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“Appling created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker,”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“We are not separate from reality observing it from a distance. Our observations are shaping reality.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“When the scientists didn’t know which slit the photon went through the light acted like a wave, when they did know, it acted like a particle. Without knowing, wave, with knowing, particle. How did the particle know that the scientists knew? How does what a scientist knows affect how reality shows up? This was really weird.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“The point here is not to try to concoct new concepts of time and space, it is simply to realize that we have very strong ideas about time and space that are going to need to be creatively challenged in order to embrace the implications of quantum science. And the same goes for consciousness. How can a photon know if another slit exists, and how can it know that it is being detected? How can the fact that we know where a photon is, affect how it behaves? How can an electron on one side of the galaxy know what its sister is doing on the other? Our entire concept of what it means to know and who it is that knows is ripe for questioning.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“The idea of the absolutely First must be entirely separated from all conception of or reference to anything else; for what involves a second is itself a second to that second. The First must therefore be present and immediate, so as not to be second to a representation. It must be fresh and new, for if old it is second to its former state. It must be initiative, original, spontaneous, and free; otherwise it is second to a determining cause. It is also something vivid and conscious; so only it avoids being the object of some sensation. It precedes all synthesis and all differentiation; it has no unity and no parts. It cannot be articulately thought: assert it, and it has already lost its characteristic innocence; for assertion always implies a denial of something else. Stop to think of it, and it has flown! What the world was to Adam on the day he opened his eyes to it, before he had drawn any distinctions, or had become conscious of his own existence—that is first, present, immediate, fresh, new, initiative, original, spontaneous, free, vivid, conscious, and evanescent. Only, remember that every description of it must be false to it.”
― Jeff Carreira, Radical Inclusivity: Expanding Our Minds Beyond Dualistic Thinking

“No matter where you look for something that is not an experience, the moment you find it you will realize that you have only found another experience. Experience is the stuff that reality is made of.”
― Jeff Carreira, Radical Inclusivity: Expanding Our Minds Beyond Dualistic Thinking

“In my senior year, I took a yearlong course in quantum physics. That course hammered the first big crack in my materialistic worldview. As I learned about the scientific community’s struggle to understand what was happening at the atomic and subatomic level of our universe, I discovered something I was not expecting. Physicists are in many ways just making up stories about reality. They don’t know what is ultimately going on. Science is very good at answering questions about what is happening, but not as good at understanding why it’s happening.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“In philosophy, the opposite of materialism is idealism. A materialist believes that the foundation of reality is matter and an idealist believes that the foundation of reality is consciousness. The story of evolution that I recounted above is a materialistic interpretation of evolution. It starts with matter and adds consciousness later. It is a story of evolution in which matter is seen as primary and consciousness as a secondary byproduct of matter.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Any reality that cannot be experienced is essentially unreal.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Perhaps reality is being created in each and every moment, as it is being experienced.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“The expression may come through in words, images, or any other creative act, but the most important thing is that we let ourselves be moved by something beyond who we think we are. We are effectively allowing ourselves to be guided by the energy of a paradigm that is trying to find its way into this world. All we have to do is let it move us—let it speak with”
― Jeff Carreira, Paradigm Shifting: Guiding Evolution from the Inside

“Think about this, could you truly call something real if it could never be experienced by anyone or anything at any time? Can something that is utterly and completely incomprehensible and imperceptible be real? Another way to ask this question is to ask if things can have qualities independent of anyone’s experience of them.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“The Big Bang Theory, as it is known, is not a very good theory for more reasons than we will go into here, but I can tell you that I did spend time reading literature both pro and con and I came to the conclusion that it isn’t sound. There just isn’t a better theory out there yet. To me, and obviously people differ on this, saying the universe was created in a big bang is no more explanatory than saying it was created by God. The Big Bang seems like a scientifically comfortable way of saying God.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Today we are in a place where some of the fundamental assumptions of the current paradigm have been called into question. Quantum physics has already shown us that our understanding of reality is limited at best, and perhaps just plain wrong. The ground that the modern world was built on has begun to shake. The time is ripe for a paradigm shift. This shift needs volunteers, people who are willing to believe in the impossible and pioneer a new understanding of reality. I wrote this book as encouragement for those who feel this call.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts