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There is a documentary called Quantum Activist which is about Amit Goswami, Ph. D., retired Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Quantum Physics from the University of Oregon. Professor Goswami is the author of several books, one of which, Quantum Mechanics, is used as a textbook in universities around the world.
Through a series of events and life experiences, questions began to occur to Professor Goswami the answers to which have led him in the direction of the integration of science and spirituality in his teachings about the world. He has been led to what seems to be proof of
In the documentary Professor Goswami describes an experiment he witnessed, that since has been replicated by at least four other researchers, in which there seems to be scientific proof of what he calls 'non-local consciousness,' consciousness as the unified field, something that connects us all. It is what Jungians might call the collective consciousness, what Vedantists might call Self.
In this study, two people are brought together to meditate for 20 minutes with the intention that they communicate non-locally, directly, without any exchange of signal. Then they are separated and put in electromagnetically impervious chambers to ensure that no signal may be 'sent' from one brain to the other. The subjects are asked to maintain that meditative state of intention. Now their brains are connected to individual EEG machines, electroencephalographs, which will record the brain wave patterns of each subject. One subject (and only one subject. They do not switch back and forth) is shown a series of light flashes. This causes brain wave activity which is recorded by the EEG. From that information a potential can be extracted called evoked potential. Potential evoked by the light flashes. This extracted potential can be charted as a very specific brain wave pattern. The other subject in the meantime is just meditating, but the EEG machine connected to the brain of the second observer who doesn't see light flashes, who is never shown light flashes, consistently depicted transferred potential, the brain wave pattern of which was very similar in both phase and strength to the evoked potential that the first observer's EEG gives us.
What does this mean? It means that electrical activity is being transferred from one brain to another without any electromagnetic connection. Without any signal. Through intention, the two brains have become correlated non-locally. There is no other way of understanding this result, according to Professor Goswami, and this understanding is to him proof of non-local consciousness. Oneness. Self, capital 'S.'
When we discuss the Vedic world view, we always are approaching things with the understanding that there is this other way of seeing ourselves than just as individuality. And we can see the truth in statements such as 'You can't suffer in isolation,' and 'this is an observer-dependent universe.' But when we can have actual evidence of the non-locality of consciousness played out in the laboratory, then these ideas begin to resonate in a more concrete way and we may find ourselves a bit less likely to dismiss the idea of a universe made of consciousness and the implications of that idea, and a bit more likely to become present to the workings of consciousness in and around us.
Today, wherever I find myself, I will ask myself to consider the possibility that I am sharing an experience of consciousness with everyone around me, and that they are sharing it with me.
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