The panel discussion included producer Paul Howard, second from left with his son David, Dr. Anita Goel, sponsor of the summit, Judy Scott Feldman, Swami Sarvapriyananda, head of Vedanta Center in NYC, and on the screen physicist Frederico Fagin.
The film inspired by Neil Feldman’s book To My Next Incarnation: How Science Led Me To Spirituality had its official live world premiere on October 11th at the Nanobiosym Global Summit 2.0: Quantum Convergence convened by Dr. Anita Goel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Following a panel discussion led by Dr. Goel that included Irish producer Paul Howard as well as others featured in the film, Quantum Convergence: The New Science of Consciousness was received enthusiastically by an audience of scientists and students of physics, neuroscience, technology, and religious studies.
Origins of “Quantum Convergence: The New Science of Consciousness”
A reminiscence by Neil’s wife Judy:
When my husband Neil Feldman died of cancer in 2015, he left behind a manuscript that was subsequently turned into a documentary that had its official debut on October 11, 2025.
The Irish film maker Paul Howard directed the film, “Quantum Convergence: The New Science of Consciousness,” inspired by Neil’s book “To My Next Incarnation. How Science Led Me to Spirituality.” Our daughter Anna and I recorded Neil essentially drafting the book in videos we took of him the last year of his life, after he realized his life would be cut short. He had intended to spend his retirement years researching, exploring, and advocating a truce between the materialism of modern science and the ancient and modern spiritual traditions.
He wanted his book to excite thoughtful readers with the thrill of discovery he felt when in high school, and then as a student of electrical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, he realized that both Einstein’s equations and quantum physics pointed to the same view of reality as ancient Indian thought, in particular Advaita Vedanta, a philosophy based in the Vedas: both point to an underlying (or overarching) reality beyond the “reality” we can experience with our five senses. Neil left college to join the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago but was told by the head of the order to finish college before taking monastic initiation. He returned to Case, met me in a shared apartment, and, as they say, the rest is history.
Producer of the film Paul Howard learned of Neil’s book after having just completed a film exploring the scientific theories and spiritual insights of the physicist David Bohm called “Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm.” He read Neil’s book and immediately wanted to adapt it. The new film features physicists including Nobel Prize-winner Roger Penrose as well as Swami Sarvapriyanda, head of the Vedanta Society of New York. I play a small role at the beginning as Paul narrates Anna’s and my trip to India in 2017 to scatter Neil’s ashes in the sacred Ganges. Anna and I, as well as the book’s editor Tom King, are producers.
Neil’s book, self-published and originally available at Politics and Prose bookstores, is probably now out of print. But it is free to download at the website we created to archive Neil’s videos that are the basis of the book: www.nextincarnation.com