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wolven7Nobel laureate Brian Josephson has been disinvited from a conference on the de Broglie-Bohm approach to quantum mechanics due to his interest in the paranormal: http://bit.ly/cRpqwV
Go ahead and read both of those letters, actually, and the note that this may all be in the service of bringing the breadth of this kind of practice to light, and engendering the proper amount of outrage. Clear?
Good. Now. Let's take a step back, here: Let us consider Sir Isaac Newton, the father of the modern understanding of what we know as Physics. Leaving aside the fact that the theory of gravity, itself, was once considered an "Occult" concept, Sir Isaac Newton pioneered research into both chemistry and physics, by way of his interest in the alchemical arts. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Isaac Newton was an Alchemist. He wrote, studied, experiemented, and taught in the field of alchemy. He simply found more fruit in the chemical than the alchemical. C'est la vie. Anyway, based on these facts, I can only infer that were this conference to have access to time travel technology, Sir Isaac Fucking Newton wouldn't be invited to attend.
This is precisely the kind of bullshit I'm talking about, here, people. Do you not see that, throughout human history, major advances in technology, science, general understanding, have all been made without recourse to rational inquiry? In fact, some of our finest minds have only made the contributions they have, because they stepped outside the rationalist mindset, and engaged in trance states, hallucinatory experiences, ritual sacrifice, dream analysis, or any other so-called "occult" or "paranormal" practice. This is documented fact, in many cases, by the minds themselves (I would point you to Erik Davis' TechGnosis, for a more in-depth consideration).
The Many-Worlds Theorem of Quantum Mechanics was inspired by Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths." A story about a novel that was (Spoiler Alert) infinite and was also a labyrinth.
The man who won WWII was convinced that he was the physical avatar of the Archetypal Soldier.
The man who harnessed direct current was a noted dæmonologist.
No matter what you think of their ancillary beliefs, these people did amazing things and, in some cases, they credit those very ancillary beliefs for their most noted accomplishments. Learn to bracket, or we will lose a massive amount of our finest minds and their discoveries to closed-minded prejudice and a biggoted sense of what makes a "real scientist."
Here Endeth The Lesson.
Go ahead and read both of those letters, actually, and the note that this may all be in the service of bringing the breadth of this kind of practice to light, and engendering the proper amount of outrage. Clear?
Good. Now. Let's take a step back, here: Let us consider Sir Isaac Newton, the father of the modern understanding of what we know as Physics. Leaving aside the fact that the theory of gravity, itself, was once considered an "Occult" concept, Sir Isaac Newton pioneered research into both chemistry and physics, by way of his interest in the alchemical arts. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Isaac Newton was an Alchemist. He wrote, studied, experiemented, and taught in the field of alchemy. He simply found more fruit in the chemical than the alchemical. C'est la vie. Anyway, based on these facts, I can only infer that were this conference to have access to time travel technology, Sir Isaac Fucking Newton wouldn't be invited to attend.
This is precisely the kind of bullshit I'm talking about, here, people. Do you not see that, throughout human history, major advances in technology, science, general understanding, have all been made without recourse to rational inquiry? In fact, some of our finest minds have only made the contributions they have, because they stepped outside the rationalist mindset, and engaged in trance states, hallucinatory experiences, ritual sacrifice, dream analysis, or any other so-called "occult" or "paranormal" practice. This is documented fact, in many cases, by the minds themselves (I would point you to Erik Davis' TechGnosis, for a more in-depth consideration).
The Many-Worlds Theorem of Quantum Mechanics was inspired by Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths." A story about a novel that was (Spoiler Alert) infinite and was also a labyrinth.
The man who won WWII was convinced that he was the physical avatar of the Archetypal Soldier.
The man who harnessed direct current was a noted dæmonologist.
No matter what you think of their ancillary beliefs, these people did amazing things and, in some cases, they credit those very ancillary beliefs for their most noted accomplishments. Learn to bracket, or we will lose a massive amount of our finest minds and their discoveries to closed-minded prejudice and a biggoted sense of what makes a "real scientist."
Here Endeth The Lesson.
