About

Wes Hopper

We are at a very interesting tipping point in history, one that humanity has not seen for 300 or so years. That point is a substantial shift in world view from one of solely deterministic mechanical processes that create an external reality independent of ourselves, to a world view in which we realize that we are creative beings living in a participatory universe.

This tipping point has arisen because advances in science over the last 100 years, and especially recently, have made it impossible for any open minded investigator to ignore the incompleteness of the materialist model that has dominated science since Copernicus.

I’m not a research scientist myself, I’m an electronics engineer with a deep interest in these ideas, and an active skepticism about the wild leaps taken by many New Age writers who like to attach “quantum” to everything to make it sound scientific. There is plenty of real science to be excited about without going off the deep end.

There are quite a few scientists to whom I’m deeply indebted for their work. Dr J. B. Rhine began the systematic scientific study of non-local properties of mind at Duke University at a time when virtually the whole scientific community though he was nuts. They were wrong, and he wasn’t nuts. Rhine Research Center

I’m grateful for Roger Nelson and his team from Princeton that developed and have continued the Global Consciousness Project, the first attempt to measure the effect of events on world consciousness. Global Consciousness Project

Today I’m very grateful for the work being carried on at Edgar Mitchell’s Institute of Noetic Sciences, under the able leadership of Marilyn Schlitz and chief scientist Dean Radin. Rigorous scientific research, peer-reviewed and published, on many aspects of consciousness and mind comes through IONS. IONS

I’m also grateful for the courage of British biologist Rupert Sheldrake to publish work on the leading edge of science in controversial areas. His book, “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home” is a classic study of the unexplained “knowing” and navigational capabilities of animals, turtles and butterflies. Rupert Sheldrake Online

I’m also grateful for real, genuine, physicists like the late, great John Wheeler of Princeton, Andrei Linde of Stanford and Amit Goswami of Oregon who all insist that you can’t understand the Universe until you understand consciousness. And for Dr Robert Lanza, whose book, “Biocentrism” makes the same case very well.

As I said, there’s plenty of real science to deal with. And I love every minute of it!