But if the scientists do not observe the particle, then it exhibits the behavior of a wave.
Ok, this has been disturbing me for years. How can you 'not' observe a particle?
Awakened07: I love the way your mind works, it is so .... clear. You were able to articulate my above q's more effectively than I could.
This version of quantum mechanics has become increasingly popular in the last few years, in New Age, creationist and ID circles ... Would it help science to "step outside the box" and take metaphysics into account? I don't think so; it would become philosophy, not science.
I agree that Lanza is not saying anything very new at all. It did disturb me also that he claimed biology as the answer but then spoke primarily about physics - what the?
Having said that, I have from my own experience found much of what he says to be true on an innate level. From my own 'visions' (I don't know what else to call them, sorry) I saw that there is only light. The motion of this light is waves. If you then pinpoint your focus on one point of a light wave, and an idea is created, the waves, affected by thought, then contort together to form that image. So the manifest is just an illusion of light creating shadows, which give form.
That is why, as hard as it is for most people to imagine, there really is no good/bad, black/white etc. Because it is only a vantage point - if you stand on one side of an image, you cannot see the reverse side - so that appears in the 'dark'. However, if you walk all around an image, eventually light shines on all aspects and you can see the whole and you have shed light on the whole subject.
Nevertheless, you can still only observe one point at a time. The rest you need to hold in memory. So even though you then come back to the front of the image, and the illusion is that the other side is once again 'dark', you can now remind yourself that it is just an illusion based on perception. Then the whole object is able to be held in mind as fully transparent (holographic) even though one's immediate perception can still only focus on one point at a time.
The trees and snow evaporate when we’re sleeping. The kitchen disappears when we’re in the bathroom. When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting—the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness—or into waves of probability. The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.
This is why we create the world together (not just one individual consciousness, although my one consciousness is still the One consciousness). It doesn't feel like the rest of the world disappears the moment we look the other way, because we are holding that world in our memory. Our expectation is that it is there constantly and will always be there. So we perceive no 'time lapse' in the appearing/disappearing because it is all held in a greater spectrum, wave and particle can actually exist simultaneously. Our consciousness holds it in existence even when we are not focussed on it. Obviously everyone's consciousness holds different aspects in place - so it seems like the world goes on outside our closed front door or whilst we are sleeping.
As my experience shows, I can either be the objective consciousness (the wave) or I can become the particle - immersing myself so in the moment, so in focus to what I am doing, that nothing else exists but that point, that still frame. However, I am now aware that there is always a part of me that is still the wave.
In other words, consciousness is like a transparency; when we try to single it out,
we "fall through" to its object. If we try to single out the consciousness that is conscious of a desk without thinking of
the desk itself, we fail."
We are the observer and the observed.
My own experience suggests that nothing that I learn about the 'now' is satisfying to the spirit, but living in the 'now' is.
I was going to agree instantly. Then I remembered how learning about the 'now' has created a better ability within me to live in the 'now' - so once again they are inseparable. I need to collapse into a particle for my spirit to feel the absolute joy of living. I need to expand as the wave to grow and develop. There are some things that can only be enjoyed by the sensory experience of collapsing into body. Then there is the vicarious bliss we get by being so open we are one with everything and everyone, feeling the purity of the life force that is totality of existence.
I often get feelings, intuitions or flashes of 'insight' about the nature of the universe, life, existence. But I am painfully aware that these are just snatches of a vastness that my individual whole cannot integrate currently. As such, I look outside myself and see that the world also exists like that - all these different schools of thought and deduction, each intently interested and studying their little patch of the cosmos and trying to gleen some answers. As I become more expansive in my thinking, I begin to see more and more overlapping between all the different trains of thought and exploration. Thus the world reflects my own consciousness. However, not for one moment do I not appreciate what I can learn 'outside' of me, all the while realising that there is no separation between what I know consciously and unconsciously.
Each time we re-visit any concept it is recreated. The vantage point, the perception is never identical, it is always moving. And each time a whole new set of dynamics is brought into play - creating the next moment. Whilst we can identify threads of consistency - if at any time we all collectively agree that we no longer consider that consistency true or correct, that consistency will disappear. Which is why we evolve as human beings. If we all decided to stop believing in the illusion of the consistency of 'we age and die' - death would disappear. In actual fact, death is itself just an illusion. But as long as the majority see the consistent evidence of this illusion, it continues to be a reality.
On quickly skimming over JCanons thread on esoteric 'mysteries' (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/157488/1.ashx) I was, as I am always when looking at ancient symbology etc, struck by the feeling that time is circular and we are the ones who in fact created all those symbols as advanced human beings. And we are now trying to figure out that which we forgot we created in the first place. Sometimes I really feel like we are the proverbial goldfish in a fishbowl.
That is why we often feel we already 'know' the answer to something. Or when we say we are following our intution because we just 'knew' (and this goes off into the whole realm of faith) - to me there is an element within us that does know, because it has already happened. That part of us lives beyond the third dimension and knows how to both live as the arrow and as the frozen moment. Most of us are still collapsed in focus in the third dimension, struggling to integrate the flashes of light coming through the pinpricks of our 3D reality. Yet if you all around you will see that the pinpricks are multiplying and now the cracks are beginning to appear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=857Wf4fTPn4. It is everywhere, in popular culture, in science, in metaphysics, in spirituality, in religion, in history, in enlightenment - everywhere in consciousness. Yet we need to 'forget' to play our part in the realisation.
Which is why I love exploring science etc to give clarity to my inner visions/knowings - to take what I have seen and visit it in its manifestation. I want to be this in motion, I want to feel the experience of this knowing, the manifestation of it. It is not enough just to have some universal mind and pictures in my head, I want to feel the experience also, to feel the drama of playing it out. Some days you love to watch, to buy a piece of art, to observe, to sit in awe. And then other times you want to create the art, to be part of the whole process, to become so absorbed in the creating that time seems to stop as you feel the pure joy and integration of being one with the pen, the paintbrush, your partner, the cooking ingredients, the computer programming etc etc. It is not either/or - it just 'is'.