The Llewellyn Journal is carrying an article by Philip J. Imbrogno, a science educator for the past 26 years with a graduate degree in Chemistry and undergraduate degrees in astronomy and Earth science.
In it he argues that science is only now catching up to things that shamans, druids, and mystics have known for years (string theory, multidimensional universe). It is good read (although parts of it is over my head), and well worth discussion.
Is the Paranormal a new science for the 21st century?
Is the Paranormal a new science for the 21st century?
“Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.” - Andre Gide
Re: Is the Paranormal a new science for the 21st century?
The problem with this is that this person is merely reading into these ancient ideas and saying that those people of old had the knowledge that we are JUST discovering today. What they had was the same human brain as we have today. Science merely follows a system of discovery and examination it does not create truth or reality.
Ancient Hindu philosophy does discribe a universe that is multi-dimensional, but those dimensions are not the same as those discribed by modern scientific theory. In order to make the two ideas mesh, both must be altered in fundamental ways that change both from what they are.
Theories of the paranormal could very well direct scientific inquiry over the 21st Century, but it will also be altered from what we have always known it to be over the last 12,000 years.
Ancient Hindu philosophy does discribe a universe that is multi-dimensional, but those dimensions are not the same as those discribed by modern scientific theory. In order to make the two ideas mesh, both must be altered in fundamental ways that change both from what they are.
Theories of the paranormal could very well direct scientific inquiry over the 21st Century, but it will also be altered from what we have always known it to be over the last 12,000 years.
The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; Volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains. Indeed do many things come to pass.
