Duane Elgin

Karen– Thanks for encouraging us to read Smolin’s cosmology. I ordered his book and it arrived yesterday. I’ve been appreciating his creative inquiry! 

Karen– Thanks for encouraging us to read Smolin’s cosmology. I ordered his book and it arrived yesterday. I’ve been appreciating his creative inquiry!

Karen– Thanks for sharing insights from Lee Smolin’s book, “The Life of the Cosmos.” I think he is correct in viewing the universe as a self-organizing system in a non-equilibrium condition. I am also intrigued with his suggestion that new universes form every time a star collapses into a black hole. So, please post more of what you found engag…[Read more]

Karen–Thanks for sharing insights from Lee Smolin’s book, “The Life of the Cosmos.” I think he is correct in viewing the universe as a self-organizing system in a non-equilibrium condition. I am also intrigued with his suggestion that new universes form every time a star collapses into a black hole. So, please post more of what you found engag…[Read more]

Mike (and others) — This is such a rich conversation that I’m getting behind in responding to postings! I’ll try to catch up. In the meantime, I want to express my appreciation for Mike’s clarification of those taking a living systems perspective:First, we do not deny the validity of science or the scientific method. Second, we are not saying…[Read more]

Mike (and others) —   This is such a rich conversation that I’m getting behind in responding to postings! I’ll try to catch up. In the meantime, I want to express my appreciation for Mike’s clarification of a living systems perspective:  

First, we do not deny the validity of science or the scientific method.  

Second, we are not saying that li…

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Mike (and others) — This is such a rich conversation that I’m getting behind in responding to postings! I’ll try to catch up. In the meantime, I want to express my appreciation for Mike’s clarification of those taking a living systems perspective:First, we do not deny the validity of science or the scientific method. Second, we are not saying…[Read more]

 Mike– Thanks for looking for a third option or generative middle ground between these two perspectives. I have been wondering about the potential for complementarity among views presented here. Instead of conflicting perspectives, could each offer insights of value to the other? For example, given that 95% of the known universe is invi…[Read more]

The Mental Universe, Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University,  Nature 436:29, 2005. The only reality is mind and observations, but observations are not things. To see the universe as it really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things. . . . A fundamental conclusion of the…[Read more]

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist ScienceWe are a group of internationally known scientists, from a variety of scientific fields (biology, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry), who participated in an international summit on post-materialist science, spirituality and society. . . . We have come to the following conclusions: 1. The mo…[Read more]

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist ScienceWe are a group of internationally known scientists, from a variety of scientific fields (biology, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry), who participated in an international summit on post-materialist science, spirituality and society. . . . We have come to the following conclusions: 1. The mo…[Read more]

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist ScienceWe are a group of internationally known scientists, from a variety of scientific fields (biology, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry), who participated in an international summit on post-materialist science, spirituality and society. The summit was co-organized by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD…[Read more]

The Mental Universe, Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, Nature 436:29, 2005. The only reality is mind and observations, but observations are not things. To see the universe as it really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things. . . . A fundamental conclusion of the…[Read more]

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist ScienceWe are a group of internationally known scientists, from a variety of scientific fields (biology, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry), who participated in an international summit on post-materialist science, spirituality and society. The summit was co-organized by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD and Mario…[Read more]

Here’s a lengthy article that I appreciated: “What Does It Mean To Raise A Spiritual Child?” It includes the following quote:

Natural spirituality is a direct sense of listening to the heartbeat of the living universe, of being one with that seen and unseen world, open and at ease in that connection.

Hi Brandon–   In order to say where Big History is “from,” it is first important to say what Big History “is.” If it is about the story of a universe that is non-living at its foundations and without meaning, purpose, or consciousness, then I think it would be accurate to say it is “from” David Christian, Eric Chaisson, and others connected wi…[Read more]

Ursula–   Yes, this theory has been around for quite a while but completely ignored in this conversation until now. I wonder why? You diminish the HuffPo piece as “hype” so here’s another more accessible essay in “Scientific American” which I don’t think falls into the domain of hype.    A “Complex” Theory of ConsciousnessIs complexity the sec…[Read more]

Ursula– Yes, this theory has been around for quite a while but completely ignored in this conversation until now. I wonder why? You diminish the HuffPo piece as “hype” so here’s another more accessible essay in “Scientific American” which I don’t think falls into the domain of hype.  A “Complex” Theory of ConsciousnessIs complexity the secret t…[Read more]

Here is an important contribution to the theory of consciousness that just came up on Huffington Post:  Neuroscience’s New Consciousness Theory Is Spiritual  

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality”–Carl Sagan

 It appears that we are approaching a unique time in the history of man and scienc…[Read more]

Here is an important contribution to the theory of consciousness that just came up on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bobby-azarian/post_10079_b_8160914.htmlNeuroscience’s New Consciousness Theory Is Spiritual 

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality”–Carl Sagan

 It appears that we a…[Read more]