Part I, chapters 1 to 4, explains the quantum jump, and how it rocks the fundamental principles of science
Part II, chapters 5 to 9, describes the new cosmology
Part III, chapters 10 to 15, deals with creativity in science and spirituality

Rapidly summarizing:

In quantum mechanics one studies the behaviour of energy quanta (smallest amounts of energy that can be exchanged between two bodies).

This has proven to have quite an important impact on some scientific principles, that form the cornerstones of what many scientists still believe.

Continuity vs. discontinuity

Strangely enough, electrons of atoms do not interact in a continuous way, but 'jump' from one place to another, i.e. without being present in between two points.
You can compare it with climbing on a ladder. One moment you're at the bottom, the next you're at the top. There's nothing in between.
A typical example can be found in transistors and is known as barrier-penetration. As research has shown, electrons can do this because - when we do not observe them - they can be in more places at the same time.
They are 'possibility waves' (a.k.a. wave functions or coherent super positions), that 'collapse' to the actual observed electrons the moment we observe them.

Goswami's central thesis is that it is consciousness that determines whether electrons collapse from waveform to what we observe.
In other words, human beings create their own realities.

When we measure the possibility wave of an electron, we will see that it is sometimes here, sometimes there. We can calculate a bell curve with the result of many experiments, and are therefore able to predict a probability range, but not its specific position.
This non-determined nature of matter is expressed in the uncertainty principle: we can not measure the very exact position AND speed of a quantum object. This conflicts with Newton's laws of causal determinism. Suddenly there's room for creativity and free will. Of course, Goswami does not denie that objects are determined. However, not the trajectories of moving objects are determined, as Newton and Laplace thought, but their possibilities and probabilities.

We can create a chaos theory about the movement of water in a fountain, but let's say that when someone coughs in Amsterdam, a vulcano would erupt in Italy. Would be still be able to practice science in such circumstances?

Physicists David Bohm and John Bell have made it possible to think in non-locally correlated quantum systems. Parts of these systems have the capacity to be very far apart, but when one part collapses as the result of an observation (measurement), the other part also collapses, revealing its hidden, non-local correlation.
Yet, this is still congruent with Einstein's relativity theory, because the possibility waves are at home in a transcendent potential, a domain that transcends space and time. Non-local influence is transcendent influence; it influences manifested reality, but not with signals in time and space.

This is in contradiction with the idea of materialistic realism that sees an exclusively materialistic world.

But when observed with a device that measures particles, the possibility waves collapse, there where we focus our attention.

Strict objectivism demands that the nature of the electron is independent of us. But it's more complicated. Where will an individual electron manifest itself with a specific quantum measurement?

Mathematician John von Neumann said there was only one possible answer to this question, and that is that our awareness, our consciousness determines this.

This goes against strict objectivism in physics. Scientists have always said that consciousness is a byproduct of the brain. And the brain is the result of evolutionary causality: elementary particles forming atoms, atoms forming molecules, molecules forming living cells, cells (neurons) forming brains, brains forming consciousness,...

But now it appears that consciousness is essential in determining how reality manifests itself.
So apart from a 'bottom up' causality, there apparantly is also a 'top-down' causality.

While struggling with the question how consciousness could make the possibility waves collapse, he came home from a talk by Krishnamurti in Ojai (California), and discussing it with a friend, suddenly understood the nature of consciousness.

Consciousness is not a byproduct of the brain, nor is it something limited. It is the unconditioned source of everything. There is nothing outside of it.

Jnana yoga is not the same as mental understanding. Instead, it leads to a 'knowing'. Like I 'know' about the Pure Potential.
Often, the knowing is the result of hitting an intellectual wall, and eventually breaking through it, like in a zen koan such as "What was your name before you were born?".

Meditation is, also in quantum perspective, a way to break out of the conditioned patterns of the ego. How come concentration on a mantra or object can bring about such an effect?
Concentration on one sound or object helps us lead the direction of our thoughts, so we focus on the now. Centering in the now prevents us from following our conditioned tendencies, connected to past and present.

But this technique is not enough. It must be complemented with a different form of awareness meditation, in which we stay conscious of the direction of our thoughts in daily life (but can neglect the content of them). The result is that we see our thoughts pass - like a train - but without jumping on it. For a trained thoughts observer, the content becomes uncertain and the attention for the content disappears.

How is this connected to creativity? By remaining centered and un-attached, we are less conditioned and therefore obtain more freedom to act creatively.

Patanjali also describes states of consciousness called samadhi - in meditation acquired in-sight - that forms the gate to the dimension outside the ego.
The first form, savikalpa in Sanskrit, brings us closer to the experience of primary awareness (focused consciousness) of the quantum self, but there remains a split between subject and object. Many mystical experiences - satori in Zen, 'seeing the inner light' of the quaker, anatman in buddhism, the peek experience in transpersonal psychology - fall in this category.

There's a relative rare second form of samadhi, nirvikalpa in Sanskrit, in which the separation between subject and object completely disappears. (I've experienced this at least once in my life:

The age of 16, 17, 18 was full of peek experiences for me.
I was an exchange student in Florida, went through a rough time but also wonderful love, explored drugs,... and suddenly at lot of the pieces of the puzzle fell in their right place.

My drug experiences made me understand that I could not only see smells, hear colors, taste visual info, but also that the world was 'kneadable'. That the consciousness in me could 'fold' time and space, as I understood later.

I kept on working with these insights and my creative work (I was writing a lot of poetry and songs). In 1980, at the age of 17, I was walking home after having seen a movie, and I was reflecting on how strange it was 'to be moved' by some two dimensional projection on a screen.

It was raining a bit as I crossed a big square and I suddenly realized - no I EXPERIENCED for the first time in my life an incredible feeling of unity.

The rain, falling on my skin, was just the third dimension of a movie, in which I'm not only the actor. I am also the director. I am also the cameraman. I am even the camera. I am the pellicule. I am... Pure Potential.
It was a peek experience, that I still carry with me until today. Once you have experienced something like this, it's simply impossible to forget.

I'm looking for an intuitive graphical representation, like a real compass.

In the image above, there's perfect alignment between personal intelligence and cosmic intelligence, symbolized by mercury and uranus.
You see a 'microcosm', represented by a yin-yang sign, with its poles personal consciousness (sun) and personal unconsciousness (moon).

This microcosm related to the macrocosm through mars and venus energies (repulse/attract, exhale/inhale etc...).
The macrocosm is also represented by a yin-yang sign, but without border. It has cosmic consciousness (pluto) and cosmic unconsciousness (neptune) as its poles.

Microcosm moves inside macrocosm interacting through saturn and jupiter energies (crystalize/evaporate, shrink/expand etc...)

Alienation can be measured by the way that these two 'flows' are seperate from each other.
Combining data of the individual horoscope and real time transits could make certain 'active' energies (planets) 'light up', indicating a growth opportunity.

Clicking on a button for practical directions would lead to the interpretation per degree.

Goswami suggests that in Western society it would be self-evident to practice bhakti yoga towards an intimate partner. This leads to a 'flowing relationship': the uninterrupted experience of a love and care that is reciprocal.

So you see, creativity seems to be the magic key to unlock our quantum self in all these approaches...

The four yoga forms correspond with Jung's classification of humans in four types: more intellectual types may prefer jnana yoga, while people who tend to follow their feelings, may choose bhakti yoga. Sensory oriented people may opt for karma yoga, while intuitive types could decide to follow the royal path of raya yoga, of meditation and samadhi.
Any combination is also good, of course.

New is perhaps that we have found a scientific way to speak about God; about everything really.

Goswami shows the limitations of many scientific theories, that shape today's culture. He offers a new explanation, reconciling science and spirituality, pointing exactly to what is congruent and not congruent in the evolution theory, in creationism, and many other debates that divide us.

He not only explains the behaviour of energy quanta, but also how this could relate to telepathy, reincarnation, channeling, why prayer works, what chakras are,... and he does so in a convincing way that has a healing effect on us, synthesing and lifting up our nagging doubts to insight.

You can *experience* what he says as true. But at the same time, you realize that it is also a theoretical framework, just like Newton's "laws", and Darwin's evolution theory, that need experimenting, factfinding, measuring,... to be proven true or false, and that the outcome can be different in different circumstances. Life is the name of this ongoing experiment.

Is it important to know whether we have 5 or 7 bodies? Maybe not, but it is important to know that we are not just this physical body, which so many of us appear to exclusively identify with.

Quantum mechanics has shown us that many scientific theories have proven to be just that - theories - that are dependent on our observation and identification. By connecting to a larger framework, we align ourselves with a deeper meaning that is liberating. Does it still require a leap, a surrendering? Seen from the point of view of our conditioning, absolutely.
For insight is the result of a creative process, in which new elements are integrated and transcended in a higher level of understanding, so we can let go our conflicting beliefs and ignorance.

What is the role of time in all this?
If we can measure that possibility waves collapse and manifest themselves in different places, in a discontinuous way, this measuring always takes place against the context of time in which we measure.
But time itself is dependent on our observation and identification, as we all know.

Lately, I'm experiencing a rather steep increase of the speed with which I experience time, by the way.

Thinking back about what I said elsewhere about time being the dimension that protects us from the consequences of conflicting beliefs, maybe this is a good sign. I do experience less 'deeper conflicts' in my life. I am closing the gaps in my worldview, and from the eye of the storm I see the world around me going mad, people racing and chasing and clinging to such irrelevant things, as if their lifes depend on them.

I sees I is the Pure Potential.
It's when and where I wants to be close to.