Emptiness Dreaming: The Story of Creation As Seen through the Eyes of The Quantum Void

By Bill Bauman, Ph.D.

"Emptiness Dreaming" is an innovative, revolutionary exposé of the nature of creation—including multiple dimensions and our very own human existence! Prepare to explore a pioneering new theory of cosmology, derived from a rarely explored source: the Quantum Void!

Bill Bauman leads readers through a compelling, eye-opening voyage in a digestible, step-by-step way— first, through the little-understood mysteries of the quantum world's invisible power, then into the very secretive depths of the quantum void itself: the completely empty, absolute zero zone of pure nothingness.

Complete with visionary interpretations to well over 150 citations of current quantum physics studies and physics scholars and experts from related disciplines, Bauman expresses these confounding ideas in language that is easy for the curious, open-minded non-scientist to understand.

Bauman masterfully demonstrates how our human brains and minds are hard-wired to connect with, and even tap into the creative powers of, our quantum void. The conclusion: We are not only homo sapiens (human beings), but homo quantum—quantum human beings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098346706

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Emptiness Dreaming:

The Story of Creation as Seen through the Eyes of the Quantum Void

Copyright © 2021 by Bill Bauman. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Opening Reflection

The Quantum Void

Introduction

01 Giordano Bruno

02 A Bristlecone Named Raintree

03 A Personal Journey

04 Finding Nothing-ness

05 A Short History of Nothing

06 What Is Nothing-ness?

The Quantum Field

07 The Cosmos and Its Black Holes: A New View

08 Consciousness: Universal and Human

09 Consciousness as Mind

10 Consciousness as Energy

11 Quantum Creation: A Mystery

The Quantum Challenge

12 Unity through Diversity

13 The Morality Conundrum

14 Creating a Quantum Future

15 In Summary . . .

Concluding Reflection

Quantum Musings

Could It Be …

Embracing Empty Space

To Be or Not To Be

Reality: a Quantum Perspective

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Opening Reflection

Welcome to one of the most unusual adventures you can imagine! As we begin our travel on a rarely experienced round-trip journey—into the empty but enticing depths of the quantum void, and back again—I invite us to ponder these prudent words by historian David Christian:

"How did everything begin?

This is the first question faced by any creation myth and

… answering it remains tricky ….

Each beginning seems to presuppose an earlier beginning. ...

Instead of meeting a single starting point,

we encounter an infinity of them,

each of which poses the same problem. ...

There are no entirely satisfactory solutions to this dilemma.

What we have to find is not a solution

but some way of dealing with the mystery ....

And we have to do so using words.

The words we reach for, from God to gravity, are inadequate to the task.

So we have to use language poetically or symbolically;

and such language, whether used by a scientist, a poet, or a shaman,

can easily be misunderstood."

David Christian, Ph.D.

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, 2004

These wise words serve as a perfect introduction to our shared journey into the mystery-filled question of our creation and its nature. How did something come from nothing? What mystery-packed phenomenon is at the control switch of what we call creation? How did our space-time world begin, and what invisible forces remain in charge at its helm? We humans have spent our entire short existence on this planet intrigued and puzzled by such fundamental questions.

Indeed, many answers to these important questions abound. We are invited to their theories from many perspectives. Multiple philosophies, theologies, psychologies, spiritualities and cosmologies have taught us their insights about the nature of our existence. Each of them gives us a partial, even if subjective, glimpse into the window of our beginnings. Each of them explains, at least from its unique worldview, its special story of creation. And each invites us to understand our very existence and that of our surrounding world by considering them through its singular lens.

The result: We’ve inherited multiple stories and perspectives about our bigger-than-life creation and our place in it, while equally being left with a still puzzling sense of its inscrutable mystery.

In offering you this book’s perspective—the story of our creation as viewed through the unique lens of the quantum void—I offer you two considerations. The first is the same cautionary insight just given us by David Christian: Any language, even that of today’s scientific community of experts, can be as confusing as any other. We have no choice but to use human (3- and 4-dimensional) language to describe our origins, while in truth those origins are literally rooted in a distinctively other-than-human dimension—a quantum realm for which our human language is quite inadequate. In this regard, I offer you my apologies, but also …

… my second consideration: I invite you to stretch your consciousness, as I have had to stretch mine, to make the cognitive, emotional and human leap into the magical emptiness of the quantum void and into its bigger dimensional fields. Only when we are willing to expand our mind to consider its waiting-to-be-discovered possibilities can we overcome the innate limitations of human understanding.

With this cautionary observation and sincere invitation, I invite you to join me in this book’s adventuresome journey. It is one that takes us into our deepest roots and gives us a rare view of the space-time realm in which we live, through the tantalizing lens of the quantum void.

The

Quantum

Void

Introduction

I have written this book while living in the quiet twilight of my life. Several years ago I officially ‘retired’—an odd term that usually describes two things: the end of a work-filled life, and the beginning of a freedom-filled life with little to no responsibility.

For me, retirement was clearly the first of those descriptions, but not entirely the second. In its place, I shifted from one style of serving humanity to another. From one of helping people heal their pain, transform their limitations, grow into a freer and fuller self, open their hearts to the richest possible love and awaken their spirit to miraculous living. To one of living a very solitary, cave-like life—diving unaccompanied into the silent depths of our collective human core, immersing myself in creation’s empty void and gleaning its secretive quantum language. One of losing myself in the quantum-dimensional reality, and finally emerging back into our human life with a deeper understanding of what our creation—human, earthly and cosmic—is about.

Why did I feel so moved to undertake this unusual process, to take this road less travelled? Simply put, in order to share these quantum-world secrets and insights with you—and with our human family as a whole. I welcome you anew to that sharing.

Why Do We Need Nothing?

Imagine yourself having the experience of being nowhere, knowing nothing and having no reference points in time or space. Envision yourself no longer experiencing love, anger, fear or, in fact, any emotion at all. Conceive yourself holding no opinions, judgments, beliefs or even thoughts. Imagine your life lacking any and all meaning, purpose and goals. Picture yourself appearing to exist but barely able to experience that existence. Then, if you can, imagine yourself undergoing all of these non-experiences simultaneously and continually, without the privilege of even periodic visits to the good ole days.

If I’m not mistaken, in any one of these scenarios you might feel quite awkward if not completely lost. Indeed, most of us would. That’s probably why a very tiny percentage of persons would sign up for such absences of life experiences. In our human world we center our lives on tangible themes such as having purposes, achieving goals, finding meaning, developing beliefs and being in love, among so many others. Why would any sane person give up all these juicy qualities for an unfulfilling life of emptiness and nothing-ness?

I’ll tell you why. Throughout the evolution of our human race, our great leaps forward happened when certain persons dared to step aside from the status quo, open their minds to yet unrealized possibilities and discover new realities. Consider, for example, Albert Einstein—a personal hero of mine—who singlehandedly discovered a whole new way of thinking about the make-up of our universe. Because of his willingness to walk blindly into the yet-unexplored realm of space and lose himself in the mysterious unknown that resides in the universe’s seeming emptiness, the doorway to a much larger truth about our universe was opened.

Indeed, in the wake of Einstein’s daring adventure from nothing to a new something, even more dramatic findings followed—those of quantum mechanics and the life-saving inventions of nuclear medicine, for example. Our traditional way of thinking about our physical world, brilliantly perfected by Sir Isaac Newton 250 years earlier, could never have opened this door. Fortunately for all of us, Einstein dared to step beyond Newton’s laws of physics, lose himself in the secretive void of life’s yet-undiscovered possibilities, and discover a captivating new way of understanding our world.

Personally, I would estimate that a similar scenario occurred right before the discovery of the wheel, the invention of the printing press and the invention of electricity—and every other significant invention or discovery in our human history. Someone dared to stop thinking in their culture’s typical ways, entered into the unknown void of a bigger consciousness, got immersed in that void and came back to us with a new perspective. One that then allowed us to take our next collective giant step forward as a human race.

The expression that perfectly articulates this phenomenon was made by the visionary French author Marcel Proust (in his 1923 novel, La Prisonnière): The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. The more commonly quoted version of his insightful writing is: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new sights, but in looking with new eyes.

I deeply believe that our human family is sitting on the precipice of yet another new discovery, another giant leap forward. We are at a time when our existing mindsets and technologies are ripe for reinvention. We currently imagine, for example, travelling through time, by either returning to the past or venturing into the future. Yet, to date we have no theory or technology for taking such a journey. Likewise, we are tantalized by space movies in which people are teleported instantly from one spot to a different location, often hundreds of miles away. Yet again, we have few ideas about the technology that would make this actually happen.

What are we lacking? I believe that we are lacking an up-to-date, bigger-picture version of how our reality works—more specifically, of physics. We have not yet found an adequate concept of the laws and mechanics that govern how such phenomena can happen. Perhaps we need a few other Einsteins, or someone who is willing to look beyond our modern mindsets in these matters and sink even more deeply into the quantum world’s magical treasure trove. This time, though, in addition to studying the quantum realm’s space-time realities (as Einstein did), that person will need to plunge into the mystery-packed quantum depths (the quantum void), where the fuller secrets of creation are now to be found. Any other approach may be simply reinventing the modern wheel in more creative ways.

Currently, we pride ourselves on our high levels of technological advancement, and rightly so. In our flattering boasts, however, we may have forgotten that humans in every eon described themselves as living at what they thought to be the forefront of human thought and achievement. In that understandable boast, they sometimes became content with the technology of their age, neglecting to look forward to the next bold step. Until, that is, someone unique stepped outside the circle of human conformity and personally looked with new eyes. In our age, more and more of those ‘someones’ seem to be appearing. It may be that you are reading this book because you happen to be one of them.

My personal journey into the void

Personally, I’ve felt called throughout my life to be one of those persons. When I was a Catholic priest in my twenties, I noticed how the history-honed theological constructs of the Church often didn’t hold the human punch needed to bring about the personal healing and transformation of those who were lost in pain. It was during that period that I felt moved to find that punch. So, I opened my heart to embrace what is the simple essence of any religion: pure love. When I allowed the wonder of love to take over my heart, I discovered the singular phenomenon that can transform and heal anything—the endless power of pure, infinite love. To make that discovery, though, I had first to let go of religion’s historical mindsets and plunge trustingly into the heart’s waiting mystery.

In my many years as a practicing psychologist, I again noticed the limited power of psychological theory to bring my clients to their full empowerment. At some point I felt impelled to step beyond that conscious mind-centered theory. In its place, I entered and lived powerfully in the deeper realms of our subconscious and unconscious mind—where theories are few and possibilities are plentiful. Once there I discovered a profound human magic that lives freely in our subconscious regions, and a creative power that is alive in our unconscious state. The best news: Applying that magic and power in my efforts to help people made a significant difference in their capacity to achieve personal freedom and happiness.

Later, as a spiritual leader and healer, I noticed that spirituality’s grand beliefs and forward-thinking myths left many people’s minds very satisfied, but often didn’t hold the clout of making the dramatic internal changes that they were seeking for their lives. It was then that I felt called to find the invisible gifts that live in the realm of spirit (or, in scientific terms, space and light). After I lost myself in the unexplainable mysteries of pure light, I began to discover a bigger-than-human wisdom, wondrous magic and vast power—higher-dimensional forces that can masterfully transform any human limitation.

Finally, as a deeply philosophical thinker I felt called to transcend the usual human beliefs, values, theories, myths and assumptions to which most of us attach ourselves. I often felt moved to live at the far edges of our human consciousness, where one can access and learn from wiser states of awareness. In the process, I discovered that these expansive ways of perceiving and interpreting life are actually alive and well within every human being, albeit often in a hidden and unclaimed inner space.

All of these experiences and callings have led me to the present, as I now sit apart in a symbolic and cave-like witness protection program. In this empty setting, I am no longer involved in helping humankind’s healing and growth, but feel called to unveil the deeper secrets of our elusive quantum void. This book is my report to you about this powerfully invisible void and its insight-rich truth about our puzzling creation.

I have spent these recent years in two quantum-oriented pursuits. First, I embarked upon a rigorous, intensive study of quantum physics and, in particular, the quantum void. I ingested state of the art information from seemingly endless books and articles in the fields of quantum physics and mechanics, as well as those of cosmology, philosophy, spirituality, anthropology and other related fields. I needed to marinate my intellect in the most advanced thought of today’s experts regarding our intriguing origins (what physicists call the quantum void).

My second pursuit was much more arduous and, in hindsight, more important. It was the purely intuitive, mystical approach. In short, I simply let go of everything I knew and considered myself to be. I slowly sank into the waiting grasp of the quantum void. Once there, I dog-paddled in its endless emptiness, became an eager student in the fine art of non-experience and let myself be taken over by the impenetrable mysteries of this nothing-filled realm that can literally be called absolute zero.

In this deep experience, my mind exited the human realm (at least as much as one’s mind can humanly do), allowing me to specialize in what we could only call a state of non-being, non-knowing and non-identity. In other words, to grasp the something that is our creation, I had to go completely to the depths of the nothing whence our something-ness has inexplicably emerged. Only by letting myself dissolve into its empty mystery could I find the hitherto unknown and untapped truth about our creation.

I thank you for indulging me in such personal sharing. I now welcome you anew to a captivating journey into creation’s emptiness. On the heels of having introduced ourselves to each other, get ready for a grand adventure in the pages ahead. We now plunge together into the magical and powerful realm of what to me is the greatest mystery ever pursued—that of our mysterious quantum void.

1

Giordano Bruno

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift

and the rational mind is a faithful servant.

We have created a society

that honors the servant

and has forgotten the gift."

Albert Einstein

You’ve perhaps never heard of an obscure but nonetheless remarkable figure of human history who lived among us during the 16th century CE. I’m referring to a Dominican Catholic priest by the name of Giordano Bruno. He was a renowned Italian scientist and Christian mystic of the 1500s. At that time, the scientific and theological world around him believed strongly that the earth was the center of the universe and was circled by the sun, stars and other planets. In addition, of course, scientists of that era agreed with the Biblical version of creation: that the world was created by God in one amazing act of conception.

Bruno was not only a trained scientist, similar to his contemporaries Copernicus and Galileo, but a devout mystic. He had no telescopes or potent scientific instruments to aid him in his studies, but his intuitive, mystical nature made up for this lack of technical resources. He combined his intellectual knowledge with a spiritually inspired vision about the make-up of the universe. And a remarkable vision it was.

In 1584, Bruno courageously published an innovative book, Dell Infinito, Universo e Mondi. In this historic writing he proclaimed that the earth was not the center of the universe, but rather circled the sun, as did all the other visible planets. He also declared that there were many other suns called stars. In fact, he asserted, there were an infinite number of them separated by immense space—many of which also hosted multiple