This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature. It offers subtle insights to address core issues of wave-particle duality, the measurement problem, the mind/body problem, determinism/indeterminism/free will, and the nature of consciousness. It draws from physics, consciousness studies, and 'ancient Vedic science' to outline a new holistic interpretation of quantum theory. Accessible and thought-provoking, it will be profoundly integrating for scholars and researchers in science and technology, in philosophy, and also in South Asian studies.

This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature. It offers subtle insights to address core issues of wave-particle duality, the measurement problem, the mind/body problem, determinism/indeterminism/free will, and the nature of consciousness. It draws from physics, consciousness studies, and 'ancient Vedic science' to outline a new holistic interpretation of quantum theory. Accessible and thought-provoking, it will be profoundly integrating for scholars and researchers in science and technology, in philosophy, and also in South Asian studies.

With concise non-technical descriptions of physical, quantum, and unified field theories--and subtler insights into spacetime as levels of nature to thread them together--a whole new perspective that links mind and matter is introduced. For the first time in modern science, a logically consistent picture is presented of how your arm for example can be guided by your mind. Tacit assumptions are made explicit in a profoundly integrating analysis of how mind and matter interact. Ancient views such as the holistic Vedic model that have long focused on integrating subjective and objective are shown to be consistent with cutting edge unified field theory. Systematic means are described for empirical validation of unity in a holistic approach that can avert the danger of reductive materialistic technologies on the verge of creating a 'posthuman era' and placing at risk our most fundamental ability to evolve in tune with nature. This short book shows how to 'connect the dots' into a rational, holistic model of consciousness, mind, and matter. It is a remarkable advance in refining and integrating our scientific understanding of ultimate unity--a genuine tour de force.

Modern science has achieved a remarkable legacy of reliable knowledge and rigorous standards of validation. But gaps in even the most successful theories-quantum, relativity, and evolutionary theories-still reflect a deeply fragmented account. To get beyon the fragmented reductive account of the universe emerging randomly in a big bang from literally nothing, we need to think outside the bang. With clarity and subtle insights, Dr. Boyer describes how theories on the forefront of physics and psychology, matter and mind, link to a coherent picture of the ultimate unity of nature. Drawing from ancient traditions, the dots are connected into a holistic unified field-based account of consciousness, mind and matter and how to validate it empirically. The holistic account has revolutionary implications for understanding our relationship to the cosmos, as well as evolutionary implications for getting out of the chaotic ways we humans have been behaving toward each other.

Ancient traditions of healing are increasingly accepted in contemporary society. This book introduces principles of the ancient Vedic tradition that constitute a consciousness-based approach integrating psychological, physiological, behavioral, and environmental technologies. In this approacch the bottom-line of the mind is consciousness itself--accessed by transcending mental activity to its simplest ground state. This contrasts with conventional 'unconscious-based' approaches which hold the unconscious as the basis of mind, such as analytic, humanistic, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Empirical research toward a general model of mind and cutting-edge developments integrating physics and psychology in theories of nonlocal quantum mind are shown to be converging toward the Vedic model of mind. Comparisons with contemporary therapies show further that the Vedic approach represents a major advance over approaches which don't access the ground state of mind for holistic mind-body healing. The simplicity, subtlety, and depth of this Vedic approach have profound consequences for contemporary methods of healing and human development.