Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 4:30pm
Location:
Embassy Suites Hotel
101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, CA
More information and registration is available at Science And NonDuality website.
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Abstract for Almaas' Presentation:
Nonduality and Quantum Entangelment
Post modern philosophy favors the conclusions of quantum theory, that observation depends on the observer. Nondual experience eliminates the separate self, this way there is no separation between observer and observed. But this challenges Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, favoring Einstein’s contention that quantum theory can only be an approximation.
Nondual realization, however, reveals that even dual experience is a manifestation of nonduality, for there is no separate self to create dual experience. Such insight takes us back to post modern constructionist philosophy that experience is always relative to experiencer. But it also points to a way of inquiry, grounded in nondual truth, that can apply to both spiritual practice and scientific research.
We can investigate any inner or outer phenomena as long as we include the investigator in our exploration, since they always arise together, and are fundamentally nondual. Using such inquiry we can appreciate that physical reality and nondual awareness are intimately connected, and we can see the usefulness of the insights of spiritual perception and scientific discovery to each other .We also see that neither science nor spiritual teachings fully understand matter, where I believe both are needed to fully unlock matter’s mystery.
But this necessitates true understanding of space and time. Einstein tried to use quantum entanglement to disprove quantum theory, but Bell's theory proved the latter to be true. We can use the phenomena of entanglement to inquire into nondual experience to take it to a more radical nonduality, which reveals that entanglement can be an expression of a more fundamental truth to reality, It also penetrates the nondual experience of timelessness and spacelessness to a view of reality that gives a more complete understanding of time and space.
This view that encompasses both time and timelessness, space and spaceleness, becomes relevant to the attempt of physics to understand what happens to time and space in the singularities at the center of black holes and the big bang. This radical nonduality gives us the perception of how this singularity is ever present in the evolution of the universe and in all experience.
Science and spirituality are quite apart at the present time, but a method of inquiry that can apply equally to both holds the promise of revealing how the two reveal reality in complementary ways.
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