Quantum Police

[Luke T.]

Two books by Deepak Chopra:

Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine

Early on in Quantum Healing, Deepak Chopra asks an interesting question: Why, when your body mends a broken arm, is it not considered a miracle, but when your body rids itself of cancer, it is? Chopra believes the two phenomena spring from the same well, that the body is capable of doing much more than we assume it can. He calls this ability to cure disease from within "quantum healing," and shows how we're all capable of it. He believes intelligence exists everywhere in our bodies, in each of our 50 trillion cells, and that therefore each cell knows how to heal itself. It's a fascinating assertion, one that remains unprovable by science but overwhelmingly true by anecdote.

Do dah.

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

Chopra ( Quantum Healing ) is one of our perennial gurus, appealing to millions but offering them a suspect brew of panacea and escapism. The message of his new book? "We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of the scenery, not of the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being." The basis for his belief, Chopra argues, is quantum physics and the work of such scientists as Heisenberg, Bohr and Einstein, with whose help Chopra proposes to tell us how to stave off the inevitable changes brought on by mortality and the passing of years. He advises us on how to "defeat entropy," to "believe" enough to offer palpable resistance to processes of physical alteration, and to "reinterpret your body" such that renewal will come of it.

Defeat entropy!

 

[Luke T.]

You can purchase a psychic reading on eBay from the Quantum Shaman for only $9.95!

The name "Quantum Shaman" was given to me by my most beloved and enlightened teacher, for it was his contention that any spiritual evolution is supported by a thorough understanding of the Quantum Energies at work in our lives, and it is to that understanding that I have dedicated my life. As beings of energy, we have always been here and always will be, and so there is no real separation between the world of Man and the world of Spirit. Each is intricately woven into the other, like threads of the tapestry of Life.

 

[arthwollipot]

OK, my head just exploded. Excuse me while I go and collect all the bits, and then you can proceed.

 

[vbloke]

I've emailed the "Quantum Shamen" asking her to explain exactly what she thinks quantum means.

 

[Oldpossum]

Continuing the Discworld reference.

I particulary liked the paraphrasing of the Hesenberg "Cat in a Box" paradox from Lords and Ladies.

"Technicaly a cat locked up in a box can be in one of two states, either alive or dead, and you don't know which it will be untill you open the box and look.
In this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious."