Isn’t it obvious that we “inter-are”?

    

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One of the surprising things in the event of quantum collapse is that when you look, not only does an object appear in consciousness but also a subject appears looking at the object. Quantum collapse produces the awareness of a subject-object split –the experience of a subject looking at an object.

... In the event of a quantum measurement, the collapsing subject and collapsed objects, including the brain, arise simultaneously, codependently. The experiencing subject and the experienced objects co-create one another.


—Amit Goswami
Quantum Doctor

 

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You are me, and I am you.

Isn’t it obvious that we “inter-are”?

You cultivate the flower in yourself,

so that I will be beautiful.

I transform the garbage in myself,

so that you will not have to suffer. 


I support you;

you support me.

I am in this world to offer you peace;

you are in this world to bring me joy.


—Thich Nhat Hanh

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In fact, my soul and yours are the same. 

You appear in me, I appear in you. 

We hide in each other.


—Rumi 

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thoughts are waves

The Mouth of Krishna, Albarran Cabrera

  

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Why is the physical world experienced as external and the mental world experienced as internal? The physical world is res extensa, body with extension, and therefore subject to division. In other words, the physical world is distinguished by the division of micro and macro, the latter being conglomerates of the micro.

In the physical world, we do not have direct conscious access to the micro. We see the micro only with the amplifying help of the macro, the measuring-aid apparatuses. But there is a reward. Once the measurement is made and a particular pointer reading of the measurement apparatus has been chosen out of the myriad macro possibilities, the pointer does not run away, jumping on the train of quantum uncertainty. Its possibility waves are very sluggish, almost to the point of certainty, a certainty that can be shared by many observers. 

As a result, physical objects are experienced as parts of a shared reality, an external reality in awareness. But the mind, res cogitans, is without extension, it is one thing. It is like the infinite medium of the physicist in which there can be waves, and thoughts are such waves. 

However there is no micro/macro distinction in the mental world. So we experience thoughts directly without the intermediary of amplifying apparatuses, but we pay a price. One price is that one person's experiencing a thought object effects the thought object due to the uncertainty principal, so that it is impossible (normally) for another person to experience the same thought object in an identical manner. Thoughts are private, thus experienced in awareness as internal. The other price for the lack of micro/macro distinction in the realm of thought is that it is impossible to develop a tangled-heirarchical quantum-measurement apparatus. So mind can exist independent of the brain, but its movements can be registered and experienced in consciousness only when correlated with a physical brain.


—Amit Goswami
Quantum Doctor

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Leading-edge research echoes what ancient wisdom has always known: that each organ of the body, including the brain, speaks its own “thoughts,” “feelings,” and “promptings,” and listens to those of all the others.


―Ann Frederick
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

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human be(ing

 

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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the Universe. 

Zazen is not the life of an individual, it is the Universe that is breathing.

—Dogen 

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I describe consciousness as an observer in a large room with many windows. Consciousness is the observer in the room, and it experiences different individual reality streams looking from different windows. 

For example, one window could look at a playground for children, and another at a parking lot. The two perception streams are very different, but the consciousness that perceives them is one. 

Consciousness is the observer, and the views from different windows are different lives. The views from different windows can have a different overall look and feel, so this metaphor is better at capturing the difference in texture between personal consciousness streams.


—Giulio Prisco
Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology

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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self.

Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries.

New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration. For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration.

It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.

—Thomas Berry

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Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness. 

When consciousness converts theses possibilities in a (quantum) collapse event of actual experience, some of the possibilities are collapsed as physical and some as mental. In this way, consciousness clearly is seen as the mediator of the interaction between mind and body, and there is no dualism. 

What mediates the interaction of mind and matter? 

Consciousness does. 

What maintains the parallel functioning of mind and brain? 

Consciousness does.


—Amit Goswami
Quantum Doctor

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