INTRODUCTION

Quantum Physics was born in 1900 when the German physicist Max Planck sought a way for electric lamps to emit more light and last longer while using less energy. Planck and the pioneers of Quantum Physics, with complex mathematical equations, discovered much more than low electricity consumption and laid the foundations of the modern era in all fields of our lives, overturning misconceptions held by classical physics about reality.

Although without Quantum Physics there would be no nuclear bombs or nuclear power plants, there would also have been no rapid advancements in Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Cosmology, Economics, and technology. There would be no transistors, television, video, microwave technology, lasers, CDs, DVDs, digital technology, computers, the internet, modern communication technologies, advanced materials, artificial intelligence, rapid data analysis, and a wealth of information.

We would not even know the elements of Chemistry and their properties, we would not have understood DNA, our biology and physiology, the pharmaceutical industry would not have developed, modern medical diagnoses and treatments, molecular biology, biotechnology, genomic analysis, drugs for personalized care, and we would not know how the universe was born, how it works, and how it evolves.

Since my childhood, I loved Physics because it answered my questions about the phenomena I observed around me, giving me the reassuring illusion that I understood the mysteries of the world. However, at some point, I became angry with it because, despite my repeated efforts to see an atom and the electrons moving around it, I couldn't manage it. Thus, I shifted my interest from the atoms of matter to human atoms and turned to Philosophy, History, Psychology, as well as ancient ontological ideas of the East – specifically Buddhist psychology, Chinese Taoism, and later Japanese Zen.

In 1982, I was fascinated by the book by physicist Fritjof Capra, "The Tao of Physics," which connected ancient Eastern knowledge with Quantum Physics. In fact, I didn't really understand it, so I substituted my lack of knowledge with imagination, which allowed me to convey my excitement about the book to my friends, along with excerpts from it that I sometimes parroted and sometimes distorted.

When I realized this, I distanced myself from the quantum and stayed with the human. However, first loves are not forgotten. I continued to read with interest the scientific columns of the newspaper, and there came a time when I was surprised to find that some theoretical physicists had also shifted their interest from the atoms of matter to human atoms and were talking about something they called quantum consciousness, while at the same time, there was a growing number of publications by neuroscientists and evolutionary biologists.

The frequency with which such publications appeared in widely circulated periodicals demonstrated that they evidently inspired a segment of readers. What they said inspired me, once again giving me the reassuring illusion that I understood the mysteries of human existence! Prompted by the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I decided to dedicate myself to the study of quantum physics. After all, first loves are not forgotten!

What I thought would be a historical walk turned out to be an adventurous and often bloody path, with ideas being drowned, books hidden and burned, and, most importantly, people being led to the fires of the Inquisition simply for claiming that the smallest building block of matter is the atom. And contrary to what we believe, I realized that this path began in India in the 10th century BC and lasted 3,000 years before the existence of the atom was finally accepted! And the very next moment, the way was opened for modern physics!

Then I moved on to quantum theory, where I received an unexpected gift: Due to pandemic measures, universities, research centers, and publishers from all over the world granted free access to all academic studies, both modern and historical, as well as unusually large book contents, which gave me the opportunity to conduct an honest study. By mid-May, this free access stopped, but fortunately, I had managed to download many publications.

Having already followed the bloody path of atomic theory, it did not surprise me greatly that quantum theory was criticized for many years, even by great physicists like Einstein. I studied academic papers not only from major universities but also from India, Kenya, and Afghanistan. My sources included: Annalen der Physik, Albert Einstein Institute for Advanced Study, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Humboldt University of Berlin, Christian Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Munchen, Trinity College in Cambridge, Oxford University, University of Nottingham, Stanford, Princeton, City University of New York, Niels Bohr Institute, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, University of Copenhagen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Jewish virtual library, American Association of Physics Teachers, Fukuoka University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, University of Novi Sad, University of Calcutta, Technical University of Mombasa, Kenyatta University, Mus Alparslan University Makale, Kabul.

Also: Personal websites of scientists, their talks and interviews from YouTube, and conference proceedings, where significant announcements were made. With the same research process, I also approached the ontological dimension of quantum physics, quantum consciousness. It goes without saying that the scientific inquiries sparked great interest and simultaneously faced significant criticisms. The entire field was initially characterized as pseudoscience, but eventually, the credibility of scientists working on quantum consciousness did not allow for such classifications, so the tones softened.

In the third part of this study, the historical journey of these research efforts is presented, along with significant experiments that verify the existence of quantum processes and quantum consciousness. This investigation was not merely a collection of knowledge and information. It was a journey through inspired ideas and scientific evidence, which gave me the thrilling understanding that what we consider solid matter is merely an illusion and that what exists are waves of frequencies and microscopic particles swirling like vortices within an immense void.

Lina Saisana, Athens 2020

P.S. In 2020, I sent it electronically to a few people, and here are their comments: A scientific book publisher judged that the texts are correct, there are no scientific errors, but they are information found on the internet. In such books, the reader seeks the authority and titles of the author, and that does not help me. A university professor said that my writing was a pleasant adventure, which actually taught him quite a few things and often led him to reflection, he found the style and the human dimension with which I approach scientific topics very engaging and interesting, which keeps the reader's interest alive, praised the impressively extensive bibliography, but pointed out that most of what is presented about quantum consciousness belongs to pseudoscience and concluded: “When an intelligent person, from a different intellectual background, and with different experiences, like you, tries to understand perhaps the most significant scientific achievement of our time, it sets an example that deserves our praise and appreciation.”

I left it aside for two years. However, the university professor wrote to me that the work is creative, with many positive aspects, and that I should not let what I have gained go to waste. A friend who teaches meditation wrote: “I was amazed at how you gathered all this information, unified it, and presented it in a friendly and understandable manner. This book contains scientific evidence and applications of quantum physics that correspond to the experiences of a meditator. It provides an understanding, in a scientific way, of what meditation is and opens pathways for exploration into a reality beyond words and logic.

Thus, with these comments, despite the difficult economic circumstances, this work is being published.

Lina Saisana, 2022