Astro Foorumi

Likimain satapäinen joukko tiedemiehiä kehoittaa laajentamaan tieteen tutkimusaluetta materialismin ulkopuolelle. Perustelutkin löytyvät.

The Scientific and Medical Network set up the Galileo Commission to help facilitate the transition from a science based on a materialist worldview and on the primacy of physical sense evidence to an expanded science based on a spiritually informed worldview and on the admissibility of all forms of human experience as evidence.

https://www.galileocommission.org/

1. No human intellectual activity, including science, can escape the fact that it has to make assumptions that cannot be proven using its own methodology (absolute presuppositions).
2. The prevalent underlying assumptions, or world model, of the majority of modern scientists are narrowly naturalist in metaphysics,  materialist in ontology and reductionist-empiricist in methodology. 
3. This results in the belief that consciousness is nothing but a consequence of complex arrangement of matter, or an emergent phenomenon of brain activity.
4. This belief is neither proven, nor warranted.
5. In fact, there are well documented empirical phenomena that contradict this belief. Among them are
- a. Veridical reports of near death experiences (NDEs) with complex intuitions, perceptions, cognitions and emotions during well documented absence of brain activity.
- b. Veridical reports of non-local perception that were confirmed independently during such near-death-states of absent brain activity.
- c. The large data-base of parapsychology and anomalous cognition research shows in a series of meta-analyses that such non-local perceptions are indeed possible.
- d. The large data-base of children who remember previous lives, some of whom have corresponding deformities.
6. An increasing number of open-minded scientists are already researching these frontier areas using existing scientific methods, and are reaching empirically grounded conclusions that challenge the mainstream majority view.
7. They therefore argue that we need a model of consciousness that is non-reductive and allows consciousness its own ontological status.
8. A minimum-consensus model is a dual aspect or complementarity model, in which matter and mind, consciousness and its physical substrate, are two aspects of reality that are irreducible and simultaneously occurring perspectives of an underlying reality to which we otherwise have no direct access.
9. If that is granted, we can immediately see that consciousness can have its own direct access to reality, not only through sense perception, as in classical empiricism, but also through inner perception or radical introspection.
10. As a result, there may be a different and valid access route to reality, through consciousness, in addition to the classical one science is offering.
11. This might include direct access, under certain conditions, to deeper structures of reality, which may provide important insights into ethics, meaning, and values.
12. Indeed, insights from NDEs and other transformative experiences suggest that we are all embedded within a larger field of consciousness, with profound implications for ethics in an interconnected world.
13. Integrating an enlarged view of consciousness into science will also yield a new methodology that will have to be developed: the methodology of radical introspection or inner experience.
14. In view of the widespread perception that a narrow materialist world view is often uncritically passed on to young scientists by mainstream authorities as an adequate explanation of reality and as a pre-conditon for a successful scientific career, we call for an open exploration of this topic and we encourage the scientific community to become more critically self-reflective of the absolute presuppositions on which their activities are based and to consider expanding their scope.

https://www.galileocommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Galileo-Report-Final.pdf

7. They therefore argue that we need a model of consciousness that is non-reductive and allows consciousness its own ontological status.

Jaya Gurudeva (?hindi: Jai Guru Dev), Svaamii Brahmaananda Sarasvatii Mahaaraaj(sp?), jagad-guru Bhagavaan Shankaraacaarya  of Jyotir MaTha , Himaalayas,  guru of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi!    :D

http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm

In early 1968 The Beatles pop group flew out to India to study philosophy and meditation in Rishikesh and their visit immediately became front-page news across the world. But for many it is still unclear what The Beatles actually learned, and where the teaching originated from. However, a clue is offered in the lyrics of 'Across the Universe', a song written by John Lennon containing the oft-repeated refrain 'Jai Guru Deva', a Hindi phrase meaning 'Victory to Guru Dev', sung in praise of Guru Dev (the guru of their meditation teacher).

https://youtu.be/OTQcJx7xqAc

(Videolla hupaisa viittaus joogalentoon: jumping like frog [daardurii]?)
Aika yllättävä loppu!

 ;D

Viisaus, ymmärrys ja tieto eivät synny ontologisista uskomuksista.