If you've kept up with the
recent
advances in physics
and cosmology
and actually have kept up
with the news
of the Nobel Prize
for Nonlocality,
then you may have heard
the expression
that the universe
is not locally real,
that the universe
is not locally real.
So what does it mean?
Well, local
refers to the idea
that objects are influenced
only by their
immediate surroundings
or even
remote surroundings,
but still through mediation
of information and energy.
So think of a billiard ball.
It can only be affected
by the collisions
with other balls around it.
What is real?
This means
objects have
definite properties
independent of observation.
An apple is red,
whether you look at it
or not.
Here's
the challenge to these ideas.
Quantum mechanics
-the physics
of the very small throws
a wrench
into this local realism idea.
Experiments, particularly
involving entangled
particles, have shown
first nonlocal correlations.
Entangled particles
seem to instantly
influence each
other's properties
regardless of distance,
violating so-called local
reality.
Also there's
something called
indeterminacy.
Quantum particles can exist
in super-positional states,
both spin up and spin
down at the same time
until measured.
This challenges
the idea that they have
definite properties
beforehand.
So the 2022 Nobel Prize in
Physics was awarded to Alain
Aspect, John
Clauser
and Anton Zeilinger
for their work
in confirming these
non-local correlations
through experiments.
Their findings
and similar studies
provide strong evidence
that the universe
might not be locally real
at the quantum level.
Okay.
Now there are other things
to consider.
Mass and energy density.
These are
considered relative.
They depend on the observer's
frame of reference
due to the effects
of special relativity.
For instance, an object's
mass increase
with increasing velocity.
Spacetime.
This one gets interesting.
Spacetime itself
isn't assigned
an absolute value
like mass or density.
It's a theoretical construct
that describes
the interwoven
nature of space and time.
However, spacetime
can be curved,
curved (you
can't imagine that)
by the presence of
mass
and energy density.
That's according to
general relativity.
The curvature is what
we perceive as gravity.
So in a sense,
spacetime exhibits
relative properties
based on the distribution
of mass and energy within it.
Okay, so
that all suggests
that spacetime,
mass,
energy density,
particles,
entanglement,
non-local correlation,
all of that suggests
that the universe
that we experience
is not locally real.
It's a projection
of something much deeper
that does not
exist in spacetime.
In fact,
the whole
theater of spacetime
and causality is not real.
It is Maya.
And here is something
that goes even beyond what
Einstein and
others suggested.
Because when they talk of
the observer,
they speak of the observer
as an embodied observer,
which means part
of the projection.
Your body-mind is also
part of the projection.
Your body-mind is
also therefore
not locally real.
It is
in appearance
along
with the rest
of the universe.
So even the embodied observer
is not real, locally real.
So what is real?
Real is that
which is projecting
all of that.
The body-mind
and the
theater of spacetime
and causality.
Because your body-mind
is part of the theater
of spacetime and causality.
So ultimately,
there's only one observer,
and that observer
is non-local
outside spacetime.
What do we call it?
Pure consciousness.
The most easy term,
but pure consciousness
is ineffable.
It is borderless.
It is formless.
It is infinite.
It is spaceless.
It is timeless.
It is irreducible.
It is fundamental.
It is divine.
It is God.
It is Allah. It is Ein Sof.
It is Brahman.
And the appearance of
that is Brahmand
and the Brahmand includes you
as the body mind.
So who are you?
If you are not the
body mind, who are you?
You're
the source of all experience,
and that is the infinite,
pure, divine consciousness.
And that experience
is always relative
in the
theater of spacetime
and causality.
Why is this important?
Well, when we wake up
from the illusion,
then there are
certain milestones we have.
And these include shifts
in perception
and cognition, in memory
in emotions,
in sense of self,
and sense of agency
and in movement
for the relative
from the relative identity
to the absolute identity.
I shall talk more
about these signposts
to waking up in the future
and it's obvious that
this waking up
is actually happening.
The Awakened life
awaits us now.
Now,
in our own presence.
In our own presence,
the presence of presence
is waking up.