Quantum Physicists such as Erwin Schrödinger, Neil’s Bohr, David Bohm, Max Planck, Thomas Young, Amit Goswami, Fred Alan Wolf, and many others, have, through their experiments and interpretations, come to the conclusion that the Newtonian view of reality in which there is a world “out there” existing independent of any conscious observer is simply untrue, and that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being.
Matter does not create consciousness, consciousness creates matter. This fascinating discovery is validating what ancient Mystics have said for centuries, that everything is connected, and that it is the spirit (consciousness) which has created this apparently objective world, and that the world which appears to be outside of us is really a creation of our own consciousness. There can be no matter without a conscious observer.
When these discoveries are interpreted through the eyes of scientific materialism, they do not seem to make any sense. How can the world only exist when I observe it if there are other conscious observers as well? This paradox arises when we assume that our consciousness is separate from the consciousness of another. However, the paradox disappears when I see that there is no individual “I” that sees as opposed to other “I’s.”
Consciousness is a singularity, there is only one. One appearing as many, creating the material world in which consciousness can experience itself and its own creation. We are not separate from the universe, we are the universe, intimately connected and whole. As the 13th century Sufi poet Rumi once said: “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.”
