Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

Can We Creatively Change Our Economics?

Amit Goswami believes we can do no other if we expect to survive, moreover to thrive, and he’ll explain his theory of Spiritual Economics to the world next month at The Hague in The Netherlands.

His words come none too soon as the world’s economy disintegrates before our eyes and begs for reinvention and transformation into a system that works for and with our growing consciousness as a major part of the “bottom line”, rather than one that exploits, manipulates and consumes our material world.

Dr. Goswami will lay out his agenda as the keynote speaker for the International Dialogue on “Cultural Diversity: Catalyst for Citizenship, Creativity and Communication – enabling sustainable life-styles” which takes place March 18-19 at The Hague.

Goswami’s talk, “Quantum Creativity; engagement in both Outer and Inner Creativity“, will kick off the China-Europe Dialogue and Exchange for Sustainable Development’s (www.ce-desd.org) conference for world-class cultural creatives.  His talk will offer an extension of the current Adam Smith capitalistic model into a spiritual economics incorporating Science within Consciousness, Goswami’s specialty within quantum physics.

As a guest of the Municipality of The Hague, Dr. Goswami will tour the city and join the formal conference welcome reception in the Oude Stadhuis (Old City Hall) on March 17th.

Along with keynoting, Dr. Goswami will serve as a table host during the afternoons of the 2-day conference, and then participate in the CE-DESD’s open dialogue on The State of Consciousness on March 20th.  Discussants will include members of WorldWatch, Planet 2025, World Bank and INSID (Foundation of the Dutch Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme).

From India, to England, to The Hague

I have been traveling a lot recently — to the subcontinent of India, where it was warm and nice, then to the cold rain of late winter London, then in March to the sunny but crispy cold weather at The Hague in the Netherlands.

In each of the places, I had a unique experience of consciousness, each of which reflects the ongoing journey taking place in the consciousness of many of us.

In India, I was the guest of Bhakti Vendanta Institute for their conference in Trichi in Southern India on the first anniversary of the passing away of Dr. TD Sing, a great scientist/spiritual teacher. TD Sing spent many years trying to integrate science and spirituality, and I became acquainted with him in that capacity.

What was interesting for me at the conference was talking to the students who attended my talk. Now, mind you, these are serious students of engineering of the famous Indian Institute of Technology. As such they are supposed to be gung-ho materialists, believing not only in the supremacy of matter, but also in the capacity of material technology to change the way humans should live all over the world.

But the students surprised me. They actually enjoyed the idea that science and spirituality can be integrated. They did not mind that this means giving up the idea of primacy of matter; in fact they welcomed it. I was especially surprised by the keen interest the students had in what I call Quantum Activism — how one can use the quantum ideas of creativity, non-local consciousness and tangled hierarchy to change their selves and the cultures they live in. Continue reading…