Stringing together at a rapid patter a bunch of scientific sounding words sprinkled in with some new age words doesnt mean anything ... take this one example - this nonlocal quantum interconnectedness - no this is not true -- when quantum physicists talk about non- locality and the interconnectedness of things they are talking about things at the quantum level ... when we are told that everything is interconnected this is simply not true .... on a micro level we may all well be atoms and stardust etc but on a macro level an apple is not the moon ... I would never be tempted to go to the University of Waterloo and lecture a room full of people about physics - I am not a physicist - New age gurus are not physicist and basically every sentence they write demonstrates this ... this is nothing less than woo woo and spooky physics in order to prop up their religious and new age intuitions ... because quantum mechanics is spooky and difficult to understand and because the new age concept of interconnectedness is spooky and difficult to understand they must somehow be related or mutually supported - this is fundamentally not true - they are arrived at by completely different methodologies and ways of thinking and criteria - of discursive evidence - there is nothing about sitting and meditating and perhaps even having beneficial and normative experiences as well as even enlightening experiences ( as they may well be) that makes you a theoretical physicist ...
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 04:27:28 +0000
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