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Amit Goswami

Author of The Self-Aware Universe

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Amit Goswami, PHD, featured in the widely seen and lauded What the Bleep Do We Know!? boldly reinterprets the leading methods of alternative medicine-homeopathy, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and Ayurveda-as well as conventional medicine from the viewpoint of quantum physics in this new edition of show more his popular book. He demonstrates how these seemingly different models can be combined into a new system of integrative medicine. Goswami believes that at the heart of all illness and recovery is consciousness, and his integrative method offers physicians and patients a whole new way of applying healthcare with a greater potential for healing, a breakthrough practice that could be the basis for a major paradigm shift in medicine. show less
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Works by Amit Goswami

The Self-Aware Universe (1993) 391 copies
The Quantum Doctor (2004) 68 copies
Quantum Mechanics (1991) 25 copies
The Quantum Activist (2009) 6 copies

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fascinating presenting of the mind division into the seen "classical system" that is influenced by our world and the quantum system that is unseen but allows the possiblilty of both AND and OR at once and collapses when we interact with it.
 
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rduben | 4 other reviews | Sep 1, 2023 |
The author writes for New Scientist magazine and is a good presenter of scientific information to a non-specialist audience. In this book, he shows this same skill of explaining some surprising (and under-reported) experimental results from the sciences of physics, neurobiology, and experimental psychology. He does a little less good a job explaining philosophical arguments which start with the ancient Greeks up through modern times. For someone who has not previously studied these things, this might be a bit overwhelming. Much of this book is a review of science and philosophy so the author can build his groundwork in order to present his case. To add to his encyclopedic knowledge of western science and philosophy, the author is also knowledgeable about Buddhist and Hindu beliefs which I enjoyed learning about. The author's own scientific background is a quantum physics and his penchant for precision results in a rather dense text which many readers, particularly those who are unaccustomed to technical or philosophical texts, will find difficult to follow. As for the author's principle theory, that consciousness precedes reality (is the true ground of being). This conclusion is interesting, provocative, and has some agreement with other modern writers, but I find the evidence that he presents in this book, is less than convincing. The author suggests, as did Nikola Tesla, that at some point, for science to progress, it needs to unify its objective study of the external world with what now is considered by most as the subjective spiritual, internal world. The author points out that his theory accounts for all of the phenomena that current Western science ignores (e.g. Out-of-Body Experiences, Telepathy, Remote Viewing) because it does not fit their current paradigm. He points out, and I agree, that a truly "Objective" scientist cannot ignore data that does not fit his theory. When this has happened before in history, it necessitated a paradigm shift. For example, to understand atomic spectra required the development of quantum theory. The reader who will most enjoy this book is one who is interested in the nature of consciousness and especially in the concept promoted by Carl Jung of the universal unconsciousness. Put in another way, it has been said that the total number of consciousnesses in the universe is One! That every person's soul is a Spark of the Creator / Source / God. That we are eternal souls occupying a temporary body experiencing life so God can better know himself and enjoy his creation. If this does not sound crazy to you, I suggest you read the "Law of One" books, a channeled work from highly evolved E.T.'s who explain try to explain the nature of reality, as best they can, given the limits of human language and experience. Spoiler Alert, the Law of One is largely consistent with Amit Goswami's view as expressed in this book.… (more)
 
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RFBrost | 4 other reviews | Jul 8, 2020 |
Creating, Creativity Where Does It Come From? Muse? Conscious? Or is creativity a quantum leap of the unconscious?
“The unconscious processing is quantum processing—it takes place in the nonlocal realm of many possibilities at once,” discusses Amit Goswami, Phd., in his book Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative.
A retired professor from the theoretical physics department of the University or Oregon,
Goswami has pioneered a new paradigm known as “science within consciousness?” Many will know him from the film What the Bleep Do We Know? The four stages of creativity according to Goswam: Preparation, incubation, sudden insight, and manifestation. In this work he looks closely at each stage of development.
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DJadamson | Jan 4, 2018 |
I had the question going into this book of if we are required to create the material world, how to we come to be in order to create it. Goswami answers this with the delayed choice experiment to show that conscious selection can collapse a quantum possibility backwards in time. Physics allows for this in its laws. In classical physics time does not have a direction. [return]Then there is Wigner's friend. Who does the choosing? Goswami: "Observers choose from the vantage point of a cosmic nonlocal consciousness; that's how consistency is maintained. . . . . The universe is participatory via the downward causation of nonlocal consciousness." Participatory is interesting, but I don't see in this case what either Wigner or his friend had to do with the choice. They observed, but the choice was made for them. Goswami often invokes tangled hierarchy when it gets confusing. Which doesn't help.[return]While still attracted to Goswami's explanations of consciousness and its role in quantum physics, he goes to far in invoking god. At certain points he even says reality is too mind boggling for there not to be a god involved. Disappointing.… (more)
 
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