Double Slit Experiment: An Epiphany
I have been wondering a lot lately about this experiment. All you must be aware of what the findings are.
Now I have also always been pondering over what the guru's who have had the advaitic experience describe their experience to be, more or less this is what every advaitic master has described his experience as far as the world they perceive goes:
"Every boundary between me and the rest disappeared. I could see no difference between me and the other being, me and the other inanimate objects. All of it just seemed like one big whole."
These advaitic masters since adi Sankara (and before) have also told us that the universe lies within is, i.e. the world we see is a concoction of our mind that is conditioned to see the world the way we see it, we believe it to be. And once this "believe" is dispelled, we wont see the world as separate beings or separate from us.
Yesterday while working out I had an epiphany about how closely these experiences and the experiment are connected in trying to make us intellectually understand what is going on with reality.
You see, in the double slit experiment, the electron is a particle when a conscious entity looks at the electron, the electron is a particle, else its a "probability wave", essentially a ghost.
That started me thinking that, because the conscious entity believes an electron is a particle, he sees a particle when she/he looks at it/measures it. the mind of the conscious entity is concocting a reality based on his "belief". And that is how the mind constructs everything that we see and perceive coz that is how we've been conditioned since birth.
And as it has been said throughout the advaitic philosophy this belief is the maya due to ignorance of our minds that all this is nothing buy an illusion that we are creating ourselves. And once we can dispel this ignorance through sadhana, we will not see the world different from our own selves. And all the world will dissolve into being one big whole just like the electron's reality really is when no one is looking at it.
Intellectually I think I am there. But its a matter of shaking that "Belief" in me through Sadhana. As I've said about other things, knowing something intellectually is completely different from "internalizing" it or "knowing" it from the bottom of my soul. This is one of those. And as has been said by many a great men, shaking this belief from our consciousness is the most difficult part of it all.
But fortune (of infinite bliss, of "sat chit Anand") favors the brave doesn't it?
what do you think?
think!
Now I have also always been pondering over what the guru's who have had the advaitic experience describe their experience to be, more or less this is what every advaitic master has described his experience as far as the world they perceive goes:
"Every boundary between me and the rest disappeared. I could see no difference between me and the other being, me and the other inanimate objects. All of it just seemed like one big whole."
These advaitic masters since adi Sankara (and before) have also told us that the universe lies within is, i.e. the world we see is a concoction of our mind that is conditioned to see the world the way we see it, we believe it to be. And once this "believe" is dispelled, we wont see the world as separate beings or separate from us.
Yesterday while working out I had an epiphany about how closely these experiences and the experiment are connected in trying to make us intellectually understand what is going on with reality.
You see, in the double slit experiment, the electron is a particle when a conscious entity looks at the electron, the electron is a particle, else its a "probability wave", essentially a ghost.
That started me thinking that, because the conscious entity believes an electron is a particle, he sees a particle when she/he looks at it/measures it. the mind of the conscious entity is concocting a reality based on his "belief". And that is how the mind constructs everything that we see and perceive coz that is how we've been conditioned since birth.
And as it has been said throughout the advaitic philosophy this belief is the maya due to ignorance of our minds that all this is nothing buy an illusion that we are creating ourselves. And once we can dispel this ignorance through sadhana, we will not see the world different from our own selves. And all the world will dissolve into being one big whole just like the electron's reality really is when no one is looking at it.
Intellectually I think I am there. But its a matter of shaking that "Belief" in me through Sadhana. As I've said about other things, knowing something intellectually is completely different from "internalizing" it or "knowing" it from the bottom of my soul. This is one of those. And as has been said by many a great men, shaking this belief from our consciousness is the most difficult part of it all.
But fortune (of infinite bliss, of "sat chit Anand") favors the brave doesn't it?
what do you think?
think!
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