Conversations Beyond Science & Religion

The consequences of quantum theory, even after a century, have still not permeated our consciousness, or the very field that discovered it: physics.  Professor Richard Conn Henry, a guest on my show in 2014, observed in an article that he published in Nature Magazine, entitled, The Mental Universe, that the world we live in consists not of things, only observations.  But what does this mean?  One...

The consequences of quantum theory, even after a century, have still not permeated our consciousness, or the very field that discovered it: physics.  Professor Richard Conn Henry, a guest on my show in 2014, observed in an article that he published in Nature Magazine, entitled, The Mental Universe, that the world we live in consists not of things, only observations.  But what does this mean?  One...

The world needs a vision and for a vision we will need a Mind. As the physicist, Sir James Jeans, said almost a century ago, "today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." And then,...

The world needs a vision and for a vision we will need a Mind. As the physicist, Sir James Jeans, said almost a century ago, "today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." And then,...

The world needs a vision and for a vision we will need a Mind. As the physicist, Sir James Jeans, said almost a century ago, "today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." And then,...

Negativity stand in the way of fulfilling the vision of the mind.  Ignore it and write your own story

Too many people are perishing:  there are 10 wars in progress;3 billion live in poverty; 800 million are starving; 100 million are homeless.  With no unifying vision, the people tend to look out for themselves, not for others.

"When there is no vision, the people perish"  (Proverbs 29:18). We need a unifying vision for humankind, badly.

Holograms have always bedazzled the mind.  First invented in 1947 ( http://www.holography.ru/histeng.htm) , holograms are man-made mirages, formed by mirrors and lasers, that mimic the appearance of physical reality.  In the late 20th century, cosmologists began using the holographic model as a metaphor to explain the universe.  Under this view, the fundamental stuff of the cosmos is not matter bu...

Standing between us and flow is doubt; doubt is the thing that makes us stop and question our decisions; that makes us second-guess ourselves.  If we can manage doubt, we can truly ride our decisions with an open mind.  But the question is how to do this.  In her new book, Undoubtedly Awesome: Your Own Personal Roadmap From Doubt to Flow ( https://www.amazon.com/Undoubtedly-Awesome-personal-roadma...

Evolution is the leading theory of biology, if not of science.  The problem is that few people understand how evolution actually works.   According to the orthodox Darwinian model, evolution works through the natural selection of favorable, random mutations.  Those who have a hard time accepting the notion that mindless mutations can create the wonders of the living world often adopt the opposing...

One difference between science and religion is that science takes nothing on faith; science, we are taught, is the open-ended, self-critical pursuit of truth.  Meanwhile, religion relies upon revelation and faith to find truths that cannot be questioned because God delivered them.  Science questions; religion relies upon unquestionable answers.  But a few writers are now directing the turrets of c...

By all accounts we are entering a time of breakthroughs and paradigm shifts.  And these changes are not just occurring in science, but in what it means to be a leader as well. This week's guest, Lance Secretan, is a pioneer in establishing a deeper and more self-sustaining method of inspiring people and organizations. He teaches that our world leadership -- politics, business, health care, educati...

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a robber who forced travelers to lie down in a bed and then made them fit by stretching or shortening their limbs.  (Procrustes  eventually suffered the same fate at the hands of Theseus).  In Thomas Kuhn's seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the author writes that scientific revolutions become necessary when the facts encountered through exper...

Science has always looked for the harmonies in nature, as most poetically shown in Kepler's "harmony of the spheres," mathematical rules that still govern the movement of heavenly bodies. Music and harmony permeate our culture, forming an enriching and ever-evolving soundtrack to life.  The rock group The Who sings about "getting in tune with the straight and the narrow," new age authors talk abou...

One of the most peculiar features of our modern scientific worldview is that forces act across distances, at times faster than the speed of light.  This simple sentence violates two rock-solid underpinnings to the scientific worldview: first, the notion that nothing exists but particles in motion, and second, that nothing moves faster than the speed of light.  Take gravity: what exactly holds plan...

It is now evident that if there will be an awakening -- a true enlightenment -- it will be a radical one.  The concept of "awakening" permeates the world's religious and spiritual literature.  We awaken to a new day; a new dawn; a new self; shed material entrapments; and rise above it all.  In each instance, we are ridding ourselves of something that limits us and releasing something inside, to ve...

God is a concept we place on the shelf like an old book and let it sit there.  The book contains what everyone else -- priests, rabbis, scientists, parents, and the media -- have told us about God.  But what do you think?  The new movie, IGod, co-produced by this week's guest, Bob Friedman (along with his son Jonathon Friedman and none other than Neale Donald Walsch, the author of the best-selling...

What we commonly call "religion" is in many ways simply the most popular interpretation of historical texts and words attributed to past spiritual leaders. Religious beliefs, such as the notion that Jesus Christ "died for our sins," become part of an interpretive system for approaching phenomena that lie beyond the physical world. For better or worse, as the popular beliefs take hold, they can bec...

Law and science are both based upon evidence: you can only prove a case in law if you have credible and probative evidence to support your side of the story. In the same way, a scientific theory rises or falls based upon the degree of evidence — and repeatable tests — supporting it. Interestingly, the evidence continues to mount that a spiritual world, residing in another dimension, another plane,...

Few people bring the authenticity to the notion of spiritual awakening as this week’s guest, Simran, award-winning publisher of 11:11 Magazine and host of the top-rated, syndicated 11:11 Talk Radio show.  Life is  synchronistic hologram, an unfolding of the self, an outpouring of inner meaning.  It begins, as Simran writes in her new book,Journey to Love – Discover the Path to Your Soul’s True Mat...

According to Jared Diamond, “evolution is the most profound and powerful idea to have been conceived in the last two centuries.”  Almost all biologists no longer consider evolution "just a theory;" rather, it's a fact.  The textbooks say that evolution is the selection and preservation of favorable mutations across generations.  Genes mix and match, and the more successful at surviving -- survive...

Quantum physics talks -- at times esoterically -- about the connection between consciousness and the outside world.  There are no particles "out there;" only probabilities; wave equations; and bits of nothing. Does the mind choose reality, or create reality?  In physics, we tend to consider this topic abstractly, distancing ourselves from the subject matter, which at times seems academic; after al...

We are accustomed to encountering the concept of evolution in the biological sense, but it is growing increasingly evident that consciousness also evolves across generations.  If so, then at some point a generation will arise that, in the words of this week’s guest, Kingsley Dennis, will “be born as change” not “into change.”  This new generation will not face the current dichotomy of science and...

We are taught that one reaches spiritual truths through revelation, meditation, the contemplation of the divine, and soul-raising experiences.  Logic, on the other hand, involves rigorous, step-by-step thinking. Right brain vs. left brain.  Reason vs. emotion.  Logic is for science, not for spirituality.  But might there be a logical path to spirituality?  Is there a way to use reason to discover...