Mystics and quantum physicists speak the same language

MANILA, Philippines—Quantum physicists have discovered to their amazement that, in the sub-atomic world, particles behave in very “unscientific and unpredictable” ways.

For example:

1. An observer watching a particle affects the way it behaves. It can appear as a particle (with a mass, static and at a specific location in space) or as a wave (nonlocal and dynamic).

2. A particle can affect the action or behavior of another at a distance.

3. A particle can revolve in an orbit at one time then suddenly disappear and appear in another.

4. Cause may occur at the same time as, not before, an effect.

5. The exact location of a particle cannot be pinpointed, only the probability.

6. A fourth dimension known as space-time exists.

7. Everything is constantly in a state of motion, never static. Therefore, everything is really energy.

In his best-selling book “The Dancing Wu Li Masters,” Gary Zukav says, “The new physics, quantum mechanics, tells us clearly that it is not possible to observe reality without changing it.”

Two ways of seeing

Psychologist Dr. Lawrence LeShan says there are two ways of looking at the world. The first he calls sensory reality, the way most of us see it; the other is clairvoyant reality, how mystics and visionaries see the world. These are not opposite but complementary ways.

The Mexican Yaqui Indian mystic Don Juan Matus, who called himself a brujo or sorcerer in the books by anthropologist Carlos Castañeda, called the two ways of looking at the world tonal and nagual.

Tonal is the way ordinary people see the world, while Nagual is the way sorcerers or mystics see it, i.e. from an inner or esoteric perspective.

It is difficult for mystics to describe the world they see to ordinary people who see it only from the macro-level, the tonal.

The world the mystic sees is indescribable or difficult to verbalize. The world of particle physics that quantum physicists see is indescribable from the Newtonian stand point. Nor can it be understood rationally and scientifically.

The same is true with clairvoyant vision. It defies all known laws of physical vision.

Quantum physics has definitely and clearly shown that there is no such thing as objective reality. Buddhists and other Eastern mystics have been telling us for thousands of years the same thing, that everything is maya or illusion.

New allies

Psychics and the world of paranormal phenomena have at last found an ally in modern or quantum physicists. They seem to be talking the same language when describing the world. There cannot be any contradiction because truth is one and, if both are telling the truth, both should be correct.
The following statements were made either by a physicist (scientist) or by a mystic (philosopher). They were quoted side by side by psychologist Dr. Lawrence LeShan in his book “The Medium, The Mystic and the Physicist” to show that their language, when describing the ultimate or fundamental nature of physical reality or the universe, was almost indistinguishable from each other:

1. “No doubt we should not speak of seeing, but instead of seen and seer, speak boldly of a simple unity. For in this seeing we neither distinguish nor are there, too.” (Plotinus, ancient Greek philosopher)
2. “When we thought we were studying the external world, our data were still our observations. The world was an inference from them.” (Dingle, physicist)
3. “ ...The reason why our sentiment, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere in the world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that word picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as part of it.” (Schrödinger, physicist)
4. “ ...All phenomena and their development are simply manifestations of mind, all causes and effects, from great universes to the fire dust only seen in the sunlight, come into apparent existence only by means of the discriminating mind. Even open space is not nothingness.” (Suringama Sutra, mystic)
5. “Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends there. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty of reality.” (Einstein, physicist)
6. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” (Einstein, physicist)
7. “Vaccha asked the Buddha: Do you hold that the soul of the saint exists after death?

“I do not hold that the soul of the saint exists after death.”

“Do you hold that the soul of the saint does not exist after death?

“I do not hold that the soul of the saint does not exist after death.”

“Where is the saint reborn?

“To say that he is not reborn would not fit the case.” (Majihima—Nikaya Sutra, mystic)
8. “If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say no; if we ask whether the electron’s position changes with time, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether it is in motion we must say ‘no.’” (J.R. Oppenheimer, physicist)

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