TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace, B. Alan, 
TI  - Hidden dimensions: the unification of physics and consciousness 
SN  - 9780231141512
U1  - 126 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Physics--Philosophy
KW  - Psychophysics
KW  - Quantum theory
KW  - Buddhism
N2  - "Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness, B. Alan Wallace, Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain, but do not emerge from it. Rather, the entire natural world of mind and matter, subjects and objects, arises from a unitary dimension of reality that is more fundamental than these dualities, as proposed by Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung. To test his hypothesis, Wallace employs the Buddhist meditative practice of samatha, refining one's attention and metacognition, to create a kind of telescope to examine the space of the mind. Drawing on the work of the physicist John Wheeler, he then proposes a more general theory in which the participatory nature of reality is envisioned as a self-excited circuit. In comparing these ideas to the Buddhist theory known as the Middle Way philosophy, Wallace explores further aspects of his "general theory of ontological relativity," which can be investigated by means of vipasyana, or insight, meditation."--
ER  -