Beyond Biocentrism Quotes

“I am reality without beginning . . . I have no part in the illusion of ‘I’ and ‘you,’ ‘this’ and ‘that.’ I am . . . one without a second, bliss without end, the unchanging, eternal truth. I dwell within all beings as . . . the pure consciousness, the ground of all phenomena, internal and external. I am both the enjoyer and that which is enjoyed. In the days of my ignorance, I used to think of these as being separate from myself. Now I know that I am all.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“So, given that the vast majority of humans who ever lived are not alive today, it would be an oversight to ignore their insights.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“number of ways things can happen is stupendous. The mind’s potential lies beyond its own comprehension.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“Do all living creatures experience some analogue of our own sense of rapture at the deep purples in a twilight sky?”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“As Wheeler explained at the time, “Nature at the quantum level is not a machine that goes its inexorable way. Instead what answer we get depends on the question we put, the experiment we arrange, the registering device we choose. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening.” Posing an example, he set up a fascinating mind-experiment. Utilizing the fact that a strong mass or gravity warps space-time, he imagined a small, distant light source like a quasar, whose bits of light must traverse the vicinity of a foreground massive galaxy en route to our eyes. If the geometry is correct—if the distant quasar, the intermediate massive galaxy, and our Earth are all on a perfectly straight line—each photon’s path will be warped to pass either above or below that galaxy. (The photon cannot go straight through the foreground galaxy because the galaxy’s mass has altered the actual geometry of space-time so that the shortest “highway” from the quasar to Earth is no longer a seemingly straight line. In any case, the material in the foreground galaxy would block the quasar’s light from penetrating it, even if it tried to travel that way.) Then it will continue for billions of more years before reaching our telescopes here on Earth (see Figure 8-4). If they really had a 50/50 chance of taking either route, which path did each photon traverse? Wheeler’s conclusion: The event, billions of years ago, didn’t really happen until we observe it today. Only now will a particular photon pass above or below the foreground galaxy billions of years ago. In other words, the past isn’t something that has already irrevocably occurred. Rather, long-ago events depend on the present observer. Until they’re observed at this moment, the events didn’t really unfold, but lurked in a blurry probabilistic state, all ready to become an actual “past” occurrence only upon our current observation. This astonishing possibility is called retrocausality.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“La teoría cuántica comenzó, como ya hemos visto, con el hallazgo de que en la tierra de lo diminuto –el ámbito que dicta en última instancia lo que sucede en la realidad macrocósmica y visible– las partículas no se comportan como exigiría la lógica. Muy pronto, sus defensores comprendieron que, para ser de utilidad, es decir, para poder predecir comportamientos en el universo físico, la teoría cuántica tenía que trabajar exclusivamente con probabilidades.”
― Robert Lanza, Más allá del biocentrismo

“De hecho, la mecánica cuántica sostiene que, en lo que respecta a los 1080 objetos subatómicos que constituyen el universo observable, ninguno tiene existencia real ni auténtico movimiento. Lo único que es real, insiste la teoría cuántica, son los sucesos observados que emergen de las difusas posibilidades que existen siempre. Esto es tan importante que tenemos que ponernos los cinturones y comprender de verdad los experimentos que cambiaron la noción del tiempo y el espacio para siempre.”
― Robert Lanza, Más allá del biocentrismo

“Consciousness and awareness never began, and will never end.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“space is part of the mental logic of the animal organism, the software that molds sensations into multidimensional objects so that we can make sense of the world and accomplish all our vital functions, like finding food or searching for where we hid the TV remote.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“Space is utterly quiet, so that the collision between small asteroids and the tumultuous births of galaxies unfold in silence. For us, knowledge of the cosmos arrives solely on the wings of photons.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“we must rid ourselves of the notion that space and time are actual qualities in things in themselves . . . all bodies, together with the space in which they are, must be considered nothing but mere representations in us, and exist nowhere but in our thoughts.” Biocentrism,”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

“space is penetrated instantaneously, in zero time, no matter the distance. All this strongly suggests that the gap between bodies is not real on some level.”
― Robert Lanza, Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death