--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is some evidence that increased brainwave coherence opens one > up to an intelligence field which is universal and contains all > experiences. Our own individual brain apparently only accesses > information that we have put into the field but the field contains > much more which is more accesable with a high degree of coherence. > An author who goes into the exact experiment which concluded this is > Ervin Laszlo who Ken wilber frequently quotes.
Say, Vaj, I thought Ken Wilber was against any attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics with mysticism. Any idea how he does it with Laszlo? >From Wikipedia: Ervin László (born 1932 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, and integral theorist. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.[1] In 1993, in response to his experience with the Club of Rome, he founded the Club of Budapest to, in his words, "center attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing coursefrom a race toward degradation, polarization, and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today's transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics, and global sustainability".[1] His 2004 book, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything posits a field of information as the substance of the cosmos. Using the Sanskrit and Vedic term for "space", Akasha, he calls this information field the "Akashic field" or "A-field". He posits that the "quantum vacuum" (see Vacuum state) is the fundamental energy and information-carrying field that informs not just the current universe, but all universes past and present (collectively, the "Metaverse"). László describes how such an informational field can explain why our universe is so improbably fine-tuned as to form galaxies and conscious lifeforms; and why evolution is an informed, not random, process. He believes that the hypothesis solves several problems that emerge from quantum physics, especially nonlocality and quantum entanglement. He also sees his hypothesis as solving the perennial disputes between science and religion. Influences on integral thought: James Mark Baldwin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Stanislav Grof Edward Haskell Erich Jantsch Rupert Sheldrake Francisco Varela Arthur M. Young http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3 Interview with Laszlo (no woo-woo stuff, though): http://www.haven.net/patterns/interviews/laszlo.html Amazon page for Laszlo's "The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science" Excerpt from the Publishers Weekly review: Laszlo postulates a fifth universal field to unify the accepted four universal fields in physics: gravitation, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Laszlo speculates that a fifth field, which he calls the psi field, would explain diverse anomalies from the conundrums of quantum physics and sudden leaps in complexity during biological evolution to human consciousness and even ESP. He likens the psi field to the Vedic Brahman, "the unchanging mind and essence of the universe," and describes it as a "subtly interconnected world, a 'whispering pond' in which we are intimately linked to each other and to nature, assimilated by our intellect and embraced by our heart." (One of the three user reviews is highly enthusiastic; another called the book "pseudoscientific nonsense"; the third thought it was interesting but not nearly detailed or well developed enough.) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
