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God Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us About Our Origins and How We Should Live Kindle Edition

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A “pioneering” physicist “shows how quantum reasoning may resolve deep mysteries, including the nature of God [and] evolution” (Beverly Rubik, PhD, Biophysicist, Institute for Frontier Science, Adjunct Professor, Saybrook).

Move over, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens—a highly regarded nuclear physicist enters the debate about the existence of God—and comes down on the side of the angels. Goswami’s hypothesis is that quantum physics holds the key to all the unsolved mysteries of biology—the nature and origin of life, fossil gaps of evolution, why evolution proceeds from simple to complex, and why biological beings have feeling and consciousness.

In God is Not Dead, Goswami moves beyond theory and shows how a God-based science puts ethics and values where it belongs: at the center of our lives and societies. He provides a scientific model that steers between scientific materialism and religious fundamentalism; a model that has implications for how we live both individually and collectively.

God is Not Dead is a fascinating tour of quantum physics, consciousness, and the existence and experience of God.

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"Goswami is a pioneering frontier scientist and "quantum activist" who, perhaps more than anyone else, has helped advance the quantum revolution in society through his popular writings. In his latest book, God Is Not Dead, he shows how quantum reasoning may resolve deep mysteries, including the nature of God, evolution, dowsing, the vital force, the soul, creativity, and more. For anyone grappling with the interrelationship of mind, matter, and divinity, this book will offer much new food for thought." --Beverly Rubik, PhD, Biophysicist, Institute for Frontier Science, Adjunct Professor, Saybrook

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Amit Goswami, PhD, is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physcics. He became best known as one of the interviewed scientists featured in the 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know?. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C94TWWB4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hampton Roads Publishing (April 1, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2488 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 325 pages

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Amit is a retired professor of physics from the University of Oregon, where he served on the faculty from 1968 to 1997.

The meaning of quantum physics was highly obscured. While researching this, Amit discovered that when quantum physics is formulated within the metaphysics of qualified non-dualism, as in Indian Vedanta, questions regarding meaning are immediately resolved. His work thus integrates science and spirituality. This work has culminated in his most recent book with the physician Valentina Onisor, Quantum Spirituality.

Subsequently, he developed a theory of reincarnation and integrated conventional and alternative medicine within the new quantum science of health. Among his discoveries are the quantum theory of the creative process, the theory of quantum evolution, and the theory of quantum economics that extends Adam’s Smith’s capitalism into a workable paradigm for the 21st century.

In 2009, he started a movement called “quantum activism,” now gaining ground in North and South America, Southern and Eastern Europe, and India. In 2018, together with his collaborators, he established Quantum Activism Vishwalayam, an institution of transformative education in India, based on quantum science and the primacy of consciousness. This program offers master’s and PhD programs in the Quantum Science of Health, Prosperity and Happiness under the auspices of University of Technology, Jaipur.

Amit is the author of numerous books, most notably: The Self-Aware Universe, Physics of the Soul, The Quantum Doctor, God is Not Dead, Quantum Creativity, and The Everything Answer Book.

He was featured in the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? and the documentaries Dalai Lama Renaissance and The Quantum Activist.

Amit is a spiritual practitioner and calls himself a quantum activist in search of Wholeness.

To learn more about Dr. Amit Goswami, please visit www.amitgoswami.org.

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The relatively contemporary argument over the existence of "God" is and has always been in debate due to our learning process.
I say contemporary as it is a very recent event in human history. And I say due to our learning process, as there has been an amazing explosion of sensory input (in a very short time span) due to technological leaps in which we have been completely unprepared for.
The various religious lenses in which we have viewed "God" for millennia fall woefully short in explaining and quantifying what we discover in today's technologically rich world, which has led to a juvenile conclusion that all religious based creative systems must be wrong.
Amit uses logical progression within existing sciences to clearly show how short current thinkers fall in understanding our universe, and most specifically our planet within the cosmos.
I recommend the book for anyone who wants honest, logical, and truthful answers, as they ask the question "who am I?".
Because regardless of anything else you may read or while your time away with in this life, THE question one must ask themselves (and ALL will one day) is, "who am I, and what will become of me once I die"....

At this point in our history, world leaders have preached a religion of nothingness, that every human serves NO purpose in life and has NO future at all. In essence delivering a fatal blow to the human species, stating that there is NO purpose to the individual life except for your current NOW. This ideology destroyed the moral and dehumanized the earlier soviet union, forcing such extreme nonsense upon their populace for decades. Other countries did the same... Thankfully Amit Goswami chose to put his mind and talents to writing an extremely capable book. Logical, concise, and accurate.

If you can understand even the basics of Quantum Physics, you will see that all things have amazing design and purpose.
Regardless of what you have been taught looking at the problem through the hard sciences, attempting to puzzle piece both the existence of our universe and the human experience together, Quantum Physics destroys those weak branch theories and replaces them with an elegance that is undeniably from a composer's hand.

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Amit Goswami's "God is Not Dead" is an interesting read, even as a less noteworthy contribution compared to Goswami's "The Self-Aware Universe."

Goswami's treatment springs from his understanding of quantum mechanics, the quantum wave function, and the wave function's collapse. He (page 22) writes: "Quantum possibilities are possibilities of consciousness itself, which is the ground of all being. This takes us back to monistic idealism.... Our looking is tantamount to choosing, from among all the quantum possibilities, the one unique facet that becomes our experienced actuality." Looking collapses the wave function, as much as we can tell from quantum mechanics.

Goswami (page 23) writes: "We don't choose in our ordinary state of individual consciousness that we call the ego the subjective aspect of ourselves that the behaviorist studies and that is the result of conditioning. Instead, we choose from an unconditioned, objective state of unitive consciousness, the non-ordinary state where we are one, a state we can readily identify with God."

Goswami writes (page 23) the following. "Our exercise of choice, the events quantum physicists call the collapse of the quantum possibility wave, is God's exercise of the power of downward causation. And the way God's downward causation is this: for many objects and many events, the choice is made in such a way that objective predictions of quantum probability hold; yet in individual events, the scope of creative subjectivity is retained."

Goswami writes (page 24): "The quantum signatures of downward causation are discontinuity (as in our experience of creative insight), nonlocality (as in the signal-less communication of metal telepathy), and circular hierarchy, also called tangled hierarchy (as sometimes experienced between people in love)." Goswami expands on the tangled hierarchy, a structure introduced by Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Goswami writes (page 30): "The paradigm shift of our science now taking place is revealed in depth psychology and transpersonal psychology and the branch of medicine that is called alternative medicine. The paradigm shift is also revealed in the work of organismic biologists who see causal autonomy in the entire biological organism, not merely in its microscopic components. Some evolutionary biologists even see the necessity of invoking `intelligent design' of life to break the shackle of Darwinian beliefs. The practitioners of these branches of science have penetrated the camouflage to some extent. With the help of quantum physics, the penetration of the camouflage is much more extensive. "

Goswami's book provides evidence for the reality of God, and he gives (page 34) an early outline: "In view of quantum physics, the vast data on life after death, and alternative subtle-body medicine, it is considerably more difficult to refute the ideas of downward causation and subtle bodies. And who in their right mind would try to refute the importance of virtues and values in our lives? Clearly, the religious have a more plausible theory of virtues and values than the biologists who claim they evolved from Darwinian adaptation via chance and necessity."

Goswami writes on the sometimes hidden foundation of religious attitude: "Jesus himself was a great mystic. Following his lead, Christianity in the West has had other great mystics who have propounded monistic idealism, mystics such as Meister Eckhart, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Catherine of Genoa, etc. But the organized nature of Christianity drowned out the voices of the mystics (ironically, including Jesus), and dualism has prevailed in the official thinking of Christendom."

Goswami tells us that it is feeling that gives us the first sign of something beyond the physical that leads to the spiritual. It is feeling that is left unexplained by science. Goswami writes (page 137): "When we look at our experiences of feeling, meaning, and the archetypal contexts of feeling and meaning through the conceptual lens of the new science - science within consciousness - we find that there is ample experimental proof that they don't arise from the physical body. They occur in conjunction with the body, but they are not the physical body. Instead they come from God, or more accurately from the Godhead; we choose them from our own God potentia. In other words, no mystic has to tell us that God is our `father.' Every one of us has that intuition already. The new science is just validating that intuition."

Goswami writes (page 153): "The God hypothesis is needed to incorporate feelings as part of our experience. You will notice that feeling-oriented cultures tend to be believers in God (good or bad), whereas when rationalism dominates a culture, it tends to move away from the God hypothesis. This is not a coincidence."

I am afraid that my brief review will not do justice to all of the topics in Goswami's book. There is discussion of reincarnation, karma, parapsychology, mind-body healing and other topics that are being related to the reality of God as philosophical arguments. Goswami is breaking new ground here. Nevertheless, the book could benefit with additional treatments of some classical philosophical arguments, and I mean to point to arguments that are beyond Thomas Aquinas. Hegel's "ontological proof of God" and Charles S. Peirce's "neglected argument for the reality of God" (as they are known) provide non-dual understandings that are agreeable to Goswami's monistic idealism, in my opinion.

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lots of interesting information.

This is not a bible punching book nor indeed dismissing God.

But a really interesting interpretation of life and possible ramifications of our actions on ourselves ....ie advocating there is a 'higher intelligence' of whatever name you choose to give but that the quatum physics side of things mean all life is essentially mixed together and in communication with each other....like a big melting pot, hence the ability to sometimes just 'know' things or apparently communicate without speaking/reading over thousands of miles.

So negativity or dreadful actions had a much larger impact than just within local area - conversely positive, loving, kind actions and thoughts have similar extent of impact.

Not saying I agreed with it all but certainly a lot of food for thought and if correct just shows us what pathetic insignificant objects the human race is in thinking it is even beginning to understand the complexity of life/universes etc...and the fragility /intelligence within our world that we largely appear to have no real conception of.

Huge amount of food for thought, needs reading again to even begin to really understand some of the arguments but absolutely fascinating

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What if a violation of the law of conservation of energy is demonstrated?

Reviewed in Japan on August 27, 2018

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Dear Prof. Amit Goswami:
(1) I am reading your book God is not dead (Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. 2008, Kindle edition 2012). The movie of the same title (in 2004) is a motivation of this reading. The freshman student in the movie, who is trying to show that God is not dead, against an atheist philosophy professor, might be happy with your book. Because the God you are talking about, the “quantum consciousness,” seems to be almost equivalent to the God in the New Testament: “for God is love.”
(2) I wonder how “quantum” and “consciousness” are connected as “quantum consciousness.” John A. Wheeler posed (1989) Q2: How come the quantum? There has been proposed no answer so far. Physicists Lee Smolin (Time Reborn, Penguin Books, 2013) and Steven Weinberg (To Explain the World, Penguin Books, 2015) admit “the hard question of consciousness.” Wheeler might have asked: “How come the unit of consciousness?” However, you seem to have answers to both!
(3) You write: “An interaction between nonmaterial and material would be a violation of physics' sacrosanct law of conservation of energy, … (p. 40)”
To escape from this violation, I guess, you use the quantum non-locality. Usually we think if the theory of reincarnation (of the late Ian Stevenson) is scientifically accepted, then some essential part of the materialistic science, including the law of conservation of energy, should be abandoned. Hence, even if Stevenson’s compiled data seem to prove the reality of reincarnation, they have been “ignored.” (See for example, Paul Edwards: Reincarnation—A Critical Examination (1996)). You use a concept of “quantum monad”!
(4) However, suppose that the “sacrosanct law of conservation of energy” had been known being violated since 1907 in the experiment by Duncan MacDougall, M.D., a possible scientific validity of which was claimed by myself in the following paper:
Ishida, M. Rebuttal to claimed refutations of Duncan MacDougall’s experiment on human weight change at the moment of death. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 24, 5–39, 2010.
Then, what is your response?
The scientific validity of Duncan MacDougall’s experiment requires independent confirmations of it by scientists, which have not been done so far. However, I am very confident that the validity will be shown sooner or later, as I wrote in the paper. Your “quantum consciousness” might be very much vulnerable to what MacDougall’s experiment claims.
(5) You seem to accept the activities in Psychical Research. I also do accept the importance of Psychical Research. I published the following paper:
Ishida, M. “A review of Sir William Crookes’ papers on psychic force with some additional remarks on psychic phenomena.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 26, No.1, pp. 9 – 42, 2012.
I closed the paper with quoting a psychical message:
“Consciousness and matter and energy are one, but consciousness initiates the transformation of energy into matter.” (Roberts, J. 1997c: 120 – 121, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Vol.1/Session 882 on September 26, 1979).
E = Mc^2 is Einstein’s equation (1905). The weight (mass M) of life experience of human, which is kept in the cells of body in a form of coded electro-magnetic energy E, may be equated with M = E/c^2; this may be the meaning of “Consciousness and matter and energy are one.” The psychical message tells us that the memory of life experience of human ego would be transferred upon death to the subconscious self in a non-physical dimension. The missing weights detected in MacDougall’s experiment could supplement Stevenson’s reincarnation theory.
(6) There is another “Psychical knowledge”, which tells us about “God”:
This message was purportedly informed by Fredric W.H. Myers (1843 - 1901), one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, through Irish spiritual medium Geraldine Cummins (1890 - 1960) in the following book:
Cummins, G. (Edited by E.B. Gibbes) The Road to Immortality (1932).
The message in chap. XXIII God is Greater than Love tells:
“It is strange to me that God should be described as loving and good, or as jealous and vengeful. He is none of these. He is the inevitable, the “Omega” of all life. But He is neither evil nor good, neither cruel nor kind. He is the Purpose behind all purpose. He neither loves nor hates, there is no thought created that expresses Him, for He would seem to me to be all creation and yet apart from it. He is the Idea behind the myriad worlds, behind the unnumbered Universes (p. 97).”
Honestly, I do prefer to this massage to the God story in the Bible. ■

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God is not Dead

Reviewed in Canada on January 9, 2012

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Quantum Consciousness is a perspective that needs to be further explored. Goswami has indeed made an dent on modern materialism. His view of God as downward causation through the supramental is also shared by Original Islam. Supramental Consciousness is contained within Islam and this concept is described metaphorically as manifold energy in the Quran. Goswami would have done a much better job if he had compared his model with that of an Islamic one in which a tangled heriarchy is much more "visible" instead of the Christian Deity who is considered as Immanent. It would be worth his while to read the forthcoming paradigm-shifting book entitled: Sense & Sensibility in Islam.

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Full Circle - The Quantum Perspective On A Universal Creator

Reviewed in Germany on January 2, 2013

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"God Is Not Dead is a fascinating guided tour of quantum physics, consciousness, and the existence and experience of God. University of Oregon physics professor Amit Goswami shows readers that God's existence can be found in clues that the science of quantum physics reveals.
Goswami helps readers to break through their materialistic conditioning, viewing reality as defined by Newtonian physics, to become free through a quantum understanding and experience of consciousness and God. In fact, God Is Not Dead argues for a quantum activism, leading a balanced life that incorporates both the quantum and material worlds and an experience of consciousness.

God Is Not Dead will change how readers think and experience the nature of reality, the existence of souls, the power of dreams, the universality of love, the possibility of ESP, and the very mind of God."

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This book should be both appealing to readers of the materialist scientific background (or conviction), as well as to the common Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and to readers who are interested in the metaphysical and in ancient spiritual traditions. The perspective of quantum physics to the question of God seems to be the only way in which we can both integrate the material & spiritual into our world view, without the two contradicting each other. If you aren't aware of the most fundamental implications of quantum physics, this book has the potential of changing and challenging your world view. Goswami displays, in a peaceable way, that within "new science", there is room for both physics and spiritualism. "Quantum Activist" Amit Goswami conclusively challenges us, the reader to become Quantum Activists ourselves in order to better the planet and to evolve society as a whole. The insight and acceptance of a true, universal creator alone, and the implications that come with it should be our starting point.

Not having read any previous books of the author (at least ten), it appears to be a well balanced "summary" of his work, as Goswami often gives reference to topics discussed in his previous books, as well as to the work of many other scientists and authors when discussing one of the many related topics. To prove the case of a universal Creator, the most complex problem to resolve in science, it is of course necessary to approach this from many different angles. With all it's different content, the book appears to be very well structured. Sometimes a little dry, however the author on some occasions shows to have great humor which will make you smile.

This book deals with the following topics:
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- Science (materialism, history, etc.)
- Quantum Physics (fundamentals, it's implications)
- Biology (Darwin, evolution, genetics)
- Philosophy
- Religion (Christianity, Buddhism, various spiritual traditions from India, Japan)
- Psychology [Social behavior, Dream Interpretation, Archetypes, etc. (Freud, Jung)]
- ESP [Extrasensory perception (telepathy, etc.)]
- NDE [near death experiences, prior to Eben Alexander's "Proof of Heaven" (2012)]
- The inconsistencies of materialist science (fossil gaps in archeology, and many, many others)

(did I miss anything?)

The only negative points I have to raise concern the editor and the publisher:
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- Still a few typos
- On one or two occasions Goswami's reference to a diagram on an earlier page isn't correct
- As with many books from American publishers, even with the hardcover edition, the paper quality is fairly moderatre (un-bleached, relatively thick paper)

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Amit Goswami really goes into the depth. He obviously has a vast knowledge about the topics he's writing about. Some technical descriptions and spiritual ideas aren't always that easy to grasp for average Joe, but a reader who's interested in the topic shouldn't shy away from it. It's a colossal work; not in pages, but in content. It should provide the reader with much material for discussion, many things to further investigate (plenty of references), and with much to ponder on.

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Reviewed in Australia on August 18, 2014

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This is a must read for anyone interested in knowing the BIG PICTURE.

Well written and enjoyable.

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