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  <title>Journey to Ixtlan</title>
  <subtitle>(are we there yet?)</subtitle>
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    <name>kokopelle</name>
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  <updated>2014-08-18T03:31:24Z</updated>
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    <title>Quantum Creativity</title>
    <published>2014-08-18T03:31:24Z</published>
    <updated>2014-08-18T03:31:24Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;em&gt;From 2006...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been reading a wonderful book ('The Self-Aware Universe' by Amit Goswami) about quantum mechanics and consciousness. I was thinking just now about how love connected into what I've been reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There exists a unified model of the brain as a combination of a quantum and a classical mechanism(s). The classical part of our brains measure and classifies. The quantum part of the brain collapses the quantum possibilities into a single point, creating a perceived reality and giving us creativity, free will, and &amp;quot;ah-has!&amp;quot;. The paradox of the brain is that we experience separation from others where there is no separation. The driver for this separation is that the quantum/classical interfacing point is experienced in a transcendent state, and we cannot &amp;quot;see&amp;quot; this connection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An analogy is the false logic loop created by the question, &amp;quot;have you stopped beating your wife?&amp;quot; It can be answered with neither yes nor no. Instead it is solved by a transcendent wave of the hand, for we either don't have a wife or we are not beating her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the experiencing of sadness, in the same moment of coming from a desire for happiness, awakens the transcendent mind to the true nature of love. Love stands outside of the wife/beating and sadness/happiness logic loops. It is transcendent, and only is indirectly apparent when we realize the paradox of emotion. To seek happiness as a respite from sadness is like seeking an ending to our beating the wife. It cannot happen. What can happen is our realization that the duality of sadness/happiness is an illusion, and love stands outside of this illusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&amp;ditemid=445522" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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