When Nicolaus Copernicus discovered the Earth wasn’t the center of the Universe, everything changed. When Isaac Newton figured out the law of gravity from a falling apple, everything changed. When Benjamin Franklin harvested electricity from lightening and Thomas Edison made the first commercial light bulb, everything changed. Today, when quantum physicists realize our physical universe isn’t real, that it’s just a hologram, everything … wait! Nothing’s changed – yet.
“Butterflies Are Free To Fly” offers a new and radical approach to spiritual evolution based on the recent scientific experiments in quantum physics and brain research outlined in Part One. Given that the physical universe which looks and feels so real to us is actually a unique holographic projection from our own brain, the author examines various models for life and living that are very different than what we have been told and taught.
“This is the only radical thinking that you need to do,” Dr. Amit Goswami is quoted as saying. “But it is so radical, it is so difficult, because our tendency is that the world is already ‘out there,’ independent of my experience. It is not. Quantum Physics has been so clear about it.”
For example, in Part Two we are introduced to something the author calls an “Infinite I,” which is creating our unique holographic experiences. Then there is the “Human Game Model,” offering explanations all the way from why we experience pain and suffering to how we can change our reactions and responses by letting go of our judgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears. The end result, suggests the author, is peeling away all the layers of false identities that make up the “ego,” transforming and emerging from our cocoon as a “no-self.”
Part Three of the book is a series of questions and answers to offer alternative explanations consistent with these models on subjects such as money, past lives, karma, trust, and the “Earth Environment.”
This book will leave you thinking, because this book is truly radical.
still in the chrysalis… I don’t believe this is a roadmap for anyone’s spiritual quest or a manual to enlightenment. It is however a miggledy-mash of new age religions ( though it claims not to be), quantum physics (in a very elementary crude sense) and Eastern philosophy. The author doesn’t seem to have a handle on what he is proposing. The implications of his theories beg questions he is unable to satifactorily answer. He does make some valid points, but they are neither new or radical. My expectations were not to find “the way” or “the truth”, so in that sense I am not disappointed. The electronic form made for an interactive experience, with embedded links, videos and excerpts from other texts. I did enjoy this format. I appreciated the author’s humor and his conviction, but I think I’ll head back into the theatre and finish the flick!
Nicely done. A book can’t be all things to all people. And, this is a book. So therefore, this book will not be everything to you. However, it has its own gestalt which is a written form of encouragement for people going through life-rocking questions about meaning.So, I liked it… I read it online in bits. Sometimes its less than kind to those still searching or still cocooned. I think everyone always has remnants of their cocoon even as wistfully re-experienced memories. David Hawkins (Power vs. Force and many other excellent messages and books) would soften this message a bit, but I think he would support a read of this book, as do I.
Some Great Metaphors and a Little Blather I didn’t expect to like this book, but I did. The introduction is unusually indifferent about whether or not the reader accepts this as truth. “I’m a scout, not a guru or teacher. Try it. See for yourself. Find and keep what you find to be true.” That is so unusual a stance from “spiritual” writers that I lowered my shield of skepticism for further investigation. And I’m glad I did.I haven’t become a convert, but I wasn’t looking to be saved or converted to some other “ism” or “new age” theory or philosophy. I found the book to be more credible and creative than Ken Wilber’s so called “philosophy” which seems to cause others to swoon. There’s little philosophy here. It’s more an interesting conjecture that is based on some of the deepest mysteries of physics.While such speculation isn’t close to proof, it is just plausible enough that I was willing to think about and explore the metaphor rather than discarding it as untrue because it is unreal. Truth equals…