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Lex Pelger is a longtime
explorer of forbidden medicine, outlawed sacraments and unconventional
behavior, both as chronicler and participant. I first met Lex in 2017 at
Bruce Damer's Digibarn in Boulder Creek where he was researching a
section of Damer's Timothy Leary archives. Recently he's created his own Lex Files,
a series of audio (and now video) interviews with persons working at
the edge that have attracted his interest. Lex began this project in
January 2020 and has since produced nearly 50 high quality interviews
with a variety of individuals which include Britta Love on Sex as a Psychedelic (#11), Erik Davis on UFOs as Spiritual Objects (#16), Mike Crowley on The Psychedelic Roots of Buddhism (#30), Jeffrey Kripal on Mysticism, the Supernormal and Books from the Future (#34), Harald Atmanspacker on The Mind/Matter Problem (#48) and, most recently, Nick Herbert on The Poetry of Quantum Reality (#49).
The Lex Files: Season Finale: The Poetry of Quantum Reality with Dr. Nick Herbert
Dr. Nick Herbert is one of the original bad boys of quantum physics. He's written one of the most readable textbooks on quantum reality and is featured as a countercultural hero in David Kaiser's book: How the Hippies Saved Physics. Today he explains quantum reality, quantum tantra, and his pursuit of the riddles of consciousness. He also performs his quantum poetry and explains some of the history behind Kaiser's book. It's a grand talk with a marvelous old wizard -- and the ideal way to end our second season.
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Nick Herbert, seeking inspiration
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1 comment:
Consciousness is not a riddle. It's a universal rather elementary property of driven non-equilibrium interacting many particle systems in the Frohlich macro-quantum coherent state of different kinds of quasi-particles and/or collective modes that are the non-equilibrium analog of equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates. The order parameter is the physical mind field.
Also there is no consensus on quantum reality. It is contingent on the interpretation. Nick's epistemic Bohr-based idea of reality is different from my ontological Bohm-Sutherland action-reaction based idea of reality.
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