"Science does not need mysticism
and mysticism does not need science,
but humans need both."

~ Fritjof Capra ~

The term "quantum physics" is derived from the latin word "quantus" meaning "how much" and Greek word "physika" which means "of nature". 

The term metaphysics is derived from the Greek words "meta" which means "beyond" and "physika" again meaning "of nature". 

Together they attempt to ask the same question;

“How much is still beyond our understanding of what we now know of nature?” 

The term quantum mysticism is  used to refer to a set of metaphysical ideas and principles that seek to harmonize mystical zeiteist to scientific theories of quantum mechanics .  Both metaphysics and quantum mechanics are looking for the "fundamentals of reality, one starting from the inner spiritual realm, the other from the outer physical realm. 

Research in the field of quantum physics indicates that we may understand reality and the interconnection of all things from a logical scientific perspective.  Mysticism however tends to imply that while we may experience all the phenomena in the world as manifestations of the same ultimate reality, the true nature of that reality cannot be empirically understood or defined. The maxim in the opening line of the Tao Te Ching ; “The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao”, affirms the mystic belief that the true nature of reality transcends our intellectual concepts and defies explanation.  Mystics say that the nature of existence can be seen, but it cannot be grasped, which is exactly what the physicists say about the nature of atomic particles. 

Quantum physicists attempt to explain how everything in the Universe, in all dimensions of life and reality consists of "quanta", of "potential energy", as the vibratory nature of atomic particles.  Mystics attempt to explain how everything in the Universe, in all dimensions of life and reality consists of "prana", of  "Qi (or Chi) energy" as the vibratory nature of reality.

Therein lays the main stumbling block on the road to harmonizing  physics and metaphysics.  Physicists believe that you can understand and explain reality; Mystics believe that if you can explain it then you don’t really understand it.

Quantum mysticism, by attempting to view these two seemingly contradictory views as being reconcilable, seeks to establish that both paths must logically lead to the same destination.

Whenever the essential nature of things is analyzed by the intellect,
it must seem absurd or paradoxical.
This has always been recognized by the mystics,
but has become a problem in science only very recently. 

~ Fritjof Capra ~



For many the term “metaphysics” is synonymous with the term “science fiction”.  For those who are not familiar with the fundamental concepts of physics the theories of quantum mechanics seem no less fantastic.  The idea that we may exist in an infinite number of universes, where an infinite number of possible actions may result in an infinite number of outcomes, seems to be so incredibly improbable that the human mind, in order to maintain its sanity, cannot accept it as possible, which may explain the fundamental experience behind the concept of the Shamanic Ecstasy.

The role of the shaman is to be "the vision seeker" for the community. It is the role of the shaman on his shamanic journey to travel beyond the realm of the material, into the realm of the immaterial, into other Universes, in order to encounter the people, animals and spirits that inhabit other realms of the Universe.  While on this journey, to those viewing from the journey from “the outside” the shaman seems gripped by an incomprehensible madness, while the shaman on “the inside” is experiencing a different reality, separate and distinct from the perceptions and experiences of the one from which he has traveled.

The effects of quantum physics can drive the shaman to even greater madness when we throw in the theory of "retrocausality".  In simplest terms, retrocausality is the idea that the present can affect the past and the future can affect the present. Retrocausality is based upon the foundational perception that everything in the universe is governed by time. Therefore quantum physicists looked to 'time' as the only conceivable  means by which alteration of events may come about. They began to focus on the possibility of time not only flowing forwards, but backwards.

Since we first started experiencing world, we’ve known that cause leads to effect. Everything that’s ever happened to you has reiterated this point, making it seem like a fundamental law of nature. But quatum physics says it isn’t. It is, in fact, possible for an effect to occur before its cause.

A Buddhist proverb says, "remember the future by anticipating the past", which is a very quantum mystical point of view. If the shaman travels into strange new realms to see, Nostradamus like, what things to come in the future may effect events to come in the future, only to discover that what will come has already effected what has already been, the shaman may return a bit crazier than when he left.

But, when you set your alarm clock or post a future appointment in your calendar are you not, in a mundane sense, effecting the present by establishing a cause in the future? If you are feeling a bit crazy yourself by the quantum theory that time does not really travel in a straight line and that watching the clock may be a totally pointless effort, perhaps you are becoming a shaman yourself.



The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion;
one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world.
The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom
that Brahman, the ultimate reality without,
is identical to Atman, the reality within.

Fritjof Capra "The Tao of Physics"

 Physics and Metaphysics

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