Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

about

Amit Goswami, Ph. D. is professor emeritus in the theoretical physics department of the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon where he has served since 1968. He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called “science within consciousness”.

Goswami is the author of the highly successful textbook Quantum Mechanics that is used in Universities throughout the world. His two volume textbook for nonscientists, The Physicist’s View of Nature traces the decline and rediscovery of the concept of God within science.

Goswami has also written many popular books based on his research on quantum physics and consciousness. In his seminal book, The Self-Aware Universe, he solved the quantum measurement problem elucidating the famous observer effect while paving the path to a new paradigm of science based on the primacy of consciousness.

Subsequently, in The Visionary Window, Goswami demonstrated how science and spirituality could be integrated. In Physics of the Soul he developed a theory of survival after death and reincarnation. His book Quantum Creativity is a tour de force instruction about how to engage in both outer and inner creativity. The Quantum Doctor integrates conventional and alternative medicine.

In his latest book, God is Not Dead we explore what quantum physics tell us about our origins and how we should live.

In his private life, Goswami is a practitioner of spirituality and transformation. He calls himself a quantum activist. He appeared in the film“What the Bleep Do We Know“, “The Dalai Lama Renaissance“, and the upcoming documentary “The Quantum Activist“.

Does Spiritual Economics Solve Capitalism?

Does spiritual economics introduced in a previous article solve the problems mentioned of capitalism?

First, the problem of limited resources. Capitalistic growth economics depends crucially on keeping consumer demands going. This is done often by creating artificial physical needs. An example is new annual fashions for women’s garments. It is very wasteful, very detrimental to finite resources.

In idealist economics, as people’s higher needs are met even partially, their physical needs reduce, reducing the demand for consumption reducing the wastage of limited material resources. The economy still expands, but in the higher planes where the resources are unlimited (there is no limit on love and satisfaction!).

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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).

Toward a Spiritual Economics

Many people think that capitalism and market economics grew out of materialist philosophy that classical physics has given us. But this is myopic thinking of people who have missed the evolution of consciousness in the affairs of the manifest world.

First notice that during the period that capitalism developed in the hands of such luminaries as Adam Smith, it was Cartesian dualism under the modernist umbrella that was the influential metaphysic, not materialism. In modernism, mind and meaning are valued. Continue reading…