Amit Goswami

He graduated in 1964 from the University of Calcutta with a PhD in Quantum Physics. Since 1968 he has worked in the United States as a professor at the University of Oregon. After retiring in 2003, he began to dedicate himself to the study of parapsychology and dedicated himself to “quantum activism” to promote his theories and connect science with consciousness.

He lives in Eugene, Oregon, USA, with his wife Maggie Goswami, with whom he wrote the book “Cosmic Dancers: Exploring the Physics of Science Fiction.” He has published 21 articles on quantum physics. He has also written a large number of articles in medical, economic and psychological journals. Goswami shows in his articles how the relationship between consciousness and the physical world can be investigated through quantum physics. Goswami is the author of the textbook “Quantum Mechanics”, which is used as a standard work in quantum mechanics courses around the world. However, he was best known for his book “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material Universe,” published in 1993. In this book he strives for a combination of quantum physics and spirituality (quantum mysticism).

He also appeared in the movie “What the Bleep do we Know!?” Amit Goswami is a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, an American institution that seeks to understand the connection between people's subjective inner world and shared objective reality. He is a defender of replacing materialism with consciousness as the basis of the world, trying to achieve a combination of quantum physics and spirituality (quantum mysticism). Critics of this view argue that a mathematical description of consciousness can also be achieved through theories other than quantum physics.