Mysticism and the New Psysics

The new physics, the psysics of quantum theory, tells us what the mystics have been proclaiming for centuries – reality is an illusion.

According to the new physics, consciousness plays a role in the so-called physical universe. Since the time of Newton, Physics has always tried to maintain a strictly empirical approach. This has demanded a dispassionate observer and a concentration on objective reality as a single observable ‘something’, a priori to the consciousness. But the findings of the new psysics show us that we cannot observe the physical world for it is an illusion and we are participating within a spectrum of all possible realities. It it at this point that mysticism and the new physics meet, a meeting place examined in this book which explores the idea that the implications of this confluence are that all of our notions about the absoluteness of the physical universe are wrong. According to the author, we are experiencing the first pangs of a redical change in our view of reality. Slowly and painfully we are realizing the abvious – our concepts are based upon a most intriguing maya Our constructs need amending. The very epistemological foundations of our environment and ourselves must shift as our prejudices are attacked.

How the omnijective nature of reality will change Western civilization remains to be seen. The only certainty is that the changes will be stupendous.»