Quantum Physics and Spirituality.
Recent comments and references to physical sciences and quantum physics, psi, etc., makes me realise that although these phrases are used a lot these days very few people will know why. Many are struggling to equate references to quantum physics with Spirituality.....not that they perhaps will understand it, but they just might like to know why!
In the early '30s all informational aspects of psychic phenomena were combined by Dr J B Rhine (Duke University, USA) as ESP - extra sensory perception - based on statistical research. In the 1940s Wiesner and Thouless, researchers at the Society for Psychical Research (UK) began to use a neutral label, the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet - psi - pronounced 'sigh', to represent informational and energy phenomena. Psychic phenomena includes psi.
The physical sciences represent observed experimental properties of physical matter giving rise to a number of 'laws of matter' from which expected results can be determined. The physical sciences will include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Mechanics, etc.
Formerly in these sciences it was thought that all electromagnetic energy was of a wave form (the analogy is 'analogue'), but early this century Max Planck formulated a quantum theory in which energy is viewed as minute finite amounts - tiny bundles (digital analogy). It is now considered that energy (such as light) can be observed as both wave and quanta characteristics, but not at the same time.
The involvement of quantum physics in psi research is a result of amazing 1980s experiments by French scientists Aspect, Dalibard & Roger with calcium atom photons (basic units of electromagnetic radiation, such as light). It was found that the previously coupled pairs of photon particles remain 'connected' in properties, even when separated by a great distance (observation of Bell's Theorem), sometimes known as 'non-local interaction'. This has led some parapsychologist / physicists to think that all matter is somehow 'connected'.
Spirit, of course,has been telling us for some years now that all objects are 'aware' of every other object through the electromagnetic light field that surrounds it.
Other areas that have interested the researchers are discoveries that the result of measurements in elementary (subatomic) particle physics are affected by the observer, and that scientists now suggest that matter may be a result of wavelike interference patterns in electromagnetic field effects forming a sort of holistic hologram. A tiny portion of a hologram still contains the information to create the whole hologram. The wavelike resonances may be the link between matter and consciousness...and of course, psi.
It is thought that brain functions are similar to the way a hologram works (and recent discoveries of microtubules in the brain may implicate quantum processes) and depend upon pattern and relationships. Experiments prove that the brain has the ability to detect another persons' intention, sometimes at enormous distances (non-local effect). This can be seen in, say, distant (absent) healing.
Many scientists have tried to create a 'holistic' theory that will combine all the 'laws' of new physics, (wave and quantum field theories, with Einstein's Relativity) and have such names as Bohm's Holomovement and Implicate order, and for living organisms Sheldrake's Morphongenic fields (similar in some respects to Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious). Ullman, a pioneer in dream research contributes to a collective consciousness field effect.
Parapsychologists are using these theories to search for 'logical' explanantions of psi, in the major fields of remote viewing (a sort of topographical clairvoyance including emotional aspects), pre-cognitive dreaming (meaningful dreams), and the area of synchronicity (meaningful coincedence). We, the spiritually-minded, use the idea of the Mind of God, the River of Thought, Consciousness Flow, etc., etc., (we are all One) to explain these phenomena.
Dale E Graff, the former Director of the U.S.Goverment sponsored Stargate Project, suggests that the quantum physicists of the next generation will have to include consciousness into their considerations of research. He visualises that a consciousness field will be seen as a multi-dimensional extension of space-time.
Scientists now accept that energy can exist without mass (the photon, for example), and the thinking that the fastest known speed of electromagnetic radiation is the 186,000 miles/second speed of light is also being challenged by open-minded researchers who visualise (at present unknown) unifying principles capable of speeds of perhaps several million times this speed.
In fact, research into the areas of the nature of light and time (or space-time) will probably be the way forward to new understandings, possibly through studying the distortion of a light/space-time continuum.
In simple words, the layman-spirituality language & the teachings of our unseen non-physical Spirit friends are now being formulated into the scientific language of the quantum/relativity theoretical physicist, and the more they delve into subatomic particles & their properties, the more it looks like the spirituality view of Matter and Life.
Far from challenging the concept of 'Spirit', properly applied this new thinking will actually strengthen the evidence of existence beyond that presently perceived by the five senses alone, and even hard-headed but far-thinking theorists now realise that perceptive capabilities beyond the norm are, in fact, really quite normal and have been an inate quality of humankind from the birth of its time.
It is well to remember that 'logic' is only born of the reasoning portions of the brain steeped only in the phenomena of the finite physical earth-plane, whereas the 'non-logic' is the domain of those with open-minded access to the Infinite mind, comprehension and understanding. Those of non-logical, unlimited thinking will point the way to tomorrows' new discoveries and realisations.