Consciousness is what it’s all about

Interesting how quantum physicists speak about consciousness.

Erwin Schrödinger is an Austrian Nobel prize winner who research quantum mechanics and had a keen interest in mind and consciousness. He wrote “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.”

More contemporary is the mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose, a frequent speaker at the Hay Festival, he taught Stephen Hawking at Cambridge and worked with him on quantum theories. He received the Nobel prize in 2020 together with two astronomers “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.He published papers and is researching the possibility that consciousness is a quantum process, and that the brain’s microtubules experience quantum vibrations.

And of course the Swiss naturalised Albert Einstein was quoted to say a few deep words on consciousness:”A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.””No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking…no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.””The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”

Spiritual teacher and writer Eckardt Tolle says it in a very similar way.”Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concern doing and is secondary.The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but who you are – that is to say, your state of consciousness.Action, although necessary, is only a secondary factor in manifesting our external reality. The primary factor in creation is consciousness. No matter how active we are, how much effort we make, our state of consciousness creates our world, and if there is no change on that inner level, no amount of action will make any difference. We would only re-create modified versions of the same world again and again, a world that is an external reflection of the ego.”