For many years in my life, I saw classical and quantum physics as a contradiction. Quantum physics was, and is still, very important for me, since it opens up the door for spirituality. For long, I saw the mechanical world view as threatening. I somehow doubted the existence of my own soul, how anyone could doubt such a thing. For some reason I trusted physics more than my own existence. Quantum physics, though, contains the concept of an observer. Actually, already the theory of special contains an observer. From an Everettian perspective, the multiverse is somehow projected (the projection operator in quantum mechanics) into this existence, this here and now. I know this is not a pure Everettian world view, since the projection operator is obsolete in the many worlds interpretation. But anyway I do experience only one world, this one. Perhaps consciousness has the ability to select one world, in a way that is not ontologically random. The anthropic principle is an indication of this: the parameters of the standard model are selected in a way compatible with life. Without life, no one is there to observe the universe. Perhaps reality seen through quantum physics may be epistemologically random, but  not ontologically random. That is one idea in, for instance, quantum bayesianism. That the randomness would be epistemological rather than ontological would mean the randomness is due to our lack of understanding rather than that the universe is intrinsically random in the spirit of Einsteins famous quote “God does not play dice”. Maybe, behind this epistemological randomness, there would hide some spiritual principles, rather than what we would mean with “new physics” in a mechanistic sense.

When the spiritual wound is healed, that is, the doubting of ones own existence, is over, then classical physics can be seen in a new light. Perhaps it is possible to see physics as a spiritual path, and classical physics is the beginning of this path.

If physics is seen as a spiritual path, then it could also be seen as an art form. Most art forms have, historically, a connection to spirituality.

It is unfortunate that so few study quantum physics. In order to learn quantum physics in a satisfactory depth, then at least a master in theoretical physics would be required. There are of course popular scientific descriptions of quantum physics, but those are easily misunderstood.

Having quantum physics as a new “home”, we could perhaps teach classical physics as a path to quantum physics, and as a spiritual path, that would be an art form.

It would be interesting to see how classical physics could be taught in such a spirit.