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N O T D E A D
GODis
NOTDEAD
What Quantum Physics
Tells Us about Our Origins
and How We Should Live
A M I T G O S W A M I
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Contents
Preface V"
Prologue For Skeptics 1
Part One Introduction 13
Chapter l T h e Scientific Rediscovery of God 15
Chapter 2 T h e T h r e e Fundamentals of Religion 3
Chapter 3 A Brief History of Philosophies T h a t Guide
Human Societies 39
Chapter 4 God and the World 51
Part Two The Evidence for Downward Causation 63
Chapter 5 T h e Quan tum Signatures of the Divine 65
Chapter 6 Downward Causation in Psychology:
T h e Distinction between Unconscious
and Conscious 83
Chapter 7 H o w God Creates the Universe and the Life in it 95
Chapter 8 T h e Design, the Designer, and the Blueprints
for Design 107
Chapter 9 W h a t Do Those Fosil Gaps Prove? 17
Part Thre The Evidence for the Subtle Bodies 13
Chapter 10 T h e Interiority of the Psyche 135
Chapter I i T h e Evidence for the Vital Body of God ; • I45
Chapter 12 Exploring the Mind of God I5
Chapter 13 Soul Evidence 163
Chapter 14 Dream Evidence 183
Chapter 15 Reincarnation: Some of the Best Evidence
for the Soul and God 19
Part Four Downward Causation Revisited 21
Chapter 16 W h a t Does ESP Prove? 213
Chapter 17 God and the Ego: Co-Creators of Our
Creative Experiences 219
Chapter 18 Love Is a Many-Splendorous Evidence of God 23
Chapter 19 Evidence for Downward Causation in
Spontaneous Mind-Body Healing 243
Part Five Quantum Activism 253
Chapter 20 Q u a n t u m Activism: An Introduction 25
Chapter 21 Suming Up 265
Epilogue 1 Approaching God and Spirituality through
Science: An Apeal to Young Scientists 269
Epilogue 2 Quantum Physics and the Teachings of Jesus:
An Apeal to Young-at-Heart Christians 27
Bibliography 289
Index 299
an the question of God's existence be settled by sci-
ent if ic evidence? In this book, I s h o w tha t it can and it
, already has, in God's favor. But the evidence is subtle,
based on t h e c o n c e p t of t he primacy of consciousness f r o m q u a n -
tum physics, which remains G r e e k t o m a n y people, and so t h e
message is ve ry slow to p e n e t r a t e b o t h scientific and popular
consciousness . Th i s book a t t e m p t s t o acce l e ra t e t he a c c e p t a n c e
of God o n c e again in our society and our culture.
One question needs to be settled at the outset. W h a t is the
God" that science is rediscovering? Everyone knows that even reli-
gious people who talk the most about God cannot agree about what
God is. So, is science rediscovering a Christian God, a Hindu God, a
Moslem God, a Buddhist God, a Judaic God, or a God of a less popu-
lar religion? The answer is crucial.
What almost everyone doesn't know is that at the esoteric core of
all the great religions, there is much agreement about the nature of God.
Even at the popular level, most religions agree about three fundamental
^nects of God. First, God is an agent of causation, over and above cau-
'tition arising from the material world. Second, there are more subtle
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levels of reality than the material level. And third, there are Godlike qual-
ities—love is a primary one—that religions teach people to aspire to as a
major goal. W h a t is the God that science is rediscovering? Suffice it to
say for now that the God rediscovered by science has all three of these
important aspects.
I offer t w o kinds of scientific evidence for God.
T h e first kind 1 label as "the quantum signatures of the divine."
Quan tum physics gives us such novel aspects of reality—the quantum
signatures—that to understand, explain, and appreciate them, w e are
forced to introduce the God hypothesis. An example is quantum nonlo-
cality: signal-less communication. Ordinary local communication is car-
ried out via signals carrying energy. But in 1982, Alain Aspect and his
collaborators verified in the laboratory the existence of communications
requiring no signals. Hitherto, the belief was that such quantum signa-
tures occur only in the submicroscopic world of matter and somehow
are not important for the macro domain, or mundane level of reality.
But 1 demonstrate that these quantum signatures also occur at this
level, and that they provide indisputable evidence for the existence of
God. Research groups conducting experiments with several kinds of
phenomena have found such evidence in the laboratory.
T h e second kind of evidence involves wha t religions call subtle
domains of reality. You could very easily label this kind of evidence as
pertaining to impossible problems requiring impossible solutions (from
the materialist point of view, that is).
An example will make this clear. Recently, there has been a lot of
controversy about cr.eationism-intelligent design theories versus evolu-
tionism. W h y so much controversy? It is because even after 150 years
of Darwinism, evolutionists do not have a foolproof theory. They can-
not satisfactorily explain either the fossil data, especially the fossil gaps,
or why and how life appears to be so intelligently designed. This is what
creates room for controversy. Honest , unprejudiced scientific appraisal
of these theories and data shows what follows.
Neither Darwinism nor its later synthesis with genetics and popu-
lation biology called neo-Darwinism agrees with all the experimental
data.
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