[FairfieldLife] Auspicious Days for the Month of November 2007
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[FairfieldLife] Auspicious Days for the Month of October 2007
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[FairfieldLife] Come to David Lynch Weekend - May 25-27
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[FairfieldLife] : Vedic Pandit Update #4
Note: forwarded message attached. It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/---BeginMessage--- Global Country of World Peace http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/images/gcwp.jpg Dear Supporters of Permanent Invincibility for America, We thought you would enjoy seeing these pictures of the newest group of Vedic Pandits from India. The Pandits arrived last Friday and went straight to their new campus in Maharishi Vedic City. This was the 10th group of Vedic Pandits to arrive since October. There are now almost 500 Vedic Pandits here on two campuses and more groups will continue to arrive until there are 1050 Vedic Pandits to raise our numbers flying each day on the Invincible America Assembly to 2500. The Vedic Pandits from India are blessing America with invincibility. Jai Guru Dev. Raja Wynne Photo1 http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/images/2007_04_11_pandit1.jpg Assembly Hall Awaiting Arrival of the Pandits Photo2 http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/images/2007_04_11_pandit2.jpg Inaugural Ceremony for the New Campus Photo2 http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/images/2007_04_11_pandit3.jpg Pandits on the New Campus Crowning America with Invincibility ---End Message---
[FairfieldLife] Auspicious Days for the Month of April 2007
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[FairfieldLife] -Just a Few Hundred More Invincible America Assembly Participants
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[FairfieldLife] Meetings with the Maharishi Ayurveda Experts
Note: forwarded message attached. Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front---BeginMessage--- Maharishi Enlightenment Center Serving Greater San Diego County 858-490-2704 March 14-25: Personal Health and Wellness Evaluation Appointments with our Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health Experts (Vaidyas) at the Ramona Peace Residence (Telephone appointments now also available for people in outlying areas) ALSO Sunday March 18 1:30-3:30 pm at the Ramona Peace Residence: Special Knowledge Meeting for Ladies with our Lady Vaidya Special Knowledge Meeting for the Men with our Male Vaidya We are very happy to be welcoming back our dear Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health Experts (Vaidyas) who offer personal health and wellness evaluation appointments along with individualized recommendations for balancing the doshas and optimizing health. Those who have met with them before can attest to the great expertise, liveliness and compassion they bring. It is a rare opportunity to have both a lady and man Vaidya to help us with our specialized concerns. We are hosting a unique knowledge afternoon at the Ramona Peace Residence with separate meetings for Ladies and Men's Health and Wellness. Ladies and children will meet with Mamatha and the men will meet with Nagaraja. Please RSVP at the Center number. Group program follows as well as a light dinner ($5/person). Personal evaluation sessions will also be available for meditators and the general public at the Ramona Peace Residence from March 14 to 25. Please call or email Billie Jean Billman to obtain more information or to schedule an appointment: 760-788-5919 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] The evaluation appointment involves a thorough assessment of the imbalances currently present in the physiology, using various modalities including pulse diagnosis (Nadi Vigyan). The Vaidyas will not only assess the balance and imbalances that have caused or could cause health problems, but will also give profound personalized recommendations for correcting the imbalances and creating vitality and well-being. Their recommendations usually encompass the areas of diet, digestion, herbal supplements, lifestyle, and consciousness. Fee: $150 Appointments generally available from 10 am til 3 pm. Please allow about 1 1/2 hours for your visit. A session with the health educator immediately follows your interview with the Vaidyas. Here's a little background on Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health: The goal of Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health is to help every individual enjoy total health. The ideal of total health goes back much farther than 1985, when we incorporated in the U.S. as Maharishi Ayurveda Products International. The original science of health is as old as the human race. It's called ayurveda, which is Sanskrit for science of life. The written records of this complete system of natural health care are about 5,000 years old. From age to age, sages and physicians have rediscovered this timeless health wisdom. javascript:; javascript:; javascript:; javascript:; In 1980, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, began working with three of India's top ayurvedic experts, Dr. V.M. Dwivedi, Dr. B.D. Triguna and Dr. Balaraj Maharishi. They revived the ancient knowledge of health and called it Maharishi Ayurveda or Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health. They formed a medical council that created our authentic herbal formulas according to the ayurvedic texts. They also established an international network of doctors, clinics and schools that are dedicated to eliminating disease and offering perfect health to the people of every nation. We invite you to join our quest for total health for yourself, your family and your world. For more in-depth knowledge of Maharishi Ayurveda visit http://www.mapi.com OR plan on enrolling in one of our upcoming Courses. Email or call us for more info on the courses below. * Diet, Digestion, Nutrition - Promoting optimal nourishment and health through balanced diet, digestion, nutrition * Good Health through Prevention - Eliminating the basis of disease by bringing life into accord with Natural Law * Self-Pulse Reading for Good Health - Detecting balance and imbalance in the physiology by feeling one's own pulse * Maharishi Yoga: A Course on Yoga Exercise - Creating physiological balance and mind-body coordination for ideal health and well-being Enjoy! If you would like to be removed from our email list, please just let us know. attachment: image001.jpg attachment: image002.jpg ---End Message---
[FairfieldLife] Auspicious Days for the Month of March 2007
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[FairfieldLife] Auspicious Days for the Month of February 2007
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[FairfieldLife] Aug 15 - A day of victory - Letter from Raja John Konhaus
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[FairfieldLife] Urgent Message for Governors and Sidhas
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[FairfieldLife] eSkeptic: Science, Spirituality the Search for Meaning
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/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/ ---BeginMessage--- Title: eSkeptic: July 13th, 2006 eSkeptic: the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society Thursday, July 13th, 2006 | ISSN 1556-5696 the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California (photo by Angela Smith) Esalen Institute weekend workshop Science, Spirituality the Search for Meaning a weekend seminar led by Michael Shermer August 11th13th, 2006 at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA The quest to understand the universe and our place in it is at the core of both religion and science. At the beginning of the 20th century social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the end of the century because of the secularization of society. In fact, never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God and expressed spirituality. To find out why, Dr. Michael Shermer has undertaken a monumental study of science, spirituality, and the search for meaning. Since humans are storytelling animals, this study involves the origins and purposes of myth and religion in human history and culture. Why is there is an eternal return of certain mythic themes in religion messiah myths, creation myths, redemption myths, end-of-the-world myths? What do these recurring themes tell us about the workings of the human mind and culture? We are also pattern-seeking animals. For countless millennia we have constructed stories about how our cosmos was designed specifically for us. For the past few centuries, however, science has presented us with an alternative in which we are but one among tens of millions of species, housed on but one planet among many orbiting an ordinary solar system, itself one among possibly billions of solar systems in an ordinary galaxy, located in a cluster of galaxies not so different than billions of other galaxy clusters, and so on, ad infinitum. Is it really possible that this entire cosmological multiverse exists for one tiny subgroup of a single species on one planet in a lone galaxy? This workshop explores the deepest question of all: what if the universe were not created for us by an intelligent designer, and instead just happened? Can we discover meaning in this apparently meaningless universe? The answer is yes! about the Esalen Institute Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging precariously over the Pacific Ocean. The Esselen Indians used the hot mineral springs here as healing baths for centuries before European settlers arrived. Today the place is adorned with a host of lush organic gardens, mountain streams, a cliff-side swimming pool, hot springs embedded in a multimillion-dollar stone, cement, and steel spa, and meditation huts tucked away in the trees. Esalen was founded in 1962 by Stanford graduates Michael Murphy and Richard Price and has featured such notable visitors as Richard Feynman, Abraham Maslow, Timothy Leary, Paul Tillich, Carlos Castaneda, and B. F. Skinner. Regardless of your source of spirituality (science, religion, or self), Esalen embodies the integration of body, mind, and spirit. about the seminar leader Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Fox Family television series, Exploring the Unknown. He is the author of Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown, about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong. His book The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share Care, and Follow the Golden Rule, is on the evolutionary origins of morality and how to be good without God. He wrote a biography, In Darwins Shadow, about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. He also wrote The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and Denying History, on
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Guru Purnima :: The Day of the Divine Master
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[FairfieldLife] eSkeptic: is the brain hardwired for morality?
re: the nature vs nurture question, the author of this article favors nature (e.g. homosexuality may develop very early in life, long before puperty; and may have a genetic predisposition); but he stops short of claiming that there's only a purely moral component to criminal behavior, independent of nature and nurture(brain damage in early life due to physical and emotional traumas). Offhand, I'd say the author still falls short of resolving the ultimate origins of immoral behavior. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/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/ ---BeginMessage--- Title: eSkeptic: June 1st, 2006 eSkeptic: the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society Thursday, June 1st, 2006 | ISSN 1556-5696 Last Minute Registrations Seats are still available, but online registration is no longer available. Registration is available by phone at 626-794-3119, and walk-ups are also available for the Saturday only (full registration fees apply). Getting to the Conference Detailed information regarding accommodation and shuttle service from the airport to the Westin Hotel are available on the Environmental Wars website. GET accommodation and shuttle info For those of you who are renting a car at the airport weve provided direct links to Google Maps with directions from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Caltech as well as to the Weston Hotel. If you are starting your journey from a location other than the airport, you may enter that location in the start address field above the Google map. GOOGLE directions from LAX to Caltech GOOGLE directions from LAX to the Westin Hotel Parking near the Beckman Auditorium For parking near the Beckman Auditorium, we have created a map of the parking areas in the vicinity of the Auditorium. You can download the map in PDF format and bring it with you to the conference. Registration and all lectures will take place at the Beckman Auditorium. DOWNLOAD the Caltech map (56 kb PDF) Join us this weekend, and participate in the dialogue: www.environmentalwars.org In this weeks eSkeptic Kenneth W. Krause reviews Laurence R. Tancredis book, Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals About Morality. (Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0521860016) Kenneth W. Krause lives in Wisconsin, along the Mississippi River. He is a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney with degrees in law, history, literature, and fine art. Books editor for Secular Nation, Kenneth has recently contributed as well to Free Inquiry, Skeptic, The Humanist, and Freethought Today. Hardwired for Good a book review by Kenneth W. Krause Nature precedes nurture. Biology sets the parameters for behavior, whether consciously or unconsciously inspired. Free will is more a convenient social and political ideal than a dispassionate description of reality, and as such, writes Laurence Tancredi, attorney and New York University Professor of Psychiatry, individual sins may not be sins after all (p. 9). Moral behaviors draw from nearly every component of the brain, but the heavy lifting is performed in three areas: the amygdala, the inhibitory networks (anterior cingulate cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and prefrontal cortex), and the mirror-neuron system. Broadly stated, the amygdala generates emotional import from environmental stimuli while inhibitory structures assist in regulating emotional responses. The prefrontal cortex, often referred to as the brains command post, is crucial in managing complex behaviors, and the mirror-neuron system is essential to learning by imitation. Overwhelmingly intense responses by the first or deficiencies in or injuries to the latter structures can result in bad decisions, and, ultimately, immoral behavior. Even so, genes do not lord over every detail of human conduct. Biology is more a firm hand clasped behind a heavy leash than ten tireless fingers strung over a marionette. Genetic transmission of any given moral capacity is insufficient to ensure a moral trait. In addition, some instruction, or external
[FairfieldLife] : Auspicious Days for the Months of March 2006
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[FairfieldLife] TMO potluck near Golden Acorn Casino
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[FairfieldLife] Shermer confronts the Dalai Lama
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/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/ ---BeginMessage--- Title: eSkeptic: October 19th, 2005 eSkeptic: the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 In this weeks eSkeptic, we reprint Michael Shermers review of The Universe in a Single Atom : The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by the Dalai Lama (Morgan Road Books, September 2005, ISBN 076792066X) that appeared in the New York Sun Arts Letters section on September 14, 2005. the Carina Nebula (NASA image courtesy of GRIN) Science Without Borders a book review by Michael Shermer In a 1987 lecture on The Burden of Skepticism, the astronomer Carl Sagan opined: In science it often happens that scientists say, You know thats a really good argument; my position is mistaken, and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesnt happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. Well, Carl, heres a bit of good news, from no less a personage than His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who writes in the prologue of his latest book, The Universe in a Single Atom: My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims. Listen up, all ye who insist on squeezing the round peg of science into the square hole of religion; if religious claims are not consonant with scientific findings, it is wisest to err on the side of science, which employs self-correcting machinery designed to weed out error, agenda, and bias. Not only do scientists change their minds in the face of contradictory evidence, they do so regardless of the religion, race, or nationality of the scientific colleagues who are doing the contradicting. Science is international, or non-national, in this sense, a characteristic His Holiness says is in harmony with the teachings of Buddhism. Because I am an internationalist at heart, the Dalai Lama explains, one of the qualities that has moved me most about scientists is their amazing willingness to share knowledge with each other without regard for national boundaries. Even during the Cold War, when the political world was polarized to a dangerous degree, I found scientists from the Eastern and Western blocs willing to communicate in ways the politicians could not even imagine. In my 1999 book, How We Believe, I outlined a three-tiered model of the relationship of science and religion: the conflicting worlds model, in which science and religion are at war and one must choose between them; the same worlds model, in which science and religion are in harmony and one may have both simultaneously; and the separate worlds model, in which science and religion are different methods to deal with different areas of human concern. Since that time, hundreds of books have been published in the field of science and religion studies, which has blossomed with its own journals and magazines, college courses, scholarly conferences, and even an annual million-dollar cash prize for the individual who most contributes to uniting science and religion (the Templeton Prize). I thus approached this book with trepidation what else can be said on this subject, especially by someone with no background whatsoever in science? Yet, as I read I grew to respect the author, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, who at the age of 6 was enthroned as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the 13th Dalai Lama, in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. Born to a peasant family in a small village called Takster in northeastern Tibet, the
[FairfieldLife] The Republican War on Science
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/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/ ---BeginMessage--- Title: eSkeptic: October 13th, 2005 eSkeptic: the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society Thursday, October 13th, 2005 In this weeks eSkeptic, we present David Brins review of The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney. This review originally appeared in a September 2005 edition of the San Diego Union Book Review. Political Science a book review by David Brin Sixty years ago, science emerged dramatically from its ivory tower, with a flash and a bang. Even before Hiroshima, a multitude of technical advances from agriculture and antibiotics to radar and rocketry fed a burgeoning movement called Modernism, which viewed change as inevitable. But the atom bomb made it official: science vastly expands the potential range of human activity, for well or ill. Mistakes could now have devastating consequences. If used wisely, a cornucopia of innovations might serve and uplift billions. Alas, wisdom is seldom obvious. We rely on politics to determine policy an improvement over the whim of kings. But politics, despite centuries of hard refinement, is still far more ego-driven art than craft. Habits of at least four thousand years seem to favor self-interest, hierarchies and dogma, instead of gathering evidence and cheerfully letting facts guide us. Whats more, science has accumulated enemies. Some are put off by the ambitious and optimistic Modernist Agenda of perpetual human self-improvement a program aimed at discovering and then applying the very tools of Creation, in order to make better societies, better lives, better generations. Is this ambitious goal possible, or ethical, or even sane? Aldous Huxley once spoke for all grouchy intellectuals, when he derided progress as just another idol. Grumbling that it will all come to no good, voices ranging from Bill Joy and Francis Fukayama to Osama and the Unabomber have shared a common underlying theme, protesting the Wests headlong plunge into territories and powers once left to God. Artists and authors, from Michael Crichton to Margaret Atwood, portray technological ambition as hubris, that age-old, prideful route to chaos or damnation. It wasnt always like this. Back in 1945, even as humanity was climbing out of the wreckage of its Nadir War, a sense of resilient, can-do determination seemed to overflow. In his famed report Science: The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush called upon the United States to transform and multiply its martial accomplishments with unprecedented peacetime zeal using both technology and perseverance to rebuild cities, refute bigotries, revitalize education, end poverty, and provide more fulfillment for all. So stirring was this aspiration that cynics and curmudgeons could do little more than bide their time. Nor was this a partisan matter. The aspiration proclaimed by Bush was thereupon propelled as much by Harry Truman and George Marshall as by Dwight Eisenhower, who established the office of Presidential Science Advisor and gave it real clout. John F. Kennedy is remembered as a gung-ho science booster, especially regarding outer space, but Richard Nixon embarked upon just as many ambitious, science-driven endeavors, for example vastly increasing funding for biological research and responding to clear evidence of human-generated ecological harm by creating the Environmental Protection Agency. Have we benefited? Weather and communication satellites transformed modern life, while advances in medicine, biology and agriculture enabled far more people to survive and thrive. Acid rain and stratospheric ozone depletion were rapidly diagnosed, prompting measures that at least checked immediate calamity. And while there is still plenty of bad news to spur activism, anyone who grew up in Los Angeles, 40 years ago, should attest that five times as many people now live there, breathing air thats five times better. (Or, rather, a fifth as bad.) If the greatest generation deserves acclaim for defeating Hitler, lets add more
[FairfieldLife] A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html 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/ ---BeginMessage--- Title: eSkeptic: June 10th, 2005 eSkeptic: the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society Friday, June 10th, 2005 The weeks eSkeptic offers two reviews of The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, by Roger Penrose (Knopf Random House, 2005, ISBN 0679454438). The first review, How Vast is Our Ignorance, is by James N. Gardner, author of BIOCOSM. BIOCOSM (www.biocosm.org) was selected as one of the ten best science books of 2003 by the editors of Amazon.com. The second review, The Key to the Universe, is by Michael Shermer, originally published in the New York Sun, March 2005. How Vast is Our Ignornace? a review by James N. Gardner The most difficult thing for lay people to understand about science, Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann once told me after a lecture in Portland, Oregon, is how very little scientists truly comprehend about the basic nature of nature, how vast is our ignorance of the fundamental reality of the cosmos. Gell-Manns statement reminded me of the comment of that supreme master of quantum physics, Nobelist Richard Feynman, who once famously remarked: I think it can be safely said that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and author of the Principia arguably the single most sublime achievement of the human intellectmade exactly the same point some 300 years earlier when he said: I dont know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Why is it that our greatest geniuses Gell-Mann, Feynman, Newtoncan humbly concede how pitifully limited is the reach of deep human insight and comprehension while lesser spirits noisily proclaim the certainty of their conclusions and forcefully dismiss dissent, doubt, or skepticism? The short answer, I think, is that humans crave certainty, even false certainty, in preference to the sense of vertigo induced by a clear-eyed acknowledgment that we are, at least most of the time, stumbling in the dark down an unmarked path through the baffling wilderness of an unknown perhaps unknowable reality. Facing up to the limits of our knowledge and the enormity of our ignorance is an acquired skill, to put it mildly. But it is a skill well worth cultivating. For if we dont realize where the shoreline of reasonably well established scientific theory ends and the vast sea of undiscovered truth begins, how can we possibly hope to measure our progress toward a deeper and more encompassing scientific enlightenment? That is the leitmotif of Oxford physicist Roger Penroses The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. The great virtue of this massive tome an imposing brick of a book that bristles with equations and clocks in at a daunting 1,099 pages is not so much the encyclopedic review it provides of the history and current status of theoretical physics but rather its forthright acknowledgment that, for all its magnificent achievements, modern science remains a flickering candle surrounded by inky mystery. With refreshing candor, Penrose forcefully underscores the extent of our ignorance about the origin and indeed the very nature of the physical laws that govern the operation of our magnificent universe. What the enterprise of science has compiled to date, in Penroses view, is a decidedly incomplete guide to the laws of nature: I hope that it is clear, from the discussion given in the preceding sections that our road to understanding the nature of the real world is still a long way from its goal. Perhaps this goal will never be reached, or perhaps there will eventually emerge some ultimate theory, in terms of which what we call reality can in principle be understood. If so, the nature of that theory must differ enormously from what we have seen in physical theories so far. The great iconoclasts and contrarians of science British cosmologist Fred Hoyle, Princeton physicists John Wheeler and Freeman Dyson, Thomas Gold, Francis Crick, Albert Einstein, and
