It had been a while since I picked up a book and got through it all, but this was a great one to get me back on the boat! The connection between ancient Eastern religions (Buddhism and Hinduism) and the psychological conclusions one draws from quantum physics experiments is really interesting, and one that Zukav does a great job of laying out to anyone but especially to me because I was familiar with a lot of the quantum theories discussed in the book. When you shrink the universe down to its smallest building block, one that humans haven't even seen or know what it is, we HAVE to be content with the idea that our brains do not have the experience nor the vocabulary to describe the phenomena that we are a part of on Earth. Observations made using the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiment, where electrons or other particle/waves (you could write a whole review just on that topic) are instantaneously affected by something that is happening in a completely other place is incomprehensible with Newtonian physics and our common understanding of the way the universe works. This means that either everything in our universe is scripted, and that there is no true free will when we zoom our perspective out, or that our universes split every time a decision gets made by us, or another living thing on this planet. It truly is mind-blowing conceptually.

When you connect that to Buddhist or Hindu ideas that the mind in our current lives cannot understand the present, we are left with having to be okay with reality not being comprehensible in our own minds. Accepting that reality, meaning everything you can think about, does not include everything that exists in our universe (down to the smallest energy molecules) detaches me at least from understanding what I'm doing here.

What I love the most about books about quantum physics, I think this is my fourth or fifth in the last year, is that they truly are an amazing combination of science and psychology. This book makes you think, but not in the way that makes it a slow book but one that makes you want to get through everything faster to figure out where it's going. Highly recommend!