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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to give my profound thanks to my friend and teacher, Dr. H. Dean Brown. A spirit such as Dean’s, which has now gained independence from all bondage and achieved absolute consciousness, resides in the realm of ritam bhara pragyam. Dean often described this as “the plane of the absolute.” This Sanskrit phrase refers to the level of consciousness that knows only truth: the part of us that is unaffected by our daily experiences and is the home of our soul; the clearest, most direct source for answers on our journey.

Dean, who was a distinguished physicist, a mystic, and a Sanskrit scholar, taught that emptiness (sunyata) is where we encounter this plane of experience, the domain of eternal form. This is a Vedic concept that corresponds to Plato’s field of ideals, Jung’s archetypes, and De Chardin’s noosphere. The pinnacle of Vedic thought is the idea that our innermost self (Atman—ever more subtle, ever contracting) is identical to the entire universe (Brahman — ever expanding, cosmic). We are one with everything.

For the thirty years when I knew him, Dean taught that when we approach the universe — play with it, understand it, and produce effects through our pure center — life becomes active and joyful. If we are simply centered, we become nothing and everything. Erwin Schrödinger, who perfected quantum mechanics and was revered by Dean, believed this equating of Atman and Brahman to be “the grandest of all thoughts.”

I also wish to sincerely thank Dr. Jane Katra, with whom I wrote two previous books, for stimulating many of the ideas in this book as well. And I thank Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher for her insightful contributions to the chapters that discuss the end of physics and the physics of psychic abilities.