Ervin Laszlo

The quantum computer in your head
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Is the quantum computer the computer of the future, or is it just science fiction? Whether or not it will be actually produced remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: quantum computers already exist. They are in your head. They are known as your brain.

If Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer, Can It Connect You To The World?
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Could it be that the Internet mirrors something about how we really communicate (or could communicate) with each other and with the world? I’d like you to consider the possibility that nature embodies within herself a kind of Internet, and that through our brain we might be able to communicate with it.

Using Your Quantum Brain to Connect to the World
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Put simply, the way to enhance your connectivity to the world is to cultivate altered states of consciousness. This means taking time to enter into communion with yourself: meditating, praying, daydreaming, or just relaxing, allowing your mind to empty and your thoughts and ideas to flow freely.

Quantum Brain, Spirituality, and the Mind of God
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Physicists seek the one equation that would account for all the laws of nature and explain everything that ever happened in our integrally whole universe. Of this equation Einstein said that knowing it would be reading the mind of God….

Cosmic Symphony — A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
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The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity — and could also enable us to surmount the problems that threaten our life and our future.

Design? Yes. Evolution? Yes. Contradiction? No. Then why the Controversy?
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The debate among conservative Christians, Muslims, and Jews (the “creationists”) and natural scientists and the science-minded public (the “evolutionists”) centers on biological evolution. But on a deeper look, it concerns the universe in which life has evolved—or in which it was created.

The Dis-ease of the Western Mind
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Western civilization—more exactly, the Western mind that creates the civilization—has a serious disease. It’s a “dis-ease” that affects all of us of in the West. And now we can have a better idea of what’s behind it.

The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The mission of The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality is to produce new thinking and language capable of integrating the age old schism between science and spirituality. The Forum grew out of Dr. Laszlo’s involvement in the Chopra Foundation’s Sages+Scientists Symposium in February, 2010.

Round 2 | The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The second round of our Forum’s discussions offers deep but entirely rational statements of the nature of spirituality, and throws fresh light on the factor that could link spirituality with science: a more evolved consciousness.

Round 3 | The Ervin Laszlo Forum on Science & Spirituality
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The third Round of our debates, discussions and consultations on the possible meeting ground of science and spirituality convey a message that’s clear and loud. The meeting ground exists—it’s under our very feet, we just need to open our eyes to see it.

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The Physics of Star Trek

‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss
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Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including The Physics of Star Trek.

New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future | Technology Review
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What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.

Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon | PhysOrg.com
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This movie from Cassini, made possible only as Saturn’s north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.

Richplanet.net documentary Crop Circles – The Hidden Truth
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Richard D. Hall’s documentary tackles the controversial subject of Crop Circles in the most objective way possible. Colin Andrews has endorsed the film. First screened on EMTV Controversial Television Sky 200, featuring David Cayton, Robert Hulse and Roy Dutton. …

Cymatics – The Science of the Future?
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Is there a connection between sound, vibrations and physical reality? Do sound and vibrations have the potential to create? In this article we will see what various researchers in this field, which has been given the name of Cymatics, have concluded.

The Conscious Heart | Brainwaving
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Rollin McCraty reveals the discovery that neural activity within the heart appears to influence our conscious perception, cognition, and emotional processing, which suggests that the traditional role attributed to the heart as the seat of our deepest emotions may be true after all.

‘Waterworld’ planet six times the size of Earth discovered
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A steamy ”waterworld” planet six times bigger than the Earth has been discovered orbiting a small faint star 40 light years away.

Strange Physical Theory Proved After Nearly 40 Years
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Physicists have finally created a trio of bound particles that connect at increasingly higher energy levels, a phenomenon long predicted but never before seen.

NASA -Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery
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December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.

The Next 5 in 5 | IBM Social Media
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Its that time of year here at IBM – when look to the future and make five predictions of technological trends that will change the way we live in the next five years.

Crop Circles : Crossovers From Another Dimension
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Crop Circles : Crossovers From Another Dimension is a fascinating documentary made by Norwegian Terje Toftenes, who has 25 years of experience as a video and film maker in Norway, and has won several awards for his productions.

Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Energy
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Over many years Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s work and findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny and evaluation, being verified and confirmed in their major aspects.

Substance dualism
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Since ancient times, many attempts have been made to account for the relationship between mind and body. This video examines the inherent flaws in the philosophy of substance dualism, along with some of the fallacious reasoning often put forward to support it. …

Time Control Technologies and Methods
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Comparison of ten different approaches to controlling time. Each approach is compared based upon its potential for time travel to the future and past, transport of matter or information, and viability based upon present or near states of technology, materials and power needs.

What Keeps Time Moving Forward? Blame It on the Big Bang | Scientific American
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A timely Q&A with physicist Sean Carroll about how our one-way trip from past to future is entangled with entropy and the origin of the universe.

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Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw

This is our chance to benefit with the strength of our global community! Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw, a founder of The Centre for Compassion and Wisdom in Burlington, Canada has written of her inspired inner journey from elite athlete in flat-water kayaking, to Tibetan Buddhist nun to everyday living – from a family of five Olympians and the power of the mind for performance to harnessing the potential of the mind for deepened understanding and healing.

In her book, Transforming Problems into Life Force – Four Simple Keys to Self-Healing, she also shares 20 years of inspired international stories of kids, teens, adults, elders and health care professionals who used simple methods distilled from the wisdom which Dekyi-Lee introduces in the book. These can show millions how to help their kids, loved ones and parents to quickly shift daily issues, illness, pain and emotional challenges into understanding and often physical healing.

She has been offered an opportunity to have her new book, Transforming Problems into Life Force – Four Simple Keys to Self-Healing, published by Hampton Roads Publishing, USA in a contest, Next Top Spiritual Author.

Wonderful news and appeal for help

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Crop circle

85-minute documentary on crop circles
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Investigating the overall assumption of hoax, balls of light, sacred site connection, media and people’s reaction to the phenomena, and outlining the basic understandings arrived at so far.

The Square Root of One Percent
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Scientists have named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect: the finding that one percent (or even the square root of one percent) of the population practicing meditation improves the larger community’s quality of life, as indicated by such changes as reduced crime and sickness in the larger society.

Ervin Laszlo – Adventures in Quantum Coherence
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Ervin Laszlo, quantum, entanglement, big bang, Akashic field, David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, coherence, sub-atomic, intelligence, General Evolution Theory, System Theory, consciousness, quantum vaccum, quantum plenum, …

The Pluralistic Universe | Search Magazine
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Without the benefit of empirical data, guided by imagination and a body of carefully wrought mathematics, thinking about a multiverse inevitably challenges scientists, theologians, and laypeople to ask what far-fetched possibilities they are willing to entertain.

Ancient Maya’s Evolution of Consciousness and Contemporary Thinking
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Tadeja Jere Lazanski presentation @ http://www.upr.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Novice/Presentation_CASYS_09.pdf and CASYS 09 The Best Paper Award @ http://www.upr.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Novice/sporocila_za_javnost/Tadeja_Jere_Lazanski_CASYS_09-The_Best_Paper_Award.jpg

Toward a Scientific Explanation of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)
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ITC (communication with deceased persons through an instrument such as a radio) is a repeatedly observed phenomenon that has lately been experimentally tested. It is queried here for its authenticity, and an interpretation is explored in the framework of the vacuum field theory.

The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication | MIT Technology Review
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The growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of research.

“Science and the taboo of psi” with Dean Radin
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Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association.

Splitting Time from Space – New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime
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Buzz about a quantum gravity theory that sends space and time back to their Newtonian roots.

Does DNA Emit Light?
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Russian scientist, Pjotr Garjajev, had managed to intercept communication from a DNA molecule in the form of ultraviolet photons — light!

Sacred Geometry by Charles Gilchrist
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The Universe is Vibration, and the principles of Sacred Geometry are directly correspondent to ALL wave form phenomena … ALL vibration. Science agrees, the Universe Is Vibration, and geometry IS vibration manifest on the visual, time/space planes.

Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence! | International Space Fellowship
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Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged: black holes may be “building” their own host galaxy.

Russian DNA Discoveries – MIND BLOWING! | AEONIA
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The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques and much more.

The Reality As You Know It Does Not Exist
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Featuring Fred Alan Wolf, Peter Russell, Professor Al-Khalili, York Dobyns, Robert Anton Wilson, Dean Radin, Richard Alan Miller, Michael Talbot, Gregg Braden, Professor David Deutsch, David Wilcock, Khemp Yurmed Tinly, Nassim Haramein, John Hagelin, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, David Bohm, Bill Hicks.

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DNA MONTHLY October 2009
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Read “Embracing the Immaterial Universe,” by Bruce Lipton and “Revolution in Scientific Consciousness,” by Allen L. Roland

Entangled Water: Life, Consciousness, Memory
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Water is the missing, often overlooked piece of the puzzle. Since water has consciousness and memory, everything we do and feel begins to make more sense. We are in fact moving bodies of water, able to connect psychically with other bodies of water.

Revolutionary New Discoveries about Water!
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Amazing new discoveries about the properties of water could revolutionize our world! Filmmaker and mystic ecologist David Sereda discussed some of the amazing properties of water– it may actually have memory and consciousness, he said.

Vortex Based Mathematics by Marko Rodin
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Marko Rodin has discovered the underpinning geometry of the universe, the fabric of time itself. His Vortex-Based Mathematics shows the dimensional shape and function of the universe as being a toroid or donut-shaped black hole.

Bruce Lipton – Fractal Geometry
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Bruce Lipton – As Above So Below, An Introduction To Fractal Evoloution

Coast to Coast AM – 15 Sep 2009 – Evolution & Mind
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Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. and Steve Bhaerman who co-authored with Lipton their new book Spontaneous Evolution, spoke about ways humanity can evolve by freeing itself of old belief systems and programming.

The Anthropic Principle | What Is Reality?
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Some of the fundamental physical constants in the universe appear to have been fine-tuned, otherwise life could not exist. Are “multiverse” solutions the answer to this mystery?

Consciouness, Unified Field Theory and World Peace
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Dr. Hagelin is unique among scientists in being the first to apply this most advanced knowledge for the practical benefit of humankind. He has pioneered the use of Unified Field-based technologies proven to reduce crime, violence, terrorism, and war and to promote peace.

The Primacy of Consciousness
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A beautiful presentation by Peter Russell illustrating that the fundamental nature of reality is consciousness.

Martin Armstrong and market cycle theory | The New Yorker
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“The New Yorker” magazine October 12, 2009 issue which includes a brief biography of Armstrong and his “PI” Cycle Theory. Read the full article here.

Hidden World: Cymatics
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The work of German photographer Alexander Lauterwasser is presented in the context of Cymatics, the study of vibration and its effects on form-making. A brief history of Cymatic research is presented starting with the sound-figure experiments of Ernst Chladni and Hans Jenny.

First black hole for light created on Earth | New Scientist
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An electromagnetic black hole has been built in a lab – and may one day be adapted to generate limitless solar energy even on a cloudy day.

Scientific evidence for a connection between mind and matter
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I have collected lots of scientifically provable evidence showing that our mind, our consciousness is connected to all matter and it can act on it instantaneously. This evidence was presented in K KLUB (28/08/2009 at 18:00), Detva, Slovakia.

Spacecraft Detects Mysterious “Ribbon” at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
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The heliosphere is different from what researchers have previously thought. Data show an unexpected bright band or ribbon of surprisingly high-energy emissions.

Organic Universe, book by Giuliana Conforto | Responsibility.tv
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The visible universe, scientific instruments show us, is just one of infinite levels of reality; it is probably the lowest energy one, less than 5 per cent of the entire calculated mass, and is expanding at accelerating rates.

Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today
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In just the past week, three different research teams have released their findings in their attempts to create black holes – or at least conditions analogous to them to advance our understanding.

Quantum Physics & Consciousness
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Quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami talked about the “science within consciousness,” and how the paradigm is shifting from a materialistic world view into one that incorporates spirituality.

The Quantum Activist | Documentary film & DVD with Dr. Amit Goswami
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The new documentary The Quantum Activist tells the story of Dr. Amit Goswami, “a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality.”

Haramein on the Sun
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Haramein describes the dynamics of our sun as the result of a singularity black hole structure at its center he calls a “spin horizon.” From the special features of the “Crossing the Event Horizon” DVD set.

The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology | h+ Magazine
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The new science of quantum biology is teaching us about how the actual behavior of evolution is governed by disconcertingly spooky processes – time travel being one of them.

A Conversation With Amit Goswami | Lightworks – The Monthly Aspectarian – September, 2009
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Guy Spiro: Amit, I usually like to start by asking people to briefly tell their story. How did you get from where you started to where you are now with your work and your understanding?

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A fractal holographic universe | hydrogen2oxygen
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Prominent researchers from various disciplines discuss the nature of reality from a quantum physics perspective… Is ours a holographic universe?

Martin Armstrong Economic Essays
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Essays written in prison covering global economic history; future trends and first hand accounts of market manipulation by the largest financial institutions (“The Club”) “untouchable” by the U.S. Justice System.

Project Camelot interviews Dr Pete Peterson
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David Wilcock and Dr Peterson discuss about: The “information field” and how the body, the mind, and DNA really function • Healing modalities which work very rapidly and effectively

The Four Myth Perceptions of the Apocalypse
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In this video Dr. Bruce Lipton explains four myths that were universally accepted until very recently. Now that they are known to be false, medicine will inevitably change.

Crossing the Event Horizon
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In this 4 DVD presentation, Nassim Haramein will take you on a journey through humanity’s evolution, exposing the changes necessary to produce an all-encompassing Unified Physics.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
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Dr Wayne Dyer summarises the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, which is a collection of 81 verses offered by a man named Lao Tzu some 25 Centuries ago.

The Orion Project
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The Orion Project is a not-for-profit corporation created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and enlightened abundance.

lanl.arxiv.org e-Print archive mirror
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Open access to almost 600,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

Hunting Hidden Dimensions / Science News
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Black holes, as the most gravitationally dense objects in the universe, might provide another way of testing the extra-dimension hypotheses. Black holes know a thing or two about gravity; the trick is getting them to reveal their secrets.

The Shift in Human Consciousness | DNA MONTHLY
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Humanity is in the middle of a long-awaited Shift in consciousness predicted in hundreds of indigenous cultures all over the world.

The Non-Expanding Universe | FQXi Community
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Time doesn’t exist. The universe isn’t really expanding. And if you want a theory of quantum gravity, look to the man who inspired Einstein, says Julian Barbour.

What Is Reality?
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This site asks the most fundamental questions about reality, considering quantum theory, the anthropic principle, and the simulation argument.

Embracing the Immaterial Universe: Toward a New Noetic Science by Bruce Lipton
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Materialism and reductionism engender the idea that humans are disconnected from, and above, nature. The noetic vision emphasizes that life is derived from an integration and coordination of both the physical and the immaterial parts of the universe.

The Biology of Belief meets the Tao of Change
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Conversations to Awaken your Soul. Live from the Hay House “I Can Do It” conference in Las Vegas. A conversation with Dr. Wayne Dyer and Bruce H. Lipton, PhD.

Scientists Stumped By “Telepathic” Abilities of DNA
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DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn’t be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.

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The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena

Dan Brown’s hotly anticipated novel The Lost Symbol hit bookstores in September, introducing readers to Dr. Katherine Solomon – love interest to Robert Langdon, and a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Though the character is fictional, both the institution and the science behind it are very real. Dean Radin, a senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), provides astonishing answers to the questions raised in The Lost Symbol in his recently released book The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.

Described as “a mix of curiosity, scholarship, technical expertise, and sly wit” by The New York Times, Radin’s The Conscious Universe unveils persuasive empirical evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena. Shattering the myth that surrounds parapsychology, and revealing the extent to which corporations, governments, and academia have embraced it, Radin exposes what the effects will be when – inevitably – mainstream science and society embrace it as well.

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Conscious Universe:

In science, the acceptance of new ideas follows a predictable, four-stage sequence. In Stage 1, skeptics confidently proclaim that the idea is impossible because it violates the Laws of Science. This stage can last from years to centuries, depending on how much the idea challenges conventional wisdom. In Stage 2, skeptics reluctantly concede that the idea is possible, but it is not very interesting and the claimed effects are extremely weak. Stage 3 begins when the mainstream realizes that the idea is not only important, but its effects are much stronger and more pervasive than previously imagined. Stage 4 is achieved when the same critics who used to disavow any interest in the idea begin to proclaim that they thought of it first. Eventually, no one remembers that the idea was once considered a dangerous heresy.

The idea discussed in this book is in the midst of the most important and the most difficult of the four transitions – from Stage 1 into Stage 2. While the idea itself is ancient, it has taken more than a century to conclusively demonstrate it in accordance with rigorous, scientific standards. This demonstration has accelerated Stage 2 acceptance, and Stage 3 can already be glimpsed on the horizon.

The idea is that those compelling, perplexing and sometimes profound human experiences known as “psychic phenomena” are real.

This will come as no surprise to most of the world’s population, because the majority already believes in psychic phenomena. But over the past few years, something new has propelled us beyond old debates over personal beliefs. The reality of psychic phenomena is now no longer based solely upon faith, or wishful thinking, or absorbing anecdotes. It is not even based upon the results of a few scientific experiments. Instead, we know that these phenomena exist because of new ways of evaluating massive amounts of scientific evidence collected over a century by scores of researchers.

Psychic, or “psi” phenomena fall into two general categories. The first is perception of objects or events beyond the range of the ordinary senses. The second is mentally causing action at a distance. In both categories, it seems that intention, the mind’s will, can do things that – according to prevailing scientific theories – it isn’t supposed to be able to do. We wish to know what is happening to loved ones, and somehow, sometimes, that information is available even over large distances. We wish to speed the recovery of a loved one’s illness, and somehow they get better quicker, even at a distance. Mind willing, many interesting things appear to be possible.

Understanding such experiences requires an expanded view of human consciousness. Is the mind merely a mechanistic, information-processing bundle of neurons? Is it a “computer made of meat” as some cognitive scientists and neuroscientists believe? Or is it something more? The evidence suggests that while many aspects of mental functioning are undoubtedly related to brain structure and electrochemical activity, there is also something else happening, something very interesting.

This is for real?

When discussing the reality of psi phenomena, especially from the scientific perspective, one question always hovers in the background: You mean this is for real? In the midst of all the nonsense and excessive silliness proclaimed in the name of psychic phenomena, the misinformed use of the term parapsychology by self-proclaimed “paranormal investigators,” the perennial laughing stock of magicians and conjurers … this is for real?

The short answer is, Yes.

A more elaborate answer is, psi has been shown to exist in thousands of experiments. There are disagreements over to how to interpret the evidence, but the fact is that virtually all scientists who have studied the evidence, including the hard-nosed skeptics, now agree that there is something interesting going on that merits serious scientific attention.

(Source: The Conscious Universe)

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Dr. Amit Goswami

Dr. Amit Goswami is professor emeritus in the physics department of the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon where he has served since 1968. He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called “science within consciousness” and founder of The Center for Quantum Activism. He has authored several popular books based on research into quantum physics and consciousness and appeared in the films “What the Bleep Do We Know”, “Dalai Lama Renaissance” and the recently released “The Quantum Activist”.

In his article titled “There is a revolution going on in science: View from a Quantum Physicist” he writes the following:

There is today a fundamental shift-taking place in science. This shift is propelling us from the traditionally divisive (spirituality-denying matter-based) science to one which integrates both science and spirituality; and is founded on the solid theory and fundamental truth of Quantum Physics. The fact that science itself must merge with metaphysics is an essential tenet of the new paradigm which has grown from a marginalized movement to a central debate within science. The arrival of this paradigm is now a foregone conclusion.

Decades ago scientific theory favored holism, a paradigm which best accommodated the spirituality of pantheism (Capra, 1975, 1982). In holism the whole is greater than the parts. Life, mind, consciousness, spirituality, are all are explained as a holistic emergent phenomena of matter. Hardly anyone at the time questioned the fundamental dogma of materialism, the idea that everything is made of matter.

Holism, however, was not the only integrative track. Depth psychologists, starting with Freud and Jung, were openly positing the concept of an unconscious that presupposes an irreducible consciousness. Yet, even Jung (1971) occasionally pondered aloud if his idea of the collective unconscious does not have a genetic basis after all. Then came Abraham Maslow (1971), Ken Wilber (2006), and other transpersonal psychologists who were echoing mostly ancient wisdom, and not blending enough modern science to be wholly credible to the more traditional scientists. The holistic paradigmers dominated the avant garde, new age thinking: Gregory Bateson, Fritjof Capra, Eric Wantsch, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, John Lilly, the Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine, Karl Pribram, David Bohm, the systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, and Roger Sperry, the Nobel biologist who made major contributions to the big hoopla surrounding the left brain-right brain asymmetry as the answer to everything. The list goes on and is very distinguished.

Many holists such as Capra depended on systems theory for their analysis, however, the scope of this kind of analysis is limited; only generalities can be discussed. Others, including Karl Pribram, David Bohm, and Edgar Mitchell tried the idea of hologram, both literally and metaphorically. But the hologram is an object, whereas consciousness is an object as well as a subject. How does the subject-object awareness come about? This “difficult question” cannot be addressed from a materialist point of view (Chalmers, 1995).

Spirituality is more than pantheism, and an integrative bridge was still lacking between holistic thinking and psychological thinking within consciousness. Such a foundation only came about when quantum physics was properly interpreted in a way free of paradox (Goswami, 1989, 1991, 1993; also see below).

Meanwhile Quantum physicists were not exactly quiet. During these early stages of the paradigm shift there was the work of David Bohm, who used the idea of quantum non-locality to define an implicit order, as well as John von Neumann (1955) who was the first to interject consciousness into physics by positing that consciousness chooses the actual event of experience from all the quantum possibilities. In the seventies Fred Alan Wolf (1970, 1984) popularized von Neumann’s idea with the slogan – We create our own reality. Even today, the book The Secret and the movie by the same name are recycling Wolf’s popularization of von Neumann’s idea.

The seriousness of von Neumann’s idea can be appreciated only when we engage with the so-called quantum measurement paradox, a most disagreeable thorn in the side of the materialist attempt to understand and interpret quantum physics. In the materialist model which is based on reductionism, elementary particles make atoms, atoms make molecules, molecules make cells, cells make brain, and brain makes consciousness. This is called the upward causation model of causality. However, according to quantum physics all objects are quantum possibilities; thus how can a possible consciousness coupled to a possible object ever give us an actual event? Possibility coupled to possibility gives you only more possibility. So the reductive thinking of materialist science about consciousness cannot explain the observer effect called the quantum measurement paradox. Hence, we get von Neumann’s idea that material interactions cannot change possibility into actuality, and therefore, our consciousness must be nonmaterial.

But materialists object to von Neumann’s approach to quantum measurement because it smacks of dualism. How does consciousness, an independent non-material dual object, interact with a material object? Such an interaction must require the mediation of signals which carry energy. But the energy of the physical universe itself is always constant precluding any such mediation.

The breakthrough idea is that consciousness is neither a material brain-product nor a dual object; instead, it is the ground of all being in which material objects exist as possibilities. In the event of quantum measurement, consciousness (in the form of the observer) chooses from all the offered possibilities the actuality that it experiences becoming in the process both subject and object (Goswami, 1989, 1991, 1993). In other words, conscious choice is responsible for manifesting both the proverbial falling tree in the forest, and the you that hears the sound of the fall. No observer, no sound, not even a tree. Consciousness is primary to everything.

Crucial to this breakthrough was the resolution of the classic paradox of Wigner’s friend which presents the case of two observers who are simultaneously choosing among conflicting choices; who gets to choose?  The paradox was resolved by three physicists working independently – Ludwig Bass (1971), Amit Goswami (1989), and Casey Blood (1993).  They all proposed non-locality, that is, signal-less interconnectedness of consciousness – as the solution. We don’t choose with total freedom from our individual local ego consciousness, but from a nonlocal, cosmic non-ordinary consciousness, termed downward causation by the psychologist Donald Campbell.

The idea of non-local consciousness is a breakthrough on several levels. First, it becomes clear that conscious choice is objective because consciousness, being nonlocal, is objective.  This validates why quantum physics is able to predict probabilities. Second, for a single event, the scope of creativity remains. The secret behind the secret is that we must choose creatively in synchrony with quantum consciousness to manifest our intentions. In our ego, our so-called free will is seriously compromised having become a choice between conditioned alternatives: what flavor of ice cream, chocolate or vanilla? Third, the nonlocality of consciousness is an experimentally verifiable idea.

Prior to this breakthrough was the work of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (1935) as well as John Bell’s famous theorem (Bell, 1965) which suggested that nonlocality is involved in quantum measurement, thus offering a means to verify the existence of non-locality itself. In 1982, following Bell’s lead, Alain Aspect and his collaborators did verify quantum non-locality in the laboratory (1982). In the same year, the physician Larry Dossey began making noise about the efficacy of quantum non-locality in healing, an idea that was backed by Randolph Byrd in 1988 (Byrd, 1988) demonstrating nonlocal consciousness and downward causation in prayer healing at a distance.

In 1986 Willis Harman coined the phrase “science within consciousness”, and three years later I published my papers on quantum creativity (Goswami, 1988) and the idealist interpretation of quantum physics in which God, in the form of quantum consciousness, was rediscovered (Goswami, 1989). Besides non-locality quantum creativity reveals yet another important aspect of downward causation – it reveals the idea of discontinuity. Creative ideas come to us via discontinuous events of insight. This is anathema to the old way of thinking in which all phenomena and their interactions are material and continuous. But in the primacy-of-consciousness paradigm, the discontinuity of creativity is explained as quantum leaps similar to the jumps an electron makes from one atomic orbit to another without going through the intervening space.

Last but not least, the physician Deepak Chopra (1989) independently discovered quantum consciousness and the presence of discontinuity in downward causation with his revolutionary idea of quantum healing owing to quantum leaps in consciousness. Quantum healing explains much anomalous data of spontaneous healing (O’Regan, 1997). Science within consciousness had gained real momentum.

I am giving you a flavor, not a history of how the new paradigm, confirming the existence of God, downward causation, and non-locality has come to the forefront of scientific thinking and experimentation once again.

And now the quintessential question. If the data and theory for a consciousness based paradigm of science has been adequately established in the past decades as is demonstrated by my review, then why aren’t the bulk of the scientists (the establishment) accepting the verdict? Why isn’t the quantum message getting through to the mainstream scientists?

To answer this I leave superficial reasons of funding, politics, and career opportunism aside to speak of the challenge and immense responsibility which consciousness based science implies for the personal as well as professional lives of scientists. What does it mean to take responsibility? It means that you become committed to transform yourself according to the need of the evolution of consciousness using the transformative aspects of quantum physics such as discontinuity and non-locality. When you do that you become a quantum activist. An ordinary activist tries to change the world without making any changes himself or herself; the spiritual activist tries to transform believing that the world will take care of itself. The quantum activist undertakes the journey of transformation always with the transformation of the whole in mind.

I assert that materialism is a wound on the body of the evolution of consciousness. And though slow acceptance of the new paradigm is in a sense good; showing that scientists are not naive, for they see what is at issue here, isn’t it prudent to heal the wound as fast as possible?

We must heal the wound before it shows signs of malignancy, and thanks to the influence of Eastern spirituality in the West, and a Western revival of esotericism, many more lay people are ready to take responsibility than scientists. In fact, I fully expect that it is the popular acceptance which will drive scientific acceptance.

So bringing quantum activism to science means that if we cannot convince the materialists to give up their old paradigm, let’s ourselves be supportive of the development of its alternative. We do not compete with one another, we cooperate. We don’t divide, we integrate. Eventually, the science which embraces this integration will become the new paradigm.

© Amit Goswami 2009

(Source: There is a revolution going on in science)

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Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future

If looking at today’s headlines makes you wonder about the fate of our planet, here is some news that may surprise you: from an evolutionary standpoint, we are exactly where we need to be.

According to eminent biologist Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., and political philosopher Steve Bhaerman, authors of the book Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here), we are surrounded by the proof that we are poised to take an incredible step forward in the growth of our species. This evolution is driven by a change in human consciousness. We are, each and all, active participants in what will amount to be the greatest of human adventures.

Each of us is a powerful force in creating civilization’s positive future. Let us join this evolution and learn how we can play an active role in the evolution of humanity! We can begin with some Spontaneous Evolution questions & partial answers.

What is spontaneous evolution? Is it anything like a spontaneous remission?

• Civilization is on the threshold of a profound evolutionary leap.
• Conventional belief holds evolution as a long and gradual process. However, new scientific insights reveal that evolution occurs in what amounts to quantum jumps.
• Just as health seems to be restored “miraculously” in an individual’s spontaneous remission, by changing our collective beliefs human society can undergo a similar healing.
• Visually, this emergent shift can be demonstrated by the changing schooling patterns of fish when population reaches a threshold density.

Your book subtitle mentions humanity’s “positive future.” Where is the evidence?

• The repeating patterns of nature and evolution indicate that crisis ignites evolution, that change is imminent, and that the imminent evolutionary change will bring about greater awareness and greater connection.
• Unlike prior evolutionary stages, we humans will be conscious participants.

What are the “perennial questions” – the fundamental questions that have shaped the human story?

• Since the dawn of human civilization, the human mind has been concerned with three questions: How did we get here? Why are we here? And now that we are here, how do we make the best of it?
• Whatever organization or entity that provides the “best” answers to these fundamental questions of life, shape the truths and character of that civilization.
• As answers to these questions change over time, so does civilization.
• Although the public is largely unaware of it, science has provided new, more sustainable insights that contradict the current answers to these questions.
• The current state of global crisis indicates we are operating under faulty assumptions based on obsolete answers to the perennial questions.

You say that civilization is in decline, and that that’s good news. How and why is it good news?

• Einstein said a problem cannot be solved at the same level it was created. The current confluence of crises indicates that a fundamental change is at hand.
• The decline of what is not working is akin to the caterpillar deconstructing itself as the butterfly is formed.
• Seen in that light, we can begin to recognize the new butterfly civilization being born, even as the caterpillar one crumbles.

What are the pillars of Western thought that are crumbling – what you call the Four Myth-Perceptions of the Apocalypse – and why are they crumbling?

• Our culture and lives are based on the truths we perceive about our world.
• The four fundamental beliefs about our world that until recently have been the foundation of the scientific paradigm, have now been profoundly revised by the latest scientific discoveries.
• These crumbling pillars include:
  1. Newtonian Physics
  2. Genetic control of life
  3. Survival of the fittest
  4. Notion of random evolution
• Because these radical new conclusions haven’t reached the general public, society’s institutions continue to navigate by these “burned out stars,” and thus are taking the world in a misguided direction.

With all the knowledge and information we have now, how could it be that much of what we know is wrong?

• While we have access to more content than ever before, content must be seen in the proper context in order for information to be used wisely.
• Unfortunately, the current context for holding information is based on scientifically disproved beliefs.
• We have accepted disempowering programming as “truth,” and with new and more accurate knowledge comes empowerment.

If the Four Myth-Perceptions have proven untrue, what keeps them in place nonetheless?

• Just as surely as it took more than a century for the world to accept Copernicus’s proof that the earth revolves around the sun, world-shattering beliefs meet with resistance because most people don’t want their worldview shattered.
• Institutions founded on these now-disproved principles have a vested interest – i.e., their own survival – in keeping the old beliefs in place.
• Those organizations (religion, health care, banking, etc.) are not run by awareness but by profit. So the short answer what keeps it in place? Money, or more accurately, the unquestioned belief that money has the right to rule.

Why do so many of our institutions, from health care to banking, all seem to be failing at once?

• These institutions were founded to support, enhance and complement the structure of civilization based on prevailing beliefs of that time.
• Where once these beliefs adequately addressed the perennial questions, their answers are no longer accurate.
• As science is telling us, life operates as an entangled whole, not merely as separate parts. Consequently, the failure of our institutions to integrate new understandings is system-wide, and so all systems seem to be failing at once.
• As we are seeing particularly in the above-mentioned institutions, patching up the old system cannot work. Because there has been a change in the core beliefs of society, fundamental systemic change is required.

You conclude that we are on the verge of a planetary metamorphosis. How would you describe this metamorphosis?

• Quite simply, it is the story of the caterpillar and the butterfly.
• The old forms falling apart all around us, that is a healthy and necessary part of the transformative process.
• Meanwhile, there is a butterfly being born, an amazing “flying machine” that will allow humanity to truly soar above anything it was able to accomplish as a crawling caterpillar.
• Interestingly, the caterpillar and butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the same organism! The only thing different is the signal each is receiving. The new beliefs we are adopting based on more accurate information is providing the new “signals” that will usher in our spontaneous evolution.

You say our cells may be smarter than we are. How and why?

• Human civilization – a “mere” 7 billion of us — is currently struggling to survive. Meanwhile, the 50 trillion cellular citizens under our skin live in harmony and bliss.
• In a sense, our cells created us! Cellular technology is far more sophisticated than anything humans have been able to come up with.
• The emerging science of biomimicry extrapolates what nature has used to adapt and survive, and applies that mastery to our human world.

What can our cells teach us about solving our current economic crisis? Politics and government? Universal health care? Our current military budget, and the balance between growth and protection?

• In regards to the economy, our cellular community enjoys full employment, universal health care and truly “no cell left behind.”
• It is completely understood that communal health is wealth, so all cells receive proper nutrition and neurological protection from invasive diseases.
• Payment comes in the form of ATP, the body’s energy currency. All cells get what they need to thrive, and those cells doing the most important jobs are “paid” more. Some even are given a “staff” of supporting cells.
• Excess “wealth” is stored in community “banks” (i.e., fat cells) and gets allocated based on the needs of the whole system.
• There is no “borrowing.” The body gets to use only the energy available.
• There is no “inflation.” The value of ATP had remained stable for seven billion years!
• In regards to government, the cellular system embodies the official motto of the United States, e pluribus unum, out of many one. Each cell is “free” to thrive, provided it contributes to the well being of the whole system.
• Divisive and dualistic politics is unknown in the body. Different polarities – like proteins and lipids – cooperate to create an integrated whole.
• Unlike the human mass media, our bodies rely on accurate information, unspun and undistorted, so that our protection systems can distinguish between real and imaginary threats. “Dialogue” between individual cells and the body’s central voice goes on all the time, and the “government” listens and endeavors to do what is best for the whole system.
• In a cell – or for that matter a human body – growth and protection mechanisms are mutually exclusive. Growth is represented by moving toward a stimulus with “open arms” in order to assimilate and grow. In contrast, protection is moving away from a stimulus and closing down. While protection is sometimes necessary to defend one’s life, protection behaviors use the system’s energy but do not provide the system with energy for survival.
• Consequently, an organism that spends an inordinate amount of time in the protection posture is by definition undermining its health. There is a biological truth behind being “scared to death.” While protection is necessary, an “overmilitarized” body is expressing a pathology called “auto-immune dysfunction.”

What was the Human Genome Project, and why were the results so anticlimactic?

• Based on the notion that genes control their own expression, genetic scientists estimated that 150,000 genes would be necessary to control a complex organism like a human being.
• The implications for medical science – and the pharmaceutical industry – was that individual genes could be patented and used for medical purposes through genetic engineering.
• However the Human Genome Project revealed that humans only have about 22,000 genes, the same number as some of the smallest animals on the planet. The “missing” 125,000 genes indicate a fundamental misperception about how humans work.
• In contrast to the flawed notion of “the primacy of genes,” the new science of epigenetics explains how the mind is the master of the genetic code. This obviously changes the model of how life works!

What does the new science of epigenetics tell us about our own powers?

• Although conventional belief holds that our fate is genetically determined, in truth our genes are controlled by our perceptions of the environment. When we change our perceptions of the environment, we become masters of our genetic fate.
• Collectively these perceptions represent the programming of our minds.

What do we know about the conscious and subconscious mind, and how does it impact our behavior?

• There are two parts to the mind: the conscious, creative mind connected to Source, and the subconscious which is a record-playback device programmed by developmental experiences.
• While we believe and perceive we are running our lives with our conscious mind, neuroscience now reveals that more than 90% of our behaviors are controlled by our programmed subconscious mind.
• Most of the thoughts and actions we assume are “our own,” are really the “invisible” and largely unquestioned thoughts and beliefs of others.

Why does it seem so difficult to change habitual behaviors?

• Up to now, we have been unclear on the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious and what actually triggers our behavior.
• Much of “talk therapy” focuses on the surface awareness of the conscious mind, but doesn’t address subconscious beliefs. New awareness and techniques can access and change the underlying programs.

In your chapter on Rediscovering America, you call America a Petri dish. What do you mean by that?

• Historically, nations represent a physical container with borders, figuratively and literally a “culture dish.”
• The U.S. has been seeded by people / cells from a wide variety of different cultures, and allowed to thrive in a relatively unrestricted environment.
• In the sense that it has integrated such a wide variety of cultures, the U.S. is a culture dish representing a miniature global society.
• U.S. success is a biological representation of hybrid vigor where the progeny of purebreds are more powerful than their parents. This likewise suggests that global society will prove to be more vital than any individual culture.

We know about the Founding Fathers, but who were America’s true Founding Mothers?

• The true founding fathers were actually the Native Americans who were here before the Europeans. For example, the U.S. Constitution and balance of powers is largely based on the principles and practices of the Iroquois Nation.
• But a significant check and balance not adopted by America’s founders was something called the council of grandmothers. In the Iroquois Confederation, it was a council of elder women who determined whether the tribe went to war. They could even “impeach” the chief.
• This would indicate that in Native culture, those who represented life itself had the final say about combat, and suggest that re-establishing the authority of our Founding Mothers would help restore balance and sustainability.

You ask the question, “Is scientific materialism a religion?” Is it?

• Scientific materialism – as distinct from science – has become a “religion” in the sense that it even uses the word “dogma” (a belief based on faith, not evidence) to describe its most sacred tenets.
• While science itself is a rigorous process of examining evidence and basing conclusions on that evidence, the belief system we call “scientism” refuses to accommodate the conclusions of new science that contradict its dogma.
• Consequently, science the rigorous practice and science the belief system are at odds with one another.

How did science get so focused on the material, and why is materialism on shaky ground?

• Science originated to challenge the faith-based dogma of the church, by describing and measuring phenomena in the physical world, and then making conclusions based on those observations.
• In a “détente” between two ideological superpowers, science was given domain over the physical and visible world, religion got custody of the metaphysical and invisible.
• When Newton was able to predict the movement of clockwork universe without God or spirit, it was assumed that eventually science would be able to explain the entirety of existence merely by observing the physical world in finer and finer detail.
• However, a funny thing happened on the way to absolute faith in matter. Quantum physics ultimately revealed that the material world itself is a matrix of entangled energy that science calls “the field,” that is oddly similar to the “invisible moving force” that religion refers to as spirit.
• By ignoring nonmaterial reality, science has omitted at least half of reality – and the portion that Einstein believed was the most important.

If the survival of the fittest has been disproved, what is true instead?

• Darwinian theory is focused on the fitness of the individual. However, as human civilization reaches the limits of its growth, our fitness as a species is being called into question.
• Recent understandings indicate that evolution is based on evolution of community … cooperation and harmony, not competition.
• Based on the “myth-perception” of survival of the fittest, we have learned to spend our human and planetary resources on fighting one another. Now we must recognize cooperation is key because the crisis we face today is not the survival of the individual fit or unfit human, but the entire community of life.

What have baboons and bonobos taught us about the nature of human nature?

• We have been led to believe violence is a large part of our genetic makeup as exemplified in the aggressive male dominator behavior observed in populations of baboons and chimpanzees.
• However, a more advanced chimpanzee society, the bonobos, maintain a peaceful and harmonious culture and literally make love and not war.
• Research reveals that even an aggressive primate culture — in this case, baboons — can spontaneously become peaceful with a change of environment.

Why did science assume evolution was a random process, and what happened that shows us otherwise?

• In Darwin’s day, most people were familiar with animal breeding, wherein the traits of the parents are generally reproduced except for the occasional mutation, assumed to be an accident of nature.
• Later genetic science mistakenly concluded that the genetic code could not be influenced by the environment, and therefore all genetic changes are the result of molecular accidents.
• However in the late 1980s, surprising research began to reveal that organisms could in fact modify genetic expression based on environmental stresses.
• In contrast to the widely-accepted yet mistaken assumption that life is random, and hence meaningless, we are coming to recognize that every life form – including humanity – plays an integral part in balancing the biosphere.

What is the difference between random and chaotic, and why is it important?

• Random means completely devoid of pattern, and hence unpredictable. Chaotic systems look random from the outside, but have an underlying order and pattern – even though we may not be able to recognize the pattern.
• A belief in a random world means we are subject only to outright chance. Consequently, we go blindly into an unknown future.
• Science has come to recognize that things we attribute to chance – like the weather – can, with more and more sophisticated measurements, be predicted.
• While we have perceived the world as a series of random accidents, the world is unfolding through underlying patterns we have yet to recognize.
• Future events can not only be predicted, but also influenced and responded to before they occur! This offers us more survivability and mastery over life.

You have a section in the book entitled Weapons of Mass Distraction … what exactly are we being distracted from?

• Primarily, we are being distracted from our own power, individually and collectively.
• We are being distracted from the two components of every evolution: awareness, and community.
• In the face of their imminent demise, the vested interests in society provide the distractions that keep us apart and keep us from finding out how powerful we are.

You write about going sane. How do we go sane?

• First we must recognize that sanity is not merely a subjective term based on what is considered “normal” by a society. The root of the word sanity is “sanus,” the same as the root of sanitary, and it means “health.” If we want to point ourselves in the direction of sanity, we must change our behaviors to those that promote health.
• Next we must recognize that a definition of insanity is “doing the same things over and over, and expecting different results.” Part of going sane is to own the insanity of continuing to do what isn’t working.
• Going sane means to recognize what science is telling us about being co-creators, not passive victims. Instead of remaining passive “children of God” who merely worship the teachings, sanity involves becoming “adults of God” who actually live them.

What is fractal mathematics, and why is it important in predicting our evolutionary future?

• Geometry is the science of putting structure into space. The Euclidean geometry we are familiar with works for building man-made structures but cannot be used to replicate nature.
• Nature designs itself using the principles of a newly identified math called fractal geometry.
• Inherent in fractal math is the scientific principle popularly described as “as above, so below.” In other words, the structure of nature is based on repetitive and self-similar patterns, and by recognizing these patterns we can predict future stages of development.

What does the previous pattern of vertebrate evolution tell us about the next phase in our human evolution?

• Just as vertebrates evolved from fish to amphibians to reptiles, and then mammals, human society has demonstrated a similar pattern.
• Human culture is apparently in a phase similar to the time when dinosaurs, birds and mammals all coexisted.
• Just as mammals became the dominant species on earth, we are evolving now from a reactive reptilian-based culture to a proactive and nurturing mammalian-based culture.
• This pattern indicates that the next phase of human evolution involves recognizing that we are cells in a larger organism called humanity.

Einstein said the field is the only reality. What did he mean by this, and why is it important?

• Humans have conventionally divided the universe into tangible physical matter on one hand, and nonmaterial invisible energy as two separate components of existence.
• When quantum physics was able to look inside the visible atom, it found that what we call matter is actually points of focused energy.
• Consequently, the energy that comprises matter and the energy that fills the space between matter are one and the same and are referred to as the field. So … the only reality is field, and matter is an illusion.

You suggest that the intangibles such as love, harmony and coherence are not only measurable but show measurable benefits. In what ways?

• Thanks to more sophisticated instruments for measuring “energies” (after all, that is what an MRI is … what we are seeing is not the organ itself, but the energy field around the organ), we can see the impact of thoughts and emotions on our physiology.
• Experiments have shown that prayer, meditation and relaxation cause measurable changes in individual physiology and collective behavior – even at long distances!
• Even something as intangible as “love” has been shown to have measurable healing benefits.

From nature’s standpoint, what is wealth? What are the implications for a new and healthy economy?

• The word “wealth” has the same root as “well-being.” Therefore, the purpose of wealth is to create and preserve health.
• Wealth represents the ability – i.e., energy – to do work.
• In today’s world, wealth has been misinterpreted to mean money. Consequently we have the absurd discussion of whether we can “afford” universal health care.
• The body understands that a system where all cells are given what they need to be healthy is far more efficient and ultimately uses less energy.
• A focus on wealth alone doesn’t provide health. Therefore, we must decide individually and collectively what is truly valuable.

What is Newtonian-Darwinian politics, and why might it be up for revision?

• For millennia, most of our collective activity – which we call “politics” – has been based on “might makes right.” This behavior is reinforced by the Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest, and the Newtonian idea of equal and opposite reactions.
• However, the planet-changing impact of human civilization – particularly the destructiveness of warfare – necessitates a change in understanding from survival of the fittest to “thrival of the fittingest.”
• Nature shows us that survival is based on cooperation, and that is likewise true of human survival.
• As we come to recognize that our true nature is community, harmony and wholeness, we also see that our political system must reflect this evolved understanding: Protection must be for all cellular citizens, not just the “rich” ones; information must be as clear and accurate as possible, not used to benefit one over the other; decision-making needs to activate the wisdom of all citizens; invisibles and intangibles like love and caring must be recognized as important parts of a healthy and coherent political “field.”

What do these new discoveries mean for politics?

• As we are coming to understand, “survival” at this level is not the survival of the fittest individual. Our entire species is being tested for fitness.
• Consequently, we must now focus on what benefits the commonwealth – not just the uncommonly wealthy.
• Never before has the motto e pluribus unum been so important to our survival. The purpose of a political system is now to paradoxically expand both freedom and community at the same time.
• New understandings will have us shifting from adversarial to cooperative, based on the “One Suggestion” that we are all in it together.
• Necessity now demands that we focus on solutions rather than positions, and that we practice integrating opposite polarities like left and right, progressive and conservative, masculine and feminine.

You also say that life is progressive and conservative. How is that so?

• Based on nature, life naturally progresses forward with new growth … however, in order to survive there must be a protection mechanism as well.
• We can represent growth as “progressive,” and protection as “conservative.” Both are equally important, each is necessary for both survival and thrival.
• From this perspective, “progressive” and “conservative” will shift from being two opposite polarities, seeking to dominate, and become instead fully empowered dance partners, working in concert.
• Imagine what it would be like were we to collectively ask and answer the questions: “How do we wish to progress?” and “What do we choose to conserve?”

Now that we know what’s so, so what? How do we change the old story and write a new one?

• The first step is to become aware of the story and at the same time recognize the story we’ve been brought up with has been programmed into the behaviors of the subconscious mind. 95% of what we do and say is done and said without our conscious awareness!
• The beliefs that determine our reality are virtually invisible to us – like water for fish and air for birds. Making these invisible beliefs visible is the next important step.
• As we come to understand why the old story is defective, we can make a “leap of awareness” (as opposed to “a leap of faith”) into the new story.
• With more and more individuals and communities divesting from the old story, that old story will have diminishing influence on reality.
• Meanwhile, as we learn, live and reinforce humanity’s new story as a thriving organism, we will be providing ourselves with more and more evidence that we are indeed here on the planet to “re-grow the Garden.”

(Source: Spontaneous Evolution Questions & Partial Answers)

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