The Self-Aware Universe

Amit Goswami

Mar 1995 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

In this stimulating and timely book, Amit Goswami, PhD, shatters the widely popular belief held by Western science that matter is the primary "stuff" of creation and proposes instead that consciousness is the true foundation of all we know and perceive.
 
His explanation of quantum physics for lay readers, called "a model of clarity" by Kirkus Reviews, sets the stage for a voyage of discovery through the common ground of science and religion, the entwined nature of mind and body, and our interconnectedness with all of creation.

Ratings and reviews

"Amit Goswami steps the reader through a history of the discovery and analysis of quantum physics in his quest to explain how modern Western scientific research has disavowed consciousness to its (science's) detriment. By posing the accepted contemporary thought process against logic unconfined by strict experiential assumptions, Goswami scripts a new paradigm that points physics toward a refreshingly new model of the universe where consciousness and not matter is seen as the essence of reality."

If only the world was ready for a new pardigm.

About the author

Amit Goswami, PhD, is a theoretical quantum physicist and a retired professor from the University of Oregon’s Department of Physics, where he served from 1968 to 1997. He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called “science within consciousness,” an idea he explicates in his seminal book, The Self-Aware Universe, in which he also solves the quantum measurement problem elucidating the famous observer effect. Dr. Goswami has written several popular books based on his research on quantum physics and consciousness, including Physics of the Soul and Quantum Economics: Unleashing the Power of an Economics of Consciousness.