Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18, King James Version At this moment in history, there are 10 wars in progress, 1 billion people have no job, 3 billion people live in poverty, 800 million don’t have enough to eat, 100 million don’t have a home, 93 people per day are killed by guns in the U.S., and the world’s supply of nuclear weapons exceeds 15,000. Peace remains an elusive and quixotic goal, something for religious and political leaders to now and then mention, but a concept with no real place in the world agenda. But we are too limited in our vision. Too scared to reach higher. Too intimated by tough-talkers to even consider something that points toward peace instead of confrontation. This blog goes out on a limb and presents an option that remains faint over the horizon, but offers hope of a...
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Modern science describes the workings of the physical world, and religion tries to do the same for the spiritual world. But science has reached its limits in seeking to define the universe as simply a mindless machine governed by impersonal and random forces. Religion forgets that God — and our conception of this Being — must itself evolve with time. Thus, we must go beyond science and religion, and break free from these old ways of thinking, to find a new and brighter perspective on viewing the world we live in. These podcasts feature interviews with a wide range of leading thinkers from the fields of science, spirituality, new age, and parapsychology who are offering original and creative ideas that expand our understanding of who we are and the place we find ourselves in....
The data shows that modern science is badly in need of a theory to replace what is known as “dark matter.” This blog proposes a radical alternative to the theories making the rounds in physics. But the approach presented here may only seem radical to some readers because the existing theory is radically wrong. So I invite comments comparing the theory presented here with the governing theory supported by orthodox science. According to modern science, an invisible form of matter, known as dark matter, makes up 23% of the total matter in the universe. Only 4% of the total mass, according to this view of the world, is composed of familiar stuff — rocks, sand, soil, planets, and stars. (The other 73% is made up another invisible force with the name of “dark energy”). We typically associate the gravitational force with mass; therefore, the larger the force of gravity the...
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Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine and columnist for Scientific American, represents the best and worst of modern science. On the plus side, he writes well, typically picks interesting topics, and gives me a lot material to write about. On the negative, he displays the sort of overly-confident, “it is true because I said it is” attitude that is all too prevalent in modern science. One of his favorite topics, which he writes about in the October 2015 issue of Scientific American, is the distinction between science and pseudoscience. This time he pokes fun at the Electric Universe conference at which he was recently asked to speak. The Electric Universe community apparently believes that electricity, instead of gravity, is the dominant force in the universe. And so Shermer, of course, ridicules this group for straying from mainstream science. He points out that because the Electric Universe community has no peers it...
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According to modern physics everything is made up of atoms, which is to say particles. Our entire modern worldview, from space exploration to the Large Hadron Collider, and modern medicine, is premised on the notion that particles – electrons, neutrons, quarks, the Higgs boson, DNA, germs, viruses and cancer cells – are the ultimate constituents of the universe. These particles, we imagine, exist out in the world, free-standing little things, with an existence independent of perception, independent of consciousness, independent of mind. According to quantum theory, the leading scientific theory of the physical world, particles do not exist, except in our imagination. Does something seem wrong here? “Atoms are not things,” says Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum theory. Niels Bohr, the 1927 Nobel prize-winner in physics and another founder of quantum theory, writes in The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory,...
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