In Guide #4 we explore the paradigm shift that Peter Russell and others predict will happen around the science of consciousness. Taking a page from Thomas Kuhn’s seminal 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolution, Russell has explained how common this type of paradigm shift is. We tend to believe with diehard faith in a…
“You are either with us or against us.” I continue to think about that slogan on the t-shirt of a man at a convenience store, which I wrote about here recently. And, I think about the idea I heard in a Unitarian sermon recently that our attempt to find “truth” is to give us false…
I recently saw the movie version of “The Giver,” which focuses on how a society protects its citizens by essentially removing all memory and experience of individuated emotion. A world without pain, suffering, loneliness and war… is also by necessity a world without joy, choice, love and free will. In order to create a safety…
