http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/65 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/65/comment-page-1#comment-17078 Sandy Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:21:44 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=65#comment-17078 In all honesty, if I got kicked out of the “scientist club” for defying the authority of dogmatic materialists, I’d happily take my advanced education and go manage the local beer store. (Of course, my husband would be truly annoyed with me.) I just want to make sense of the way in which I experience the world. Science is great stuff, but there are things it doesn’t seem to adequately address. Finding a way to allow for both scientific and spiritual understanding to coexist could be a lot less work than continually attempting to “cure” myself of having spiritual experiences. I’ve been looking for that cure for quite a while now, and it hasn’t presented itself as of yet. In all honesty, if I got kicked out of the “scientist club” for defying the authority of dogmatic materialists, I’d happily take my advanced education and go manage the local beer store. (Of course, my husband would be truly annoyed with me.) I just want to make sense of the way in which I experience the world. Science is great stuff, but there are things it doesn’t seem to adequately address. Finding a way to allow for both scientific and spiritual understanding to coexist could be a lot less work than continually attempting to “cure” myself of having spiritual experiences. I’ve been looking for that cure for quite a while now, and it hasn’t presented itself as of yet.

]]> http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/65/comment-page-1#comment-17077 Dr. Charles T. Tart Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:55:50 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=65#comment-17077 It is an option to be genuinely scientific and genuinely spiritual, but it won't work if you have rigid beliefs on either side of this. You will find lots of people considered to be scientists who are actually rigid, dogmatic materialists and who will say the idea that you can be both is ridiculous. Don't let their apparent authority get you down! True Believers in anything usually put everybody else down.... It is an option to be genuinely scientific and genuinely spiritual, but it won’t work if you have rigid beliefs on either side of this. You will find lots of people considered to be scientists who are actually rigid, dogmatic materialists and who will say the idea that you can be both is ridiculous. Don’t let their apparent authority get you down! True Believers in anything usually put everybody else down….

]]> http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/65/comment-page-1#comment-17076 Sandy Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:07:20 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=65#comment-17076 I’m looking forward to reading your book. I actually didn’t think that being both spiritual and scientific was even an option. It would be kind of nice if it were. I’m looking forward to reading your book. I actually didn’t think that being both spiritual and scientific was even an option. It would be kind of nice if it were.

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