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Quantum mysticism

Index Quantum mysticism

Quantum mysticism is a set of metaphysical beliefs and associated practices that seek to relate consciousness, intelligence, spirituality, or mystical worldviews to the ideas of quantum mechanics and its interpretations. [1]

54 relations: Albert Einstein, Alternative theories of quantum evolution, American Chemical Society, Arthur Koestler, Barbara Ehrenreich, Buddhism and science, Consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Evan Harris Walker, Fred Alan Wolf, Fritjof Capra, Fundamental Fysiks Group, Gary Zukav, Ig Nobel Prize, Interpretations of quantum mechanics, J. Z. Knight, Jack Sarfatti, Ken Wilber, Lawrence LeShan, Max Planck, Mediumship, Metaphysics, Michael Shermer, Michael Talbot (author), Murray Gell-Mann, Mysticism, New Age, Niels Bohr, Observer effect (physics), Parapsychology, Pseudoscience, Quackery, Quantum mechanics, Quantum pseudo-telepathy, Quantum suicide and immortality, Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, Royal Society of Arts, Schrödinger's cat in popular culture, Scientific American, Scientific realism, Shambhala Publications, Skeptical Inquirer, Stuart Wilde, Subhash Kak, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, The Guardian, The Tao of Physics, Transcendental Meditation, ..., Uncertainty principle, Victor J. Stenger, Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, What the Bleep Do We Know!?. Expand index (4 more) »

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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Alternative theories of quantum evolution

Quantum evolution is the hypothesis that quantum effects can bias the process of mutation towards adaptive genetic variation.

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American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry.

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Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler, (Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.

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Buddhism and science

Buddhism and science have increasingly been discussed as compatible, and Buddhism has entered into the science and religion dialogue.

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

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Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-born American author, public speaker, alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement.

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Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation) and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics.

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Eugene Wigner

Eugene Paul "E.

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Evan Harris Walker

Evan Harris Walker (1935 – August 17, 2006), was an American physicist and parapsychologist.

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Fred Alan Wolf

Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness.

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Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist.

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Fundamental Fysiks Group

The Fundamental Fysiks Group was founded in San Francisco in May 1975 by two physicists, Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann, at the time both graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Gary Zukav

Gary Zukav (born October 17, 1942) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers.

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Ig Nobel Prize

The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.

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Interpretations of quantum mechanics

An interpretation of quantum mechanics is an attempt to explain how concepts in quantum mechanics correspond to reality.

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J. Z. Knight

Judy Zebra "JZ" Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton; March 16, 1946) is an American New Age teacher and author known for her purported channelling of a spiritual entity named Ramtha.

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Jack Sarfatti

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist.

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Ken Wilber

Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.

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Lawrence LeShan

Lawrence LeShan (born September 6, 1920) is an American psychologist, educator and the author of the best-selling How to Meditate (1974) a practical guide to meditation.

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Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRS (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.

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Michael Shermer

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

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Michael Talbot (author)

Michael Coleman Talbot (September 29, 1953 – May 27, 1992)"Michael Talbot".

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Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.

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New Age

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.

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Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

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Observer effect (physics)

In physics, the observer effect is the theory that simply observing a situation or phenomenon necessarily changes that phenomenon.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Quackery

Quackery or health fraud is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.

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Quantum pseudo-telepathy

Quantum pseudo-telepathy refers to the fact that in certain Bayesian games with asymmetric information, players who have access to a shared physical system in an entangled quantum state, and who are able to execute strategies that are contingent upon measurements performed on the entangled physical system, are able to achieve higher expected payoffs in equilibrium than can be achieved in any mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium of the same game by players without access to the entangled quantum system.

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Quantum suicide and immortality

In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide is a thought experiment, originally published independently by Hans Moravec in 1987 (If MWI is true, apocalyptic particle accelerators won't function as advertised).

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Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE) is an American spiritual sect near the rural town of Yelm, Washington, U.S. The school was established in 1988 by J. Z. Knight, who claims to channel a 35,000-year-old being called Ramtha the Enlightened One.

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Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

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Schrödinger's cat in popular culture

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.

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Scientific American

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.

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Scientific realism

Scientific realism is the view that the universe described by science is real regardless of how it may be interpreted.

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Shambhala Publications

Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Stuart Wilde

Stuart Wilde (24 September 1946 – 1 May 2013) was a British writer.

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Subhash Kak

Subhash Kak (born 26 March 1947 in Srinagar) is an Indian American computer scientist.

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The Dancing Wu Li Masters

The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a 1979 book by Gary Zukav, a popular science work exploring modern physics, and quantum phenomena in particular.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Tao of Physics

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a 1975 book by physicist Fritjof Capra.

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Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation (TM) refers to a specific form of silent mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique, and less commonly to the organizations that constitute the Transcendental Meditation movement.

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Uncertainty principle

In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known.

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Victor J. Stenger

Victor John Stenger (January 29, 1935 – August 25, 2014) was an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic.

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Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation

The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as "consciousness causes collapse ", is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement.

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What the Bleep Do We Know!?

What the Bleep Do We Know!? (stylized as What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!? and What the #$*! Do We Know!?, with Bleep being a pronounceable placeholder for a grawlix) is a 2004 American film that combines documentary-style interviews, computer-animated graphics, and a narrative that posits a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism

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