So that's the larger context in which, you know, we get lost in thinking of these strange, statistical anomalies that show up in our experiment - that's the tip of the iceberg. Those experiments were done, not because, as some skeptics have said, that we're just interested in looking for statistical anomalies.
That's an extremely myopic view of these experiments. And were looking at what is the actual nature of consciousness? And what do the answers to that question tell us about the world that we live in? What is the nature of that meeting? And that's why, when I see an interesting psi experiment, that's telling me an enormous amount about the Buddha and Christ were talking about. The average person is not thinking of this in a spectrum sense. They don't get the connection, but that's what it really is.
WTB - And the more we expand what we believe and what we accept, the more we expand the horizons of what's possible.
Radin - Right, because the spectrum that I mentioned, is, in a sense, the visible and historical part of it. But spectrums go both directions forever. So, we don't have really any idea what's beyond mystical insight at this point, mainly because language breaks down as soon as you get further out. As all mystics will tell you, their experience is ineffable. Well, we immediately…. it's like saying what's on the other side of the universe? We want to know what that is. But we haven't developed the language yet to be able to describe it.
WTB – You quote Giles Brassard as saying “classical and quantum information can be harnessed together to accomplish feats that neither could achieve alone." How can applying the concept of psi and quantum entanglement apply to other disciplines? What do you see for the future?
Radin – Among other things it suggests that when the notion of a collective mind as a guiding force becomes more real; if you imagine that psi is connective mental link between all people -which as I said, it is not exactly right, because the image that comes to mind is something like a mental Internet. And that's still is separate objects connected by lines of something. We're not dealing that, really. We're dealing with a holistic environment, where there are no separate objects. But because of the limitations of language useful to think of this in terms of something like a mental equivalent of the Internet. I mean that something like that. You have rich mental network, which can take on the life of its own.
Think the analogy between separate neurons in your brain, the billion neurons in the trillions of connections in between them, that creates the level of complexity in the person which is necessary in order for us to gain individual awareness. Well, amplify that by a couple billion additional minds around the world, and you have the possibility the living Earth; A mind the size of the earth. Would we be aware? Would I be aware of what has come to be referred to as Gaia's mind? And I think the answer is, most of the time we would not be aware of it: In the same way that a neuron is not aware that it's in a thinking brain. Next > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
