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https://courseinconsciousness.org/
Stanley Sobottka
Emeritus Professor of Physics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4714

Permission is granted to copy and distribute freely. Changes in content are not permitted.

Important: Because this course makes many statements, the reader might think that it comprises a new belief system, either to be adopted or rejected. However, that is not my intention nor is it the intention of the sages of non-duality who are quoted and discussed. Beliefs are not understanding in themselves — they can actually be obstructions to understanding. Because Reality cannot be described in words, the words are meant to be used as pointers to Reality rather than as descriptors of Reality. Hence, this is a course in seeing, not in believing.

Contents

• Dialogue in Consciousness
• Foreword
• Part 1. Quantum Theory and Consciousness
  • Chapter 1. The Three Major Metaphysical Philosophies
  • Chapter 2. Classical Physics from Newton to Einstein
  • Chapter 3. Quantum physics from Planck and Einstein to Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie and Schrödinger
  • Chapter 4. Waves and Interference, Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox and Bell’s Inequality
  • Chapter 5. Conscious Mind and Free Will
  • Chapter 6. What Does Quantum Theory Mean?
• Part 2. The Metaphysics of Non-Duality
  • Chapter 7. Summary and critique of Amit Goswami’s interpretation of quantum theory within monistic idealism
  • Chapter 8. Transcendental Realms
  • Chapter 9. Perceiving and Conceptualising
  • Chapter 10. The Teaching of Non-Duality
  • Chapter 11. The Functioning of the Mind
  • Chapter 12. Space, Time, Causality and Destiny
  • Chapter 13. Some Useful Metaphors
  • Chapter 14. Religion, Belief and Non-Duality
  • Chapter 15. Free Will and Responsibility
  • Chapter 16. Love Seeking Itself
• Part 3. The End of Suffering and the Discovery of Our True Nature
  • Chapter 17. How to Live One’s Life
  • Chapter 18. Practices and Teachers
  • Chapter 19. Surrender, Mantra and Trust
  • Chapter 20. Understanding by Direct Seeing
  • Chapter 21. Resistance, Clinging and Acceptance
  • Chapter 22. Disidentification from Attachment and Aversion
  • Chapter 23. Disidentification Through Inquiry
  • Chapter 24. Disidentification Through Meditation
  • Chapter 25. Love Finding Itself
  • Chapter 26. Very Short Summary
• Appendix. My Resources and Teachers

From the publisher:

I have formatted the site to make it much more readable on mobile devices. While I have not changed the content in accord with the notice on the original site, I have taken the liberty of adjusting some of the typographical conventions. I’ve also updated most of the dead links, but there are still more to be updated. If you find any you can email [email protected]. —David Porter