The parallel between the quantum field theory of effortless creation and Maharishi's theory of sanyama continues in that both involve spontaneous symmetry breaking. The creation of a Goldstone boson takes place in a quantum field whenever the influences are such as to produce a spontaneous change from a more homogeneous to a less homogeneous state. In the regime of consciousness the influence of the Patanjali sutra on the wholeness of pure consciousness is such as to cause a spontaneous localization of the pure consciousness in the direction of a particular result specified by Patanjali, that is a symmetry breaking of the consciousness takes place whereby the wholeness of consciousness flows into a particular location.
We thus have something analogous to the two fluid model wherein
all of the induced entropy caused by the asymmetry is contained in one
fluid or location, leaving the other in a perfect state of order and hence
with unusual properties. Since the operation can be run "backwards" (in
the direction of order) as well as "forwards" (in the direction of entropy),
we have a theoretical construct for unusual states (and in humans, unusual
powers such as levitation).
Domash (Orme-Johnson and Farrow 1977:661) compares cosmic consciousness
to the two-fluid model of physics:
In the light of our own macroscopic quantum phase coherent model of the pure consciousness state in the nervous system, the fifth state of consciousness (stabilized pure awareness along with thought) becomes exceedingly reminiscent of the two-fluid model used to describe a superfluid or superconductor. In the fifth state, one experiences a well defined duality of consciousness: a silent, distinctly separate, spatially unbounded, temporally stabilized self-awareness along with
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