The Spiritual Universe

In The Spiritual Universe by Fred Alan Wolf, we explore the world of spirituality from a new perspective. Many people wonder if the soul really exists, what happens to it when we are no more and so on.

Less people wonder where our soul actually is or where it goes when we pass.

Locations like Heaven and Hell may or may not be accurate, however, besides Heaven being "up" and Hell being "down" where and or when are they and does our soul ever actually go there?

These are the questions, and many more I am sure, that brought to life what was to be The Spiritual Universe.

Have you ever thought about re-incarnation? If you thought it was possible, did you think further and ask, "what can I come back as?", "are there limits or boundaries?".

Have you ever wondered if the computer you are reading this on has a soul, or if that's even possible?

Why or why not you might ask.

Fred Alan Wolf writes:

“Physicist Frank Tipler, at the time of this writing, Professor of mathematical Physics at Tulane University in New Orleans, in his recent book The Physics of Immortality, makes a daring scientifically based proposal, bound to shock some, offend many, and delight, I suppose, the few. Tipler offers no excuses for his bold proposals concerning the soul, God, death, and the Christian form of resurrection. For this he has my admiration."

It is difficult to rock the establishment of concrete minds these days --- in fact it is in any day, as Galileo, Kepler, Bruno and many others would testify if we could resurrect them. In brief, Tipler says we shall all know life again at the final moment of the universe, and then we shall experience life eternal. That is, we shall be reborn and never know death again. The catch is that we all shall be computer simulations contained in microcomputers, interlinked by light-speed signals traversing the whole universe and spending an eternity of time in just the last few billionths of a billionth of a nanosecond (a billionth of a second) of the universe's existence, just before it all comes to a crunching halt.

Wolf certainly succeeds in pointing up the limitations of the old Newtonian science. Logical, objective, materialist science gave us industrialization, and one of industrialization's undeniable results is a polluted world in which the majority of inhabitants live in poverty. Thus science in its objectivity, the author asserts, fails to provide any usable moral compass. But Wolf indicts science for an even more profound and damaging failing: its contribution to our sense of "spiritual isolation, to a feeling of depression,'' and to the conviction that life is pointless.

He wants somehow to quantify those manifestations that are universally felt but cannot be seen: the diminishment one feels after the death of a loved one; sudden insights that lead to greater knowledge; dreams that transform consciousness as surely as cold logic. 

Such conditions are real and have real effects, he argues, even if they are subjective. 

The old science describes static conditions and cannot deal with the fluid nature of reality except to deny its existence. Quantum physics, however, allows us to begin to grapple with fluid reality, because it recognizes that the observed object changes even as it is observed. 

Does such a recognition suggest the realm of the soul, ebbing in some unmeasurable, timeless constant? 

The argument is essentially this: 

We cannot see the soul, but we can fleetingly observe its effects on consciousness. Therefore, it's real. 

Wolf's language is, thankfully, quite clear, his presentation of ideas deft, including an entertaining tour of theories of the soul from Plato to Einstein. 

In the end, however, he sounds less like a scientist than a Buddhist--or, to be precise, he tries to use Buddhism to explain what science has been unable to describe. Trendy, but earnest and appealing as well.

As I wander daily through the internet world of gurus, spiritists, spiritualists, online masters, new thought advocates, witches and warlocks, so-called scientists hawking their wares they copied straight out of the works of theosophists, scientologists, creationists, and a hundred and one other near-hits or near-misses in mankind’s search for an answer to questions about soul, mind, and the powers that be, it appears there are few, if any, comforting answers.

Do yourself a favor and check out this book...it provides answers to many, if not most, of the questions that have plagued mankind for centuries: it is "The Spiritual Universe" by the quantum physicist, Fred Alan Wolf PhD.

After reading the first few pages, I found I could not put the book down. If you read “The Spiritual Universe” (one physicist’s vision of spirit, soul, matter, and self) you will find that Dr. Wolf has, with great understanding, provided an answer to the age-long question: 

 “What am I and what is my soul?”

He reaches back into the beginning of recorded history to bring forth everything mankind, in his less than infinite wisdom, has decided about his soul, his mind and his God. 

Based on what paradigm you exist in, you can make a more intelligent conclusion about the universe, and to the answers to questions you may have been seeking all your life.

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