The change of thinking about reality leads to a change from the role of victim to the role of creator.
Recently, it has been increasingly voiced - not only by quantum physicists - that we experience the reality we create ourselves and are, in a way, co-creators of the world. Can you bring this view to the layman?
It's quite simple. We experience and explore this world - external reality and of course ourselves - through the five senses. We all know that we have touch, smell, hearing, sight, taste, but in addition, abstract thinking can also be considered as a sense, through which we explore the abstract world of ideas and ideas. Today's man usually thinks that all the signals coming to him are out there somewhere. However, one can also look at it that everything we experience, including the world around us, are just experiences of consciousness. Everything that exists only exists because it registers with consciousness.
Of course, it would be necessary to specify what exactly the concept "consciousness" means. Unfortunately, we will hardly succeed, because there is no consensus about this phenomenon yet, neither among scientists nor among philosophers. However, for the moment, let us conceive of consciousness as that which registers and perceives the hologram of reality. If you look at it from this perspective, one can proceed to the idea that consciousness is the only thing that actually exists. Even the philosopher Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am," thus calling into question all general truth. Whatever we are discussing, the question is what is actually true. Thus, even Descartes realized even then that the only thing he could say with certainty was that he himself existed. Then it is relatively easy to accept the idea that consciousness is the only thing that exists.
Consciousness is the only thing that exists.
That's very abstract...
Yes, it is harder to accept this approach. But it is the basis of all thought approaches, for example from the East. Consciousness is primary. Philosophers and mystics alike say that all experiences of consciousness that we have have a primary underlying experience in self-awareness - in awareness of the I AM. In the modern sense, "I" refers to what consciousness is - and that is emptiness without form, content, time, space... the nothingness from which everything comes. I AM is already consciousness, nothingness in motion. There is already the illusion of movement, or time, which then creates space, life and all that goes with it.
I AM is actually the initial awareness. When the child is born, he begins to realize that he is, he begins to perceive the world. But even within the divine consciousness, the origin of the universe can be interpreted by the awareness of the divine consciousness of being.
Today's majority opinion says that the world is a mechanical, materialistic machine and that it exists out there. That we are experiencing something that we cannot control, that accidents, screw-ups, etc. happen, and that we are victims of external circumstances. Mysticism, Eastern philosophy, and I think modern science in the sense of quantum physics, which has clearly run into the problem of consciousness, offers the second option: The source of everything is consciousness, which generates everything and observes itself. A change in these paradigms, a change in thinking about reality, leads one to that he's changing from the role of victim to the role of creator. I think that's a huge benefit to the observer in question., and I think we are living in a time that somehow, miraculously, is opening up this subject almost violently. It's as if we've been going through a sort of evolutionary phase for hundreds of years where we've this understanding, individuals grew up in a sort of subtle way, but time today sets such a mirrorand so shakes our reality that there is no escapingand the change is almost revolutionary.
Is it moving towards a link between spirituality and science?
Modern society often replaces religious or religious perceptions and questions with science - this intermingling of worlds is very appealing to me. Everything can be presented in the Eastern deductive way of thinking, or in the Western, that is, the inductive way. In the West, we believe a lot in logic and rationality and that science will reveal the answer to any question through rational scientific inquiry. However, from that Eastern mystical direction, it turns out that there is something that can be scientifically investigated, but it is entirely subjective. From psychology to mystical or near-death experiences, these are universally subjective, yet they have the character of objective reality because everyone it happens to is more or less telling the same story. People who have had near-death experiences have very similar experiences.
The mystical experience is probably verbally incommunicable...
Both modern science and mystical experience show that rational truth cannot be communicated or transmitted - it can only be experienced. Even modern society, which clings to a scientific and rational grasp, for some unfathomable reason to me ignores that science itself has come to exactly this conclusion too. Mathematicians like Kurt Gödel have concluded that mathematics alone cannot produce a system that is not contradictory. They proved that mathematics itself, which is in fact the holy grail of logical and rational thinking, has limits beyond which it can never get. In my opinion, this is as significant a discovery as Einstein's discovery of the theory of relativity, by which he actually proved that nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
I think it all comes down to the fact that the real truth can only be experienced. You can offer other contemporaries some ways to get it, but you can't communicate it...
What about skeptics and those who cling to the paradigm of rational science?
I've been awarded the delusional boulder by the skeptics, but I suspect that even those skeptics who are so clinging to the fact that this is exactly as rational science says it is, and nothing else is permissible, will sooner or later avoid confronting that fact. Even if they ostracize people who try to take a different view...
It's reminiscent of the Middle Ages. Is it apparently safe to rely on the structure of rational science?
It is safe to lean on the structure of the majority opinion. Everyone will support you.
Academia is obviously a challenging environment.
Yes, of course it is. But I have freed myself from the system - I'm not saying I'm a "loose cannon", but I can't live against my convictions. There is a very strong self-censorship in academia.
You talked about a paradigm shift - is it possible that when a critical mass of people realise that reality is somewhat different than what we've come to perceive, then it's like a "flip"...?
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, this transformation is happening in a completely revolutionary way. What we are experiencing today is something that many more open-minded people used to dream about. For example, five years ago a lot of people were talking about ecology, about global warming, about what needs to change. About how people should wake up. Cities were overcrowded - millions of tourists, crowded skies, summer was already starting sometime in February... Suddenly everything stopped with the covid, snow fell in winter, we had a normal spring, it rains, there is space in the city - it just happens. Sometimes in a radical and dramatic way, we are experiencing the manipulation of the government, but change is really happening.
Before that, we had the opportunity to choose our path. Though of course, following the unsystematic path requires great courage and sacrifice. This is beautifully portrayed in the film about Giordano Bruno - a progressive thinker of his time who, according to the paradigm of the society of the time, deserved the harshest punishment. Back then, 99% people would have told you it was right because it was contrary to what the Church preached. Today, everyone knows he was actually right. Everyone accepts that the earth revolves around the sun. Today, everyone sides with Giordano Bruno and knows that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but these same people today are again on the side of the majority opinion.
In fact, today's society is doing the same thing, but we're not burning anymore, we've just moved on. Before the pandemic, everyone had the freedom to step out of line, which was similar to the Middle Ages, although it was no longer about life. Now the freedom to choose is gone. The pandemic is forcing us to make major decisions, and we no longer have a lifetime to make them.
Your decision may be based on the majority opinion, or you may stop and think about whether it is okay for you to blindly accept the opinions that are presented on TV and in the newspapers. For example, every virologist has a different opinion. Everyone needs to notice that only virologists with one opinion have space in the media. The others are censored in some way.
Now time is showing us the limits and possibilities of the system and whether we are willing to continue to shape it.
So how can I get out of the Matrix, out of not being a sheep of the system - how will I come to perceive reality differently?
We more or less said it at the beginning. What you believe creates what you experience. This is your Matrix. The Matrix you have in your head is the web of what you believe.
What you believe then manifests in reality.
I will use an example - Jarda Dušek often tells a story about the arrival of Columbus on the islands off America. The Indians only saw sailors on ships, but they were unable to see the ships because they didn't know what a ship was. It was only their shaman, who had a more open consciousness, who was able to see the ships and shared this perception into the collective consciousness of the tribe. Then everyone saw them... If you open yourself to this possibility, then you can experience similar things on a daily basis. Some people just don't see things they don't believe. But sensitivity can be trained through meditation.
Can we include experiencing miracles in this category?
Maybe so... If you don't believe in UFOs, you'll probably never see one - unless there is some profound transformation of the collective consciousness, which may also happen soon. Those who believe in it and actively try to see it will simply see it.
Your "believe" system (what you believe) creates reality and what you experience. It's perfectly okay that I perceive something in my reality that - although we are looking in the same direction - you don't.
Quantum physics is based on solving the equations of quantum physics. Their solution is the so-called superposition of all solutions (the combination of the result of all solutions) - if the solution to the equation is that the cat is dead and at the same time the solution is that the cat is alive, then in terms of quantum physics the result is the so-called superposition, i.e. the sum of these two solutions. The cat is simultaneously dead and alive.
It's not exactly easy to understand...
It's not complicated, you just have to open yourself up to it. We live in a world where something is true, or it's not true. Either the cup is whole or the cup is broken. That's just a superficial view. But the solution is also a superposition of these states. So the binary logic of "either/or" has no place in this world. We can mention here the Eastern philosophies where the transition from dual perception to unity is evident. There, "this and that" applies.
So the existence of anything is dependent on the observer?
Of course, this is hugely important. Today's society foolishly believes that science will test everything, but I don't mean to impugn rational science.
But Newton's laws are valid in our world - like statics etc.? Or are we back to agreements again?
They are valid if we all trust them. It happens just by conducting experiments and looking for phenomena that are consistent with our "believe" system.
Research and today's scientific system, which is based on the principles of financial flow, is extremely limited in its ability to discover something new. Projects are supported where it is clear that they will turn out as expected. Scientists are incentivised to write as many papers as possible, as has been seen now in the pandemic. Suddenly, it turns out that most of the papers from pharmaceutical research are not reproducible. If you don't even want to find anything new - and the space of possibilities is huge, the potential is really unreal - then you can't even find anything new. The whole universe has an infinite number of variations, and if you only look at the ones you sort of want to see and ignore the ones that might disrupt it in some way, then you can live in that paradigm for thousands of years. However, that paradigm will always collapse. That Newton's laws don't apply everywhere is clear. We have relativity, we have quantum physics, Newton's laws just don't apply there.
What about aging, death, health... these are topics that touch us closely. How would you view them from the perspective of quantum physics?
This is a much more controversial topic. When it comes to physics, we feel like it's not a big deal. I may earn a stray boulder, but physics is not something many people address. When it comes to health, that's a different story. The debate about what consciousness is may pass some people by, even if I don't agree with that position. After all, everyone wants to know what the meaning of life is and how they should live it. How life is created. How to achieve being happy, not stressed. However, the issue of illness, which is now hugely emphasized in our space, is no longer an academic or philosophical debate.
The current situation forces us to open up to the idea that what we believe can be completely different.
Absolute truth is a chimera - you can only believe something if you give it the energy of belief. But you can admit that it is otherwise... All the greatest geniuses, reformers, all those who came up with revolutionary ideas - Einstein, Huss, Comenius... they were people who realized that nothing they believe is absolute. Einstein came up with the idea that there is no absolute time, and in doing so he refuted the basic belief of the Newtonian society that there is absolute space and time, that everybody's clock runs the same. He just didn't respect that, and he became the greatest thinker of our time.
If I admit this and get rid of all the crutches, what do I have to fall back on? I lose the illusion of certainty...
You got that right. If someone listens to this and is totally cool, then they probably don't get it at all. This sight must make one feel uncomfortable. Real knowledge - and we talk about mystical knowledge as well - means that all those certainties (and our egos need certainties) are just a kind of illusion. This then, of course, in the first stages arouses even feelings of horror.
What about the concept of God - isn't that the universal starting point, the certainty and the fulcrum to which we are all ultimately to relate?
What is the certainty? Even Descartes said, "I am - I am aware." That is the only certainty of being. Now we can get to religion, which has a clearly defined view, or we can get to mysticism - then the duality disappears and the certainty is that there is no certainty.
The only certainty of being is the awareness of "I am", I exist.
With this awareness we can experience life as a great adventure.
Yeah, everything's always changing. Everything is only temporary. What I'm saying today is also just a certain view. Life, existence, is not here to be something forever. That is not a property of consciousness. On the contrary - everything is constantly evolving, transforming and exploring an infinite space of variations.
Does the mystical experience actually mean such an emergence from duality into unity?
The first stages of mystical experience are that you realize that reality is based on the principle of duality, that the "nothing" is divided into positive and negative poles. Polarities arise and what we perceive is actually a polarization of nothingness - emptiness.
What weighty topicssuch as dying - for example, the Holocaust... this view is very difficult for people who are personally affected by these topics.
Yes, and it must be stressed that with all due respect and humility I completely understand and respect the feelings of those who have experienced or are experiencing something like this. However, if you look at the current situation, it is similar in a way. Some people say that the pandemic is a construct that someone has invented, but there are also many people who have had a difficult time or have had a family member die. It's still about the same thing - you are experiencing a reality that you create and believe in. What you believe is happening. When someone believes that there is a virus that is eating healthy and good people, when they imagine piles of dead bodies... then you create and experience that reality. By contrast, even during the war, many people had peaceful years...
Was and still is this reality created by the attention we gave and still give to covid? The news, the numbers...
Clear and manipulative. Reality is subjective, you can pay attention to something else and create your reality.
Aren't I a little gentleman? Although that's also just my belief...
We keep coming back to the basics - the whole conversation could be rewritten in two sentences:
Objective reality is an illusion, it is created by the "believe" system, i.e. by what we believe. The way out of this is to realize that whatever we believe to be true can be challenged - not that it can be otherwise, but by looking at it differently, it will be otherwise.
That's wonderfully liberating.
Yes, even though it may initially evoke feelings of fear. The certainties that life has relied and relies on can turn to dust in one blow. The realization that it's dust... and that's it! That would be enough. All the other words and the millions of books that have been written are only there because this truth is on the one hand tremendously simple, but it is also tremendously difficult to actually implement in life. Self-education, personal development courses, philosophical books... Just realize that this truth is so simple that you just have to accept it.
Are you then a bit like a monk who has to scatter the mandala that he has been creating for so long - we have to "scatter" everything that we have accepted and picked up in life before?
It is not necessary to scatter it outright - just admit it. Then it will sweep itself. This knowledge - it is not belief, but knowledge - will then open up tremendous new possibilities for you. That is the principle of being.
Now we're kind of trapped in a box.
Yes, and when you step out of the box, a vast new universe opens up. And if we go back to the diseases or the holocaust mentioned, then this knowledge or awareness will also free us from any suffering. Everything that happens, you create in some way to move you somewhere. With all due respect, any illness, suffering. Talking about the Holocaust - after all, on an individual level, it happens every day. People are victims of violence and criminal acts all the time. These are the fates that people have lived, are living and will live.
I believe that everyone is only able to bear as much love as they can bear pain.
Real love, which creates this reality, means that you accept into yourself, you accept anything. That is also the great pain - the pain of a mother whose child has died. That too is love. That's why many people are not able to get to the higher levels of love. Because it means that the more love you have in you, the more pain you have to integrate. Accept, bless everything that happens. To forgive, to bless, that this too is part of the divine creation.
That's almost getting us to Christianity...
Christianity is not based on some misguided principles. What is applied in church structures is another matter. But otherwise, the principles of all true philosophies and religions are uncontroversial. Christ consciousness - what does that mean? Why is the symbolism or reality of suffering on the cross there? When you begin to love your life, you have to love it with all that you have experienced - even the suffering.
But we don't want the pain, we push it away from us.
Right. What we don't want is just a block and a barrier that holds us back. Love will carry you through suffering, but only when you accept it. Beautiful experiences are hot coals or sweat lodges. Crazy heat, you suffer... that opens the gate.
Accepting suffering is the only way to survive it.
It is similar with diseases. What is a disease? The soul - the spirit wants to manifest itself in some way and your body ignores it, it gets into disharmony and the soul sends a message through the body. If we get sucked into a reality where we ignore our cognition, it starts to manifest itself in a certain somatization. If the spirit in the body no longer has anything to achieve, you go to work from work... If the spirit no longer has the opportunity to develop - what would it continue to do in the body? The body is no longer the instrument that enables the spirit to fulfill its mission.
Even death is a big topic.
One can conclude that if consciousness is the source of everything, and consciousness is the only thing that exists and is indestructible, then all those beliefs that death is final can be "dispelled".
Death and life is an illusion. Objective life is an illusion. Consciousness cannot just disappear, consciousness is what always was, what is and what will be, because even time is illusory.
Death and the confrontation with one's own death is essentially the most important thing that awaits a person in life, it is our most important task. Modern society tries to displace the concept of death and emphasizes eternal youth. Death and life are one and the same. You can't understand life unless you understand death. There are methods of approaching it. Getting out of your comfort zone - like that sweat lodge I mentioned. The Indian or Tibetan methods of shutting oneself away in darkness and silence for long periods of time. These are rituals where one looks into the face of darkness and nothingness.
More on diseases - if we realize this, then we will understand that even though there is "evidence-based" medicine that claims there are incurable diseases, there are still millions of spontaneous healings that contradict the view of Western medicine. It might be worth thinking about where they come from? Why do that percentage of people manage to do it? Finally, let's think about why someone is able to heal at a stage when conventional medicine says it's over and not possible. Jarda Dusek often talks about Klemenets Koby - he goes around to hospitals showing that his spine is severed (documentable on CT scan) and he gets up on his feet and walks away. It's a matter of faith! This is a reality that is within everyone's capabilities...
Prof. RNDr. Jan Rak, Ph.D. is a leading Czech scientist, nuclear and quantum physicist, professor at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and for many years worked on projects at the world's largest particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland.
This article was published with the kind permission of of the magazine Sphere
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