The Summary

The Quantum Wave State
The universe is a quantum entity. For our purposes that means that everything has two states: the material state that we see all around us every day and a quantum wave state that we cannot see. Here, "everything" is quite inclusive -- matter, energy, life and consciousness. The two states are intimately related. Everything "happens" in the quantum wave state and the material world we live in is a series of "snapshots"of the ever-changing quantum wave state.

Transcendence
The quantum wave states for things with little or no mass, like light, life and consciousness, transcend time and space. That is, they are everywhere and everywhen. This idea lets us account for all of the transcendent phenomena that current science has to ignore, like the paranormal, the spiritual (not religious) and evolution.

It’s All One
Physics tells us that when two things interact, they must share the same wave function. Applying this idea to the higher-level wave functions, i.e. consciousness, tells us that all consciousness is contained in a single wave function. This is a phenomena that people have always recognized. It is called God.

Up to this point, the model tells us that we have a transcendent side, indeed, our consciousness is our transcendent side. Throughout history some people have been able to perceive that transcendent consciousness and they have always found it to be very comforting.

Life and Health
I said that life has a quantum transcendent side, by which I mean physiology. Our physiology is spread out with, and accessible to, our consciousness. That means that we can know about, and influence, people’s health at any distance. This phenomena is called energy healing and prayer.

Why Everyone Is Not Enlightened
There have always been a few people who live in a world that I described in the previous paragraphs: serene, aware of their connections to the divine and able to be a healing presence wherever they go. The model that I just described tells us that everyone is capable of living like that. A quick look around or a cursory reading of history tells us that only a very small fraction of the population live like that. Those people are often called enlightened. So, for this model to be complete, it needs to account for why everyone is not enlightened. To do that I use an outside-the-mainstream model of perception: Karl Pribram’s Holonomic Brain theory. In this theory, all perception is learned, and everything we perceive is built up from information in our memory. We cannot know anything absolutely. This learning applies to everything from basic perception of objects, that’s a chair, that’s a rock, to high level perceptions about meaning, this is a safe person or situation, this person or situation is not safe. This is a very useful survival tool because humans learn to live wherever they are born. We have successfully occupied every niche of the earth’s ecosystem. It is also the source of much suffering. We can learn “good” stuff and we can learn “bad” stuff. What we learn about the safety of the word and our role in it depends very much on the family environment where we grow up. We can learn things that are not true, like Jews and Catholics are all bad people, or everyone is out to get me. Most people who learn those kinds of things live their entire lives assuming they are true reality.

It’s Feelings
If we can’t know anything absolutely, and we can learn things that serve us as well as well as things that do not serve us, how do we get along? I believe that the best we can do in determining what is really real is to rely on our intuitive sense of rightness and wrongness. This sense comes to us as a visceral sensation in the body, a feeling or a felt sense. This is not a 100% accurate indicator, but it is the best we have.

The Trauma Piece
We need one more piece to completely account for why the world is the way it is. That piece is unresolved traumatic experience. A traumatic experience is one that invokes your fight-or-flight response and neither your fighting nor your fleeing works. Trauma comes in two forms: physical and developmental. Physical trauma is abuse, assault, accident, disease, war and such. Developmental trauma is growing up in a family that does not provide one or more important things that children need, like attention, support, love, acknowledgement. Unresolved trauma has two impacts on people. First, if it is not resolved, then the subconscious continuously recreates the traumatic experience in your life, e.g. PTSD and abused women returning to their abusers. Then it makes you ignore the sensations in your body, that is, it cuts you off from your primary source of wisdom about what is right and not right. Another reason for growing up disconnected from your body’s innate wisdom is that you are a guy raised in a patriarchal culture. I don’t know if that counts as developmental trauma, but the effect is the same. People who cannot rely on their body’s intuitive wisdom tend to try to use reason and logic as substitutes. This never works well.

There is a great deal of trauma in the world and many patriarchal cultures. The result is that most people are cut off from their connection to the transcendent consciousness of the universe so they behave as if they are not connected to anything.

A Hopeful State
That is a very brief overview of the model of reality I am proposing here. And all of this scientific and religious heresy combines to give a model that does a good job of accounting for the world we see: everyone has the potential to live a serene and connected life. Very few actually live like that because there are so many forces and process in most cultures that oppose and repress that kind of world view. The bumper sticker, “All is One”, is literally true, but not in the material world. It is true in the transcendent world of quantum consciousness.

I find this a very encouraging world view. It tells me that the, mostly male, authority figures in materialist science, organized religion and patriarchy got it wrong. By repressing feeling, intuition and women, they are cutting themselves, and everyone who follows them, from the true source of power in the universe. The feminist mystics seem to have gotten it right.

I have tried to explain all this in more detail in my books. It is a world view that has enormous potential to foster positive change in the word (if lots of people adopted it).