Exploring  Science and Mysticism together

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Victor Mansfield, himself a physicist, in answer to this question, gives a philosophic model.

Physics has been forced to accept a non-local and interconnected quantum world, whose mathematical manifestation requires our participation. This revolution occurred in spite of the philosophic preconceptions of its practitioners. Similarly, inspite of our preconceptions, the unity between the inner and outer worlds implied by the synchronicity phenomena challenges our belief in a world external to our mind. The philosophical arguments, physical analysis, and psychological experiences of synchronicity all encourage us to abandon the persuasive projeciton of inherent existence, the false belief in a world external to mind.

He quotes Jung: " The synchronicity principle possesses properties that may help to clear up the body-soul problem."

Here are some passages that I felt moved to underline:

"even the most physical of experiences, whether mountains or microbes,
are thoughts within a larger mind that simultaneously unfolds the experiencing
ego as a though complex within it." [p.129]

"Quantum mechanics teaches that the universe is nonlocally connected
and we participate in its definition." [p.136]

"Destroying the false belief in inherent existence is the prerequisite for
recognising the world as sacred" [p144]

"Since mind projects our world image, then as long as we stay in the image
we will never know the projector - the source." [p.198]

"synchronistic experiences... are a numinous expression of transcendent
meaning that unfolds in both the inner and the outer worlds. Synchronicity
is soul-making: a revelation of the cosmic self or soul as meaning, an instruction
through acausally connected events in both the inner and outer worlds.
If we have inner eyes to see, the self is providing us with both the necessary
experience and meaning required for our transformation, our individuation." [p.199]
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