The Quantum Revelation

“One of the benefits of seeing the quantum nature of the universe that can’t be argued with is the feeling of joy, which according to Buddhism is one of the foundations and expressions of waking up to our true nature.”

– Paul Levy

I am currently on my fifth reading of Paul Levy’s “The Quantum Revelation - Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality”, and the quote above spoke to me very loudly for the first time. I either had not noticed it before because it was outside my experience or, if I want to be quantum about it, the quote didn’t exist until I dreamed it up to match my experience. Either way I needed to read it out loud to my wife because about six hours earlier I expressed to her that I seem to have stumbled upon a steady state of joy and contentment in my everyday experience that is somewhat indescribable. “I don’t mind what happens” might be the simplest way to express it in words.  The synchronicity between my statement and that quote is uncanny.

“There are two things that make my life worth living: Mozart and quantum mechanics” – Victor Weisskopf

Over the last several years, I have engaged in many “spiritual” practices and inner work that has had a profound impact on how I relate to the world around me, but I also believe that a significant contributing factor to my own peace and serenity is through attempting to see the world via a quantum lens. That is, I have taken off the straight jacket of Newtonian physics and rejected dogmatic materialism, that not only seems to act like a mind virus that has infected our world but is also at the root cause of most of our suffering. Quantum physics may be the greatest discovery of mankind yet is almost completely ignored by most of the world including its scientists who appear not to “trust the science”. But I see now that I am already getting into dangerous territory as we live in a world today where it is literally dangerous to express opinions that contradict the agreed upon mainstream narrative.

“Let us hope that the time is not far off when this antiquated relic of ingrained and thoughtless materialism will be eradicated from the minds of our scientists”

– C.G. Jung

I am not seeking to engage in controversy (atleast right now). Attraction, not promotion, is the goal of this piece, so I am simply encouraging all of you to read Paul Levy’s book, The Quantum Revelation, and find out for yourself if there is joy in quantum physics. Levy’s writing is engaging and entertaining and he explains the quantum conundrum we are currently experiencing in a very digestible language. This book is appropriate for anyone who is curious about the nature of the world around us and our individual roles in it.

“Surely someday, we can believe, we will grasp the central idea of it all as so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that we will all say to each other, ‘Oh, how could it have been otherwise! How could we all have been so blind so long’”

– John Wheeler

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