The Physics of God: Unifying Quantum Physics, Consciousness, M-Theory, Heaven, Neuroscience and Transcendence by Joseph Selbie (PDF)

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Setting aside the pervasive material bias of science and lifting the obscuring fog of religious sectarianism reveals a surprisingly clear unity of science and religion. The explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers–miracles, immortality, heaven, God, and transcendent awareness–are fully congruent with scientific discoveries in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, M-theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology.The Physics of God describes the intersections of science and religion with colorful, easy-to-understand metaphors, making abstruse subjects within both science and religion easily accessible to the layman–no math, no dogma. This intriguing book:Pulls back the curtain on the light-show illusion we call matter.Connects string theory’s hidden brane worlds to religion’s transcendent heavens.Reveals the scientific secret of life and immortality: quantum biology’s startling discovery that the human body is continuously entangled.Demonstrates the miracle-making power of our minds to effect instantaneous physiological changes.Explains how the intelligent observer effect confirms our high spiritual potential.Compelling and concise, The Physics of God will make you believe in the unity of science and religion and eager to experience the personal transcendence that is the promise of both.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “In The Physics of God, Selbie clearly describes why phenomena labeled ‘transcendent,’ ‘paranormal,’ or ‘spiritual,’ are more consistent with a modern scientific understanding of reality than is commonly supposed. A well-written metaphysical journey into an uncertain but perenniallyfascinating domain.”–Dean Radin, PhD, chief scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, author of ​Supernormal​ and Entangled Minds”The Physics of God is the best book on the subject that I have ever read. It is a clear and lucid explanation of the interface between science and spirituality, as well as consciousness and matter. Anyone, scientist or layman, will benefit from this marvelous book.”–Jyotish Novak, author of How to Meditate and Touch of Light”Selbie does an excellent job of dispelling the myth that religion and science are incompatible. His unbiased comparison of the findings of science with the testimony of those who have had profound spiritual experience reveal a clear underlying unity. The Physics of God is clear, simple, and engaging!”–Susan Shumsky, award-winning author of Divine Revelation and Awaken Your Third Eye About the Author Joseph Selbie makes the complex and obscure, simple and clear. A dedicated meditator for over 40 years, he has taught yoga and meditation throughout the United States and Europe. He is known for creating bridges of understanding between the modern evidenced-based discoveries of science and the ancient experience-based discoveries of the mystics. Selbie maintains several blogs, including Intersections, which explores how spirituality connects with culture and science. He also authored The Yugas, a factual look at India’s tradition of cyclical history; and a sci-fi/fantasy series, The Protectors Diaries, inspired by the abilities of mystics. Joseph is a founding member of Ananda, a meditation-based community and spiritual movement inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda. He lives with his wife at Ananda Village near Nevada City, California. For more information, go to www.PhysicsAndGod.com.

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⭐Author Joseph Selbie wrote in the Introduction to this 2018 book, “There is—and can only be—ONE reality. Those versed in the science of religion, and those versed in the science of matter, simply use different methods to explore the same reality… Spiritual scientists discover its properties through rigorously controlled transcendent experience and call it ‘Reality.’ How to UNIFY the findings of science and religion, however, is not immediately obvious, thus the need for books like this one. The two approaches… use very different languages… Many people in science and many people in religion fervently deny that THEIR reality could have ANYTHING to do with the other… Yet, if we look deeper… we can find a surprisingly clear unity of science and religion. In this unity we discover that the explanations of transcendent phenomena given by enlightened saints and sages—miracles, life after death, heaven, God, and our ability to attain personal transcendent awareness—are matched by explanations of material phenomena given by scientists in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, string theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology. In my decades-long exploration, I have come to appreciate that the findings of science and religion and the findings of the science of matter—together—combine to give us the most complete view of reality: what I think of as the physics of God.” (Pg. 18)He recounts the famous ‘two slits’ photons experiment of quantum mechanics, and comments, “WHY… did the photons behave differently? Nothing had changed. The ONLY difference in the two experimental setups was that the passage of the photons through the slits had been measured by an INTELLIGENT OBSERVER.” (Pg. 28) He continues, “The need for an intelligent observer is not the only hole in the argument for scientific materialism. When we look to the findings of the disciplines that deal most directly with life and consciousness, such as medicine and neurobiology, we find many more such holes.” (Pg. 30) He adds, “Yet another hole in scientific materialism’s belief system is evidence that information can be exchanged from one mind to another. Oddly enough, some of the evidence comes from the CIA… The CIA’s Stargate program ran for more than 20 years. The program was abandoned in 1995 because the data gathered by its remote viewers was not CONSISTENTLY reliable enough to make it useful as an intelligence-gathering method—yet it WAS inconsistently valid.” (Pg. 32)He states, “The science of religion is a collection of disciplines, usable by anyone, which, when performed with determined focus and intention, inevitably result in personal transcendent experience. From personal transcendent experience come the revelations that give meaning to all religions. The disciplines that bring personal transcendent experience deserve to be considered scientific because they provide consistent and repeatable results when practiced to perfection.” (Pg. 37)He observes, “There are clear similarities between the experiences described by those having near-death experiences and the descriptions and transcendent experiences given by enlightened saints and sages. Those who achieve perfect stillness and inner absorption… have the same empirical results.” (Pg. 54)He explains, “The primary difference between the science of religion and the science of matter is in the discovery process: the science of matter’s view of reality is based on the repeatable and consistent findings of PHYSICAL experiments; the science of religion’s view of reality is based on the repeatable and consistent findings of TRANSCENDENT experience.” (Pg. 56)He points out, “Why is the Higgs field important for us to understand? Because it demonstrates that even mass… the property that appears to give one object more ‘substance’ than another, is simply due to the interactions of the atom’s energy with the energy of an invisible field: energies interacting with energies. Everything we perceive, from the seemingly solid world around us to the very sensation of weight, is energy. Matter is, genuinely, a light-show illusion… it isn’t what it seems.” (Pg. 66)He suggests, “The energy-verse is also, I believe, the location of the heavens of all religious traditions; where we live after death; where angelic beings dwell. The essential qualities of the energy-verse—that it is nearly infinite, that it exists ‘beyond’ the physical universe, and that it contains only non-material, two-dimensional, high-frequency vibrating energy, matches uncannily well the description of the heavens, or luminous ASTRAL regions, given by hundreds of saints, sages, and near-death experiencers.” (Pg. 78-79) Later, he adds, “the energy-verse is an ocean of energy out of which our bubble universe forms. The energy-verse contains the information, the hidden properties, the holographic template that makes our physical universe form as it does. Nor does creation take place once only; rather, the energy-verse constantly creates the physical universe. Without the holographic mechanism of creation, the universe would wink out of existence.” (Pg. 102)He asserts, “The holographic principle… states that the information determining the behavior of the three-dimensional volume of space we call the universe is ‘pasted on’ to the ‘boundary’ between our three-dimensional universe and a two-dimensional brane…. [which] results in the colossal three-dimensional holographic projection we call the universe. One’s first encounter with the idea that the universe is a holographic projection can engender bemused disbelief or outright skepticism. The holographic projections with which we are familiar tend to be fuzzy and insubstantial, whereas the world we know is both finely detailed and solid… [But this], however, does not negate the possibility that it is a holographic projection.” (Pg. 98)He recounts, “I have come to understand from my personal experiences in meditation that my life-changing experiences with hallucinatory drugs was in fact an unusually enhanced experience of my own life force—my sacred energy body. Today, by using techniques that increase my awareness of my own energy body, such as meditation… I can experience that surpassing state of awareness—which I discovered accidentally through drugs—through much more reliable, consistent, and lasting means.” (Pg. 107)He asserts, “There is no inevitable, preprogrammed, hard-coded destiny in our genes; outside influences, such as behaviors, and even our thoughts and feelings can substantially alter gene activation and gene expression.” (Pg. 114)He says, “Physical death is the withdrawal of the invisible organization of energy from the physical body. When the template-like holographic energy-body is withdrawn, the physical body loses its coordinated entangled coherence with its holographic energy body… and the physical body decays into lifeless atoms and molecules.” (Pg. 125) Later, he adds, “Our energy-body is the source of our life-energy, our feelings, our likes and dislikes, our motivations. The energy-body is the source of most of what we think of as ourselves. It is constantly, dynamically, and integrally US.” (Pg. 127)He states, “We are left with the fact that an intelligent observer is—somehow—integral to the formation of matter.” (Pg. 138) He suggests, “Consciousness is the crux of the physics of God: it is in consciousness that science and religion come together, and it is through an understanding of consciousness that we can reconcile the apparent conflicts between them. Acceptance of consciousness as the foundation of the cosmos, however, does not come easily.” (Pg. 144) He summarizes, “Science and religion find their common ground in consciousness.” (Pg. 149) He acknowledges, “The leap to embrace consciousness… is the leap that nearly everyone finds the most difficult to make… embracing the need for an ephemeral-seeming CONSCIOUSNESS in order for the cosmic light show to exist at all demands a vastly greater imaginative reach.” (Pg. 175)He concludes, “The saints and sages add to the discoveries of modern scientists a breadth of vision that science has yet fully to achieve… The testimony of the saints and sages does not counter the findings of science; it enlarges upon them. The workings of Consciousness are just as lawful as the workings of gravity. It is only because science has yet to understand those higher laws… that scientific materialists dismiss the results of those laws as impossible.” (Pg. 180-181)This book will be of keen interest to those seeking reconciliation between “Eastern” religious views and science.

⭐Selbie’s principal idea is that science and religion together are far more powerful in explaining reality than either one could alone. He provides support by references to the evolving ideas and verifiable evidence from quantum mechanics, (Copenhagen interpretation), the holographic nature of the universe, M-theory, and consciousness. He also draws upon the comments, beliefs, and evidence expressed by many renowned scientist, sages, experiencers, philosophers, quotes/passages from the Bible, and other religious texts.Selbie also asserts that what we know of reality through our five senses and built-in “mechanistic” biases are very misleading and he goes on to explain-using the above supporting references-what the hidden aspects of reality are really like; this is fascinating material. He makes his case. His thesis also strongly supports the notion that human consciousness gives us enormous sovereignty, but most of us do not know how to tap into it, although all of us have the innate potential to do so. We are part of the interconnectedness (oneness) of the universe and have access to all of its grandeur through our consciousness. In quantum language, we are nonlocal entities living in a local context.There is a God (different from our traditional one, but quit similar), and there is no “end-of-it-all” death; we live on. God makes this all possible and you will need to read the book to see how it all ties together. The entire ensemble-quantum physics, holography. M-theory, consciousness, God, life after death, and more are woven together in a convincing way.The tone of the book is up-beat, and it opens a whole new world of thought and hope addressing many concerns of what life is about; many readers are searching; herein are some possible answers.Rich

⭐I rarely write reviews, but this book is a true gem and deserves 5 stars. I can only add my own accolades to those of the other reviewers, who have already said what I would have written. I have read several other books relating to quantum physics and related topics, looking for some sort of clear understanding (so I can actually explain it to others), and this book is it. I love the logical and sometimes entertaining way he writes, by getting to the point without a lot of extraneous info that clutters up the (my) mind. I say it’s a WOW, because “Wow, I get it!”I also love how he relates what he calls Scientific Materialism to Scientific Transcendence, the latter being of particular interest to me, as I’ve been involved with a spiritual path my entire life, and have read (too) many books about it. I’ve also had a daily meditative practice for the past 40+years, so I have direct experience, too. This book is a great synthesis.Joseph has also written another fascinating gem of a book, “The Yugas: Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Present and Future Enlightenment,” published in 2011. I just finished my 3rd reading of it (in different years) because there’s so much interesting information and it explains what’s going on in the world today, in addition to the past and future.These 2 books are must-reads. Normally, if I see most of the reviews are 5 stars, I somewhat suspect they may be friends or family of the author. I am neither. I think all the positive reviews are a reflection of my own—the book(s) deserve it. Joseph is just a wonderful writer and researcher.

⭐The book may appeal to religious people as in they may find that the book tries to scientifically explain the existence of God. For me it was hard to read the book as lots of facts were either represented not particularly correctly or were misinterpreted to conform to religion. I’m a spiritual and agnostic person, but I admire science, even though sometimes it’s too materialistic. I hoped this book will be more about spiritualism and scientific explanation of it rather than a collection of quotes from sages, mages, NDEs and others. Disappointed.

⭐Such an interesting book; I couldn’t put it down! The link between science and faith – comforting, to say the least. A bridge between religious language and scientific language – this book demonstrates that language is of no consequence, it’s understanding that matter. Science is finally catching up.

⭐I highly recommend reading this masterpiece and recommending it to friends and family as well.I think it’s a most important book for the time being.It’s equally fun and informative.A masterpiece!Loved every bit of it.

⭐Dear Amazon,This book is fairly easy to read, less sure about understanding -Very thought provoking. Will look for similar books in the future.Excellent gift for the right person.Thank you, -doran

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