Incredible
QUESTION: Yoga claims to be based on experiments on consciousness over
thousands of years, but the claimed results of the experiments are not
believable. It is said, for instance, that the inmost consciousness of man is
experienced directly to be the universal consciousness, which presumably
includes electrons at the other end of the universe. How can anyone believe
that? It is too absurd. The experiments of science on the other hand produce
results which are rational and believable.
ANSWER: Yes the Yogic results do seem incredible but let us look at some
of those in physics.
"A quantum entity such as an electron is affected … by events which in principle
could be at the other end of the universe. These non-local influences occur
instantaneously, as if some form of communication, which Albert Einstein called
a 'spooky action at a distance', operates not just faster than the speed of
light but infinitely fast. It is important to appreciate that the non-local
nature of the quantum world has been demonstrated in experiments…the double
slit…and the Aspect experiment..." (John Gribbin)
In other words it were not for the experiments one could hardly believe it. The
yogic statements about universal consciousness do seem to be as incredible as
the non-locality theory of the quantum world and if it were not for the
experiments it would be difficult to believe them.
© 2000 Trevor Leggett
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