Incoherent treatment of a vital subject - Rated 
Yes, quantum physics appears to offer a scientific bridge to understanding consciousness and the ultimate reality of your being, echoing concepts and truths that ancient sages and mystics have been pointing toward for thousands of years. In other words, there is no contradiction or competition between science and spirituality; the former is now supporting and clarifying the latter. And the best, most intuitive quantum physicists are modern-day mystics, whether they know it or not. One day there will be a mathematical formulation for the achievement of enlightenment. The experience itself will have no equation, but that won't matter. Science will take us to God, and God is present right now in every atom of your being and is knowable directly, inwardly, via a subtle yet often elusive transformation of consciousness which has nothing to do with sensory perception or the mind as you know it. It's a quantum mechanical process, up until a point where categorisations can no longer apply. The advent of Quantum Physics in the early part of the 20th century marked a radical turning point for Western civilisation, it blew apart classical science forever, and complements Eastern esoteric wisdom in a crucial way. We have found the West's Yin to the East's Yang. If quantum physics fulfils its potential, by the next century your local quantum mechanic will have relegated the likes of the Dalai Lama and the Pope to the status of a Santa Claus.
But this book does not do justice to such a vital subject and revolution in Western and global society. It is incoherent to the point of often being unreadable, with the author coming across at times as a smug ego-maniac, seeking to validify and bolster his sense of existence, rather than transcend it. How ironic. It's fascinating to observe - as you read through the pompous sludge that gets in the way of the simple message - how the ego of the author has compromised his potential to graduate to true mystic status. I suspect many quantum physicists will fall into that very human trap. We will start to see physicists who intellectually grasp the spiritual dimensions of their findings and even wholeheartedly believe in them, yet will fall short of breaking through their own ego to experience transcendence directly - yet will act, talk and write as though they have. In the same way as we have psuedo gurus and hypocritical religious leaders, who know all the concepts and dogma, but are not truly, deeply living in the Truth, we will have similar charlatans in the new mystical domain of quantum physics. The author of this book is a prime example. If you watch the What The Bleep movies you'll see a whole pack of them. Goswami's in there too, no surprise. I suppose their value is that they're focusing attention on the quantum world in the first place. The trick is finding the genuine seers among the opportunists. Read Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physcis instead for a much better exploration of consciousness and the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism.
Interesting science quickly descends into boring mumbo jumbo - Rated
Having ploughed my way through this ridiculous treatise I can proudly say I have became one of the mystics that Dr Goswami so admires, as I am mystified how any university could give him a doctorate or allow him to teach there!?!
What starts as a straightforward explanation of quantum physics quite quickly begins to lose grip on reality and bend accepted scientific theories to his own assertion that the universe is not "real" but "consciousness" and that scientists are idiots for only believing what is real, and he goes on it gives equal and then higher footing to religion, mysticism and psychic powers, as states Dr Goswami, our intuition tells us this is so.
His highly subjective (mis)interpretation of quantum physics is nothing compared to a sudden quantum leap to a treatise on mumbo jumbo which supposedly follows from the first part of the book. Personally I am much happier to accept the science of Einstein, Bohr and Schrodinger than that of Rabbis, Buddhists, fictional religious characters, Yoga dudes and all manner of medicine men and paradox-citing mystics, but then perhaps I am one of the old-fashioned science types who cannot see the universe for how it is as I spend too much time concentrating on the real parts, which obviously are not real.
Perhaps most telling is the quotations on the back cover as to how good and groundbreaking it is - one is from a quack doctor, another from a yoga journal, and a last one is more reliably from a professor of fractals (though I guess having had his science have a tough ride he feels some empathy for what Dr G will go through!).
* I recently read Robert Anton Wilson's "Quantum Psychology" and that was all this book purports to be. I'd suggest you start there and save this one for when you run out of toilet paper.
A Forward Step for Human Kind - Rated 
At last a book that coherently & convincingly binds the spiritual with the scientific. A ground breaking & immensely inspiring book - turns the lightbulb on!
non-logical quantum jump - Rated 
I did like the book and found the science very interesting - however the main problem for me was his non-logical quantum jump from quantum physics to monistic idealism. Statements such as 'consciousness is the ground of all being' (site) - which although from a theological view are fine - i don't feel are adequately substantiated in the book. There are some very basic logical jumps which are not fully backed up and not clearly thought out, were he moves from science to notions of spirituality without rigorous philosophical investigation.
A New View of Reality - Rated
This book is a sincere attempt to help us enter a new paradigm - a way of looking at Life, the Universe and Everything. A new paradigm is certainly needed, if nothing more than because of the findings of quantum physics (the study of the sub-atomic). Those findings have come as a profound shock to Western civilisation - steeped as we are in the Newtonian / Cartesian paradigm of Reality. Making sense of it all has been the basis of a huge and heroic effort for over a century now. It really is high time that we took stock, got our heads round it properly, and moved on appropriately.
In this book Amit Goswami has done an excellent job of articulating the new paradigm. There are several books on this subject now, but I think that this is well and away the best I have read so far.
If Amit's text does have faults, then none of them invalidate the central point of what he advocates. Read this book and experience for yourself how the western mind is so deeply conditioned by Cartesian dogma.
Through this book I feel that Amit, and all involved in it, have done us a real service. I am grateful for that and give the book five stars.
Now, I really must get on and fix the lock on the passenger door of our car. It's real alright, and my boy won't let me forget it!
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