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Since Descartes the western philosophy and science insisted upon the duality of the subject and the object, i e. of mind and matter, both the modern physics and philosophy are coming to the conclusion that reality is non-dual; that there is no epistemologically and ontologically valid ultimate difference between the subject and the object. The idea of this participatory, non-dual, universe is essentially a mystic vision of reality; it is the ancient, integral, vedic vision of reality.
Thus the modern physics is reaching at the conclusion that the sub-atomic universe is a proto-biological universe -a view Fritjof Capra has popularised in his celebrated book, The Tao of Physics (1975). All the later theories of physics formulated in the course of the eighties-the Bell's Theorem, S-Matrix or the bootstrap theory, the superstring supergravity, superforce, etc. theories-point to the protobiological reality of the Consciousness underlying the very heart of the matter. Consequently the modern physics is fast replacing its mechanistic theory of the cosmos with an evolutionary view of it. The abiding reality of this cosmos is no longer understood to be a What? but is seen as. a Who? the emergence of Consciousness as the Cosmic Purusha--the unifying field of all Reality.
If the modern physics measured reality in terms of wave lengths and frequencies, the new vision of reality grounded in Consciousness is measured in terms of vibrations and resonances. Accordingly we experience reality successively in time and non-successively in eternity. Thus, we have the simultaneous experience of many universes at the same time. Among the best conceptualisations of this non-mechanistic, evolutionary view of the cosmos, Rupert Sheldrake's ideas of formative causation and morphic resonances seem to be capturing maximum world attention at present. One of the associates of the New India Movement, Dr. Devasia, is currently completing a book, theoretically building upon this new evolutionary view of Reality. The book bears a challenging and ambitious title,
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