so it was dr. goswami (sp?) that i listened to last night. for some reason i figured it would be a more traveling-professor type of lecture than a hey-let-me-tell-you-about-my-book type of lecture. still interesting though.
in highschool, physics was a strange and unknown science to me, and at that age i had already deemed that science was hard and boring, so i avoided everything except chemistry, the one science that i knew was cool.
now i have a friend, prague, who is totally into physics and i had no idea. we've watched a video on string theory in addition to many other new concepts that she's introduced to me. physics still seemed like a 'science' though.
after that lecture last night i saw how thin the boundary between 'science' and personal belief (or 'spirituality') can be.
dr. goswami talked about self-healing and vital energy. one of the examples he gave was a woman who went on a guided lsd trip (this is where i got suspicious) to a deeper consciousness. supposedly a communal consciousness, where she realized that she had the choice to live or die, chose to live and was healed. hm...
his talk played a lot on the christian doctrine of the power of prayer that i heard while i was growing up, so it wasn't too unfamiliar to me.
while it was interesting, due to the fact that it seemed to relate to my religious upbringing, i almost wanted to reject it immediately, but that would have been as childish as accepting it without question.
i guess, it just got me thinking about new concepts, things i already know and my prejudices against them.
in highschool, physics was a strange and unknown science to me, and at that age i had already deemed that science was hard and boring, so i avoided everything except chemistry, the one science that i knew was cool.
now i have a friend, prague, who is totally into physics and i had no idea. we've watched a video on string theory in addition to many other new concepts that she's introduced to me. physics still seemed like a 'science' though.
after that lecture last night i saw how thin the boundary between 'science' and personal belief (or 'spirituality') can be.
dr. goswami talked about self-healing and vital energy. one of the examples he gave was a woman who went on a guided lsd trip (this is where i got suspicious) to a deeper consciousness. supposedly a communal consciousness, where she realized that she had the choice to live or die, chose to live and was healed. hm...
his talk played a lot on the christian doctrine of the power of prayer that i heard while i was growing up, so it wasn't too unfamiliar to me.
while it was interesting, due to the fact that it seemed to relate to my religious upbringing, i almost wanted to reject it immediately, but that would have been as childish as accepting it without question.
i guess, it just got me thinking about new concepts, things i already know and my prejudices against them.
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I'm fascinated by physics...check out Richard P. Feynman. He rules