Hope and Heart

QUANTUM HOPE: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN SCIENCE With excerpts from Poem – DISCOVERY

When I was a kid growing up in the fifties, Nature enthralled me with her beauty, hum, and tranquility. Her flowers, the sea, the vast blue sky of day, and the starry one at night—all created a magical wonder in me. I recall, though, childhood “arguments” with friends about how God could have created everything. Did he make chewing gum? Bubble stuff? Baseballs? Kids still question about these.

Today, decades later, scientists continue to wonder as there are many unknowns in the Universe. Each answer found presents new questions. Quantum physics has been around for over a hundred years but is still not well understood. Early on, physicist Niels Bohr said, “If you’re not puzzled when you encounter quantum physics, you could not possibly have understood it.”[11] Albert Einstein was frustrated by it, wondering where order was and famously saying, “God does not play dice!”[12] You see, Newton’s laws of physical motion, including cause and effect, did not seem to apply at the subatomic quantum level. There were paradoxes in quantum physics. For example, how could a subatomic wave also be a particle? How do matter and mind interact? Science cannot allow paradoxes, for it would mean there was something incorrect about the premise. This begs the question: Will the realms of science and God ever realign?

“I don’t believe that chaos reigns mid bits of quirk and quark.

That Law is dashed and order feigns to conquer all that’s dark.”

The exciting news is that a growing number of scientists, including theoretical quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami, have solved the paradoxes and scientifically proved that all-pervading, immaterial consciousness, not physical matter, is the basis of all being. This is huge! It means that science has discovered and recognizes a spiritual side, that God is not dead, and that “this God is objective; it is scientific,”[13] not anthropomorphic. Quantum physics is telling us that Nature includes the supernatural—the nonphysical![14] We must understand that not all scientists agree on this new idea.

However, one group of quantum physicists (new-paradigm thinkers) put forward their understanding that all is ultimately vibratory consciousness manifesting at graded levels. At the highest level of consciousness, called quantum consciousness, all is one and is creative and causal. One might ask then: Why does each of us sense the me of individuality?

Our sense of separateness is due, in part, to conditioning through experience, plus the need to distinguish one thing from another as we function in the manifest, material world. We see something and make a judgment about it based on prior observations. Through evolution and free will, humanity is slowly working its way to higher levels of consciousness.

“In the quest for what and why each answer found brings the awe

Of simplicity to mystify while exposing the next layer raw.”

Further, if all is one at the quantum level, God or Source is the ultimate generator of everything. Thus, competition disappears; that is, each person strives to improve oneself rather than beat someone else. Phew, what a relief! So does that resolve my childhood question? Read on.

Science has given us much. The advancement of human society over the centuries is apparent. We have electric lighting rather than torches; we have cars, planes, and trains instead of horses and carts. Our understanding of our world has grown exponentially. We have traveled to the moon and to the depths of the oceans; we have transplanted the human heart and begun decoding genetic material. Many more technological marvels are sure to come. Yet mainstream science has focused on the material world. Science is convinced that it has the means to solve everything and that the world is like a great machine, with evolution at the throttle. Technology and materialism have become our new gods. Mobile devices are like extensions of our arms. TV ads scream, “I want that, NOW!”