Quantum Consciousness and Spirituality: A Systemic Quest

Quantum Consciousness and Spirituality: A Systemic Quest, LAP Lambert Plc. Germany

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Sanjay Bhushan

Department of Management, Faculty of Social Sciences

Date Written: December 20, 2012

Abstract

The first chapter of this book on Systems Approach of Quantum Consciousness provides exposition about the dynamic Systems perspective of cognitive consciousness which holds that cognition can be explained by means of a continuous dynamic system in which all the elements are interrelated. The domain or system of cognitive consciousness can be hypothesized to be one such system where numbers of endogenous and exogenous variables have dynamic interplay impacting the physiology, minds and meditations of individuals and Consciousness practitioners. Hence, understanding the non-linearity of this form of evolutionary Cognitive-Physical-Psychological dynamic system should be paramount. As per the spiritual perspective, it can further be comprehended that all the individual entities in the universe, matter or non-matter, are in constant systemic interaction with each other in a multifaceted coherent manner under the supervision of the supreme ‘spirit force’ by exhibiting the quantum properties at the microcosmic and macrocosmic levels. Their properties are however manifested under space-time geometry and unaffected by whatever is the space time separation between them. In the same manner, Quantum consciousness can be understood as a Neuronal-Spiritual phenomenon which is inseparably associated and in communion with the dynamic Genetic-physical existence of a human being.

In the second chapter on Towards an Integrative and Causal Epistemology of Consciousness, probing further deep also reveals a unique phenomenon of Super causality as a sum total of all creational causalities and retro-causalities. It can be said that Complex dynamical systems are neither completely rigid nor fully random; instead, they display a unique balance of ‘integration’, cohesion and robustness at the global level and at the same time, differentiation and multiple realizability at the component levels. Hence, in the domain of consciousness too, we see downward causation, in which upstream determinants at the higher order consciousness (Spiritual) levels influence and regulate events at lower levels of human cognitive consciousness. It was only as a result of cutting edge physics, particularly Quantum Physics, the very fundamentals of all existence (perceived) so far that has confirmed again and again that Consciousness is in fact the very ground of Being.

There is nothing else apart from Consciousness, from which arises mind as does matter. Physicists, of late, have also come to realize that the universe is interconnected in much subtler ways than had once thought. In quantum physics the observer and the observed can no longer be separated and the whole is more fundamental than the part. According to this view, consciousness imposes "downward causation." In other words, our free will is real as intention. When we act in the world we really are acting with the causal power of our intentions. The conception of downward causation conveys the proposition that while the whole is to some degree constrained by the parts (known as upward causation), at the same time, the parts are to greater degree constrained by the whole. So, the behaviour of the parts (down) is determined by the behaviour of the whole (up), thereby, determination moves downward instead of upward. In other words, the global level of integration (the result of ‘upwards causation’) may produce ‘downwards’ effects, acting eventually upon the local level of the parts/zones.

This view, however, does not deny that matter also has causal potency — it does not deny that there is causal power from elementary particles upward, so there is upward causation — but in addition it insists that there is also an integral play and overwhelming impact of downward causation.

Suggested Citation

Bhushan, Sanjay, Quantum Consciousness and Spirituality: A Systemic Quest (December 20, 2012). Quantum Consciousness and Spirituality: A Systemic Quest, LAP Lambert Plc. Germany, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2937680

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