THE QUANTUM PERSPECTIVE-Part One

THE QUANTUM PERSPECTIVE-Part One

(All of us are affected by the war in Iraq. Many are for it, many are against it.
Many think all war is wrong, others speak of there being 'just' wars, war
that, while still being regrettable, is necessary for the greater good.
Whatever your perspective, I think it is important to remember that world
peace is never going to exist in a sustained way on this planet until a critical
mass of us finds true inner peace. With that in mind, I offer the following.)

The quest for enlightenment, for true inner freedom, involves a deep inquiry
into who and what you really are, beyond all ideas about who you are. It
involves a deep inquiry into the nature of reality itself. If you are able to put
whatever religious beliefs and concepts you currently hold aside, and look
closely at the way physical reality is put together, you come to a remarkable
discovery. You come to the same insights arrived at by quantum physics in
our own time, by Jesus 2,000 years ago, and by the Buddha 2,500 years
ago.

This discovery is that reality is a unified field of energy and consciousness.
It is not the universe of separate objects and things, of "us" in here, and the
rest of the world out there, as Newton believed, but is a participatory
universe, where every particle, every atom is profoundly interconnected.
Reality is so interconnected that just by observing, looking into a system,
you affect and change the system-and are, in turn, affected and changed by
it.

This quantum perspective brings an entirely new, and astonishingly
contemporary-indeed, timeless-kind of meaning to the Buddha's
statements that, "Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form," and "All the
ten thousand things are created by a single thought." It allows us to hear
Jesus' words, "I and the Father are One" in a new way, especially if we see
the word "Father" as a metaphor for consciousness itself. It makes it easier
for us to understand Jesus when he said to his disciples, "This applies to
you, too. You are just as much a part of the Oneness as I am."

We are not separate from the rest of creation, but are one with it. Ramesh
Balsekar, a contemporary Indian teacher of self-realization, reminds us that
in Hindu mythology, the universe was perceived thousands of years ago as
a multi-dimensional net of jewels, each one a reflection of, and profoundly
related to, the other. He quotes an ancient Chinese saying: "Pick a blade of
grass and you shake the universe."

And the fundamental quality that connects everything, as modern quantum
physics is discovering, is consciousness itself. In fact, the quantum
scientists have come to the startling conclusion that consciousness is a
permanent and inherent property of the universe, and that conscious
awareness, or observership, is a mandatory requirement for making reality
tangible. We, as observers, participants, are creating the whole thing.
Perception, in other words, is reality.

One thinks of Shakespeare, the brilliant playwright and-in his own way,
metaphysician-writing over five hundred years ago: "All the world's a
stage, and all the people many players." What becomes clear with the
universal, quantum, or holographic perspective is that we are scripting the
whole thing. It doesn't happen without our thinking, or dreaming it, into
being.


Taken from nonduality saloon highlights news letter.
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