The Quantum Brain with Amit Goswami (4K Reboot)

Summary

Former University of Oregon physicist Amit Goswami argues that consciousness is the ground of being and that the brain does not create consciousness but traps it through a quantum 'tangled hierarchy' that produces our sense of self. Drawing on von Neumann's measurement theory, Vedanta philosophy, and meditation research, he claims the 'quantum brain' explains creativity, brain coherence, chakras, reincarnation, and near-death experiences. He also recounts his work with Mexican neuroscientist Jacobo Grinberg on brain-to-brain 'transferred potential' experiments, and Grinberg's still-unsolved disappearance.

Key takeaways

• 1Goswami co-authored 'The Quantum Brain' with medical doctor Valentina Onisor and earlier wrote 'The Self-Aware Universe', 'God Is Not Dead', 'Physics of the Soul', and 'How Quantum Activism Can Save Civilization'.
• 2He claims John von Neumann's measurement theory shows material interactions alone cannot collapse the wave function, so a non-material consciousness, the ground of being rather than the ego, makes the choice.
• 3Goswami says Jacobo Grinberg's EEG experiments showed that when one meditator saw light flashes, a distant partner meditating with intent to connect showed similar 'transferred potentials'. Goswami called this the first experimental verification of God.
• 4Grinberg vanished, reportedly around an airport while preparing to travel to India for a 12,000-mile-distance version of the experiment. Mexican police contacted Goswami repeatedly, and the case remains unsolved.
• 5Goswami reinterprets Karl Lashley's rat-maze brain-removal experiments as evidence that memory is non-local and stored outside the brain, linking it to the Vedantic Akashic memory and to reincarnation research at the University of Virginia.
• 6He claims near-death experiences, Stanislav Grof's holotropic breathwork birth memories, and nirvikalpa samadhi are explained by quantum 'delayed choice'. He also proposes a newly identified midbrain chakra controlling the pituitary and hypothalamus, endorsing William Tiller's view of chakras as transducers.

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Transcript excerpt

There is always an observer in whatever we do, experiment or whatever, without the observer there is nothing. So, the idea of observer effect, that without the observer we do not collapse, that is the fundamental thing. And then the question of, okay, what does the observer have that is non-material? And Khandelman himself suggested, well, consciousness got to be non-material because you cannot get the material way, the experiencer of what is being observed. But he thought it is the individual consciousness, the ego that does it. And my big insight was that if we give up that idea that it is the ego does it, and introduce the idea instead that the brain is a very complex machinery in which there exists a trapping mechanism, which traps consciousness into it to have an identity with the brain, who in the process of measurement, then the observer gets a self, it has the immediacy of experience in which the actual observation, actual choice is made. Keep watching to learn more. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here, we are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at CIHS.edu. The New Thinking Allowed Magazine Issue 10 on UFOs and UAP is now ready for free download, and you can also order beautiful printed copies. Go to NewThinkingAllowed.org. Book 4 in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogue Series is Charles T. Tartt – Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed Conversations on the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery with Psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Oct 7, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.