From the point of view of a modern microbiologist, we hear the call for integration and common sense in the sciences that too often design separate stakes and battlements to pontificate from on high. The ‘experts’ thus prove their ignorance because the result is inevitably deluded ego and bragging. The truth did not divide itself for prudish ‘nerds’ to prevail, with their huge convolutions and devious attempts to slapstick about it.
In August 1980, Psychology Today published an article by Harold J. Morowitz, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. I recommend a full read of this article for anyone who has had a complete exposure to everything that comprises our modern educational system; as he tries to convince you that everything is ‘black and white’ and that there is no soul through the evasion of his instruction (except for some artists who defy the norm).
REDISCOVERING THE MIND
Physical scientists are returning to the view that thought, that is, mind, is one of the ultimate realities in nature.
The study of life at all levels, from social to molecular behavior, has been based in modern times on reductionism as the main explanatory concept. This approach to knowledge attempts to understand one level of scientific phenomena in terms of concepts at a lower and presumably more fundamental level…Reductionism at the psychological level is exemplified in the point of view of Carl Sagan’s best-selling book THE DRAGONS OF EDEN.
He writes: ‘My fundamental premise about the brain is that its functioning, what we sometimes call ‘mind’, is a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more.’ As a further demonstration of this trend of thought, we note that Sagan’s glossary does not contain the words mind, consciousness, perception, or thought, but deals with entries such as synapses, lobotomy, proteins, and electrodes…
Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of the new physics, became deeply involved in the subjects of philosophy and humanism. In PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM PHYSICS, he wrote about physicists having to give up thinking of an objective time scale common to all observers, and of events in time and space that are independent of our ability to observe them. Heisenberg emphasized that the laws of nature are no longer concerned with elementary particles, but with our knowledge of these particles, that is, with the “content of our minds”. Erwin Schrödinger, the man who formulated the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics, wrote an extraordinary little book in 1958 called MIND AND MATTER. In this series of essays, he moved from the results of the new physics to a rather mystical view of the universe that he identified with the ‘perennial philosophy’ of Aldous Huxley. Schrödinger was the first of the quantum theorists to express sympathy for the UPANISHADS and Eastern philosophical thought. A growing body of literature now embodies this perspective, including two popular works. THE TAO OF PHYSICS by Fritjof Capra, and THE MASTERS OF THE WU-LI OF DANCE by Gary Zukav…
However, the only simple and consistent description that physicists could assign to a measurement involved an observer noticing the result. Thus, the physical event and the content of the human mind were inseparable. This link forced many researchers to seriously consider consciousness as an integral part of the fabric of physics. Such interpretations moved science towards the ‘idealistic’ as contracted with the ‘realistic’ conception of philosophy.
The views of a large number of contemporary physical scientists are summarized in the essay ‘Observations on the Mind-Body Question’ by Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner. Wigner begins by noting that most physical scientists have come to recognize that thought, that is, mind, is primordial. He goes on to state: ‘It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a completely consistent way without reference to consciousness.’ And he concludes by pointing out how remarkable it is that the scientific study of the world led to the content of consciousness as an ultimate reality.’…
The founders of modern atomic theory did not begin to impose a ‘mentalistic’ image on the world. Rather, they started with the opposite point of view and were forced to the current position to explain the experimental results…
The results of this chain of reasoning will probably be of more help and comfort to Eastern mystics than to neurophysiologists and molecular biologists; however, the closed loop derives from a direct combination of the explanatory processes of recognized experts in the three separate sciences. Since people rarely work with more than one of these paradigms, the general problem has received little attention…
We now understand the problematic features of a vigorous commitment to uncritical reductionism as a solution to the problem of the mind. We have discussed the weaknesses of that position. As well as being weak, it is a dangerous view, since the way we respond to our fellow human beings depends on the way we conceptualize them in our theoretical formulations. If we visualize our fellow human beings only as animals or machines, we deplete our interactions of humanistic richness. If we look for our norms of behavior in the study of animal societies, we ignore those uniquely human characteristics that so enrich our lives. Radical reductionism offers very little in the area of moral imperatives! Also, it presents the wrong glossary of terms for a humanistic search.”
The Minnesota Twins study has been ongoing for decades and has produced some remarkable results whose impact few reports see in reference to the very nature of ‘humanistic richness’ and poignant potentialities. Only once is the top researcher allowed to mention ESP. Like the Harvard study I’ve reported, the participants are family members, but because they were separated at birth and (in this case) twins, there is a greater connection of ESP or psychic abilities than normal. Isn’t this just common sense? Who can doubt it, one might say! However, most people think that ESP is some strange attribute or phenomenon of nature rather than a gift that we all have ‘inside’, if they believe that it exists.
Most people today don’t know about Tesla’s ‘forceless information packets’, ‘free energy’, ‘Bearden vacuum machines energy’ or what time/space layers are involved in all psychic phenomena. Therefore, those who say they believe in ESP don’t know how to explain it and avoid any real involvement with it. Scientists are equally ignorant of these things and they (after all) are ‘experts’ like doctors who deny the mind-body connection with the soul that is vital for psychic utilization. Our current culture DENIED these truly human and fantastic or exquisite depths of being.