Steve McIntosh Introduction This is a presentation about how the values known as the beautiful, the true, and the good play a central role in the evolution of the universe. We’ll be considering this ancient and venerable triad of values from the perspective of integral philosophy to see how beauty, truth, and goodness actually serve [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Science & Spirituality’ Category
DeepSurface This equation plagues me with the simple way it gives the mind a window into a much larger perspective. Infinity is a concept, not a number, so it can only be “approached.” It is more accurate to say that you (or I) become infinitely small when compared to infinity. Here’s what the equation really [ Read More ]
Categories: Science & Spirituality
Integral Options | May 31 2008 image source Science Proves Nothing. A statement like this can get me some serious hate mail. But it’s not my statement, it’s from Gregory Bateson, in Mind and Nature (1980), the first of his basic presuppositions about reality (another famous one, quoting Korzybski, is that the map is not [ Read More ]
Categories: Science & Spirituality
This article is featured on: Science & Spirituality & Holistic Quantum Relativity Holistic Quantum Relativity (HQR) Google Group UK This work-in-progress may be of interest to the distinguished ATCA and IntentBlog members, given our joint concentration on opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos; radical poverty; geo-politics, organised crime & extremism; advanced technologies — bio, [ Read More ]
Categories: Holistic Quantum Relativity, Science & Spirituality
Authored by Purify Mind "How do things appear to exist to us?" Thubten Chodron asks her audience while holding up a cracker. "Here is a cracker," she goes on, "It appears to us to be a real cracker. Anyone who walks in this room should be able to identify this as a cracker because there [ Read More ]
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Authored by Laura Quantum Physics may seem complicated to understand. It is. The reason is not because of the math or science involved (even though that could be hard to grasp), it’s because of the unbelievable philosophical implications that arise out of understanding it. Niels Bohr, a renowned physicist and author of Copenhagen Interpretation of [ Read More ]
Categories: Quantum Physics, Science & Spirituality
Authored by Laura Bear with us on the Chaos Theory article. It seems a bit technical upon first read, but it actually isn’t as difficult to grasp as it may seem initially. Give it a go! Traditional Newtonian physics is often understood as deterministic, where physical matter operates within fixed and knowable laws, there is [ Read More ]
Categories: Science & Spirituality
Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers | December 6 2008Thanks to Integral Praxis for link Department of Philosophy Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 Department of Philosophy University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 andy@twinearth.wustl.edu chalmers@arizona.edu *[[Authors are listed in order of degree of belief in the central thesis.]] [[Published in Analysis 58:10-23, 1998. Reprinted in [ Read More ]
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Authored by Tom Huston Something unusual hit the world running this past spring. Opening at art-house theaters across the western U.S., and winning every independent film festival award it was nominated for, an effects-laden docudrama began stunning viewers everywhere with its creative confluence of science and spirituality—and subverting common notions of reality along the way. [ Read More ]
Categories: Science & Spirituality
This article is featured on: Evolutionary Spirituality and Science & Consciousness An interview with Amit Goswami Before you read any further, stop and close your eyes for a moment. Now consider the following question: for the moment your eyes were closed, did the world still exist even though you weren’t conscious of it? How do [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality, Science & Spirituality
