A New Quantum Scientific Method
Enabling Positive Possibilities for Our Lives
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STEPS TOWARD A NEW SCIENTIFIC METHOD 1. Categorize the realm we wish to understand: A. Consensus Reality—our ‘everyday’ world/ B. Group Reality (GR)--the world of a particular group of people. C. Individual Reality (call it IR)—a unique individual world, in which the brain waves can determine possibilities. D. Brain State Reality—how different states of consciousness work and relate to one another. 2. Outline the nature of time in the reality observed. Can it be tied to causality or does causality take on a different format? Say an artist sees the painting process backward in his mind. The present would be causing the past. 3. Understand the theories that relate to the reality. Ordinary science has theories that relate only to consensus reality. 4. Formulate new theories that explain not only that reality and perceived events, but the reality’s relation to the other realms. Could a dog be barking in Consensus Reality because it is related to a ripple in the mind’s inner eye? Is the synchronicity of events ‘interrealm’? 5. Test the theories in all possible ways, not just by predictions, but by ‘relationality’. For example, observed with the eyes closed, a pastel inner sky may change its coloration and become more beautiful to the observer and more illuminated. Why? 6. Lend validity to the observation of a single individual. 7. Investigate the functions of quantum causality, that the causes of some events we observe are the result of the collapse of a quantum set of possibilities and cannot be predicted. Opening to these ideas is what I call 'The Advancement of Knowing', as Francis Bacon suggested as the next step in the scientific method, but indicated in about 1620 that we weren't ready for it. The Advancement of Knowing may allow us to improve our lives. Before we observe a particle, it may exist in multiple possible states. In the same sense, before we live our life, it has many possibilities—good and bad. It all results from our choices—which possibilities we want to manifest. Is it possible to see the results of our major choices before we make them? I claim those possibilities are all within the universe, our consciousness, our mind, and therefore accessible. In this book, I hope to suggest new possibilities of the ‘Quantum Consciousness Revolution’ (QCR), as I see it. We will explore the direct implications of quantum theories and experiments on our consciousness, and make human analogies to ideas that relate to quantum particles and states.
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Quantum theory forces us to consider the usual scientific method invalid in several ways. It even questions the basis of scientific logic: cause and effect. The current scientific method ignores individual experience and the different states of awareness we go through in the sleep states of the brain. Phil Petersen, Ph.D., explores how to open science to study these states and better understand how the uncertainty of quantum theory applies to them and our waking state. He asserts that this helps us understand how to enable positive possibilities for our lives. The book will appeal to those who meditate or believe in the power of positive thinking as well as those who are open to questioning the very foundations of science. Readers will learn what history’s greatest thinkers, including Francis Bacon, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Albert Einstein, and others, have said about the reality of the world in which we live. Discover an intriguing argument for reconsidering and replacing the scientific method to explore different realms of consciousnes and enjoy spiritual awareness and healing with the insights in A New Quantum Scientific Method.
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Phil Petersen, Ph.D., earned a master’s in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California. He taught astronomy and physics at Montana State, Utah State University, and Solano College. He is a certified Kalos Health facilitator and operates the website bodymindandpassion.com. He is also the author of The Quantum Tai Chi and The Quantum Shield.