{"quotes":[{"text":"A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but a probability distribution of where the wings might be, like electron orbitals: a quantum-mechanical effect that maybe explains why the insect can apparently teleport from one place to another, disappearing from one point and reappearing a couple of meters away, without seeming to pass through the space in between. There sure is a lot of bright stuff in the jungle. Randy figures that, in the natural world, anything that is colored so brightly must be some kind of serious evolutionary badass.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["evolution","insect","quantum"],"id":5364,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"},{"text":"The Holy Spirit has to convince us that reality is better than illusions and that eternity is better than linear time. It is actually beyond one being better than the other; it is a case of there being no comparison. One is real and one is not. If we are sincerely interested in experiencing True Happiness, if we really want to be in a miraculous state of mind, all it takes is the willingness to start to see the miracle offers us everything.","author":"David Hoffmeister","tags":["awakening","happiness","hoffmeister","jesus","miracles","quantum"],"id":42956,"author_id":"David+Hoffmeister"},{"text":"Today is an ephemeral ghost...A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not 'exist.'In mundane terms, it marks a 'leap' in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...A day of unlocked potential.Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["calendar","chance","days","ephemeral","february-29","fortune","ghost","ghost-day","leap","leap-day","leap-year","moment","moments","months","possibility","probability","quantum","qunatum-day","rare","second","seconds","temporal","temporary","time","unusual","years"],"id":58815,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"In this world we like to follow the plot, to think we know what is happening, what is coming next. But these great quantum movies are like spiritual experiences. They start to dismantle the world as we know it, and we find ourselves knowing less and less about what is happening. We do not have to know; there is a Presence behind all this that knows what It is doing. Instead of feeling nervous when things start to dismantle and fall apart, we can accept that we personally do not know, and see it as a good thing.","author":"David Hoffmeister","tags":["acim","awakening","control","hoffmeister","jesus","quantum","spiritual"],"id":61303,"author_id":"David+Hoffmeister"},{"text":"There is a widespread belief about quantum mechanics, as also about relativity, that it is something that one is entitled to ignore for most ordinary philosophical and scientific purposes, since it only seriously applies at the micro level of reality; where 'micro' means something far smaller than would show up in any conventional microscope. What sits on top of this micro level, so the assumption runs, is a sufficiently good approximation of the old classical Newtonian picture to justify our continuing, as philosophers, to think about the world in essentially classical terms. I believe this to be a fundamental mistake. What I shall be arguing...Is that the world is quantum-mechanical through and through; and that the classical picture of reality is, even at the microscopic level, deeply inadequate.","author":"Stephen T. DeBerry","tags":["clinical","consciousness","personality","psychology","quantum","self"],"id":79194,"author_id":"Stephen+T.+DeBerry"},{"text":"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.","author":"Werner Heisenberg","tags":["particles","physics","quantum","reality","science","strange"],"id":99285,"author_id":"Werner+Heisenberg"},{"text":"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.","author":"Niels Bohr","tags":["particles","physics","quantum","reality","science","strange"],"id":100721,"author_id":"Niels+Bohr"},{"text":"To be and not to be, that is the quantum question.","author":"Dean Cavanagh","tags":["life","quantum","shakespeare"],"id":105428,"author_id":"Dean+Cavanagh"},{"text":"The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place science perceives for humanity, as modern instruments probe the farthest reaches of space and time. ... Quantum consciousness has about as much substance as the aether from which it is composed. Early in this century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity destroyed the notion of a holistic universe that had seemed within the realm of possibility in the century just past. First, Einstein did away with the aether, shattering the doctrine that we all move about inside a universal, cosmic fluid whose excitations connect us simultaneously to one another and to the rest of the universe. Second, Einstein and other physicists proved that matter and light were composed of particles, wiping away the notion of universal continuity. Atomic theory and quantum mechanics demonstrated that everything, even space and time, exists in discrete bits – quanta. To turn this around and say that twentieth century physics initiated some new holistic view of the universe is a complete misrepresentation of what actually took place. ... The myth of quantum consciousness should take its place along with gods, unicorns, and dragons as yet another product of the fantasies of people unwilling to accept what science, reason, and their own eyes tell them about the world.","author":"Victor J. Stenger","tags":["conscience","consciousness","holistic","myth","new-age","physics","quanta","quantum","science","stenger"],"id":132169,"author_id":"Victor+J.+Stenger"},{"text":"The movie, (X-Men: Days of Future Past), illustrates a spiritual journey that involves going back in time. The Purpose of the journey is to find the core grievance and let it be healed. When the grievance is healed in Forgiveness, all future scenarios of conflict and destruction are also healed. It is not that they have been prevented in time; it is that we have come to the realization that there was no time in which they could have existed. In the Happy Dream, everything is resolved. It becomes harmonious and then disappears.Wolverine is the agent strong enough to go back through time and ignite the mission of forgiveness. We can think of ourselves this way as well. We can imagine that our future self, or our higher Self, is orchestrating this whole thing for our awakening. We are just perceiving it in time, where we perceive ourselves to be. There is great love and compassion coming from the higher Self, the future self.","author":"David Hoffmeister","tags":["forgiveness","healing","hoffmeister","jesus","quantum"],"id":141708,"author_id":"David+Hoffmeister"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}