Myths about the mystery of the power of the mind are finally emerging from the muddy waters of scientific skepticism. Through years of research and development, quantum physicists have found compelling evidence that explains many of the whys and hows about the secrets of our most prized asset, the power of the mind.
Quantum physics, a science founded at the beginning of the 20th century, deals with the study of elementary particles that make up the Universe. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Niels Bohr, have found that these particles exhibit unique behaviors as they switch between matter and wave energy.
Although these microscopic particles behave like energy, they exist as an illusion of the mind. How so? Becoming the object of observation, these particles behave like solid matter, enclosed in time and space. To the human senses they are like illusions of the mind. What we perceive as solid matter is nothing but a bundle of concentrated energy. Albert Einstein deduced this in his famous formula explaining the relationship between matter and energy: energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Thus, matter is a bundle of energy. The converse is also true, matter can be turned into energy, which, in turn, can be turned into a particle.
Another misconception is that, despite the apparent hardness of matter, such as iron and steel, each particle of this matter is more than 99.999 percent empty space.
If you can understand this concept, you will understand why some Chinese martial artists can break bricks with their bare hands, or do other amazing things. The secret is that the master's "Qi" energy can make his body as light as fluff or as hard as steel.
What is the impact of quantum physics on the concept of the power of the mind?
Since the 1920s, many Nobel Prize winners in physics have ceased to doubt that the physical world is one big sea of energy. There is nothing solid. This is the world of quantum physics. They proved that the thoughts that are the original architects, taken together, embody this changing field of energy into the "objects" that we see.
So are we deceived by the illusion of our own mind? Why then do we see a person, instead of a flashing cluster of energy?
You can draw a good analogy with a film on a reel. The film is a set of approximately 24 frames per second. Each frame is separated by a slit. However, due to the speed at which each frame changes, our eyes become deluded into thinking that this is a continuous picture. Or the same TV, with a cathode ray tube, in which electrons hit the screen with great speed, creating the illusion of shape and movement.
We all have five physical senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). Each of these senses has a specific range of sensitivity (for example, a dog hears a different range of sounds than you, a snake sees a different spectrum of light than you, and so on). In other words, each set of senses perceives the sea of energy in a limited way, making an image out of this limited information. This is not a complete or accurate picture, it is just a translation. Our thoughts are connected to this energy, and they determine the form of energy. It explains what things like positive thinking, prayer, faith, creativity, goal setting, sickness and more. Your thoughts literally transfer the universe particle by particle to the creation of physical life. Take a look around. Everything you see has a beginning in the form of ideas, thoughts that have grown, been combined and expressed until they have grown enough to become a physical object through any number of "production" or "growth" steps.
Quantum physics provides scientific evidence for:
1. Everything in our universe is made up of energy.
2. This is the energy that creates all things in the universe.
3. Scientists have discovered that subatomic particles act and react in accordance with the thoughts and expectations of people who conduct research.
4. We are immersed in a quantum sea of energy that responds to the vibration of our mind's energy. Your mind can set the quantum energy in the universe in motion.
5. By focusing your thoughts on the desired outcome, your energy vibrations can draw similar energy from the universe and turn the ever-changing sea of energy into an observable reality.
The energy of your mind can turn into matter.
If you still can't figure out what quantum physics says, here's a description of the power of your mind:
Your mind produces thoughts, and thoughts can carry a huge amount of energy with them when they are emotionally charged. You may have seen the following experiment before, a piece of magnet is charged by a running electrical current. The longer it is charged with electrical current, the stronger it becomes. A fully charged magnet can lift a weight that is many times heavier than before. Likewise, our mind is able to attract masses of energy, producing thoughts that are charged with intense feeling. Like clouds that, when they reach saturation point, pour down rain, masses of energy eventually manifest into the physical reality that the mind visualizes.
You literally become what you think you are. Your life becomes what you imagine it to be. The world is literally your mirror that allows you to experience on the physical plane what you hold as truth until you change it. You intuitively know that this is true, and most people do, which is why people suspect that positive thinking works.
Quantum physics shows you that the world around you is actually not as solid and unchanging as it might seem at first glance. Instead, the world around us is a very fluid place, constantly being built on the basis of our individual or collective thoughts and states of being, society, country, family, planet, solar system or universe. We have already begun to expose such a great illusion.
By following this logic, you can master the technique of creative visualization (an effective tool for unlocking the secrets of the power of the mind) to create what you want to create in your life. Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization, explains this process in the following way:
“In creative visualization, you use your imagination to create a clear image of what you want to manifest. The idea, like a plan, creates an image of a form, which then attracts and directs physical energy to fill this form and, ultimately, it manifests itself on the physical plane.
Einstein always emphasized the importance of imagination, as shown in the following quote: "Imagination is the gateway to life's immediate attractions."
In other words, energy is the basis of everything that exists, including man. People can learn to consciously project their energy into shaping events that eventually become their reality.
Everything that exists was first created in a psychic or spiritual dimension. Everything that exists began with a thought. Using psychic imagination, you can direct and focus your energy in such a way that the things you wish to manifest move from the spiritual plane to the physical plane.
This is the essence of the power of the mind and the power of thought. You can learn to control what turns out to be your mind's illusion after you fully understand quantum physics' view of the mystery of mind power.
Do you want money and good luck? Imagine and get!
(a bit of quantum physics)
The imagination forms concepts in the mind that will later manifest as events, circumstances, and physical objects. Therefore, it is imagination that creates reality.
Neville Goddard
To date, a lot has been said and written about the power of consciousness. Every day more and more people receive confirmation of the materiality of their thoughts. But even realizing that thoughts and words are not just some kind of shaking of the air, but the real creation of our life, we still allow ourselves to unconsciously handle this tool.
We catastrophically underestimate the power of our own thinking. Even if a person does not doubt for a second the materiality of thoughts, the creative power of his consciousness, he still allows himself negative images, words, emotions. And this is very, very bad for the circumstances in the end.
Ramtha's White Paper says: “Thought is the supreme creator. Whatever you think and then allow yourself to feel becomes the reality of your life. Every thought you conceive that goes beyond the spectrum of limited thinking will materialize to expand your life. And all you have to do is open your mind and accept even more unlimited thoughts in order to go beyond the limited man and become the infinite God.
I often come across a situation where a person thinks in negative images. Basically, these are either some experiences of the past, or anxiety about the future or those situations that do not concern him personally. I turned on the TV, listened to the news, and started replaying negative images and situations in my head a hundred times. A friend called, told how bad everything was with her, and the one who listened, instead of forgetting right there, begins to grind this information further in the mind, and even retell it to others. In the end, such innocent communication “for life” spoils this very life for both the one who complained and the one who complained, and even during the play two or three dozen sympathizers were taken.
I will now give you two real experiments that were carried out by scientists in the field of quantum physics.
The first experiment was carried out by quantum biologist Vladimir Poponin and his research group, which included Pyotr Garyaev (wave genome researcher). Scientists conducted this experiment in order to understand how human DNA affects subatomic particles. In this case, they took photons (“quantum building blocks that make up everything in our world” Gregg Brayden). To do this, the photons were placed in a glass tube, from which the air had previously been completely evacuated. With the help of special sensors, they found out that the photons in this tube are in a chaotic order. Then a sample of human DNA was placed there. And how do you think the photons behaved? They lined up in a certain order given by DNA. Then the DNA was removed from the medium under study, but the photons remained in the same state that was dictated by the DNA. This experience allowed scientists to quite reasonably declare that human DNA has a direct impact on the basis of the material world - quantum particles. And what are quantum subatomic particles - this is the energy that makes up our universe. Each person is a carrier of DNA, which means that each person builds his space in accordance with his original code. This experiment was called "Phantom effect of DNA".
The research didn't end there. In the US Army, Dr. Clive Baxter and his research team went in a slightly different direction. They investigated the influence of a person's feelings on his DNA. A person was placed in one room, and a sample of his DNA in another. At the same time, the person was shown different stories - humor, erotica, war, and so on. And at that moment, when a person experienced the strongest emotional experiences, DNA reacted with bursts of electromagnetic radiation. This clearly indicated that a person's feelings directly affect his DNA. But Dr. Baxter didn't stop there. Scientists began to increase the distance between the test subject and his DNA, and eventually brought it up to hundreds of kilometers. In this case, an atomic clock in Colorado was used to determine the difference in time between exposure and response. And what was their surprise when they found that the DNA response remains exactly the same regardless of distance and absolutely does not delay in time. That is, it happens simultaneously with the emotion of a person.
What conclusion can we draw from these two experiments?
Human feelings affect DNA, and DNA affects matter.
And these are no longer some speculative conclusions of esotericists, as many prefer to think, but quite real experiments of scientists. Scientists who, at the basis of their knowledge, have the generally accepted Descartes-Newtonian model of the universe and are absolutely not inclined to take the word of even a very respected esoteric guru. Only real experiences.
And if you put the whole chain together, it turns out that the human consciousness creates a certain thought, a thought creates an emotion, an emotion creates a certain change in DNA, DNA changes the position of subatomic particles, giving them certain properties. Subatomic particles form atoms. Atoms form molecules. And molecules are what all material objects in our universe consist of. This is the whole formula by which thought creates matter.
Now let's look at our thoughts throughout the day. Our chaos in our heads creates chaos in our lives. Where do the circumstances of life come from that a person does not really want? From unconscious thoughts, emotions, desires. Turned on the TV, watched the negative news, imbued with the information received. On the subtle plane, a person has already created radiation of a certain frequency. Then, after some time, trouble occurs in a person's life. Well, who connects this with that news release? None! A person tends to blame anyone and anything. If only not to take responsibility and not change anything in the usual way of life. For example, refuse to watch TV or at least negative programs.
But it was a digression. We will talk about the impact of negative thoughts on life in other articles.
In this article, however, I want to return to our imagination. Imagination is a very powerful tool that allows you to create your reality as you choose. Above, I described how thought and emotion work. So the most interesting thing is that any thought that causes an emotion works this way.
So why should we create in the mind those thoughts that will bring what we do not want? No need to remember, be afraid, think about something bad. You have to imagine!
There is an expression: "You can get anything you can imagine." If your imagination has expanded to some thought, some level of life, some grandiose events, then this will certainly manifest itself in your reality. Of course, this barrel of honey has its own fly in the ointment. There are some pitfalls. But these stones can be dealt with and bypassed. The most important thing to understand is that: before you live something, you need to imagine it!
Money, luck, family, success, certain material benefits - all this is achieved through changes in consciousness. The Consciousness of each person is a part of the common field, one big Consciousness. This is a creative force that launches all the necessary mechanisms to bring the material world in line with the task.
We have been taught that the only way to get anything is by working hard. But these are all the costs of those times when the creative laws of the Universe were known only to the initiated, who enslaved those who did not know such laws. If someone awakened and wanted to reveal this knowledge to the world, this was recognized as heresy and the daredevil was burned at the stake. Literally, this was in the Middle Ages, but in all other times it happened figuratively. The one who knew controlled the one who did not know. The one who knew was extremely uninterested in anyone else finding out. It is impossible to enslave a person who understands his divine essence and knows what power is hidden in his mind. We were taught to work hard and get only so as not to die of hunger. And this principle of receiving still lives in the minds of people.
If you want to hide something, put it in a visible place. This is exactly the case with our creativity. It is so simple and natural that many simply do not believe in it. Now, if the ritual, and the head of a cockroach with the foot of a Norwegian rabbit at midnight at the crossroads of five moons, were put in the source of an unknown stream, then - yes, I would have believed it. And so - too simply. Too much, not so much. You see, this creative force that everyone talks about so much now, she takes pictures literally. If a person wants to receive the required amount of money, imagines it and at the same time does not feel very good due to the fact that this amount is not yet available - it is this emotion that materializes. It is this form that the subatomic particles we have been talking about will take on. You have to feel like it's already there. Yes, it's complicated, but that's how you give the right command to the universe. Do you understand? FEEL! Read again Ramtha's statement at the beginning of the book.
“Give up everything but harmony. You can thrive no matter what the circumstances. Man rules over everything if he knows the Law of Existence and fulfills it. This Law gives you the power to acquire wealth and to occupy a worthy position without violating anyone's rights and opportunities in the world - Emmett Fox "Change your life."
Choose your reality, choose the thoughts that will create that reality.
Give up those thoughts that do not help build what you need.
Stop regretting the past or worrying about the future. Now think about what you want to manifest in your life and as if it already exists.
Thank the Universe for every negative (in your opinion) manifestation and event. This means that you have been given another lesson and something bad has left your life.
Doing something to get what you want is secondary. Become the one who is able to get what they want - this is the main thing!
If you are worrying about money right now, the Universe is creating even more reasons to worry about it right now. If you are offended by someone right now, the Universe is abundant, it regards this as desirable and will bring even more reasons to be offended.
Mikhail Zarechny
Before you is a reconstruction of our conversations with Simoronists about the latest achievements of quantum physics and the connection between the quantum and mystical pictures of the world, which took place at the numerous "requests of the working people". What was easy to explain with direct live contact turned out to be practically impossible to put on paper, retaining clarity of presentation and at least moderate "scientific" rigor. So those pieces that are in italics can not be read at all - they are more for rigor. There is nothing significant there. Exactly the same as it is not in other places.
In the interests of the reader, who is not familiar with Simoron practices, I turned to authoritative and accessible Buddhist texts to illustrate some of the provisions.
Quantum physics, time, consciousness, reality
(quantum and mystical pictures of the world)
Introduction
Many of you have probably come across statements like: "Matter is not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not different from matter. Matter is emptiness. Emptiness is matter ... Therefore, there is no matter in emptiness ...". This is a quote from the Heart Sutra written by Gautama Buddha. And here are the words of the Buddha about the illusory nature of the world around us: "The phenomena that are everywhere are all illusory and empty." This applies to both time and space. The presence of space and time, atoms and elementary particles, and even our very "I", according to Mahayana Buddhism, is an illusion.
No less shocking may seem the description of many purely "technological" concepts used in Buddhism, for example: "No-thought is when there is a thought, and it is not. This is the ability to not-think, plunging into thinking." And in our classes, you also often hear statements that seem strange at first glance: "There is no sequence in the author's space, there is no time, all the events are already there. Take them from there, whatever you like!". And after a couple of minutes you hear: "You will not get anything from there. Because there is nothing there that you can get ... ".
To many, such statements seem like nonsense, but there is no doubt that the Buddha knew what he was talking about. The same can hardly be said about the majority of authors of modern esoteric literature, where seemingly similar statements are found all the time. If you ask such "esotericists" what they mean by saying with reference to Jesus Christ the words that "the inner is equal to the outer", then the answer, if you are not a simoronist, can make your ears wilt.
Today we will try to understand these and other statements, and indeed in the mystical picture of the world, from the standpoint of the latest achievements of quantum physics. We will also touch upon the topics of life, death, time, reality, and consciousness that are of concern to many. And, of course, along the way we will draw on our Simoron experience. Just do not think that you will hear the truth from me. As always, I'll hang the noodles on my ears, and you don't forget to shake them off! Maybe our conversation will be useful even for those who later seem to understand something.
famous experiment
According to classical physics, the object under study can be in one of the many possible states. However, it cannot be in several states at the same time, i.e. no meaning can be given to the sum of possible states. If I am now in the room, then I am not in the corridor. The state when I am both in the room and in the corridor is meaningless. I can't be both there and there at the same time! I can't walk out of here through the door and out the window at the same time. I either go out the door or jump out the window. As you can see, this approach is fully consistent with worldly common sense.
However, in quantum physics, this situation is only one of the possible ones. The states of the system, when either one option or the other is possible, are called mixed states in quantum mechanics. These are states that cannot be described using the wave function due to the unknown components due to its interaction with the environment. They are described by the so-called. density matrix. In this case, we can only speak about the probability of different outcomes of experimental measurements. The wave function is often called the state vector.
It is now well known that a completely different situation takes place in nature, when an object is in several states at the same time, i.e. there is a superposition of two or more states on top of each other. And not just an overlay, but an overlay without any mutual influence. For example, it has been experimentally proven that one particle can simultaneously pass through two slits in an opaque screen. The particle passing through the first slit is one state. The same particle passing through the second slit is a different state. And the experiment shows that the sum of these states is observed! Those. A particle passes through two slits at the same time! In this case, one speaks of a superposition of states.
We are talking about quantum superposition (coherent superposition), i.e. about the superposition of states that cannot be realized simultaneously from the classical point of view. Those. it is a superposition of alternative (mutually exclusive from the classical point of view) states, which cannot be realized in classical physics. In what follows, the word "superposition" means precisely quantum superposition.
The presence of these two types of states - mixtures and superpositions - is key to understanding the quantum picture of the world. Another important topic for us will be the conditions for the transition of a superposition of states into a mixture and vice versa. We will analyze these and other questions on the example of the famous double-slit experiment.
First, let's take a machine gun, and do a mental experiment,
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It's not very good, our machine gun. It fires bullets, the direction of flight of which is not known in advance. Whether they fly to the right, or to the left .... There is an armor plate in front of the machine gun, and two slots are made in it, through which bullets pass freely. Next is the "detector" - any trap in which all the bullets that hit it get stuck. When necessary, you can recalculate the number of bullets stuck in the trap per unit of its length, and divide it by the total number of bullets fired. Or at the time of firing, if the rate of fire is considered constant. This value - the number of stuck bullets per unit length of the trap in the vicinity of some point X, referred to the total number of bullets, we will call the probability of a bullet hitting point X. Note that we can only talk about probability - because we cannot say for sure where another bullet hits. After all, a bullet, even hitting a hole, can ricochet from its edge and go nowhere at all.
Let's mentally carry out three experiments: the first, when the first slot is open, and the second is closed, the second, when the second slot is open, and the first is closed. And, finally, the third experience, when both slots are open.
The result of our "experiment" is shown in the same figure, on the graph. The probability in it is plotted to the right, and the coordinate is the position of the point X. The blue curve shows the probability distribution P1 of bullets hitting the detector with the first slit open, the green curve is the probability of hitting the bullet detector with the second slit open, and the red curve is the probability of hitting into the bullet detector with both slits open. By comparing the values of P1, P2 and P12, we can conclude that the probabilities simply add up,
P1 + P2 = P12.
So, for bullets, the action of two slits is the sum of the action of each slit separately.
Let us imagine the same experiment with electrons, the scheme of which,
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Let's take an electron gun, like those that are in every TV set, and put a screen with two slits that is opaque to electrons in front of it. The electrons passing through the slits can be registered by various methods: using a scintillating screen, the impact of an electron on which causes a flash of light, photographic film, or using counters of various types, for example, a Geiger counter.
The results of measurements for electrons in the case when one of the slots is closed look quite reasonable, and are quite similar to our experience with machine gun fire (blue and green curves in the figure). But for the case when both slits are open, we get a completely unexpected P12 curve, shown in red. It obviously does not coincide with the sum of P1 and P2! The resulting pattern is called an interference pattern from two slits.
Let's try to figure out what's going on here. If we start from the hypothesis that the electron passes either through slit 1 or through slit 2, then in the case of two open slits, we should get the sum of the effects from one and the other slot, as was the case with machine gun shooting. The probabilities of independent events add up , in which case we would get P1 + P2 = P12.
Maybe we have not taken into account some significant effect, and the superposition of states has nothing to do with it? Maybe we have a very powerful flow of electrons, and different electrons, passing through different slots, somehow distort each other's movement? To test this hypothesis, it is necessary to modernize the electron gun so that electrons fly out of it quite rarely. Let's say no more than once every half an hour. During this time, each electron will certainly fly the entire distance from the gun to the detector and will be registered! So there will certainly be no mutual influence of flying electrons on each other!
No sooner said than done. We modernized the electron gun and spent half a year near the installation, conducting an experiment and collecting the necessary statistics. What is the result? He hasn't changed a bit.
But maybe the electrons somehow wander from hole to hole and only then reach the detector? This explanation also fails: there are points on the P12 curve with two open slits that receive significantly fewer electrons than with any of the open slits. Conversely, there are points in which the number of electrons is more than twice the sum of electrons that have passed from each slot separately.
Therefore, the statement that electrons pass either through slot 1 or through slot 2 is incorrect. They pass through both slits at the same time. And a very simple mathematical apparatus describing such a process gives absolutely exact agreement with the experiment, with what is shown by the red line on the graph.
What is the difference between bullets and electrons? From the point of view of quantum mechanics, nothing. Only, as calculations show, the interference pattern from the scattering of bullets is characterized by such narrow maxima and minima that no detector is able to register them. The distances between these minima and maxima are immeasurably smaller than the size of the bullet itself. So the detectors will give the average picture shown by the red curve
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Let's now modify our experience so that we can "follow" the electron, follow which slit it passes through. We put a detector near one of the slits, which registers the passage of an electron through it (Fig. 3).
In this case, if the transit detector registers the passage of an electron through slot 2, we will know that the electron passed through this slot, and if the transit detector does not give a signal, but the main electron detector gives a signal, then it is clear that the electron passed through slot 1. It is possible to put two transient detectors on each of the slits, but this will not affect the results of our experiment in any way. Of course, any detector, one way or another, will distort the motion of an electron, but we will consider this influence to be not very significant. For us, after all, the very fact of registering which of the slits the electron passes through is much more important!
What picture do you think we will see? (the opinion of the audience was divided: most of the audience believes that the result of the experiment will not change, but a few people believe that the probabilities will add up, and the result will be the same as in the experiment with machine-gun fire).
The result of this experiment is shown in Fig. 3, qualitatively it is no different from the experience with machine gun shooting. Thus, we have found that when we look at an electron, we find that it passes either through one hole or through another. There is no superposition of these two states! And when we are not looking at it, it simultaneously passes through two slits, and their distribution on the screen is not at all the same as when we look at them!
Maybe the point here is that our transit detector distorts the motion of electrons too much? Having carried out additional experiments with various transient detectors that distort the motion of electrons in different ways, we conclude that the role of this effect is not very significant. Only the very fact of fixing the state of an object turns out to be significant!
When the cat is both alive and dead
So, experiments on the microworld unequivocally speak of the possibility of superposition, when an object is characterized by a set of states, each of which, at first glance, excludes the other. Let us ask ourselves the question: what is needed to observe the superposition of states? Is it possible to observe the superposition of states not only in the microcosm, but also in the macrocosm, in our everyday life?
The answer to the first question is clear enough: in order to observe superposition, we do not need to fix the state of the object. But what does it mean to fix? Who is doing the state fixing? A device like our fly-by detector? Or an observer? Or is it necessary to have both an instrument and an observer? The answer to this question is given by the theory of decoherence. But first, I want to say a few words about open and closed systems, as well as entangled (synonyms - entangled, entangled) states. We will use these concepts more than once in what follows.
In everyday life, we are dealing with open systems, when there is some object that we observe (for example, a stone), and there is something external to it (for example, sand, ourselves, and the rest of the Universe). around the stone). Obviously, the environment can interact with our object and thus affect its state. In addition, the environment can, one way or another, record information about the state of the object. And our object, of course, also records, in some form, information about the state of the environment.
An example of a closed (holistic) system is our Universe. Outside it, by definition, there is nothing that could affect it, and there is nothing where information about its state could be recorded. By recording, we now mean any change in the state of an external subsystem under the influence of interaction with a selected one. A similarity of closed systems can be created in the laboratory, for this it is necessary to exclude the influence of the environment on our system, and make sure that the state of the system does not affect the state of the environment in any way.
Entangled (this is an established term, although I prefer the term entangled) states can occur in a system that consists of several interacting subsystems. For example, if an electron collides with an atom, then an entangled state is formed in which the state of the electron will be correlated with the state of the atom. Entangled states are necessary to describe the overall system formed from all the parts that once interacted with each other.
So, the theory of decoherence states that the superposition of states in any system is possible only if the environment does not contain sufficient information to separate the components of the superposition. These words have a clear mathematical formulation in the theory: it is necessary that the overlap integral of vectors of different environment states corresponding to different components of the superposition of our system be much less than unity. In other words, it's important that our system states don't get too mixed up with the state of the environment.
Consider now a system consisting of two subsystems: me and the Universe around me. That is, I, as it were, supplement the Universe to the whole, and together we form a closed system. Question: what should I be in order to be able to observe the superposition of states around me? What should I be in order not to be a device that unconsciously selects only certain components of the superposition from an infinite number of them in the state vector of the Universe? (various answers from the audience, the essence of which is that I, at some level of consciousness, should not interact with the environment and change my state when observing various phenomena).
Correctly. I must be a quantum observer, i.e. at some deep level of witnessing, he should not change his state even if the body and psyche interact with the environment and their state changes. I must feel some unchanging center of being, which is not affected by anything, by any external events. In this case, potentially, I can see the whole reality, because I am not identified with the structures that decohere the environment and create the classical reality around, and I can control their work.
Having realized the work of sensors and the mind, and their role in the creation of classical reality in the process of observation (decoherence of the environment), I can understand that what is usually understood as reality is an illusion. After all, what I observe, highlighting some of the superposition components, is completely determined by the work of my mind, my fixations, assessments and preferences. And in the state of absence of fixations (usually the word samadhi is used to denote it), I cease to be an external detecting object in relation to the Universe surrounding me, singling out only certain components of the superposition from an infinite number of them. Hence there is a feeling of complete unity with the world and merging with it.
The active, conscious perception available in this state is creativity. By our active observation (interaction with the environment) we manifest one or another of its properties, i.e. we realize the hidden potential of the Emptiness, the potential of the state of superposition.
Let's recall our Simoron practice of working with labels. Tags - what is it? These are the objects around us (table, apple, door, mother-in-law...) that are fixed by our consciousness. These are things that matter to us. In other words, these are objects that change our state. What was the practice of working with them? We had to merge with the marks, eat them, and thus stop fixing them as something external and meaningful to us. They must cease to be for us a significant object that is outside of us. In other words, our state should not depend on them, our perception should become non-judgmental.
By the way, any experience based on the separation of subject and object, the ancient Hindus called maya, an illusion. The question is not reduced to whether everything around is an illusion or not. The issue is that in this case it is impossible to distinguish reality from illusion, because it is impossible to know anything about an object without interacting with it. And as a result of the interaction of the states of the subject and the object, they get "confused", some parts of each of the two subsystems turn out to be mixed and there is no longer any way to distinguish in this "mixed" part what belongs to the first object, and what to the second.
However, in the part that has not yet "mixed", we can still divide the system into components, i.e. say: this part belongs to the first subsystem, and this one - to the second. Such a state is characteristic of all objects around us (since they all interact with each other) and is called a mixed entangled state.
I suspect many of you have a question: if I do not look at the Sun, does it cease to exist?
Yes, if no one-no one "looks" at the Sun, and not a single object around (including asteroids, stones, atoms, etc.) interacts with it and does not record information about it in its structure, then the Sun ceases to exist as local classical object and goes into a purely quantum (non-manifested, non-local, superpositional) state. However, since there are a great many observing subsystems around, the Sun appears before us as a local, classical object. At the same time, each of the objects "sees" in the other only those components, the interaction with which it had strong enough to fix the state. We can say that each of the existing objects contributes to the formation of reality.
There is an important and subtle point here. As already mentioned, the level of "classicity" of an object is determined by the information about its state recorded in the environment. And the amount of this information, in turn, directly depends on the interaction energy: the stronger the interaction, the more the state of the environment changes, the more it contains information about the object.
Let us now recall that any material body consists of structures that differ greatly in typical interaction energies. The nuclei of atoms are characterized by one order of interaction energy, chemical bonds - by another, excitations in an electron gas - by the third, interspin interaction - by the fourth. And so on, i.e. any object appears as a chain of interacting quantum fields that differ in interaction energy. It is not difficult to conclude that the part of the fields that interacts most strongly with the environment goes into a manifested, local, classical state. And that part of the fields that interacts weakly with the environment remains in a non-local, superpositional, entangled state. More precisely, in both cases the fields and the corresponding particles will be in a mixed entangled state, only in the first case the degree of entanglement will be much less than in the second.
For example, if we are now looking at a wall and fixing its shape, color, material, etc. it appears as a classical object. But we do not fix the state of polarization of atoms in the wall, and the "part" of the wall fields corresponding to them can be in a non-local entangled state. That is, the wall, as it were, is present in two forms at once - both as a local object that is in front of us, and as a non-local one, located "everywhere and nowhere."
In the case of psychic phenomena, the situation is similar. Each manifests in the other only those structures with which he most intensively interacts. Since there are immeasurably fewer "observers" capable of distinguishing subtle mental states than those capable of "seeing" the Sun, and the energy of interaction at the level of thought forms is comparable to the energy of the thought itself, the degree of influence of the observer on our state can be quite high.
The subjectivity of perception also becomes higher - how many people, so many opinions about the character of another person can be. If one psychoanalyst, for example, sees an oedipal complex in 95% of his clients and finds a bunch of "objective" evidence for this, then another, in a completely similar sample of clients, sees anal fixation in 95% :). The given figures are real and even typical. The conclusion suggests itself that where it concerns the qualities of another person, we do not so much observe them as we create them in the course of our interaction with him. The world we see is secondary, it reflects our qualities. Probably, you yourself have come across people for whom "all women are fools", or "all men are bastards", and who bring so much "objective" evidence to this that they can convince others!
It should be added that any methods of cruel manipulation of a person begin with the fact that a person is brought to a certain, fixed state with a whip, fright or a carrot. Further, his behavior is determined and predictable, because his psyche becomes a classical, predictable object. So if you want to be unpredictable, free and able to manifest as you like - reduce your involvement in what is happening, reduce the strength of interaction and the corresponding level of classical correlations! We always have levels of consciousness available where we are non-local and are "everywhere and nowhere".
Let us now consider the question of what is the source of the observed classical reality, following the presentation of Sergei Doronin:
Suppose we have some closed system consisting of two identical subsystems. Closure means that the system (considered as a whole, as a whole) does not interact with the environment, i.e. there is no energy exchange between the system and the environment - there is no energy flow "from within" this system, and there is no energy flow into this system from the environment. Let us assume that the subsystems interact with each other, i.e. exchange energy. From the first subsystem there is a flow of energy to the second and vice versa - from the second to the first. As a result of such an energy exchange, these subsystems "see" each other as classical local objects, and the degree of their mutually perceived locality depends on the intensity of energy flows. But if we consider the system as a whole, the energy flows from two bodies are directed in opposite directions, and "destroy" each other. For the system as a whole, there are no classical objects inside it, there are no energy inhomogeneities, and there is no energy flow "from within" this entire system. If there could be an outside observer of the entire system, not interacting with it at the same time, he would not see anything in this system. For him, this system will be purely quantum, in which there are no classical objects.*
Thus, if we consider the Universe (the World as a whole), which by definition is a closed system, then the conclusion follows that the Universe, considered as a whole, is a purely quantum system. The universe, as a whole, is in a pure entangled state (PES), or, as Hermes Trismegistus said, "the world is invisible in its entirety."*
Since, with an independent consideration of individual parts of the system, purely quantum fluctuations corresponding to the FSS of a composite quantum system turn into classical fluctuations, and they are caused by a single source, the conclusion follows about the existence of such a physical concept, which is historically commonly called "God". I use the term "God" as a more familiar and familiar term, if it hurts someone's ears, they can replace it with a physical analogue: "a single quantum source of classical correlations."*
I'll try to explain this point. Parts of a composite closed system, purely quantum in their totality in a space with maximum dimension (we are talking about Hilbert space), become classical objects in spaces of lower dimension. Those. pure quantum correlations in a system considered as a whole (FES for the whole system, God) are the source of classical correlations between parts of the system considered separately.
In other words, Reality is a "manifestation" of local objects from the FES of the entire system, where these objects are in a non-local form (ideas, forms, images, etc.).*
I will add, on my own behalf (M.Z.), that no one here is trying to "define" God - for this, if you follow the theory of entangled states (TZS), it would be necessary to completely describe the state vector of the Universe as a whole. Obviously, this is impossible. God (the CES of the Universe as a whole) cannot be seen, and he cannot be "understood", because there is nothing to understand. We can only see the shadow of it, like quantum and informational noise.
Let me explain a little the last thought, about "there is nothing to understand." The fact is that the mind deals with representations, that is, with something. And as long as any figure of attention, any object is in the foreground, this "something" cannot be understood, because in the absence of objects there is no subject for understanding by the mind.
"Something" becomes "understandable" when awareness itself comes to the fore. One way to do this is to shift attention first from objects to processes, and then to their source. And it is not surprising that the metaphor "Emptiness" is used in many traditions to refer to this source.
And now I want to quote a few sayings of the Great Enlightened Ones:
Jesus Christ, Gospel of Thomas: "Be Passers By".
Gautama Buddha, Diamond Sutra: "All bodhisattvas should give birth to a consciousness that is not in color, nor in sound, nor in smells, nor in the things of the world. They should not be anywhere and give rise to a consciousness that is not in anything."
The sixth Patriarch of Zen Hui-nen, one of the (along with Bodhidharma) founders of Zen Buddhism: "If there is attachment to external signs, then your consciousness will not be calm; if there is detachment from the external signs of things, then your consciousness will be calm and your original nature it will be pure in itself and enlightened in itself. As soon as you start relying on external circumstances, there will be movement, and movement causes anxiety. But if you renounce external signs, then this will be meditation; if you keep inner peace, this will be enlightenment - samadhi.
What does "maha" mean? "Maha" means great, by this it is meant that the properties of consciousness are vast and similar to emptiness. All Buddha realms are like emptiness, the wonderful nature of man is basically emptiness, so there is not a single thing that can be gained. The true emptiness of one's own nature is also like this... However, emptiness contains both the sun and the moon, and all the stars and planets, the great earth, the mountain and the rivers, all the grasses and trees, bad and good people, bad things and good things, Heavenly Altar and hell, which all without exception are (are) in the void. The emptiness of the nature of people is exactly the same (i.e., it contains all things and phenomena).
Contemplate your consciousness and do not fall into dependence on the [external] signs of things ... To pass through the darkness of things, be ready for any deed and not refuse anything, but to renounce only the external signs of things and in all deeds not to acquire anything - this is and there is the Supreme Chariot. "Chariot" means a practice that is not to be discussed but to be practiced, so don't ask me any more."
As we could see, the Buddha, Hui-nen, many other Enlightened Ones, and you and I, are essentially talking about the same thing: we ourselves create the reality that we observe, and this reality is illusory, because it depends on the work of our mind , from our commits and bindings. And so there is nothing but the One in the world. And even the mind and perceptual systems that create these mirages are in fact also One. The main way to realize this is meditation.
This conclusion is in agreement with the fundamental principles of quantum physics, since fixations and preferences are precisely the tool for separating one or another component of a superposition, turning a superposition into a mixture. The level of reality that we perceive depends on the “strength” of our interaction with the world, and in order to increase the degree of entanglement with the surrounding world and turn into a “quantum observer”, it is necessary to reduce the classical interaction with the environment at the level of consciousness at which we are, and remove there own "noises" - such as internal dialogue.
Now we will approach these and other questions from the side of experimental data on quantum correlations.
Space and time in an integral (closed) system
There is an interesting aspect of the question of time that physicists are now intensively dealing with. Is it possible to introduce the concept of time for an integral (closed) system like our Universe, or for any closed system? Does objective history exist? Nowadays, many physicists have come to the conclusion that it is not.
Obviously, the concept of time can only be introduced if it is possible to classify events according to causal relationships (event A preceded event B and can affect it, or event B preceded event A and can affect it, or events A and B in no way not connected). It turns out that such a classification can be introduced only in the case of open systems. Let me remind you that a system is open if there is something external to it, for example, an observer. In open systems, a superposition of states can turn into a mixture.
In an integrated system, the situation is quite different. In such a system, there is a superposition of states. This means that an experiment carried out at point A can instantly change the results of observations at point B, located at any distance from point A. Therefore, any event A, by choosing an appropriate frame of reference, "can be made" as occurring before event B and capable of influencing on it, either as happening simultaneously with event B, or as happening after event B, while event B is able to influence event A. In a sense, everything happens "simultaneously". The concept of time in this case loses its meaning.
For a local observer at point B, the changes in the results of the experiment look like a miracle - they have no reason, since the experimenter did not interact with the object of observation in any way, and there was no material carrier of interaction. There is an effect, but no cause.
The statement about the "immaterial" and instantaneous influence of the results of the experiment at point A on the results of observations at point B was experimentally proven several years ago. Interestingly, a thought experiment, close to the experiments conducted quite recently, was carried out by Albert Einstein, trying to refute quantum mechanics. But the world turned out to be much more fantastic than it seemed to the greatest of physicists.
To make the above more clear, consider an experiment conducted at the University of Rochester by Richard Mandel and colleagues in the mid-90s of the last century. Similar experiments aimed at testing the so-called. Bell's inequalities and the study of quantum nonlocality began in 1981 with a historic experiment by Alain Aspect's group. Currently, about a hundred such experiments have been carried out, and they speak in favor of the non-locality of the world around us.
The scheme of the experiment is shown in rice. 4.
The laser beam was split into two beams using a semitransparent mirror, and then each of the beams was directed to the so-called nonlinear crystal, i.e. a frequency converter capable of splitting a quantum of light (photon) into two daughter quanta. The energy conservation law is, of course, fulfilled in this case: the energy of each of the daughter quanta is half the energy of the parent quanta. For example, if a laser with a wavelength of 405 nm (green) falls, then at the exit from the crystal there will be two beams with a wavelength of 810 nm (red), the energy of each quantum of which is half the energy of the quantum in the original beam. Then, with the help of a system of mirrors, it was done so that each of these two pairs of photons interfered with each other, approximately in the same way as the components of the superposition interfered in our experiment with electron scattering on two slits. The results of observing the interference pattern were recorded by detectors D1-D2 for the first pair of photons, and by detectors D3-D4 - for the second pair.
As is known, any particle with a nonzero spin, including a photon, is characterized by polarization, i.e. projection of the back on the direction of movement. Photons can have two states of polarization, corresponding to two possible spin projections - along and against the direction of motion. The type of light polarization determines the plane of oscillations of the electric field of electromagnetic waves, and there are so-called analyzers (special crystals) that can transmit quanta only with a certain polarization. Since different states of polarization are in a state of superposition, then with the help of such a crystal, one or another of its components can be distinguished. If such a crystal is placed along one of the beams and rotated relative to the beam axis, then the interference pattern will change due to a change in the ratio between the superposition components.
So, Richard Mandel spatially separated two beams at a sufficiently large distance, and began to change the ratio between the superposition components on one of them (lower in Fig. 4) using the analyzer. Due to his manipulations with the analyzer, the interference pattern on this beam changed. He did not touch the second beam at all! But the interference pattern observed in this second beam exactly repeated the interference pattern in the beam with which Mandel experimented. And this picture changed instantly, at the same time as the picture on the first beam changed. And this despite the fact that there were simply no "objective" reasons for changing the picture on the first beam! After all, in this case, the person did not interact with the object of observation in any way, and there was no material carrier of interaction between the beams!
It turns out that the quantum object in some incredible way found out what was happening with another object at a considerable distance from it (now experiments have been carried out with a distance between pairs of photons of 10 km). This phenomenon is usually called quantum correlations. Quantum correlations are an inherent property of entangled (entangled) states. Recall that the entangled states of particles mean the presence of a connection of some characteristics of these particles after their interaction, and this connection is much more rigid than follows from classical concepts. If the particles once interacted, then in closed systems the connection between them will always be preserved, and it will be instantaneous, no matter how far apart they are. If with the help of an analyzer or other device we determine the state (for example, polarization) of one particle from a pair, then the state of the second particle also becomes determined! And this particle will now behave differently than before the measurement carried out with the first particle! This statement is always true for closed systems, and in the case of open systems, the connection between particles will be preserved until the superposition of states turns into a mixture under the influence of the environment.
It is as if two balls, black and white, collided, while the area of their collision is not observable, and we do not know which one will fly where. For quantum particles, it will not be as common sense suggests: each ball is initially white or black, we just do not know its color. The dropped balls will behave as "grey", i.e. in each of them there will be a superposition of white and black, and this is manifested in the experiment. But this will only happen until we determine the color of one of the balls. If we define its color as black, then the other one immediately ceases to behave like gray, and begins to manifest itself in the experiment as white, no matter how far away it is!
Now imagine that near one of the beams is Vasya, who is conducting experiments, and near the other is Petya, who does not know about the existence of Vasya. For Petya, the change in the results of the experiment on his beam looks like a miracle, a miracle in the most obscurantist sense! After all, Petya does nothing with his beam, all the experimental conditions remain constant, and the interference pattern changes for completely incomprehensible reasons! Now he sees "white" balls, then "gray", then "black". And Petya will not find any reasons to change the picture, no matter how hard he tries. To him, it looks like there is an effect, but no cause.
A similar installation scheme can be used for "instantaneous" transfer of information between Vasya and Petya, for this it is only necessary that they coordinate their actions. As a matter of fact, there is no "transfer" of information, the information is simply distributed between subsystems, while Vasya and Petya have access to a single non-local object during such an experiment. Of course, for an instant exchange of information, you must first create entangled pairs of photons somewhere, and somehow send them. To date, the use of fiber optic technologies makes it possible to preserve the entanglement of photons at distances of up to several hundred kilometers, which still creates a limit for the implementation of instantaneous quantum communication devices. But this is a purely technical issue, sooner or later it will be resolved, and the creation of global quantum communication systems is already being intensively discussed. One can also dream of creating "quantum canned food" - devices in which the coherence of the states of certain objects does not collapse for a long time, and which can simply be taken with oneself.
It is often asked: does the possibility of instantaneous transmission of information contradict the theory of relativity? No, it doesn't contradict. The theory of relativity speaks of a limit in the form of the speed of light on the speed of movement of material objects, and the speed of transmission of the interaction between them. This is absolutely true for local (classical) objects. In the case of pairs of photons in an entangled state, there is no interaction between them, there is no information transfer between them, they simply remain a single object, no matter how far apart they are. This is a facet of reality that goes beyond the theory of relativity.
Let's now imagine that Vasya is near us, and Petya, together with his installation, is near a star, the distance to which is a million light years. That is, Petya set up his experiments a million years ago, and only now Vasya received light from a split beam, and he began his experiments with it. What will happen? It will be the same: Petya's experiments will change the results of Vasya's experiments, who may have died a long time ago, and even managed to publish their results. After all, Petya's determination of the state of photons determines the properties of Vasya's photons, and the results of Vasya's photons change, regardless of the distance between them.
What happens when we observe the light of distant stars? Or are we observing temperature inhomogeneities and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which arose long before the appearance of the first stars and galaxies? Quite right, we are changing the state of the distant past of the Universe, and therefore, we are changing history! It turns out a paradoxical conclusion: history is what is created by ongoing observations! And not only a person, but also any object (more on that later). History, as an objective reality independent of the observer, does not exist.
If anyone wants to take a closer look at this topic, look for references to the strong and weak anthropic principle, Bell's theorem, quantum correlations. I think Scientific American should have reviews on these issues.
I note that experiments on the study of quantum correlations turned out to be possible in many respects because physicists learned how to prepare entangled states with known characteristics. Linked states are always formed, but it was very difficult to find a method for preparing the type of bond that is necessary for the experiment, this was learned not so long ago. This explains why the experiments, conceived by Einstein, could only be carried out now.
Let us now consider in more detail how the presence of quantum correlations affects the question of the presence of time in closed systems. As I said, the concept of time can be introduced only if it is possible to classify events according to cause-and-effect relationships (event B preceded event B and can influence it, or event B preceded event A and can influence it, or events A and B are not related in any way). Schematically, such a classification of events is shown in the left half of Fig. 5. In this figure, along the abscissa axis, the spatial coordinate of the event is plotted in the laboratory reference system (LRS), and along the ordinate axis, the time in this system. If an object in the LSO is at rest, then it will be described by a vertical line corresponding to movement in time. If the object moves at a constant speed, then it will be described by an inclined line, the slope of which depends on the speed of the object.
The dashed lines in Fig. 5 shows the movement of an object moving at the maximum possible rate of transmission of physical interaction - the speed of light. These lines, corresponding to the propagation of light in different directions, form a cone, inside which there are events that can be reached by physical interaction from point A. Thus, an event at point A can affect an event at point B, since an interaction from point A can reach it. point A, and cannot affect event C, since the speed of physical interaction is insufficient for this. Thus, event A precedes event B and can influence it, while events A and C are not connected in any way from the classical point of view.
In the case of unrelated events A and C, it can be shown, using the formulas of the special theory of relativity, that in some reference frames the event C will precede the event A, and in some - occur after it.
Qualitatively, this can be illustrated as follows. In LSO, as it can be seen directly from the graph, event A precedes event C. Let us choose the frame of reference for a rocket flying in LSO to the right at a sufficiently high speed. . This reference system is shown schematically by the blue axes on the right side of Fig. 5, it seemed to "turn" relative to the laboratory system in the direction of the rocket's motion. It is easy to see that the projection of the event C on the time axis (let it be the event D) lies before the event A. That is, in the rocket reference frame, the event D precedes the event A. However, keep in mind that the analogy between the Lorentz transformation and the rotation of the Cartesian system coordinates, which we have just used, is not always correct: in the first case, we are dealing with rotations in Minkowski space, and in the second, with rotations in Euclidean space. But for our case, this analogy is quite suitable.
Let us now imagine that the events B, C and D are quantum-correlated, as was the case for photon pairs in the Mandel experiments (let the event D be quantum-correlated with the event C in the rocket reference frame). In this case, the concept of a causal relationship for our events cannot be introduced! After all, if in one frame of reference event B occurs after event A and can be its consequence, then event D - an event correlated with event B in a quantum way, precedes event A and can influence it! Two different observers see the movement of time in opposite directions! And among these observers there is no more "correct", since all inertial frames of reference are absolutely equal. In a sense, everything happens at the same time, and everything affects each other, although the word "simultaneously" is not quite right. Rather, any event occurs both before and after any other. There is no sequence of events! The concept of time in this case obviously loses its meaning!
The content of the last section can be summarized briefly. Physical systems cannot be assigned (at least always) characteristics as objectively existing and independent of measurements. In other words, the characteristics of an object are "created" by the observer; outside the act of observation, the state of any object is largely uncertain. Particles, once formed in one act, remain in a closed (holistic) system as a single object, regardless of how far they are, and how long ago their separation took place. Such objects are in an integral system everywhere and nowhere. In a holistic system, the concepts of time and space, cause and effect lose their meaning. It seems that a system like our Universe is such an object.
OUR WORLD IS NON-LOCAL. Paradoxes of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, etc. can be deduced precisely from here, from NON-LOCALITY. In a pure entangled state of the universe as a whole, there is everything that is, everything that was, and everything that was not. There is also something that is not there!
So it turns out that you and I, Buddha and Einstein, are simultaneously here, everywhere, and nowhere! We do not know about this because we localize ourselves, unconsciously fixing a certain state of the surrounding world. And we fix the state of this world only because there is too much significant around for our mind, too much of what it is attached to, and as a result, the most energetically strong classical correlations dominate in our perception of the world.
Consciousness. What is it?
If you ask a psychologist what consciousness is, then most likely we will hear something like: consciousness is the activity of the conscious part of the psyche. It is something that can be verbalized or understood. But such a definition is purely negative, it only distinguishes between consciousness and subconsciousness, but does not in the least answer the question of what consciousness is. Let's relax now and allow ourselves to fantasize about this topic.
The consciousness of any object (form), as it seems to me now, is, first of all, the ability to discriminate, i.e. write in the process of decoherence in its state information sufficient to select certain components of the superposition in the state vector of the environment. According to this definition, consciousness can be attributed to any object, it will only differ in its properties. At some level, it may be possible to control the distribution of energy within one's own structure, at some level, the possibility of self-awareness.
Any object makes reality a reality by its structure and activity, highlighting it as a set of local objects. We give the world its Existence, and we ourselves create the boundaries between ourselves and the world. What seems to us to be circumstances is actually our way of assembling the world, establishing boundaries in it.
As we have already done in relation to ourselves, consider a system consisting of two subsystems: the observer and the Universe surrounding him. Together with the rest of the universe, it forms a closed system. The observer, thanks to his systems of perception and storage of information, is somehow able to distinguish some of the components of the superposition. As already mentioned, in this interpretation, any object can be an observer. The observer can be, for example, a stone, or a dog, or a device that registers the decay of an atom or the passage of a particle through a detector.
It is easy to see that the world for each observer is subjective, it is determined only by those systems of perception and storage of information that are present in it. "Perception" in this context simply means the ability of an object to record in itself information sufficient to separate the components of a superposition in the surrounding world.
We can talk about different levels of the manifested Consciousness, which differ from each other in the ability to single out certain components of the superposition in the full vector of the state and the degree of Consciousness awareness that is closely related to this. You can talk about the perception and Consciousness of minerals, plants, animals, man and the Consciousness of the Buddha. Everything that exists in nature is aware of itself at the level at which it exists. Now I will try, very briefly, to talk about it.
Again, consider the stone and the universe surrounding it. Can a stone separate the components of the superposition of the world around it as efficiently as the human Consciousness does? Of course not. But it selects some components from the superposition, and records information about the state of the environment in itself.
Because of this, time for the stone flows, albeit extremely slowly. The subjective course of time is determined by the rate of creation of the surrounding reality by the object, or, in other words, by the rate of separation of the superposition components from the state vector of the environment. After all, as we remember from the previous one, if the coherence of states is preserved in the system, then there is no time in it.
If you have ever been under anesthesia, you know that several hours there pass like a blink of an eye. So, for a stone, millions, if not billions, of years appear in an instant. Minerals have virtually no consciousness and self-awareness. They do not have the ability to control the decoherence of the environment and the freedom that appears due to the presence of this opportunity, but instead they have the iron laws of classical physics, cause and effect.
Animals and plants already have an unconscious Consciousness, which can share a much larger number of components of the quantum vector of the state of the surrounding Universe. There is already an accident here, there is the possibility of controlling the energy flows within the system, and the freedom associated with this, as an as yet unconscious possibility of assembling different worlds, carried out due to controlled decoherence, i.e. selection of certain components of the superposition. Time flows in this world. In general, it is dominated by a causal relationship.
At the human level of Consciousness, the possibility of self-awareness appears, the possibility of realizing the work of one's mind, perception systems, and controlling the flow of energies within the body. Hence, potentially, a person is free. However, in a person, as a rule, consciousness of the mind dominates, i.e. awareness of the world through ideas about it. Mind is a very high level of Consciousness compared to stone. But, at the same time, due to the conditioning of the mind by the environment, ideas about oneself, etc., there is also total unconsciousness, total zombification, total roboticity, which we have talked about more than once (on the website www.simoron.dax.ru it says about this in the article "Five Evenings"). Because of this, for the vast majority of representatives of the species homo sapiens, time passes, and the causal relationship dominates. But a person, since he is able to realize the work of his mind, perception systems and control energy flows, can potentially be at all levels of Consciousness, including the one where there is neither time, nor space, nor causal relationships.
Finally, the last and highest level of Consciousness is characterized by awareness of Consciousness itself. This awareness of oneself as unborn consciousness, i.e. consciousness in its pure form, prior to identification with the object.
A person is aware of the work of his mind and perception systems, their role in creating an illusory phenomenal world. He is able to consciously select certain components of the superposition, and is able not to select any components at all. He goes beyond this illusory world, goes beyond the mind and ego, goes to the Whole. Now he and the Whole are one and the same. The world is in you, and you are in it.
It cannot be understood, because there is nothing to understand, but it can be brought into life. Mystics speak of this state as total immersion in God. In this state there is no I, there is simply Consciousness, which has no boundaries, names and forms. This is the Consciousness of Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu. For you there is no more time, no more space, no more cause and effect. You are in eternity called here and now, in a state of unity between yourself and the world, all-encompassing understanding and joy. In this state, you have millions of possibilities how to act, but there is no question of choice. He is obvious. True, both a stone and a small child remain in eternity. But unlike a stone or a child, you are now fully aware of it. The last statement, however, is no longer true, because there is nothing to realize ... and no one. The mind of a Buddha does not exist because the Buddha himself does not exist! The man returned home. Now he is the living Truth and the living God. He is a cherry blossom, which is not yet .... He is Nobody. And he is everything.
Questions and answers
Andrei:- Mikhail, as far as I can imagine, many of the conclusions that were made are based on observations of elementary particles. To what extent can this be true for macroscopic bodies?
The theory of entangled states and the theory of decoherence are formulated not in terms of particles, but in terms of systems and subsystems containing any number of particles. The first experiments on quantum correlations in systems containing a macroscopic number of particles have now been carried out.
The transfer of the conclusions of these theories to all the systems around us, of course, is a hypothesis.
Tatyana:- Michael, for some reason it seems to me that divinity, or enlightenment, is possible, but not just like that - in return you have to pay a certain price. You have to get rid of pain, joy, happiness, grief, desires, fantasies…. It turns out that you will not have anything at all that is connected with feelings. And, by the way, there will be no thoughts with questions either - why, you already see and know everything. Why do I need this emptiness! It's not interesting. Interesting only when meaningful!
Tanya, watch who controls you now, where your question comes from! Emptiness to the average person sounds like emptiness. After all, the mind craves illusions, craves an illusory life, and perceives everything within the boundaries and ideas in which it lives. And the state of Enlightenment goes beyond any ideas. The mind will never contain it. An enlightened person lives everything that is possible in this world. He is present everywhere, even in anger and fear, blissful, wondering and rejoicing. He is by no means indifferent, insensitive or omniscient. Rather, on the contrary - he is cheerful, light, playful and very inquisitive. There is peace, joy, love and laughter in him - although outwardly it may look like anything. As for emptiness, there is emptiness in the state of Enlightenment, but this does not mean the absence of something. This is the void of the Tao. Emptiness for the Master is the absence of unfreedom, the absence of dependence, it is the state of an unoccupied and unconditioned consciousness. It is indistinguishable from fullness, but fullness without dependence. And further. Mind is not a state of life. Mind is a state of survival. The mind will never make you happy. Happiness is a state of presence in something, participation in something without dependence, it is a state of no-mind, i.e. possession of the mind without dependence and identification with it.
Elena:- Mikhail, do you aspire to achieve this highest state of Consciousness?
More likely no than yes. If you strive for it, you will never achieve it. Efforts here are more unnecessary than necessary. I just live like that, that's all.
Sergey:- Michael, is it possible to predict what awaits our world in the future. Will what is called "the end of the world"?
As a hypothesis describing the possible end of the world, we can consider the following scenario.
Now, when a person is more and more alienated from himself, from his life, his psyche is fragmented, its different parts, like a swan, a crayfish and a pike, drag a person in different directions. This means a growing conflict and tension between different parts of the psyche, and growth tension in the structure of "I".
It is known from physics that with a sufficient energy gradient virtual states become real, local, "classical".
At some threshold value of tension, a phase transition is possible, when images, desires, fears, archetypes of the collective unconscious, suppressed by consciousness, etc. materialize, and suppressed Fears, Horrors, Desires, Demons will become the same reality as the one that surrounds us now.
And in the ancient books, as you know, it was said that before the "end of the world" there would be many signs. Signs are a local materialization of "dream" images and other structures of the "subtle" world.
This is happening now (for example, the myrrh-streaming of icons), only on a not very noticeable scale (yet)
And when a global phase transition occurs, everyone will receive in real life what they really think about, will receive the materialization of those thoughts and images that are most energetically manifested in them.
The majority will receive the materialization of their passions (demons), which will satisfy them, up to complete disintegration. It will be painful for someone (materialization of fears, etc.), for someone it will be pleasant. For someone - a painful death, for someone - an easy and pleasant euthanasia.
Believers will receive according to their faith, some of them will see the "second coming", and some will be tempted by demons until the end of time. But even for those who saw the "second coming" and ended up in "paradise", this will only be a delay, a gain in time.
From the general considerations of quantum physics, one can expect that in the future all subsystems of the Universe will undergo a reverse transition from a local (classical) state to a purely quantum (entangled, non-local) state. In Vedanta, such a state of the Universe is called the period of the Great Pralaya, when there is nothing manifested, including space and time.
Only those who have realized their existence outside of material forms, and have formed a self-aware structure capable of being such even in a pure entangled state, will be really saved.
Apparently, they are destined to become one of the Gods, because such a structure is, in principle, capable of creating its own space of events, its own classical reality.
So, the chain is simple: acceleration of technological development -> growth of alienation from life and oneself, growth of tension in the structure of the "I" -> phase transition (materialization of "subtle" worlds), traditionally called the end of the world.
Alexander:- In esoteric and psychological literature, I often come across the term "awareness", it often sounded today. I understand it as observation, witnessing. This is true?
Almost. Only this is not only an observation, it is a DIFFERENCE, that is, the selection of individual components of something. In relation to us, this is the vision of our reactions, the vision of the components of experience, the components of perception, this is an opportunity to EXPLORE it. It is simply an understanding of what is happening around you and with you right now. It is happening, happening with your participation, and not "happening" to you. To be aware, you need to be attentive to everything that happens to you. For example, if you were insulted - to see what muscles and where they tense up, how breathing changes, what thoughts (such as - "this is not possible with me. And with other people - too. I have to educate you. Now you will get it!") narrows our mind. Having examined our experience, having seen it, we lose dependence on the object that caused it. We find ourselves in that unchanging center, which is not affected by any peripheral movement - which goes on without changing our state in the least.
There are many small subtleties in mastering observation, witnessing. Often a person says "I observe", but in fact he does not observe, but fixes some events or his states. This happens when a person purposefully does something, and sees a discrepancy between what is happening and what he wants. These inconsistencies are fixed and felt as preoccupation or anxiety. Please observe your breathing - I will be silent for a minute. Who noticed that his breathing changed? (most raise their hands). That's it. If the breath changed, it was a fixation, not an observation. For observation, witnessing, a high degree of disinterest in what is happening is necessary. Keep in mind that we have a habit - if we look at something, we immediately want to do something with it. You don't have to do anything, you just have to watch. Whatever happens, it does not concern the observer himself. It is from here that the knowledge of the situation is born inside.
There is another typical mistake in mastering witnessing. Witnessing does not involve detachment from one's own thoughts and emotions, as many people think. It involves any degree of involvement - completely at your discretion. This is exactly the state when absolute peace and the strongest emotions and experiences are in a state of superposition, existing at the same time and manifesting outwardly consciously, entirely at your discretion.
The ability to realize is an immanent property of all that exists, which is manifested, as already mentioned, at different levels. We are aware of the body, and the mind, and all the senses.
An ordinary person is only partially aware of himself, he is aware of what is happening thanks to the mind. The mind is only a part of consciousness, consciousness at the level of the mind. It is this part that decides what is good for us and what is bad, what to do and what not, and tries to control our behavior. But control in situations that require spontaneous action is impossible - although in situations that require nothing but chatter, gestures or a known algorithm of behavior, the mind copes with this task quite well. We can decide not to be angry, not anxious, not bored, not arguing with our mother-in-law, to be happy and complacent, relaxed and natural, not to smoke, to do exercises in the morning, and what? There is no power behind these decisions. The mind is the most powerless part of our consciousness. The mind can decide, but it does not have the power to put its decisions into practice. Almost all power and energy is in the subconscious, and the real implementation of all our actions is carried out precisely by the subconscious. This part has energy - but it is completely blind, it cannot decide. We consciously make certain decisions, but our unconscious executes them.
The mind tries to control the work of the subconscious, but complete control is impossible: the part (consciousness of the mind) cannot control the whole. And there is a conflict between our conscious and unconscious part, a conflict between thought and desire, thought and action. You can try to increase control over your desires and actions, but the more you succeed in this, the more artificial, schizophrenic, false and hypocritical you will become. You will seek and try on all sorts of roles and masks - and in the end you will lose your true being.
There are two ways to get out of this conflict. The first is to remove the control of the mind, and turn into a whole, but unconscious animal. Ways here immeasurable, and alcohol - only one of them. The second is to make the unconscious conscious, to become aware of it. And understand the workings of the mind. It is necessary to see and experience internal conflicts, to realize them - this will open the way for the conscious, the conscious at a much higher level than the consciousness of the mind. It was this path that Buddha and Christ, Lao Tzu and Bodhidharma traveled... The ability to reprogram the mind in such a way as to reduce conflicts between it and the unconscious (this is done by many areas of psychology, NLP, etc.) is only a delay, sweeping garbage under the carpet , because a person still remains unconscious in relation to these modified programs.
In the process of awareness, the unconscious dissolves into the conscious; in this, our conditioning by the external and the automatism of reactions disappear. We become more free and whole, we have less and less conflicts inside. In the limit, we are aware of ourselves not as a body, not as a mind, not as a set of ideas about ourselves, but as a Consciousness that was, is and will always be.
By the way, the charm of danger and risk lies in the fact that there is no time for reflection, we are forced to act immediately, spontaneously. In these moments, instead of mental chewing gum, there is awareness of oneself in spontaneity, outside the mind ... and then we remember these moments for a long time as moments of true life. Real life is life in spontaneity, beyond the control of ideas that have become a barrier between us and the world. And in our classes, as you have noticed, we often require such exercises to be performed so that the evaluating mind does not have time to turn on, fix something, become a barrier. Therefore, many Simoron techniques, such as acting out marks or working in reflections, give an almost instantaneous effect due to the removal of fixations of the mind, coming from the idea of the significance of certain objects. And when we do not cling to something external, everything that is NOT YOU dies, and we gradually fall into the center of Consciousness. This is how a gradual movement from unconsciousness to awareness is ensured - if, of course, this is used correctly. And correctly - it means simply to explore, to be aware of oneself, not trying to get anything, to tie something to some expectations, causes and effects.
I also want to say, just in case, that we do not at all call for the abandonment of the mind or anything else. It is about refusing to be attached and conditioned by them, from being identified with them.
After all, the question is simple - either you own your ideas, or they own you. Either you have knowledge, or knowledge has you. Either you eat the chicken or the chicken eats you :)
Dmitry:- Mikhail, doesn’t it happen that the quantum consideration is valid for small scales, but for ordinary, familiar to us, it turns into a classical one, and there are no features that you spoke about in the world familiar to us?
Indeed, under certain conditions, namely, the smallness of the change in potential energy on the de Broglie wavelength scales, the KM equations go over into the equations of classical physics, and the equations of motion of macroscopic bodies arise as the passage to the limit of the KM equations (the so-called Ehrenfest theorem).
This does not mean at all that there are no quantum properties in the "world familiar to us". For example, the radiation spectrum of the Sun, like a light bulb, like a hydrogen atom, is described exclusively by quantum formulas, and the most ordinary magnet owes its existence solely to quantum effects.
But that's not the point. The main quantum dualism is not the "wave-particle" dualism, as was believed until the 80s of the last century, but the "locality-non-locality" dualism. This dualism exists for all bodies, all particles. Now I, as a local object, stand in front of you. And as a quantum-non-local structure I am present "everywhere and always."
Valentine:- Mikhail, does the Universe exist without an observer?
Without an observer, the world both exists and does not exist. Any closed system is in a pure entangled state, and there are no local, classical objects in it. Local (classical) objects exist only for subsystems (observers) exchanging energy with each other.
We can always (formally) select some object (subsystem) in the world, and this object + the rest of the Universe form a closed system in which the coherence of states is preserved. This object is an observer, it is capable of separating the components of the state vector in the rest of the Universe when interacting. There are an infinite number of these observers, but they, in a sense, do not exist - there is only an integral system, and observers exist only for each other. Each observer creates his own world, but other observers also take part in this. So the Universe exists thanks to you and me!
What we have been talking about today is in many respects games of the mind, games of the mind at the level of concepts of quantum physics, many of which, however, have been experimentally confirmed. Sometimes these mind games are useful, some even get paid money for them.
And they are not games from the mind of the testimony of mystics. The Buddha viewed millions of illusory worlds. Mystics agree that only the One exists. This was formulated many thousands of years ago in the famous saying "This is THAT". The One is called differently, most often, in recent times, it is called Consciousness. We call it the FES of the Universe as a whole.
Valentine:- Mikhail, why do all people perceive the world in approximately the same way, if the world of each observer, as you say, is subjective?
Good question. Since the organs of perception and accumulation of information about the world around people are generally quite similar, and usually deal with objects with a high level of classical correlations, the worlds in which people find themselves are also quite similar. However, the reason for the illusion of "objectivity" of the world is not only this. It is in those fixations of our attention that are socially conditioned, it is in the general system of concepts that humanity uses, and in the constant internal dialogue of almost each of us. These reasons fix the assemblage point of almost all people in a very close position, preventing most people from looking at the world from other parts of the spectrum of consciousness.
Many have heard about the possibility of moving the assemblage point, thus collecting the most diverse worlds around them. I read similar descriptions by Castaneda and Marez, and as an experiment myself, more than once fell into the bands of animal perception. The world looks very different there. Also, the data of ethnopsychology and psychology of primitive tribes indicate that even individuals of the species homo sapiens perceive the world very differently.
Alexander:- Mikhail, is it possible to say what physical death is, and what awaits us after it?
I'll try (smiles).
As we have already said, any object is a set of interacting quantum fields that differ in the energy of interaction with the environment. That part of the fields that most strongly interacts with the environment is characterized by a low degree of entanglement, and passes into a manifested, local, classical state. And that part of the fields that interacts weakly with the environment is characterized by a high degree of entanglement and remains in a non-local, superpositional state.
Between these levels of being there can be all intermediate links that differ in the energy of interaction - and, therefore, in the degree of entanglement and non-locality. For each "link" from this chain, there is its own space of events, with its own metric of space and time, where its Existence is realized.
Let me remind you that in "this world" we carry out measurements (observations) not over all quantum fields, but only over those that are characterized by a sufficiently strong energy of interaction with other fields, i.e. with electromagnetic radiation, atoms, molecules, etc. As a result of these measurements, we, for example, see the trunk of a tree, touch it, smell it, and so on.
According to the school habit, many believe that physical fields arise as a result of the interaction of "dense" matter - electrons, atoms, nuclei, etc. That is, the substance is primary, and the field is secondary. From here, it would seem, we can conclude that with the destruction of the material form, ALL fields corresponding to this object disappear. This is not so, matter and elementary particles can be described in exactly the same way as excitations of quantum fields (the so-called second quantization representation). These two methods of description are completely equal, sometimes it is more convenient to use the first method, sometimes the second. By and large, any material structure, including elementary particles, arises as a result of decoherence by the environment of a quantum non-local state.
That is, when any object "dies" in the material world, we can only say that the characteristics of the "dense" part of the quantum fields of this object change significantly. Quantum fields characterized by a lower interaction energy remain outside our instrumental observation.
From the general considerations of quantum information theory and the theory of decoherence, we can say that these fields can store a significant part of the information about the life of an object, and they can be stored immeasurably longer than its material form, because they interact much weaker with the environment. Measurements using the Kirlian effect confirm this - for example, if you cut off a part of a live sheet, then the Kirlian image will show the whole sheet for a long time.
Of course, not all information is recorded in these fields, but some averaging of it. Processes proceeding at a high rate, which is inherent in more "dense" fields due to the greater energy of interaction, cannot leave a trace in "thinner" layers. This is similar to how a movie camera filming a fire records only information about the shape, color and brightness of the fire, but is not able to record the coordinates and momenta of all the molecules and atoms involved in the process.
Without a doubt, these "subtle" fields can, albeit weakly, interact with what we call the material world, i.e. with "dense" fields characterized by a high interaction energy and a high level of classical correlations. And they are able both to transfer the accumulated information back to him, and to interact with other formations, including more "subtle" ones, giving something to them and receiving something from them.
If these fields also "die" as a result of interaction with their environment, there will be even more weakly interacting fields, in which part of the information from these fields will be recorded. They will be even more non-local. And they will also interact - both with fields that are "rougher" in relation to them, and with fields that are more "subtle", and similar to themselves.
There is a limit in the chain of such fields, which mystics call the One and the Unborn, and we call the pure entangled state of the Universe as a whole.
That is, we have two poles: on the one hand, a completely entangled state that exists outside of time and space, quantum-correlated with everything that exists and is able to manifest itself in a classical state in an arbitrary place and time (in the terminology of mystics - Nirvana, God, Consciousness). On the other hand, there are strongly interacting fields with a high level of classical correlations and cause-and-effect relationships (Devil, Separation, Samsara), manifested locally, in a certain place and time. The evolution of "samsaric" structures is largely predetermined by the history of their emergence, this determinism in the East is often called Karma.
In any case, any material or field structure on one side, through quantum correlations and more non-local neighbors, is turned towards the connection of everything with everything (God, a fully quantum-correlated state), and on the other side, through classical correlations, is turned towards separation, the world determinism, isolation and struggle. These forces are absolutely balanced everywhere and everywhere, and everyone is free to choose which way to go.
So, in a sense, we can say that we were never born and will never die :) Only our part, which corresponds to the fastest and most energetically saturated part of being, is born and dies.
Only a person can realize this. Each layer of quantum fields has its own level of consciousness (that is, the ability to distinguish and record information about the environment in oneself), but only a person has the possibility of direct contact with all of them. And the opportunity to see your true being, being outside the birth and death of the body, while still alive.
However, Alexander's question, as I understand it, was asked more specifically - what will we see and feel after death. This is a big topic, you can’t cover it in a nutshell. Those interested can refer to descriptions by Emmanuel Swedenborg, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Robert Monroe. Just keep in mind that a lot is determined by the cultural environment in which a person lived, and the corresponding stereotypes. From these positions, the descriptions of Robert Monroe made by him in "Distant Journeys" are closest to us. Although the most accurate description, in my opinion, - however, in relation to the cultural environment of medieval Tibet - is given in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
I will add that the layer of posthumous existence in which we find ourselves will be "chosen" by the bindings of our consciousness, and the energy of these bindings. We will be like a ball placed in a salt solution of variable density, and the ball will hang where its density (=binding energy) coincides with the density of the solution. And everyone will see his own there, already depending on mental and other stereotypes.
Everyone, in a sense, will go to "paradise" and get what they dreamed about - only for someone it will be a joy, and for someone a torment. For example, in the lower layers (something like purgatory), a person will see the object of his desire, but he will not be able to be satisfied, because there is no body, and saturation does not occur. And this torment will continue until the bindings are lived out and the person refuses them.
However, everyone can figure out for himself which bindings he has the strongest, and where he will end up. I advise you to live and give up these attachments "even in this life" - there, in the afterlife, everything happens much more slowly. Just in case, I emphasize that I do not mean the rejection of pleasures at all, I mean the rejection of attachment to them and being conditioned by them. Only when a person becomes a slave to his pleasures can they become destructive.
We got the Ace of Trumps, that we were born as people, and how to dispose of it is exclusively up to everyone.
Marina:- And what do we encounter in dreams? Are prophetic dreams also a manifestation of the non-locality of the "subtle worlds"?
In dreams, we encounter the level of reality at which our consciousness is active during sleep. Let me remind you that in "ordinary" reality we are dealing with strongly interacting structures characterized by a low degree of entanglement and a high level of classical correlations, which explains the similarity of the reality observed by all in the "daytime" consciousness. In sleep, consciousness shifts to the perception of structures that are weaker in terms of interaction energy, and here the proportion of superpositional, non-local states is already large. Therefore, there is no general reality here, but only a large set of potentially possible "pictures" that we can see. A similar situation takes place in the afterlife, but there consciousness is free from the influence of processes associated with the physiological activity of the body.
The set of “pictures” seen in a dream is determined both by the energy density of the level of reality at which our consciousness is active, and by the selective activity of the consciousness itself, which “extracts” certain plots in the process of interaction with the environment. Usually this choice happens unconsciously, but during lucid dreams you can "wake up in a dream" (knowing that you are dreaming), and then consciousness takes control of its activities. In this case, there are amazing opportunities to choose the reality in which you are. You can create certain worlds around you, freely travel around them, meet with anyone you want, look for unusual adventures. To do this, you need not so much: "wake up" in a dream, and understand that you can do it. Those who have experienced it know how impressive it is. I must have walked for two weeks under the impression after my first lucid dream.
Fans of lucid dreaming and astral travel often even believe that they are traveling through various "objectively existing" worlds, and draw all sorts of maps and diagrams. This is almost the case when traveling in the most "dense" layers of dream space, where the degree of entanglement is low, the level of classical correlations is high, and the realities seen by different observers are "similar". However, in less dense layers, the maps are almost useless, because the dream and afterlife worlds are essentially your mental projections, and arise in the course of controlled or uncontrolled decoherence of the superpositional state of the environment in the course of interaction with your consciousness, as a self-aware structure. Of course, the more "thin" layers of reality you are on, the more opportunities you have for creativity in terms of creating the surrounding reality. As they say, the farther into the forest, the thicker the partisans :)
In dreams, both lucid and non-lucid, we are dealing with structures characterized by a greater degree of confusion than in “daytime” life. Due to their non-locality, they can contain information about both past and future events. If we are talking about "mastering the technology" of prophetic dreams, then it is worth noting that it is necessary to be able not only to get to the level of reality where information about these events "already exists", but also to rewrite this information on more "dense" layers of consciousness, on which awakening occurs. Any of us is faced with tuning into future events and planning them in the course of dreams every night, but few remember this in the morning. As well as the 7-8 dreams he had.
And I want to warn you. Dreams should not be "managed". At some point it seems simple to manage them, only this is the simplicity of the sailor Zheleznyak, who declares to the Constituent Assembly: "The guard is tired." Day - day, night - night. The best thing, in my opinion, is to consciously and completely surrender to the element of sleep, knowing that you are dreaming.
Marina:- Mikhail, and if you had a prophetic dream, is it possible to avoid some events from it?
Certainly. To do this, you just need to dissolve your roboticity - for example, by consciously losing this event or your fears in reality - and move to another line of events. It is desirable to lose not formally, but to let the Flow through you.
I'll explain a little. The flow is when "Ostap suffered", and you play not from yourself, not from your ideas about the situation, but from some impersonal force that has awakened in you, while experiencing the joy of realization and the richness of life. Only being in the Stream truly transforms a person and the scenario of his life. It is even possible not to win back a dream - even a short-term entry into any Stream that is different from the usual one can transform the scenario of life.
Alexander:- Michael, and egregors, demons, etc. - all this can also be considered as objects of the subtle world that we create with our thoughts?
Yes, absolutely right. The most powerful egregors are created on the subtle plane of reality, when many people think in one direction, and at the same time, thoughts have powerful emotional energy support. Such egregors are capable of a fairly autonomous existence and can have a noticeable impact on the "dense" world. Each of us interacts with many egregores of different levels, only rarely does this interaction occur consciously. Keep in mind - any egregor needs people who are not indifferent to him, and not just supporters, to survive. Fighting with egregor, you only strengthen it with your energy. If you notice that you have fallen under the influence of one of them and want to leave, just leave, smiling and not relating to him in any way.
As for the "demons", I have never come across them as a manifestation of a well-organized evil will. Moreover, organized "evil will" seems to me impossible on the subtle plane. Rather, demons are clots of our vital energy, it is a continuation of our passions on a subtle plane, especially passions that are aimed at one thing. In some cases, such "demons" have a fairly autonomous existence.
Also, fairly primitive structures of the subtle plane can also be called "demons", feeding on the streams of "rough" energies emanating from us, such as anger, jealousy, hatred, obsession with this or that idea, fear, etc., and even sometimes able to provoke these feelings, stimulate your food source. They perform a positive function, "eating" excess energy potentials - although, of course, they can bring some discomfort to their "breadwinner". Such excess potentials usually arise due to conflicts between different parts of our psyche, when one desire comes into conflict with another, or under various dramatic circumstances. Our feelings in general are an important source of energy on the subtle planes of existence, and we are somewhat reminiscent of sheep that are bred to have enough wool. However, each of us has the opportunity to seek a passage to freedom and pass through it.
Felix:- Mikhail, is Everett's hypothesis of multiple universes somehow connected with the concept you were talking about?
It is more correct to speak about the many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, and not about the hypothesis of multiple universes. According to Everett's concept, each of the superposition components describes the whole world, and none of the components has an advantage over the other.
From a mathematical point of view, this is just another formulation of quantum mechanics. If the question is usually asked with what probability this or that event will occur, then in Everett's interpretation the question is put a little differently: with what probability does the observer fall into this or that world? In this interpretation, ALL possible outcomes of any event are realized, while in the traditional interpretation there is only one, and we can only predict the probability of this outcome. There is no answer to the question of how the selection of possible alternatives occurs (a radioactive nucleus will decay in an hour or a second) in the traditional interpretation of quantum mechanics, it is given by the theory of decoherence: in the total system containing both the measuring device and the observer, all possible alternatives of measurement are reflected , and only further interaction of the observer with the environment selects (for him) one of them. In Everett's interpretation, the answer is different: all outcomes are realized, only in different worlds. And the number of worlds in which this or that event occurred is proportional to its probability.
The views discussed today can also be translated into the language of the many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics. For example, the creation of this or that "subjective" world would simply mean getting into one of the innumerable Everettian worlds.
In my opinion, the prospects of Everett's concept in its current form are limited. It is classical in the sense that it replaces the nonlocality of the quantum world with the totality of classical worlds. The only advantage of this is that it facilitates the perception of some of the ideas of quantum mechanics.
Guest:Michael, what's the point of all this? Where is Buddha? Has he melted into each of us?
Prince Gautama and Jesus of Nazareth are long dead - but Buddha and Christ never left us. The first names are the names of individuals, the second ones are synonyms of Consciousness.
The whole gives rise to divided structures, play and contradictions between them.
And then these structures are returned to the Whole, and it turns out to be "different".
In quantum mechanics, there is a statement that complete knowledge of the state of the entire system is not enough for the same complete knowledge of the state of its parts. So, passing through the games, passing through separation and returning to Wholeness, we bring Knowledge as a gift to it.
Buddha is the one who returned. Now he is in us, we are in him.
This is just one of the possible answers.
Guest:- I agree. It turns out that there is a system of which we are a part, we study it, become whole, after that - again division and play. This is the ultimate self-knowledge. Man - Buddha - man - Buddha - ....
The question is:in terms of the system, or rather the system above it, what purpose could it have?
I'll quote my favorite Ram Dass, Grain to the Mill. I can't answer better :)
Why did all this start? Why did we leave God in the first place?”
This question is the last question, and the Buddha's answer to this question was: "That is none of your business." And this is not a joking answer. He states that your subject-object mind cannot know the answer to this question. This is the answer that you can be and not know, because in order to know it, you had to become what it came from, but you are not because you are asking this question. This is one of those absurdities that you fall for. There are a dozen different answers, and they are all equally real and unreal. You can say that God took form in order to know himself, that he had to separate himself in order to see himself. Or you can say that since there is no time on another level of reality, nothing happened. This is also a real answer. All of these are valid answers at one level or another of reality. Every level has its own answer to this question, but truly, this question is unknowable until you have gone beyond your levels, because any answer you give simply feeds your mind from one level or another, and they are all only relative. are true. Now it all sounds like it's the wrong question. You keep asking but you don't get an answer. I mean - not only from me, you just won't get an answer.
Quantum physics has radically changed our understanding of the world.
According to quantum physics we can influence the process of rejuvenation with our consciousness!
Why is this possible?
From the point of view of quantum physics, our reality is a source of pure potentiality, a source of raw materials from which our body, our mind and the entire Universe are composed. The universal energy and information field never stops changing and transforming, turning into something new every second.
In the 20th century, during physics experiments with subatomic particles and photons, it was discovered that the fact of observing the course of an experiment changes its results. What we focus our attention on can react.
This fact is confirmed by a classic experiment that surprises scientists every time. It was repeated in many laboratories and the same results were always obtained.
For this experiment, a light source and a screen with two slits were prepared. As a light source, a device was used that "shot" photons in the form of single pulses.
The course of the experiment was monitored. After the end of the experiment, two vertical stripes were visible on the photographic paper that was behind the slits. These are traces of photons that passed through the slits and illuminated the photographic paper.
When this experiment was repeated in automatic mode, without human intervention, the picture on photographic paper changed:
If the researcher turned on the device and left, and after 20 minutes the photo paper developed, then not two, butlots of vertical stripes. These were traces of radiation. Butthe drawing was different.
The structure of the trace on photographic paper resembled a trace from a wave that passed through the slits.
Light can exhibit the properties of a wave or a particle.
As a result of the simple fact of observation, the wave disappears and turns into particles. If a not to observe, then a trace of the wave appears on the photographic paper. This physical phenomenon is called"The Observer Effect".
The same results were obtained with other particles. The experiments were repeated many times, but each time they surprised scientists. Thus it was found thatat the quantum level, matter responds to human attention. This was new in physics.
According to the concepts of modern physics, everything materializes from the void. This emptiness is called "quantum field", "zero field" or "matrix". The void contains energy that can turn into matter.
Matter consists of concentrated energy - this is the fundamental discovery of physics of the 20th century.
There are no solid parts in an atom. Objects are made up of atoms. But why are objects solid? A finger attached to a brick wall does not pass through it. Why? This is due to differences in the frequency characteristics of atoms and electric charges. Each type of atom has its own vibration frequency. This determines the differences in the physical properties of objects. If it were possible to change the vibration frequency of the atoms that make up the body, then a person could pass through the walls. But the vibrational frequencies of the atoms of the hand and the atoms of the wall are close. Therefore, the finger rests on the wall.
For any kind of interaction, frequency resonance is necessary.
This is easy to understand with a simple example. If you illuminate a stone wall with the light of a flashlight, the light will be blocked by the wall. However, mobile phone radiation will easily pass through this wall. It's all about the frequency differences between the radiation of a flashlight and a mobile phone. While you are reading this text, streams of very different radiation are passing through your body. These are cosmic radiation, radio signals, signals from millions of mobile phones, radiation coming from the earth, solar radiation, radiation created by household appliances, etc.
You don't feel it because you can only see light and hear only sound. Even if you sit in silence with your eyes closed, millions of telephone conversations, pictures of television news and radio messages go through your head. You do not perceive this, because there is no resonance of frequencies between the atoms that make up your body and radiation. But if there is a resonance, then you immediately react. For example, when you remember a loved one who just thought of you. Everything in the universe obeys the laws of resonance.
The world is made up of energy and information. Einstein, after much thought about the structure of the world, said: " The only reality in the universe is the field.". Just as waves are a creation of the sea, all manifestations of matter: organisms, planets, stars, galaxies are creations of the field.
The question arises, how is matter created from the field? What force controls the motion of matter?
Research scientists led them to an unexpected answer. The founder of quantum physics, Max Planck, said the following during his Nobel Prize speech:
« Everything in the universe is created and exists due to force. We must assume that behind this force is the conscious mind, which is the matrix of all matter «.
MATTER IS GOVERNED BY CONSCIOUSNESS
At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, new ideas appeared in theoretical physics that make it possible to explain the strange properties of elementary particles. Particles can appear from the void and suddenly disappear. Scientists admit the possibility of the existence of parallel universes. Perhaps particles move from one layer of the universe to another. Celebrities such as Stephen Hawking, Edward Witten, Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind are involved in the development of these ideas.
According to the concepts of theoretical physics, the Universe resembles a nesting doll, which consists of many nesting dolls - layers. These are variants of universes - parallel worlds. The ones next to each other are very similar. But the further the layers are from each other, the less similarities between them. Theoretically, in order to move from one universe to another, spaceships are not required. All possible options are located one inside the other. For the first time these ideas were expressed by scientists in the middle of the 20th century. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, they received mathematical confirmation. Today, such information is easily accepted by the public. However, a couple of hundred years ago, for such statements they could be burned at the stake or declared crazy.
Everything arises from emptiness. Everything is in motion. Items are an illusion. Matter is made up of energy. Everything is created by thought.
The universe responds to thought.
Energy follows attention.
What you focus your attention on begins to change.
These thoughts in various formulations are given in the Bible, ancient Gnostic texts, in mystical teachings that originated in India and South America. The builders of the ancient pyramids guessed this. This knowledge is the key to the new technologies that are being used today to manipulate reality. our physical body Punder the influence of our mind capable of making a quantum leap from one biological age to another without going through all the intermediate ages.
A person has amazing resources for rejuvenation!!!
Nobody understands what consciousness is and how it works. Nobody understands and Could this be more than just a coincidence? "I can't identify the real problem, so I suspect there isn't a real problem, but I'm not sure there isn't any real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the puzzling paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Today, physicists use this theory to describe the smallest objects in the universe. But he could say the same about the intricate problem of consciousness.
Some scientists think that we already understand consciousness or that it is just an illusion. But to many others, it seems that we have not even come close to the essence of consciousness at all.
The perennial conundrum called “consciousness” has even led some scientists to try to explain it with quantum physics. But their diligence was met with a fair amount of skepticism, and this is not surprising: it seems unreasonable to explain one riddle with the help of another.
But such ideas are never absurd and.
On the one hand, to the great displeasure of physicists, the mind initially refuses to comprehend early quantum theory. What's more, quantum computers are predicted to be capable of things that normal computers can't. It reminds us that our brains are still capable of feats beyond the reach of artificial intelligence. "Quantum consciousness" is widely derided as mystical nonsense, but no one has been able to definitively dispel it.
is the best theory we have that can describe the world at the level of atoms and subatomic particles. Perhaps the most famous of her mysteries is the fact that the outcome of a quantum experiment can change depending on whether we choose to measure the properties of the particles involved or not.
When the pioneers of quantum theory first discovered this "observer effect", they were alarmed in earnest. It seemed to undermine the assumption at the heart of all science: that somewhere out there exists an objective world independent of us. If the world really does behave depending on how - or if - we look at it, what would "reality" actually mean?
Some scientists have been forced to conclude that objectivity is an illusion and that consciousness must play an active role in quantum theory. Others simply did not see any common sense in it. For example, Albert Einstein was annoyed: does the moon exist only when you look at it?
Today, some physicists suspect that it is not that consciousness affects quantum mechanics ... but that it appeared at all, thanks to it. They think we may need quantum theory to understand how the brain works at all. Could it be that just as quantum objects can be in two places at the same time, a quantum brain can have two mutually exclusive things in mind at the same time?
These ideas are controversial. It may turn out that quantum physics has nothing to do with the work of consciousness. But at least they demonstrate that strange quantum theory makes us think about strange things.
The best way for quantum mechanics to penetrate into human consciousness is through the double slit experiment. Imagine a beam of light that hits a screen with two closely spaced parallel slits. Part of the light passes through the slits and falls on another screen.
You can think of light as a wave. When waves pass through two slits, as in the experiment, they collide - interfere - with each other. If their peaks match, they reinforce each other, resulting in a series of black-and-white streaks of light on a second black screen.
This experiment was used to show the wave nature of light for more than 200 years, until the advent of quantum theory. Then the double slit experiment was carried out with quantum particles - electrons. These are tiny charged particles, the components of an atom. In some strange way, these particles can behave like waves. That is, they undergo diffraction when a stream of particles passes through two slits, producing an interference pattern.
Now suppose that quantum particles pass through the slits one by one and their arrival on the screen will also be observed step by step. Now there is nothing obvious that would cause the particle to interfere in its path. But the pattern of particle impact will still show interference fringes.
Everything indicates that each particle simultaneously passes through both slits and interferes with itself. This combination of the two paths is known as the state of superposition.
But here's what's weird.
If we place the detector in or behind one of the slits, we could find out whether particles pass through it or not. But in this case, the interference disappears. The simple fact of observing the particle's path - even if that observation should not interfere with the particle's motion - changes the result.
The physicist Pascual Jordan, who worked with quantum guru Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in the 1920s, put it this way: “Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they determine it… We force the quantum particle to choose a certain position.” In other words, Jordan says that "we ourselves produce the measurements."
If so, objective reality can simply be thrown out the window.
But the oddities don't end there.
If nature changes its behavior depending on whether we look or not, we might try to cheat it. To do this, we could measure which path the particle took when passing through the double slit, but only after it had passed through it. By that time, she should already have "decided" whether to go through one path or through both.
The American physicist John Wheeler proposed such an experiment in the 1970s, and in the next ten years the “delayed choice” experiment was carried out. It uses clever methods to measure the paths of quantum particles (usually light particles - photons) after they choose one path or a superposition of two.
It turned out that, as Bohr predicted, it makes no difference whether we delay measurements or not. As long as we measure the path of the photon to its hit and registration in the detector, there is no interference. It seems that nature "knows" not only when we peep, but also when we plan to peep.
Eugene Wigner
Whenever we discover the path of a quantum particle in these experiments, its cloud of possible paths "shrinks" into a single, well-defined state. Moreover, the delay experiment suggests that the very act of observing, without any physical intervention caused by the measurement, can cause collapse. Does this mean that true collapse occurs only when the measurement result reaches our consciousness?
This possibility was proposed in the 1930s by the Hungarian physicist Eugene Wigner. “It follows from this that the quantum description of objects is influenced by the impressions entering my consciousness,” he wrote. "Solipsism can be logically consistent with quantum mechanics."
Wheeler was even amused by the idea that having living beings able to "observe" had transformed what had previously been many possible quantum pasts into one concrete story. In this sense, says Wheeler, we become participants in the evolution of the universe from the very beginning. We live in a "participatory universe," he says.
Physicists still can't decide on the best interpretation of these quantum experiments, and to some extent the right is given to you. But, one way or another, the implication is obvious: consciousness and quantum mechanics are somehow connected.
Beginning in the 1980s, English physicist Roger Penrose suggested that this connection could work in a different direction. He said that whether consciousness affects quantum mechanics or not, perhaps quantum mechanics is involved in consciousness.
Physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose
And Penrose also asked: what if there are molecular structures in our brain that can change their state in response to a single quantum event? Can these structures take on a state of superposition, like the particles in the double slit experiment? Could these quantum superpositions then show up in the way neurons communicate via electrical signals?
Could it be, said Penrose, that our ability to maintain seemingly incompatible mental states is not a perceptual quirk, but a real quantum effect?
After all, the human brain seems to be able to process cognitive processes that are still far beyond the capabilities of digital computers. We may even be able to perform computational tasks that cannot be performed on ordinary computers using classical digital logic.
Penrose first suggested that quantum effects are present in the human mind in his 1989 book The Emperor's New Mind. His main idea was "an orchestrated objective reduction". Objective reduction, according to Penrose, means that the collapse of quantum interference and superposition is a real physical process, like a bursting bubble.
Orchestrated objective reduction relies on Penrose's assumption that gravity, which affects everyday objects, chairs or planets, does not exhibit quantum effects. Penrose believes that quantum superposition becomes impossible for objects larger than atoms, because their gravitational influence would then lead to the existence of two incompatible versions of space-time.
Penrose further developed this idea with the American physician Stuart Hameroff. In his book Shadows of the Mind (1994), he suggested that the structures involved in this quantum cognition could be protein filaments - microtubules. They are found in most of our cells, including brain neurons. Penrose and Hameroff argued that during the process of oscillation, microtubules can take on a state of quantum superposition.
But there is nothing to support that this is even possible.
Experiments proposed in 2013 were supposed to support the idea of quantum superpositions in microtubules, but in fact, these studies did not mention quantum effects. In addition, most researchers believe that the idea of orchestrated objective reductions was debunked by a study published in 2000. Physicist Max Tegmark has calculated that the quantum superpositions of molecules involved in neural signals cannot survive for even the instant it takes to transmit a signal.
Quantum effects, including superposition, are very fragile and are destroyed in a process called decoherence. This process is due to the interactions of a quantum object with its environment, since its "quantumness" leaks.
Decoherence was thought to be extremely fast in warm and humid environments such as living cells.
Nerve signals are electrical impulses caused by the passage of electrically charged atoms through the walls of nerve cells. If one of these atoms were in a superposition and then collided with a neuron, Tegmark showed that the superposition should decay in less than one billionth of a billionth of a second. It takes ten thousand trillion times longer for a neuron to fire a signal.
That is why ideas about quantum effects in the brain do not pass the test of skeptics.
But Penrose relentlessly insists on the OOR hypothesis. And despite Tegmark's prediction of superfast decoherence in cells, other scientists have found manifestations of quantum effects in living beings. Some argue that quantum mechanics is used by migratory birds that use magnetic navigation and green plants when they use sunlight to produce sugar through photosynthesis.
With all this, the idea that the brain can use quantum tricks refuses to go away forever. Because they found another argument in her favor.
Can phosphorus maintain a quantum state?
In a 2015 study, UC Santa Barbara physicist Matthew Fisher argued that the brain may contain molecules that can withstand more powerful quantum superpositions. In particular, he believes that the nuclei of phosphorus atoms can have such an ability. Phosphorus atoms are found everywhere in living cells. They often take the form of phosphate ions, in which one phosphorus atom combines with four oxygen atoms.
Such ions are the basic unit of energy in cells. Most of the cell's energy is stored in ATP molecules, which contain a sequence of three phosphate groups attached to an organic molecule. When one of the phosphates is cut off, energy is released that is used by the cell.
Cells have molecular machines for assembling phosphate ions into groups and breaking them down. Fischer proposed a scheme in which two phosphate ions could be placed in a certain kind of superposition: in an entangled state.
Phosphorus nuclei have a quantum property - spin - that makes them look like small magnets with poles pointing in certain directions. In an entangled state, the spin of one phosphorus nucleus depends on the other. In other words, entangled states are superposition states involving more than one quantum particle.
Fisher says the quantum mechanical behavior of these nuclear spins can resist decoherence. He agrees with Tegmark that the quantum vibrations Penrose and Hameroff talked about will be highly dependent on their environment and "decohere almost immediately." But the spins of nuclei do not interact so strongly with their surroundings.
And yet the quantum behavior of the spins of phosphorus nuclei must be "protected" from decoherence.
Quantum particles can have different spins
This can happen, Fischer says, if the phosphorus atoms are incorporated into larger objects called "Posner molecules." They are clusters of six phosphate ions combined with nine calcium ions. There are some indications that such molecules may be present in living cells, but so far they are not very convincing.
In Posner molecules, Fischer argues, phosphorus spins can resist decoherence for a day or so, even in living cells. Therefore, they can also affect the functioning of the brain.
The idea is that Posner molecules can be taken up by neurons. Once inside, the molecules will activate a signal to another neuron by disintegrating and releasing calcium ions. Because of the entanglement in Posner's molecules, two of these signals can become entangled in turn: in some way, it would be a quantum superposition of "thought." “If quantum processing with nuclear spins is actually present in the brain, it would be an extremely common phenomenon that happens all the time,” Fisher says.
The idea first occurred to him when he was thinking about mental illness.
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“My introduction to brain biochemistry began when I decided three to four years ago to investigate how and why the lithium ion has such a drastic effect in the treatment of mental disorders,” Fisher says.
Lithium drugs are widely used to treat bipolar disorder. They work, but no one really knows why.
“I wasn't looking for a quantum explanation,” Fisher says. But then he stumbled upon a paper that described how lithium preparations had different effects on the behavior of rats depending on which form - or "isotope" - of lithium was used.
At first, this puzzled scientists. From a chemical standpoint, different isotopes behave almost the same way, so if lithium worked like a conventional drug, the isotopes should have had the same effect.
Nerve cells are connected to synapses
But Fisher realized that the nuclei of atoms of different isotopes of lithium can have different spins. This quantum property could influence how lithium-based drugs work. For example, if lithium replaces calcium in the Posner molecules, the lithium spins can have an effect on the phosphorus atoms and prevent them from entangling.
If this is true, then it could explain why lithium can treat bipolar disorder.
At the moment, Fisher's suggestion is nothing more than an intriguing idea. But there are several ways to check it. For example, that the spins of phosphorus in Posner molecules can maintain quantum coherence for a long time. This is Fisher and plans to check further.
Yet he is wary of being associated with earlier notions of "quantum consciousness," which he considers speculative at best.
Consciousness is a deep mystery
Physicists don't like to be inside their own theories. Many of them hope that consciousness and the brain can be extracted from quantum theory, and maybe vice versa. But we do not know what consciousness is, not to mention the fact that we do not have a theory that describes it.
Moreover, occasionally there are loud exclamations that quantum mechanics will allow us to master telepathy and telekinesis (and although somewhere in the depth of concepts this may be so, people take everything too literally). Therefore, physicists are generally afraid to mention the words "quantum" and "consciousness" in the same sentence.
In 2016, Adrian Kent of the University of Cambridge in the UK, one of the most respected "quantum philosophers", proposed that consciousness can change the behavior of quantum systems in subtle but detectable ways. Kent is very careful in his statements. “There is no convincing reason to believe that quantum theory is a suitable theory from which to derive a theory of consciousness, or that the problems of quantum theory should somehow intersect with the problem of consciousness,” he admits.
But he adds that it is completely incomprehensible how one can derive a description of consciousness, based solely on pre-quantum physics, how to describe all its properties and features.
We don't understand how thoughts work
One particularly exciting question is how our conscious minds can experience unique sensations like the color red or the smell of roasted meat. Except for visually impaired people, we all know what red looks like, but we can't convey the feeling, and there's nothing in physics that can tell us what it's like.
Feelings like these are called qualia. We perceive them as unified properties of the external world, but in fact they are products of our consciousness - and this is difficult to explain. In 1995, philosopher David Chalmers called this the "hard problem" of consciousness.
"Any mental chain about the connection of consciousness with physics leads to serious problems," says Kent.
This prompted him to suggest that "we could make some progress in understanding the problem of the evolution of consciousness if we allowed (or even just assumed) that consciousness changes quantum probabilities."
In other words, the brain can actually influence the measurement results.
From this point of view, it does not define "what is real". But it can affect the likelihood that each of the possible realities imposed by quantum mechanics will be observed. Even quantum theory itself cannot predict this. And Kent thinks that we could look for such manifestations experimentally. Even boldly assesses the chances of finding them.
“I would guess with 15 percent certainty that consciousness causes deviations from quantum theory; and another 3 percent that we will experimentally confirm this in the next 50 years,” he says.
If this happens, the world will no longer be the same. And for that, it's worth exploring.