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Quantum physics and spirituality2/18/2023 ![]() She criticises various worldviews for their inadequacies: Idealism, Materialism, Freudianism, “many strains of mysticism” (by which she means Eastern religions), Behaviourism, exaggerated Individualism, Marxism, Relativism of all sorts, and extreme Fundamentalism. From the beginning, it was flawed by its inability to account for consciousness… (It) successfully gave us a science which explained things, and a technology to exploit them as never before, but the price paid was a kind of alienation at every level of human life”. Then a mechanical world-view was born, but this “could never really succeed. She notes that the Judaeo-Christian viewpoint fulfilled the role for a long time, but that it “started to lose its coherence when the discoveries of modern science began to undermine many of the cosmological assumptions on which it rested”. ![]() (The pointlessness of the universe and the absurdity of life is, of course, the worldview that we are invited to embrace by much of modern science and philosophy, notably Existentialism.) The alienation suffered at this level is a general spiritual alienation”. We feel that we are ‘empty’, that our lives are ‘pointless’ or ‘absurd’, that ‘it’s all for nothing’. She then notes that, without a coherent worldview, “the sense of self and world disintegrates. She discusses the importance of actually having a worldview, which is “a theme which integrates the sense of self, the sense of self and others, and the sense of how these relate to the wider world - to Nature and other creatures, to the environment as a whole, to the planet, the universe, and ultimately to God - to some overall purpose or sense of direction”. It isn’t necessary to go into detail about this, since her worldview has become reasonably clear in the preceding chapters, and this one is indeed one of the shortest. (You can find the relevant links in the overview.) This will be the last in this part of the series, as I’ve now reached the final chapter entitled ‘The Quantum World-view’. I am currently summarising the book The Quantum Self by Danah Zohar, and what follows will make most sense if you have read the earlier articles about her book. For what has preceded, click here for a general overview. This is the latest in a long series of articles about the relationship between the quantum physics revolution and a spiritual worldview. ![]() Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Image by Avi Chomotovski from Pixabay ![]()
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