 Magnet Iron filings sprinkled on a magnet visually reveals there are magnetic force fields. The planet Earth has an enormous Magnetic Field that acts as a shield against harmful radiation from the sun. A force field, sometimes known as an electromagnetic field, indicates the forces exerted by one object on another.  Earth's Magnetosphere Despite an absence of a brain, plants are capable of certain levels of intelligent behavior related to the plant's ability to succeed. The scientific field of plant neurobiology depicts plants as intelligent, social organisms possessing complex forms of communication and information processing. Intelligence is usually associated in animal or anthropocentric terms. The greatest divide between humans and all other animals is in our higher-order mental processes. Much of cognition-related research has focused on the broad areas of reasoning and decision-making—including how people apply logic, think through problems, and make choices large and small. There are kinds of fundamental cognitive processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem-solving. There is animate and inanimate cognition. Magnets always have popsitive and negative poles that repel and attract. The planets stay in orbit. A computer retains its memory when switched off. Scholars view Western civilization as a story of progress includes the magic-religion-science paradigm that traces the "rise" and "decline" of magic and then religion, along with the final triumph of science—a model now being challenged. René Descartes (1596-1650) is considered the father of modern rationalism. Before his time anything unknown was relegated to magic or to God. Together Descartes, Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon, created our current paradigm called the Mechanical World View. God and metaphysics were replaced by the scientific method, and anything that couldn't be quantified (weighed or measured) was to be ignored as unreal. This fostered all sorts of exploitation which crucially involved the insistence that science held an exclusive monopoly on truth, knowledge, and authority. Humanity and its vastly complex history was reduced into a series of repeatable laboratory experiments. The scientific method of research committed to organizing and testing data. But in this case, the data being considered is the production and distribution of material goods for profit at any cost. Maintaining the stability of natural systems was simply ignored, not funded. Materialism has most people so preoccupied that they seem indifferent to impending doom of a failing ecosystem. Impending ocean acidification even or thawing of frozen methane could devastate human populations fairly soon. Some people want to return to religion while others are convinced that would just set up yet another corrupt power structure. Our scientific paradigm is being challenged. Is it too little and too late? Dr. Dean Radin explains how science has been self-defeating about some areas of knowledge that are not easily tested. The presumption has been that if it can’t be weighed and measured, it just doesn’t exist. He also explains that some of the most famous scientists have been exceptions. They were able to broaden the scope of our knowledge by pushing the limits of traditional reality. Dr. Radin is Chief
Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated
Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at
the California Institute of Integral Studies. He earned a masters degree in
Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude) and a PhD in psychology,
spent a decade working on advanced projects for Bell Labs and GTE
Labs. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 scientific, technical, and popular articles, several best selling books and more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is considered one of the world’s premier scientific investigators of psychic abilities. He is well known for
his studies of consciousness and psychic phenomena and his work with
the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), along with updates on psi and
healing experiments. He tells us that Issac
Newton as well as various other well known scientists had an interest
in alchemy, mysticism and theology. His website is a bastion of substance in a sea of credulous psi publications that separates the real science of parapsychology from the morass of channelers, telephone hot-line psychics, side-show telepathics and metaphysical healers that most of the population associates with psychic phenomena. This is the best survey of real evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena ever compiled. Radin
has
been called the
"Einstein of parapsychology," and he
demonstrates
why the world is more glorious than we've been told. And
the importance of this may well be a key to the understanding of
why we humans have become so callous and indifferent. Obviously we, our species, have been walking directly into enormous calamity and are apparently unwilling or unable to come to our senses.This lack of self-awareness combined with the seemingly utter lack of consciousness, results in an inability to directly experience our true essential nature as spiritual beings. Radin documents a staggering amount of evidence for a broader view of science that offers hope for our present global crisis of consciousness and the future of humanity.
We want to serve the emerging paradigm of the new world. ... Dr. Dean Radin.
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