Quantum Physics...

The scientist Werner Heisenberg was one of the founders of quantum
> Physics, that is, of the study of dynamical laws that govern the
> microcosmos. This great discovery represented a strong shock for
> Heisenberg with respect to the 'reality' of the physical world.
> Heisenberg had to accept that things are up to us measuring them,
in
> other words, it is necessary that an observer interacts with a
system
> in order for the system to acquire reality.
>
> What is stated above is totally compatible with the teachings of
> Emptyness (in Buddhism) and Maya (in Hinduism), in which the world
of
> phenomena lacks its own integrity because it is just a mental
> construction; so, if there is no mind then there is no world.
Albert
> Einstein disagreed with this interpretation. He always insisted on
> the idea that Nature has its own reality, independent of any
> observer. In 1939 Rabindranath Tagore talked to Einstein in New
York
> and tried to explain to him that the world depends on the human
> factor, that the beauty and the truth are not independent of the
> human being; but Einstein never changed his concept about the
reality
> of the Universe.
>
> We would like to mention Heisenberg's second shock:
>
> In the Yoga International magazine (Vol. 3, No. 6, 1994) it was
> published that Prof. Heisenberg had a spontaneous experience of
> kevala samadhi, which was also confimed by Paul Brunton and Paul
> Cash. It is not surprising that Prof. C.F. von Weizsäcker (we may
> remember that this important german scientist had, in the 1950's,
a
> deep inner experience during his visit to Ramanasramam at
> Tiruvannamalai) and Heisenberg had invited several yogis to
Germany,
> for example, Gopi Krishna, who explained them how to awake the
> kundalini shakti. In chapter 14, entitled "An experience in the
> Cosmic Consciousness" from the book "Autobiography of a Yogi", by
> Yogananda Paramahansa, you can find a beautiful poem in which is
> described the mystical experience of Samadhi.
>
> The essential point is that in kevala samadhi the mind is turned
off
> and the physical world disappears with its conceptions of space
and
> time, the universe is perceived as an illusion without intrinsic
> reality, the ego is dissolved revealing the Oneness of Creation
and
> the existence of the Cosmic Mind. When somebody experiences
samadhi
> even only once, a deep internal transformation results that
> annihilates all patterns of "reality" of the world. Thus, it is
not
> difficult to imagine the impact that the great experience of
kevala
> samadhi had on Heisenberg. Surely this experience reinforced his
> concept of 'reality' that he introduced in the 1920's as the
> fundament of quantum Physics.
>
> Samadhi is a state which anyone describes in very personal terms,
so
> we are now trying to find some writings in which Heisenberg
himself
> narrated his own mystical experience. This would be very basic for
> the establishing a close connection between science and
> spirituality............from
>
http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/04/science_and_spirituality_heise