In the mysterious world of quantum physics, nothing is quite as it seems. And for those unschooled in the ways of tangled hierarchies, retrocausality, and collapsing wave functions, it can be a rather disorienting place. But this complex and subtle territory is where theoretical physicist Amit Goswami (best known for his role in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?) is most at home.

In this EnlightenNext interview, Goswami speaks with executive editor Carter Phipps about his new book Creative Evolution, in which he takes his quantum insights, adds a touch of Eastern dharma, and proposes an original theory of evolution that accounts for both the material and spiritual dimensions of reality.

Goswami has a fundamental disagreement with Darwinian theory. In fact, he believes that Darwin wasn’t talking about evolution at all, but rather was describing what Goswami calls “gradual adaptation.” To Goswami, evolution doesn’t happen gradually—or randomly—but instead happens in creative leaps in consciousness that emerge from the “quantum field of possibilities.” Over the course of the conversation, Goswami explains his theory in fascinating detail and shares his vision for the next stage of evolution, which he says is currently just an intuition at the leading edge of human consciousness.

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