This document discusses quantum psychology and the relationship between consciousness and quantum physics. It presents several key concepts, including: 1) The quantum worldview sees consciousness as fundamental and non-local, while scientific materialism sees matter as primary and phenomena as locally determined. 2) Quantum measurement results in the collapse of the quantum wavefunction and a split between subject and object, linking the discontinuous nature of quantum physics to human perception and experience. 3) Quantum physics offers insights into phenomena like reincarnation, nonlocal correlations, and the relationship between mind and body that are difficult to explain from a purely materialist perspective.

1. Quantum Psychology
“Healing of the Mind”
Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
www. amitgoswami.org

2. Stages of the
Creative Process
1. Preparation
2. Incubation
3. Sudden Insight
4. Manifestation

6. Escher Hands

7. Brain Circuits

13. Paradox of Perception

14. Do we have two heads?

15. Behavioral Determinism

16. Kundalini

17. Contrast of scientific materialism
and the quantum worldview
Aspect?
Validity in
Scientific Materialism
Validity according to
Quantum Physics
Causual determinism? Valid Valid
Continuity? Valid Valid
Nature of movement? Continuous Continuous & Discontinuous
Nature of communication? Local Local & Non-Local
What is the world made of? Matter
Consciousness
including matter & subtle
(mental, vital & supramental)

18. Self Reference
Undivided Consciousness
and its possibilities
Quantum Measurement in the Brain
Discontinuity
Subject Object
Collapse of the quantum possibility wave in the observer’s brain leads to
self-reference - a split of consciousness into subject & object

19. Electron
A quantum leap as envisioned by Niels Bohr. According to Bohr,
when electrons jump from one atomic orbit to another,
they never go thru the intervening space.
A Quantum Leap
Orbits
Nucleus

20. Von Neumann Chain
Dead Alive
Dead Alive
Following von Neumann's argument, even
our brain-mind catches the dichotomy of
the cat, so how does the chain terminate?

22. Probability
Position with
highest probability
Position in space
A Quantum Probability Distribution

25. Jungs Typology
Human Experience
(from Jungs typology)
Worlds of Organization
Sensing Physical
Feeling Vital
Thinking Mental
intuiting Supramental

26. Types of Disease & Healing
Human Experience Worlds of Organization
Sensing Physical
Feeling Vital
Thinking Mental
intuiting Supramental

28. From Heaven To Earth
Supramental (body of laws)
including purposive laws of the vital body
involving biological functions,
e.g. maintenance, reproduction, etc.
Vital body blueprints
for making form for
biological functions
Physical body for making representations of
the vital blueprints and programs to carry out
biological functions.
How biological functions come down from Heaven (the
supramental domain) to Earth (the material domain).

31. The Double Slit Experiment
Particles Waveform
The wave-particle duality is the central mystery of quantum
mechanics – the one to which all others can ultimately be reduced.

33. Interference Pattern Disappears
When we try to identify which slit the electron passes through by focusing a
flashlight on the slits, the electron shows its particle nature. There are only two
fringes - exactly what we would expect if the electrons were miniature baseballs.

34. Mind gives it Meaning

37. Flux
Will the line of flux be shared between
the two holes, revealing quantum
interference at the macro level?

38. The Quantum Monad & The Wheel of Karma
Domain of consciousness and potentia
Quantum
Monad
Karma In
Karma Out
Karma In
Karma Out
Karma In
Karma Out
Domain of manifest experience

39. Opto, ergo sum.
I choose, therefore I am.
( tangled hierarchically as signified snake biting it’s own tail )

40. Particle Correlation
Particles
interact &
correlate
Particles still
correlated
Particle A
Particle B

43. Mind and meaning

44. Mind and meaning

45. Waveform Interference
Constructive
Interference
Reinforcement
Destructive
Interference
Cancellation

46. Representation Created from Collapse
Consciousness and its vital and
physical possibilities
Consciousness and its possibilities of mental
meaning and those of material brain
a b
Quantum Collapse Quantum Collapse
Manifest mental
meaning
Manifest brain
representation of
mental meaning
Physical organ
at a Chakra
Vital blueprint for
The organ and our
feeling of it.
(a) With the simultaneous correlated collapse of the mind and brain, the brain
makes a representation of the mental meaning that it experienced.
(b) With the correlated collapse of the vital blueprint of an organ and the physical
body, the latter makes a representation (the organ) of the former at a chakra.

47. Dependent Co-Arising
Tangled hierarchical quantum measurement of an object/stimulus in
the brain produces not only the experience of the object, but also the
experience of the subject in our consciousness

48. Intermediate Pattern of Interference
With a dimmer flashlight, some of the interference pattern returns.

49. When we look, we collapse the electron’s wave to localize at
one place. But between our observations, an electron spreads
out as a wave of possibility in transcendent potentia.
Collapse of the Waveform

52. Contrasts of scientific materialism and the quantum worldview
Nature of
experience
How does
matter process?
How does
consciousness process?
Feeling Feeling is not computable
Recognizes feeling as movement of the
non-physical Vital Body
Thinking
Can process content, but
cannot process meaning of
thoughts due to
Goedel's Theorem
Consciousness recognizes
both content & meaning as movements
of the
non-physical mind
Intuiting
Because intuitive thought
is discontinuous
Quantum leap to the supramental

53. Involution & Evolution of Consciousness
Limitations
Material World
(freedom lost)
First limitation:
Intellect World
(world of contexts and
laws of movement)
Second limitation:
Mental World
(world of meaning)
Third limitation:
Vital World
(world of subtle energy)
Supramental Intellect:
Map of Intellect
Mind:
Map of Mental
Life:
Map of Vital
Limitless
Bliss

66. A Living Cell

67. A Living Cell

68. Darwinian Evolution
i s a two s t e p p r o c e s s
Chance variations in
the genetic material.
Natural selection based
on survival necessity 1 2

70. Planck’s Constant
On the ramp,
the classical
motion of the
ball is
continuous
On the staircase,
quantum motion acts
in discontinuous
steps (quantum
jumps).

71. Electron Diffraction

72. A representation of the split that
occurs based on the possible
outcomes for each action, according
to Everett's Many-Worlds
interpretation
Many Worlds Interpretation

73. System at Equilibrium
The Demon and the friction-free
trap door
System with Lower Entropy
(in violation of the second law)
Maxwell’s Demon

74. The “I” behind the “i”.
The diverse “i’s” of sentient beings
ultimately are the one “I” of consciousness

76. Reincarnation

78. Minator

79. M.C. ESCHER

106. The Miracle of Nonlocal Correlations
Origin of Correlation
Ouch! Ouch!
Metaphorically, when either of two correlated beings touch a cactus,
the other feels the prick.

107. Hardware vs. Software

110. Schrödingers Cat

111. Who chooses whether the light is green or red?
You? Or your friend?
Paradox of Wigners Friend

115. Hypnosis

116. Rolfing
Before & After

119. The old school upward causation model.
Upward
Causation
Elementary particles make atoms,
atoms make molecules, molecules make
cells (neurons), neurons make the brain,
and the brain makes consciousness.
Causation rises from the base level of
the elementary particles upward. Only
elementary particles, nothing else have
causal efficacy.
Consciousness
Brain
Cells
(including neurons)
Molecules
Atoms
Elementary Particles
and Their Interactions

120. Do Be Do Be Do.
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122. Pranayama

124. Schrödingers Cat