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Dalai Lama’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Moment*
Hey! You’ve Got Future In My Present!
Reminds you of the Reese’s Peanut Butter cup commercial, doesn’t it? “Hey! You got chocolate in my peanut butter! No, you’ve got peanut butter in my chocolate!”
And it looks as though the blending of science and the role consciousness plays is accelerating.
When WSJ Science Editor, Sharon Begley interviewed the Dalai Lama, she asked him what he was still curious to know.
He answered (and I’m paraphrasing here), that he wanted to know ‘. . . if there is causality from the mental to the physical?’
In other words, he wanted to know if there is scientific proof that thoughts influence physical reality.
For many, the Dalai Lama is one of the planet’s most venerable (if not most popular) holy men and I think it’s interesting that he is not only considering it as a possibility, but is seeking the scientific proof to back it up.
I wish more religious leaders were as diligent about merging scientific and consciousness studies in their lives. I also wish more scientists shared this diligence, as well..
Begley’s newest article is below and I snipped out one of the most interesting pieces (and it was hard to choose which to snip!). Be sure and click on the link to get the full Magilla.
“But even as quantum weirdness provides fodder for such drivel as the best-selling book “The Secret,” it also fuels debate on subjects as lofty as the nature of reality.
Last week a conference at Oxford University explored the idea that every time a subatomic system reaches a decision point—to undergo radioactive decay or not, say—it chooses both possibilities: in this world the particle decays, while in a parallel world it does not.
Some physicists buy this “many worlds” interpretation because the alternative is even more unpalatable: that quantum systems choose one possibility or another only when an observer looks.
Einstein loathed the idea that reality is created by observers.
Source: Physics: Can the Future Leak Into the Present? - Newsweek Sharon Begley - MSNBC.com
* = About Heisenberg Fridays. Each Friday I post about whatever I want outside of the realms of marketing, sales, advertising or copywriting. More often than not, it will be about one of my favorite studies — the research into quantum mechanics and how consciousness influences reality.
So for most of the week you’ll be certain of the overall theme of my posts, yet each Friday there will be uncertainty about the topic. Thus my tip of the hat to Werner Heisenberg the creator of quantum mechanics’ Uncertainty Principle.
By Walter |
Topics: Heisenberg Fridays |