Tuesday, January 08, 2013
"The Quantum Activist": Amit Goswami; lecture can make interesting film (in a non-local world)
Amit Goswami lectures most of the time in “The Quantum
Activist”, directed by Renee Slade, and Ri Stewart. His English is a little hard to pick up in
places. Yet, the ideas are so provocative that you stay grilled to the screen
(in my case, a desktop computer on high-speed Netflix) following his
arguments.
India-born Goswami is a physicist and mathematician who has
taught at Case (Cleveland), the University of Oregon and in Los Angeles. His big idea is that quantum theory – the physics
of the small – will show that existence really is grounded in consciousness and
not just “the material” (matter and energy).
And, yes, this film shows that cursive partial differential
equations on a blackboard can be photogenic.
Goswami challenges the “duality” of the material and the
spiritual. He says that the brain (of a
human or any intelligent creature) is made of consciousness, which then chooses
among possibilities (expressed in quantum states) to form the immediate
consciousness we call “the ego”.
I do recall a dinner in August 1997, with a fellow writer,
outside on 17th St. in Washington, when he said “I have an ego.” That all came back during this movie.
Goswami says that non-local consciousness, or cosmic
consciousness, is the equivalent (in physics) of God (to be investigated by
methods that we call “theosophy”). This
leads to the possibility of telepathic communication – like when a friend
tweets what you have been thinking but haven’t posted online yet. (That has happened to me.)
He says that he is not a personal therapist, but interacts
with people from some distance. He
referred to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Schumacher College presents a lecture by Giswami on YouTube,
“The Science of Cosmic Consciousness”.
The official site is here. The film comes from Blue Dot Media and
Intention Media.
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