Graham Smetham
An exploration of the absurdities and deceptions of both ultra New-Age fantasists and their opponents, the hardcore quantum materialists. The primary areas of concern for this book, which lie within the field of quantum philosophy, metaphysics and implications for the understanding ’spiritual’ worldviews, are twofold. Firstly, to clearly present some remarkable conclusions it is possible to safely make concerning the relationship between modern quantum discoveries and the claims of ’spiritual’ worldviews, focusing primarily on Buddhist metaphysics. Secondly, to highlight two misleading intellectual agendas of deception, which operate today within the realm of quantum philosophy / spirituality. Within this latter concern I also focus on a particularly egregious example of New-Age ’propheteering’, a neologism I have concocted hopefully for obvious implications, wherein a recent New-Age Propheteer has plagiarized my work for his own advancement. The first deceptive narrative consists of the often over-inflated and over-simplified claims made by certain New-Age prophets and propheteers, many of whom seem to make significant profits by means of their overblown New-Age ’propheteering’. The second ’extreme’ viewpoint is that which I have termed ’subtle quantum materialism’. This is a kind of intellectual rear-guard action on the part of a cabal of physicists and philosophers who are committed to undermining the implications of quantum insights concerning the centrality of consciousness within the process of reality and the functioning of the universe.
