Re: Is it worthwhile?
And on how gullible they are.
Harte
That depends on many things Harte. There's a lot to be said about falling for ideas without doing the homework, swallowing something wholesale at it's face value and the difference between that and actively going out of your way to disprove a concept, doing the homework.
It's easy to call gullible on something that has the window dressing of New Age. Remember, back in yours and my day the place was called an "Occult Book Store"? that always cracks me up. You know, the place where they sell Black Candles, dried bats, spell, potions and discarded wizard hats. Surprisingly enough, they tended to sell a tad more than that. Sure liked the hats though.
From a purely academic stance, and the fact that you are an educator, strong mathematical leanings, correct? If I'm not mistaken there are many ways to prove a theorem. The higher the math could it be said that the possible avenues for proving something mathematically become greater? Many ways to skin a cat as it were, unless it's Schrodinger's and had just been joy riding with that celestial hooligan, his partner Obiwan and Titor.
It has occurred to me that at some time soon in the future, Physics, Metaphysics and the Grand Father of underlying principles of this Universe are going to hit smack dab at a three way fork in the road and continue on. All of them are joined in some fashion as all of them share the same thing, Energy. Thought is Energy. Observing quantum events effects them? (Depends on which eye you lend to what
guess/theory ) The following is a good read:
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=quantum+ev...zcVUWBk4/zv4iy8qqw/lNFuc=
&tsp=1279815728239
Where's ALL the Anti Matter from the Big Bang that should be here? Hmmm Morph did it?
How do we know that thought does not effect both Dark Energy and Dark Mass?
In Science's mad rush to dissect the atom into all of the possible God Particles in hopes the Higgs Boson rears it's happy head, I can't help but be reminded of a similarity of hurling people at high speed at each other and somehow be left with all the components except the animating force called life and the consciousness, the driver, that goes with it. As a whole it works while rendering it past a certain physical state, it's no longer working. Body's are funny like that. Would it be possible that the Higgs Boson only exists while everything is connected as a whole?
Who in their right
"mind" would want to drive a smashed body? Everybody knows without being told you ain't making french toast if the body you supposed to be driving just done been converted into smitherinees.
It may just be a safe bet that if the same energy utilized in scoffing at what seems to be new age concepts (which may very well be thousands of years old), was used in actively researching Metaphysics as IF it was a true branch of science instead of a platform for manifesting guffaws, why them white frocked boyos might just come up with a few things real after all.
Just like Medicine, unless you are actively testing for and or searching for something specific, the things sitting right next to it are hidden and unobserved. Funny how that works ain't it?