What is the Connection between a Science of Mind, Awakening Consciousness and Quantum Physics?

What is

[The Science of]

Mind Over Matter?

What is consciousness?

What is higher consciousness?

What is The Ego?

Ernest Holmes says of the Science of Mind “Our idea of the ego is different from the average concept held by psychologists, particularly the materialistic one which holds that the ego is the reservoir of instinctive impulses dominated by the pleasure principle, as it comes in contact with the external world through the senses and becomes imbued with consciousness.”

“They believe that the ego is not a spiritual reality, but is something acquired.  They are partly right, in that the ego which shows is a result of our experience.  This is why the ego ideal is a standard of perfection formed in childhood through self-identification with persons who are admired.”

“They have another theory of an alter ego, which is developed out of a need for self-expression derived from the whole human race.”

“Without denying or seeking to minimize the psychological concept of the ego, we have something to add to it.  We believe that there is a real Spiritual Ego back of the psychological one.  The psychological ego acquired in living is a projection of the Real Ego and what we experience in life.”

“There is an Ego, or an I Myself, which was not created by experience but only expressed through it.  There is a real and dynamic Spiritual Ego.  If there were not, the psychological ego could never have functioned.”

“This Real Ego the Bible calls the Christ in us, the Hope of Glory.  At the center of every man's life the impersonal becomes personal; the generic becomes individualized.  The Universe or God is incarnated in each individual in an entirely different and unique manner.  This is the hidden Source of Life, the place where Christ in us blends on one side with the Divine, and on the other side with the individual.  This is why the Bible tells us there is but one mediator between God and man, which is Christ.”

“The reference to Christ is not a reference to the man Jesus but to the Divine Incarnation in all people.  It is through this Divine Ego that we reach back to the Universal Wholeness of which this Ego is a part.  It was not created as our psychological ego or our alter ego or our ego ideal is created.  It was not created by experience.  It is that which produces experience.”

“We go along with the psychological concept and accept all the discoveries that have been made, but we cannot accept the Ego as something we ourselves created.  This would be contrary to our concept of life.”

“If you read the Book of Job in the Old Testament, you will discover that is exactly what he did.  He thought he had an ego separate from the Thing Itself, and the narrative states that he got into all kinds of trouble because of this.  He was on his own and finally ended up in sackcloth and ashes, and his wife told him that he might as well curse God and die.”

What is the Concept of Higher Consciousness?

The concept of higher consciousness rests on the belief that the average, ordinary human being is only partially conscious due to the influence of inferior impulses and preoccupations. As a result, most humans are considered to be asleep (to reality) as they go about their daily business.

Is Ordinary Consciousness Projection?

In the spiritual traditions of India, consciousness is understood to be obscured by defilements which are compared to clouds covering the sun. These defilements are the result of conditioning (Skt:samskara), accumulations in the unconscious caused by past actions (karma) . As a result, what any individual perceives as reality is a picture of the world at one particular moment filtered through his unconscious conditioning – a ‘reality’ that western psychology calls ‘projection’ (i.e., of the contents of the unconscious).

What is The Spiritual Path?

The path of cultivating consciousness requires the adoption of certain self-imposed rules or vows. These are generally concerned with exercising restraint with respect to actions of body, speech and mind. Examples include the five precepts of Buddhism. The effect of this restraint is to begin to contain energy and prevent unskillful actions that cause ongoing harm. Over time changes in the moral disposition of the aspirant are accompanied by physiological changes in the brain and nervous system opening up the energy channels (nadis or meridians) present in the subtle bodies which are thereby activated.

What is Consciousness:

Spiritual Approaches?

Spiritual approaches to consciousness involve the idea of altered states of consciousness or religious experience. Changes in the state of consciousness or a religious experience can occur spontaneously or as a result of religious observance. It is also maintained by some religions, religious factions and some scientists that the universe itself is consciousness.

In shamanic practices, changes in states of consciousness are induced by activities that create trance states, such as drumming, dancing, fasting, sensory deprivation etc. The experience that occurs is interpreted as entering a real, but parallel, world.

In many polytheistic religions a change in emotional state is often attributed to the action of a god; for instance love was ruled by Aphrodite and Eros in Ancient Greek polytheism.

In Hinduism the change in state is induced by the practice of yoga. Yoga means "union" and is intended to produce a state of oneness between the practitioner and the divine. In Islam and Christianity, the change of state can occur as a result of prayer or as a religious experience.

The change in state of consciousness in Hinduism, Buddhism, New Thought, Christianity and Islam is reported to be quite similar.

The pursuit of yoga and the Buddhist Jhanas involve feelings of oneness with the world that give rise to a state of rapture.

Meditation is used in some forms of yoga such as Raja Yoga, Hatha yoga, Transcendental Meditation (TM), the Buddhist Jhanas, in the practices of Christian monks and Islamic scholars such as Sufis.

Meditation can have a calming influence on practitioners, as well as changing the state of consciousness.

What is awakening?Higher consciousness is a state of awareness that provides a medium in which profound insight (sometimes called “awakening”) can occur. Some of the early research on higher consciousness focused on the “paranormal.” While it is true that paranormal phenomena can occur in these states, the phenomena is essentially a distraction. A primary objective of higher states is to use the heightened awareness for one’s personal evolution. This is referred to in Twelve Step recovery as the “Spiritual Awakening” process, and is the basis and goal of that philosophy.

What is Metaphysics?

Metaphysics deals mainly with the programming of our mind, putting the right thoughts there, having a definite and specific intention. (It is like programming the computer). Ernest Holmes, who founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind, was really good at this.

What is Mysticism?

Mysticism, on the other hand, is not about thought. (It’s about turning the computer on.) It is an experience. It has to do with consciously and personally experiencing yourself as the presence of God. It’s no good to say, “I and my Father are one” or “God is within me” if we don’t experience it. But if we don’t have the knowledge of that principle, which is where metaphysics comes in, then there’s nothing to experience.

Joel Goldsmith, as a mystic, taught that the mind is an instrument of spiritual awareness; whereas metaphysics views the mind as the means by which we direct thought in order to attract material things or heal an imperfect condition.Joel Goldsmith was really advanced in this. Holmes was a mystic too.

What is the value of metaphysics?

The value of metaphysics is its practical use in demonstrating things or experiences. Mysticism also has a practical usefulness.

It’s co-creation.

Let’s think about the contribution of quantum mechanics.

Everything is consciousness manifesting in form.

If we want to change the form, then we change the consciousness by establishing in our mind.

Joel Goldsmith would not say to have a definite idea...he would say to establish the” principle” we want to manifest, a definite idea of the form we want to manifest.

However, thinking goes only so far―it only provides an outline. If we don’t have the energy of conscious creation, the form does not come to life. So both the metaphysical work and the mystical consciousness are equally important.

Human beings have the power of “energization.” Our mind is working from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to bed at night.

There’s no God sitting on a cloud out there running our lives.

Self-fulfilling prophecy is creating our life for us. That’s why mystics, who say to forget everything in the world and just experience the presence, are leaving out a vital part of spiritual living.

We may be attuned to the presence but if we allow our thoughts to go random, what we create in our life is going to reflect confusion. When we’re clear in our thoughts and motives, and we remain attuned to the infinite presence, then the idea that we want to manifest is energized into experience.

What is the value of Mysticism?

Mysticism means that you can go within and contact or realize universal truth, the spirit. If we want to be creative in the outer world, we have to go within and realize that connection, that oneness.

(Then we must go out and do)

It is the only way we can be truly creative.

This is a new day.

We have to close the gap (that) we have believed exists between the human and the divine―and we’re going to do it, because science has proved to us that if we don’t do it we’re going to destroy the planet. The way to turn this around is to individually experience ourselves as the divine presence.

That’s mysticism. It means to experience the presence and then go out and be that presence. We’re seeing this happening. For example, people are taking responsibility for the environment because they’re concerned about the welfare of the planet. This is their way of being the presence.

What is Oneness?

Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet. To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds. To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

What is the scientific basis for these claims?

A host of observed, but very basic human phenomena, including consciousness itself, have eluded rigorous scientific description by all disciplines of science.

This is true, not because of insufficient evidence for a particular phenomenon's existence, but rather for lack of a theoretical construct, which could fit within the prevailing paradigms of science.

The missing concepts that prevented the earliest investigators of consciousness from succeeding in their quest were 1) a generalized theory of information, and 2) quantum science itself, with the associated phenomena of non-locality, the zero point energy field and the quantum hologram.

These associated phenomena are still not well understood but are sufficiently validated today by both theory and experiment to provide a basis for postulating a necessary condition for the existence of consciousness phenomena, as experienced in the observable four dimensional space/time universe.

A third concept, chaos theory, is also necessary to understand the nonlinear evolutionary processes that caused consciousness to evolve toward the anthropic consciousness experienced by humans.

In particular, chaos theory maps far from equilibrium systems and demonstrates the irreversibility of nonlinear processes and thus the irreversibility of time in the macro-scale universe.

Where is Non-Locality in Nature? There is experimental evidence to strongly suggest that simple organisms perceive and respond to information non-locally as well.

What is the difference between Attention and Intention?

A powerful and telling series of experiments conducted at University of Nevada at Las Vegas following a decade long set of equally significant experiments provide insight as to the subtleties involved in this level of mind/brain functioning...with overwhelming evidence that subjects could intentionally produce statistically skewed results in mechanical processes normally thought to be driven by random processes.

Quantum physics may support the concept that the mind creates reality.

Interpretations of quantum mechanics, the revolutionary theory developed early in the 20th century to account for the anomalous behavior of light and atoms, are being understood to indicate that thoughts are creative, and that the physical universe is the product of God or Mind to which the human mind is linked throughout space and time. This interpretation has provided a basis for various situations.

What is Mind and What is Matter?

Mind and Matter are Two Sides of the Same Coin.

"The Quantum Mechanics (and also the Theory of Relativity) show us that the belief in objective perception and definition of the physicalreality has lost its basis.

The efforts to illustrate the fundamental constituents of the physical world objectively, have ended until now with undisputable and indispensable necessity of subjective interference.

The mind and matter have became mutually interdependent.

Some quotes from Einstein

"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter."

"From the latest results of the theory of relativity it is probable that our three dimensional space is also approximately spherical, that is, that the laws of disposition of rigid bodies in it are not givenby Euclidean geometry, but approximately by spherical geometry."

(Einstein, 1954)

"Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.

In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning.

The field thus becomes an irreducible element of physical description, irreducible in the same sense as the concept of matter (particles) in the theory of Newton."

(Albert Einstein, 1954)

What is Quantum Theory?

Quantum theory is generally regarded as one of the most successful scientific theories ever formulated.

But while the mathematical description of the quantum world allows the probabilities of experimental results to be calculated with a high degree of accuracy, there is no consensus on what it means in conceptual terms.

The theory is speculative.

The principles of structural coherence and organizational invariance will be planks in any satisfactory theory of consciousness; the status of the double-aspect theory of information is less certain. Right now it is more of an idea than a theory.

Most existing theories of consciousness either deny the phenomenon, explain something else, or elevate the problem to an eternal mystery. It is possible to make progress on the problem even while taking it seriously.

To make further progress, we will need further investigation, more refined theories, and more careful analysis. The hard problem is a hard problem, but there is no reason to believe that it will remain permanently unsolved. The arguments are presented in greater depth in the book The Conscious Mind.

Wave particle TheoryNon localityOrganizational InvarianceStructural CoherenceDouble Aspect TheoryIsomorphismTemporarily Extended Neural ActivityNon Empirical ConstraintsNaturalistic DualismNon-Reductive TheoryNeurobiological Theory of ConsciousnessCollapse of Wave FunctionsMorphic ResonanceCausal Transmission MechanismHard or Soft DeterminismSpherical Standing WavesStructure of MatterQuantum HolographyPhenomenology

According to Walter Starke our next step is to reverse the priority.

We need to (primarily) approach life subjectively rather than objectively.

In other words if we want peace, then we think how to get it―for example, by building hospitals and schools―instead of thinking that we (can) get it by dropping bombs. The latter approach is taking the objective way, and we’ve seen that it doesn’t work. It’s a most exciting time now. There’s a shift going on in all of humanity. We’re ending thousands of years of the human (objective) approach to life.

The metaphysical movement is so important, because it has the seeds of how we can make this transformation―through the use of the mind and the spirit.