October 2009

Fine Tuned For Life

by Wes

“All successful men have agreed in one thing — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson At a news conference at the United Nations a few years ago, the 2006 Templeton Prize was awarded to John Barrow, a distinguished cosmologist and professor of mathematics at [...]

A New Worldview?

by Wes

It’s not often that human society goes through a radical change in world view. In fact, that last time it happened was about 400 years ago. Then, as now, most people were completely oblivious to the transformation while it was happening but within just a few generations people were looking at the world quite differently. [...]

More on Consciousness

by Wes

Thanks to Dean Radin for the link to this recent talk by Bernard Haisch on quantum physics and consciousness. Parts of it are more technical, but not excessively so. The talk is a video – about 30 min. I’d not heard about the Leggett experiment because it’s so relatively recent. Society for Scientific Exploration

Monistic Idealism is designed to explore the intersection of hard science, consciousness studies and spirituality by discussing new research, publications and commentary on these issues. As in any emerging discipline there are more questions than answers, but it is encouraging that there are more and more very smart people addressing them. Your comments are encouraged.

Here is a PDF of a paper I presented in October, 2009 at a conference on Science and Religion. I maintain that the unifying factor between those two areas is consciousness, and that there are numerous science problems that cannot be solved without somehow incorporating consciousness as a causal element.

The Emerging Importance of Consciousness in Physics

Please note that just because it was a Science and Religion conference doesn't mean that I think that materialist, deterministic science, and literalistic ancient religion can agree. I'm an optimist, not a magician. The conference attracted the more open minded from both camps.

Here is a PDF of a summary of the material I taught in a 3-week class at Unity of Prescott in the spring of 2011. The class covered the first 400 years of Christianity and the four main, and very different, theologies that competed to be "official" Christianity. Part of the class covered how the New Testament was put together and the problems with authorship and forgeries.

The Battle For Christianity

We can never have an intelligent discussion about science and spirituality without being open minded and following the trail in both disciplines wherever it leads us. As Fox Mulder would say, "The truth is out there."