Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

The Power of One

I just came back from an important conference called The Power of One that took place in Washington, D.C.   I know, those words evoke all kinds of questions: what is the power of one?  How do we access it?  Everybody wants power, right?

I will tell you, but first a preamble.

As we embark on this wonderful movement of consciousness that we call quantum activism, I am constantly amazed to meet people who are already quantum activists in the true sense of the words.  One such person is Steven Lovink whom I first met at a conference in The Hague last March on the subject of the new science of spirituality.  At the last day of the conference, Steven and I had a delightful breakfast together in which we contemplated on how to propagate the worldview change from the current primacy-of-matter to the primacy-of-consciousness that the new science is predicating.

Naturally, I was not particularly surprised that Steven, being a very capable visionary, would organize a conference, but the nature of the conference and the people he brought together captured my surprise and imagination.  There were Swami Veda Bharati of the Hindu tradition and Sister Jenna of the Brahmakumaries—these are people you expect in a conference of this sort.  But there were also Mrs. Harriett Fubright, the wife of the famous late senator, who spoke of the importance of the arts and Dr. Claes Nobel, a relation of Alfred Nobel, who advocated environmental awareness.  A true meeting of people of the inner and the outer that quantum activism aims to integrate.

Steven’s ultimate goal is to organize a huge gathering at the Lincoln Memorial on 10-10-10 (Oct 10, 2010) to unleash the power of one to bring change beginning with the worldview change that we so badly need.  Agreed, it may be just symbology, but who says symbols are not important?

Finally, what is the power of one?  It is the idea that even one individual has the power to disturb the universe, to bring about real change.  How do we access it?  Quantum physics says that we become empowered with the power of one when our individual intention resonates with the movement of the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic One. Continue reading…

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…