Open AccessA Window of Our Own: Towards a Quantum Research Ontology
Author(s) -
Julia StorbergWalker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of management, spirituality and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1942-258X
pISSN - 1476-6086
DOI - 10.51327/bqlc1209
Subject(s) - bricolage , deconstruction (building) , epistemology , postmodernism , ontology , perspective (graphical) , sociology , quantum , empirical research , consciousness , philosophy , computer science , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , physics , art , ecology , literature , biology
This article introduces the idea of quantum research as a way of approaching inquiry in spiritual/intuitive domains. This form of research combines scholarly and analytical knowledge with non-rational, non-analytical experiencing variously called direct/intuitive experiences (Tsao and Laszlo, 2019) or holistic consciousness (Goethe, in Bortoft, 1996). The article is written differently (Vachhani, 2019), and combines quantum theorizing with findings from an empirical postmodern text deconstruction study. The theorizing and empirical findings illuminate the beliefs, values, and norms of the Newtonian paradigm that continue to marginalize a quantum ontological perspective. Through a bricolage (Rogers, 2012) of interdisciplinary literature combined with findings from the postmodern (Beiser, 2011) deconstruction/imaginal study, the incommensurability between the Newtonian paradigm and quantum ontology is exposed. The bricolage illuminates the challenges and opportunities for legitimizing a quantum view of research. The article concludes with recommendations for future quantum research; for building a new window of our own .