Quantum Consciousness with Danah Zohar

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Our picture of the world is being shaped by quantum theory. This dialogue explores the radical, exciting implications of quantum theory for personal and social life. It offers the possibility of a new understanding of the nature of human consciousness, physical reality, God, creativity, social activity, the future of science, and more. This new understanding may change how we see ourselves, and how we relate to the world. “If we’re quantum people,” Danah Zohar says, “we’re completely different from what we thought we were. It has vast implications.... Instead of being strangers and gypsies on the edge of an alien world, as people said about us in the old physics, we become fully members and partners in this universe.” (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Danah Zohar is a scientist and philosopher. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT and did postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is Visiting Professor in the College of Management at Guizhou University in China. She advocates quantum physics as a guiding metaphor for personal psychology and corporate and social organization.

Zohar is the author of:

• The Quantum Self (William Morrow and Company, Inc.1991)
• Quantum Society (coauthor Ian Marshall) (Bloomsbury Publishing 1993)
• Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 1997)
• Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat? An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinking (coauthor Ian Marshall) (William Morrow and Company 1997)
• SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence (coauthor Ian Marshall) (Bloomsbury Publishing 2000).
• Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live by (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2004)

To learn more about the work of Danah Zohar go to: www.danahzohar.com.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• The meaning and significance of the “quantum vacuum”
• Three kinds of thinking that the human brain does
• A new view of “the mind of God”
• The implications of quantum theory for mystical spirituality
• What “Bose-Einstein condensates” tell us about reality
• The nature of consciousness, in terms of modern physics
• Humans as co-creators of physical reality
• A new dimension to “loving your neighbor as yourself”
• The story of the street people at an Oxford cafe
• How philosophy is becoming an integral part of science
• A quantum-physical view of social plurality
• The nature of creativity, order and chaos

Host: Michael Toms          Interview Date: 12/15/1994          Program Number: 2508  

Music Included

From Album: Oxygene
Artist: Jean-Michel Jarré
1976 Polydor #PD-1-6112
Track - Oxygene Part I

From Album: Direct
Artist: Vangelis
1988 Arista #ARCD-8545