We put man back at the centre of the universe . . . It starts with Einstein. He shows that measurement, on which the whole impossibility of science depends—measurement . . . [is] a human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space, from the one particular viewpoint of a possible observer. Then, here in Copenhagen in those three years in the mid-twenties we discover that there is no precisely determinable objective universe. That the universe exists only as a series of approximations. Only within the limits determined by our relationship with it. Only through the understanding lodged inside the human head. —From the play, Copenhagen, in which the character of Niels Bohr says to the character of Werner Heisenberg: In the field of consciousness research—and also in physics and astronomy—we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part. —Joseph Campbell
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:58:20 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015