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The world of Isaac Newton is dead.
Everything that is visible, that is material,
that you can see in front of you is born of
an invisible non-material and more fundamental
reality. Until the last century, the physical
laws of the universe were explained very clearly
by Newton's laws of motion. They explained
almost everything we experienced through our
senses and created the scientific age that
propelled us beyond superstition into a progressive
science based era.
The precision with which we can calculate
the behavior of physical matter created everything
from the automobile, to the jet engine, to
the spacecrafts that allowed us to explore
outer space, land men on the moon, and analyze
the planet Mars. These scientific principles
have served us well in creating a technology
that we take for granted.
However a hundred years ago, scientists began
to discover new laws, best described through
the mathematics of quantum mechanics. According
to these laws, the source of the material
universe lies in the quantum vacuum or the
zero point energy field, which potentially
contains the raw materials of the total universe.
There's a problem however. None of the properties
of the quantum world can be perceived directly
by the human nervous system. No one has ever
seen a subatomic particle or a probability
wave. And yet applying the principles of quantum
mechanics has created the most successful
technologies that exist today such as transistors,
computers, and all the ways in which we communicate
through cyber space and all our wireless devices.
Which set of laws describe the universe? Could
there be two foundational sets of laws -- one,
quantum mechanical and the other classical?
The issue is resolved if we understand that
perceptual experience is not fundamental truth.
Perceptual change is time-bound, species specific
and the reflection of our brain. Fundamental
truth on the other hand is timeless and the
field of possibilities that emerges as different
forms of perception. In the Indian Vedic tradition,
perceptual experience is called MAYA - the
reality illusion and fundamental truth is
called Brahman - the ultimate reality. Understanding
the difference between the two could be crucial
not only to our survival, but could create
a new science of wholism, instead of one of
fragmentation, separation, and reductionism.
