--- In [email protected], "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > Yifu and FFL readers, > > For your information, Dr. Pagels died in 1988. Any statements > that he made while alive has been superceded by discoveries > made in recent years in quantum physics. If he was alive > today, he would have changed his position. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Pagels
I rest my case. Quantum Idiots. > --- In [email protected], "Yifu" <yifuxero@> wrote: > > > > from Skeptic.com, by Dr. Heinz Pagels, physicist.: > > ... > > " > > The claim that the fields of modern physics have anything to do with the > > "field of consciousness" is false. The notion that what physicists call > > "the vacuum state" has anything to do with consciousness is nonsense. The > > claim that large numbers of people meditating helps reduce crime and war by > > creating a unified field of consciousness is foolishness of a high order. > > The presentation of the ideas of modern physics side by side, and > > apparently supportive of, the ideas of the Maharishi about pure > > consciousness can only be intended to deceive those who might not know any > > better. > > > > Reading these materials authorized by the Maharishi causes me distress > > because I am a man who values the truth. To see the beautiful and profound > > ideas of modern physics, the labor of generations of scientists, so > > willfully perverted provokes a feeling of compassion for those who might be > > taken in by these distortions. I would like to be generous to the Maharishi > > and his movement because it supports world peace and other high ideals. But > > none of these ideals could possibly be realized within the framework of a > > philosophy that so willfully distorts scientific truth (Pagels). > > What Chopra is peddling is quantum gibberish." > > >
