A Subtle Non-Physical Realm Makes Incompatible Physical Theories Compatible

Why can’t multiple, valid interpretations of quantum mechanics coexist or be equally correct? Because mathematics doesn’t allow it? OK, but under an expanded philosophical metaphysical understanding (that may be more fundamental than the fact that until now the mathematics don’t match), these interpretations could be compatible. The mathematics can follow.

According to human experience and ancient wisdom traditions, the non-physical subtle, mental, or astral realm is ontologically real in its own right. But we can also consider it ontologically potential with respect to the physical universe, This would be a key issue that impinges on the mysteries of quantum physics. So, from a higher, more inclusive logic that uses a "both-and" premise (like that of Archie J. Bahm’s “Organicism” and in integral and transdisciplinary thinking --- check it out), it can be understood as both real and potentially real. In that sense, it is deterministic (compatible with Bohm-Hinley’s pilot waves-beables). 

Then, it also is probabilistic (potential as probable possibilities that can manifest in the physical spacetime domain as in the Copenhagen Interpretation). It is multiple worlds (considering that the subtle mental astral realm contains the possibilities of the spacetime physical and there can be many combinatorial worlds…but not necessarily as Hugh Everett thought about an infinite number of actual physical universes in order to maintain a deterministic-only approach). Moreover, that the subtle is real and potentially real means that (in relation to the classical physical world) it includes retrocausality because its potential states are like possible actualized future states. 

Thus, it also includes interpretations that explain the “measurement problem” collapse of the wave function via retrocausality. Therefore, in this way, we can see that various major interpretations of quantum mechanics become compatible and this idea of several levels of reality (including non-physical levels) is an ancient tradition (like the idea of the Great Chain of Being). It is part of the daily experience of millions of humans and that is an ancient aspect of many esoteric metaphysical traditions.

Two metaphysical poles: The absolute and the contingent. The subtle realm is potential if considered from the perspective of the greater illusion of physical matter against the opposite pole of the absolute, but (since it is less limited by exterior matter) it is more actual from the perspective of the pole of the absolute, as non-illusory actuality. Both poles operate for consciousness-being to experience the dualism of contingent manifestation.

In Einstein’s block universe of special relativity, all events and times are simultaneous and – in a sense – static and deterministic, with no free will because all that happened and will happen from a relative perspective is happening but as innumerable frozen images, so to speak. These events cannot be changed, especially if there is only one universe not interacting with other universes or with the potential realm that contains the information possibilities of all universes. But, if there is such a "subtle realm" that interacts with the physical and if it contains all physical possibilities, then it can add and subtract, in fact, modify the simultaneity of events and times of the "block universe" as much as it is the source of different actual physical universes. The situation would be relational as holons, not only structured.

I think that this old concept of multiple levels of contingent physical and non-physical reality could be a fundamental, necessary, metaphysical perspective needed to find compatibility between quantum theories and perhaps relativity and quantum physics. 

Giorgio Piacenza