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Article: The myth of quantum consciousness. (role of the human mind in creating reality)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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A new myth is burrowing its o modern thinking. The notion is spreading the principles embodied in quantum mechanics imply a central role for the human mind in determining the very nature of the universe. Not surprisingly, this idea can be found in New Age periodicals and in many books on the metaphysical shelves of bookstores. But it also can appear where you least expect it--even in the pages of that bastion of rational thinking, The Humanist.
In an article in the November/December 1992 issue entitied "The Wise Silence," Robert Lanza says that, according to the current quantum mechanical view of reality, "We are all the ephemeral forms of a consciousness greater ...