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The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God without Belief (1999; with Jane Katra)
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To paraphrase the distinguished physicist John Archibald Wheeler, we would again say that the description of the mechanism of psychic abilities will be found in the geometry of space-time, and not in the electromagnetic fields. What Wheeler actually said was, “There is nothing in the world except curved empty space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism... are only manifestations of the bending of space. Physics is geometry!”13 When he made this assertion in 1957, what Wheeler had in mind was that, in spite of the successes of quantum theory, the geometrical approach gives a more comprehensive model of space-time. In addition, the physical laws that we experience, such as the laws of gravity and force, derive principally from symmetry laws and from the geometry of the space-time metric. Symmetry laws describe the fact that a given physics experiment conducted at different places or times must give the same result. The law of conservation of energy, which is the foundation of physics, can be derived explicitly from these symmetry laws. Similarly, I think that since psi must be compatible with physics, its explanation will also be derived from the geometry of space-time.
When we say that the eventual description of the physics of psi will come from geometry, what we mean is that psi is often seen as paradoxical because we presently misconstrue the nature of the space-time in which we reside. The “naive realist” picture of our reality says that we are each separate creatures sitting on our own well-circumscribed points in space-time. But for the past thirty years, modern physics has been asserting that this model is not correct.
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