Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

An Invitation to Quantum Activism

Quantum physics in the form of its famous observer effect (how an observation transforms quantum possibilities into actual experiences in the observer’s consciousness) is forcing us into a paradigm shift from the primacy-of-matter to a new paradigm: the Primacy Of Consciousness (read my book The Self-Aware Universe for details). Quantum Activism is the idea of transforming ourselves and our societies in accordance with the transforming messages of quantum physics and the new paradigm.

So what are these transforming messages of quantum physics? First, consciousness is the ground of all being, and all objects of our experiences (of sensing, thinking, feeling, and intuition) are quantum possibilities for consciousness to choose from. Continue reading…

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).

It’s the Worldview, Mr. President

An Open Letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama,

            During president Clinton’s election campaign, the very effective slogan, ”It’s the Economy, Stupid” was coined.   Your slogan, “Change that you can believe in”, although perhaps not as provocative as Clinton’s, was not so entirely bad either.  It worked, didn’t it?  Even so, I think the phrase “It’s the worldview, stupid! ” would have been more relevant.  Please hear me out.

 Now that you are at the helm of the country and have started to institute changes, your changes more and more seem to be a mixed bag of ideas.  Almost everybody that voted for you and still supports you, feels a little unsure if he or she can believe in all of the changes you have begun.  In some of them,yes; but in others, we are not so sure. 

Speaking specifically, the required changes needed are about meaning and values. When you were campaigning, you got that one right Mr. president! When you put programs forward in favor of the middle class, universal health care, education, or green economy, you are unambiguously siding with meaning and values. No confusion there.  But when you side with programs for bailing out the financial investment banks like AIG, are you supporting meaning and values?   Continue reading…

Kennedy Gave Us the Moon, Can you take us farther, Mr. President?

Dear President Obama, Just a few months ago you ran on a platform of change; real change you said, change in which we can believe. Well, how many changes have you made which can be considered real? Something so real that it can be believed in ? Something so real that it might inspire us to make a few changes ourselves?

Oh, yes, Mr. President, everybody in a position of leadership knows that we Americans need to change. Without making changes in our cynical, wasteful and extravagant lifestyle, the problems we face today in America and the world cannot be solved. But you can help by showing us your resolve to make changes.

We have become cynical, Mr. President. Today, we have hardly any ideas, philosophy, or principles to believe in; no convictions to guide our lives and enable us to make real changes. How did it get this way? There have always been materialist among us with their hedonism and epicurean philosophy of eat, drink, and be merry, but their influence was limited. Then starting in the nineteen fifties, there came the scientific materialists, and with the discovery of the DNA’s double helix structure scientists became emboldened to challenge faith in unprecedented ways. First came the assertion that we can understand life itself starting from molecules. We will synthesize life in the laboratory, they said, and show that no vital force is necessary, and certainly no God to make little green apples.

Then came high energy physics and their extravagnt claim of, “Show us the money for high energy machines, and we will show you the elementary particles that are the building blocks of all things. And knowing that, we will investigate biology and psychology from first principles. Nothing will be out of reach of our mathematical savvy.” Continue reading…