Hyperreality

In Hyperreality, physicist Johanna Blomqvist takes the reader on an intellectual romp through topics not commonly covered by “traditional” scientists...

"... Indeed, it is rare to find such blatantly direct questions posed as “Can We Understand the Essence of Reality?” “Do We Have Free Will?” “Is Time Only an Illusion?” to take the titles of only three of the fifteen chapters in her book.  Blomqvist has no patience for the too often split between approaching such questions from either a scientific perspective OR a philosophical perspective.  This either/or approach to deep questions about reality has somehow forgotten that traditional scientists have a PhD degree, and that stands for Doctor of Philosophy.  Indeed, many scientists have forgotten that they have degrees in philosophy!  Bloomqvist has not!  And so while traditionally trained in physics, she thinks about the philosophical implications of scientific approaches to reality.  And, I might add, she presents her arguments with an uncanny simplicity and directness that is accessible to the general reader.  How wonderful…

– William F. Bengston, PhD, President, Society for Scientific Exploration

Hyperreality is a reminder of the challenges and limits of science...

“...although modern science has been able to produce accurate models and theories, it has failed to connect human and consciousness to the reality described by the theories. 

Blomqvist’s positive perspective, physicist’s theoretical knowledge combined with her own experiences and insights, and many surprising cases of practical experiments, challenges both the private truth seeker and the specialist of natural sciences. Using Aristotle’s words: ‘Every man wants to know.”

– Tuomo Suntola, PhD, physicist, Millennium technology prize winner 2018

Traditionally, religions and human sciences have provided us with life wisdom. Blomqvist’s pioneering book paves a way...

"... or an association of natural sciences and life wisdom in a way which is both scientifically grounded and examined in the first person. An unusual, brave and thrilling combination!”

– Virpi Lehtinen, philosopher, Ph.D.

Dr. Blomqvist’s Hyperreality is jam-packed with thought-provoking questions about the nature of reality...

"...such as: Do time and space really exist? Could time be a side effect of how attention constantly shifts between billions of parallel realities? Could synchronicity be a bridge between the implicate and explicate realities described by David Bohm? Can information travel from the present or future to the past? What do quantum physics and energy healing experiments tell us about consciousness? Could we be living in a simulation?

Although you won’t walk away with concrete answers to these and other questions, you’ll enjoy entertaining them and their implications while becoming better informed about the research and exciting debates that have lead hundreds of scientists to demand that we accept a post-materialist model.“

– Diane Hennacy Powell, MD, Author of The ESP Enigma

What I like best in Hyperreality is that it offers us such an extensive view of exciting experiments and theories of consciousness...

 It testifies that, even if we knew that reality, at its bottom, is energy, there would still be plenty of room for imagination to explore the nature and origin of consciousness and its relation to material reality.

The book presents experiments of possible effects of intentions and emotions to physical and organic nature, and other human beings, as well as, a wide range of physical theories struggling with issues on mind and matter. I also like the personal touch of the quantum physicist turning into an energy healer and retaining her scientific approach to her new experiences. The book suits for non-experts, but is also of interest to philosophers and scientists.“

– Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila, Professor in Philosophy of Management, emerita

Hyperreality, subtitled ‘Beyond the horizon where physics meets consciousness,’ this well-informed book covers territory that will be familiar to many readers: metaphysics, materialism, the observer effect, consciousness, quantum reality, psychokinesis, free will, synchronicity, time, and changing worldviews....

...The author concludes that reality is other than our experience of it and that there are different levels. What she calls irrational might also be termed transcendent or intuitive. She speculates that reality may be a simulation created by consciousness where information is foundational. She postulates the basic principles of consciousness as fundamental, oneness, interaction, complementarity, and freedom within limits.

She rightly states that ‘for us to solve the world’s problems, we need to see things from oneness,’ which corresponds to a set of instructions based on her principles, including trust, silencing the conscious thinking mind, and creating our reality from love, and other fundamental values. I love the quote by Giordano Bruno at the end of the final chapter: ‘Knowledge and love are revealed as the two cosmic forces which are apparently separate in nature but which spring from the same potency and force.“ 

– David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer 2024/1