PHYSICISTS BETWEEN VALIDITY AND PROHIBITION

Physicists show increasingly that the universe is how we experience it: reality is subjective.

Now, in the beginning of our lives, in the so-called preverbal stage, it is not our conscious but our subconscious that experiences the universe. And in that early period we see ourselves as the center of universe. We experience reality in a subjective way. So, babies and physicists agree, to some extent.

As we grow up we become more conscious and learn to overcome our subjectivity. What is more, we learn that subconsciously shaped self-centeredness and subjectivity are virtually prohibited.

Then, by profound self-inquiry, our conscious can rediscover those hidden subconscious dynamics. Our self-centeredness and subjectivity may grow again, hopefully more in balance with awareness of outer realities. In itself, this searching for balance between inner and outer realities is a challenging journey. That search can be called the road to enlightenment.

For physicists traveling that road is extra difficult. Through their own scientific research they are becoming aware that subjective perception is valid. This obliges them to not only look at particles, stars and mathematical equations, but also into themselves, their core instrument of observation and measurement.

They come to struggle with the distinction between validity and prohibition. Their research tells them that subjectivity is scientifically valid but their feeling tells about another type of subjectivity, the one that is a prohibited remnant of infancy. The solution may be to distinguish between self-centered subjectivity and conscious subjectivity.