If the world is really a dream, our conception of time will have to change. Given modern science's current belief that 13.7 billion years have passed since the Big Bang, this may take some doing. On the other hand, if it turns out the world is really a dream we will have to change our frame of reference for determining the age of the cosmos. This is because a mind can dream a physical object -- such as a mountain, tree, or even stars -- quickly, and it would be inappropriate to base the age of the dream world upon a dreamt object. ...
Scientific theories are given greater weight than matters of faith or mere belief because theories are testable. We know that gravity is an attractive force because objects dropped from leaning towers fall down, not up; we know that light travels at 186,000 miles per second because scientists measured this speed; we know that the core elements of the physical world possess features of both matter and waves because the famous double-slit experiment shows elementary particles to have this double-identity. If a theory or belief is testable it means that it is open to questioning, and therefore able to possess a deeper validity. Some observers (e.g., the late Karl Popper) believe that the notion that the world is a dream is not testable and therefore not a scientific theory. But dream-theory is easily testable. Many of us have had the experience of “seeing stars” after a powerful sneeze, a fall off a...
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The majority of people accept the teachings of scientific materialism without question. If a Nobel prize-winning scientist tells us the universe was created in the Big Bang, it was; if he tells us the early universe inflated trillions of times in blink of an eye, it most certainly did; if tells us the picture perfect universe evolved from the Big Bang chaos with no intelligent guiding force we believe that too; if a Harvard professor tells us life arose from a primordial swamp and then evolved from primitive bacteria to structured order of the DNA molecule and all life forms, we buy into that as well. And we buy in so strongly that anyone who disagrees with these established truths is misguided, if not ignorant.
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Radicalness is relative. What we today call radical may tomorrow be the unchangeable truth. Calling the world a dream streaming from the one mind of God is a radical thought. But the question is whether it is true. Compare it to modern science's current world theories -- the inflationary Big Bang, the multiverse, dark matter, dark energy, the Higgs field, and so on -- and then judge what theory is more radical -- the dream of God or the wild speculation of modern, materialistic scientists? ...
A new scientific revolution is on the horizon. Writers and thinkers from all fields are increasingly coming to the realization that the worldview of materialism, where matter comes before mind and the universe is viewed as a chance outcome without meaning or purpose, does not explain either the natural world outside or the spiritual world within. The material science worldview is the home of the Big Bang, the God delusion, and the heat death of the universe. It is the worldview of Nobel prize-winning scientists, textbook writers, and doomsayers. It is the worldview based upon the assumptions that mind emerged from matter, life from dead particles, and that the entire material world exists independently of the mind and operates beyond its control. The reason why this revolution is necessary is because the worldview of modern science is false and separates us from our true nature. Imagine this scenario: Suppose the world emerged from a...
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