The total number of minds in the universe is one.

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Quantum theory is the deepest explanation known to science.

It violates many of the assumptions of common sense, and of all previous science – including some that no one suspected were being made at all until quantum theory came along and contradicted them.

And yet this seemingly alien territory is the reality of which we and everything we experience are part. There is no other.


—David Deutsch, award winning theoretical physicist
The Beginning of Infinity, and The Fabric of Reality

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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture. Multiplicity is only apparent; in truth, there is only one mind.

In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings. What seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this One, produced by a deception.

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world.

The present is the only thing that has no end. Eternally and always, there is only now, one and the same now. The present is the only thing that has no end. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world’.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singlular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction. The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.


—Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist, one of the founding fathers of quantum theory and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.

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Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday,

separate, in the evening.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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