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Beautifully done.
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Thank you.
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I very much relate to this and gave done a number of posts on the same theme. Very well put.x
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Thanks so much. I’ll have to check out what you wrote.
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Hi Deborah,
I loved your post (as I do many of them). I have been fascinated with consciousness studies for many years now. Mainstream scientists who cling to a materialist worldview (that the physical brain produces consciousness and when the brain physically dies, that’s it) can be frustrating and prejudiced, but I wouldn’t give up on science providing some insight into consciousness in the context of a non-materialist view. Rupert Sheldrake (author of Science Set Free) and Pim Van Lommel are two scientists who have done studies and provided a great deal of viable evidence that strongly implies a non-materialist view. I would suggest Googling and listening to Sheldrake’s TED talk, which was initially banned but re-posted due to the outcry, as well as checking out many of his talks on Youtube explaining his work and the reasons why such work gets ridiculed by a lot of mainstream scientists publicly. I’d also recommend Van Lommel’s Consciousness Beyond Life. There are Youtube videos of his talks and interviews as well.
In short, scientists have their own prejudices like anyone else and oftentimes those prejudices are fueled by a lot of factors, including social standing among their peers which can reinforce outdated thinking. Scientists also must operate in the context of the economy in which they live. Funding is simply not provided for such avenues of inquiry that aren’t going to make money or reinforce the status quo.
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Thank you Natylie. This is good stuff. I am familiar with Sheldrake’s work. It seem there are quite a few people working on the fringes of science. On another note, I had to post this twice because of some technical complications. I will probably eliminate this post in near future, but before I do so I will “transfer” your comment to the other post.
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I love this post! I think that the idea of not taking the soul into account when studying what is real and true is an unusual approach in the context of human history, perhaps a blip on the screen of human studies. Isolating the body from the the force that gives it life? Any child or primitive human would never think of it. I am like you – I just know that this particular lifespan is not enough to make a dent in what I need to do, learn, and be. I will have to read the latest on the near death experience, but I have a feeling that they are falling into the fallacy that if it can be explained by some immediate physical phenomenon then there is no need to look further. It’s like determining that someone’s alcoholism due to the fact that patient drinks too much alcohol. I know – bad analogy. Love the poem!
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