also to shame (largely through this belief that “knowing” is possible and that it’s rooted in the past). I think what you’re describing creates a space in between… a way to not “throw the baby out with the bath water”. I think if you can bridge that gap, there is a lot of value there. You should definitely write the book!
I agree and thanks! This is motivating 😊