Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00385)

Leon:

Thanks for the reading list. For those of us with
limited time, do any of these references deal with the
string theory you have mentioned? If so, which ones?

Steve

--- leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> Where did I ever mention that Casteneda was my
> inspiration? And what has 
> that has that do with my responses to your posts and
> your opinionated 
> conclusions about the relationship between post
> modern science and theosophy? 
> Is this just another side tracking trick yours to
> avoid getting into the 
> meat of our disagreement with your opinions about
> the invalidity of 
> theosophical metaphysics -- and the reasons for our
> non acceptance of the 
> selective, non sequitur references you use to
> apparently validate your own 
> logically and/or scientifically unfounded and,
> thereby, questionable 
> conclusions? 
> 
> I'm getting tired of your avoidance of these issues
> (you bring up) and your 
> use of such ploys to denigrate everything anyone
> says that disagrees with 
> your negative conclusions about theosophy and your
> denigration of HPB's 
> metaphysical teachings about it ... That, today, is
> getting closer and closer 
> to being verified by many current scientific and
> philosophical thinkers. 
> 
> Perhaps, the following references -- along with a
> basic understanding of the 
> new physics (http://superstringtheory.com/) might
> help you and our readers in 
> clarifying my position with reference to your
> negative opinions about the 
> validity of theosophical teachings -- as well as my
> ABC interpretation of 
> them in scientific terms.
> 
> References (There's more, but this is fine for
> starters)
> 
> Books - Easy reading
> 
> Becker, Robet O. and Selden, G. The Body Electric:
> Electromagnetism and the 
> foundation of life. Morrow, New York. 1987. 
> 
> Burr, Harold. Blueprint for Immortality: The
> electric patterns of life. 
> Neville Spearman, London. 1972. 
> 
> Goswami, Amit. The Self-Aware Universe: how
> consciousness creates the 
> material world. Tarcher/Putnam, New York. 1993.
> 
> Sheldrake, Rupert. A New Science of Life. Tarcher,
> Los Angeles. 1981. 
> 
> Wilber, Ken. The Holographic Paradigm and other
> paradoxes. New Science 
> Library, Boston. 1982. 
> 
> Young, Arthur. The Reflexive Universe. Robert Briggs
> Associates, Lake Oswego, 
> OR. 1976. 
> 
> Books - Technical, but worth the effort
> 
> Bearden, Thomas. Gravitobiology: A New Biophysics,
> Tesla Book Co. San Diego. 
> 1989. 
> 
> Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Ark,
> NY. 1983. 
> 
> Bohm, David. and Hiley, Basil. The Undivided
> Universe: An ontological 
> interpretation of quantum theory. Routledge, NY.
> 1993. 
> 
> Nordenstrom, Bjorn. Biologically Closed Electric
> Circuits: Clinical, 
> experimental and theoretical evidence for an
> additional circulatory system. 
> Nordic, Stockholm. 1983. 
> 
> Popp, Fritz, et al. Editors. Electromagnetic
> Bioinformation. Urban & 
> Schwarzenberg, Baltimore. 1989. 
> 
> Sheldrake, Rupert. The Presence of the Past: Morphic
> resonance and the habits 
> of nature. Park Street Press, Rochester, VT. 1995. 
> 
> Journal articles
> 
> Basset, C. Acceleration of Fracture Repair by
> Electromagnetic Fields. A 
> Surgically Noninvasive Method. NY Academy of Science
> 238, 242-261 1974. 
> 
> Bohm, David. A New Theory of the Relationship of
> Mind and Matter. 
> Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 271-286
> 1990. 
> 
> Callahan, Roger. A Rapid Treatment for Phobias.
> Collected Papers, Interna
> tional College of Applied Kinesiology. 1981. 
> 
> Callahan, Roger. Successful Treatment of Phobias and
> Anxiety by Telephone and 
> Radio. Collected Papers, International College of
> Applied Kinesiology. 
> Winter, 1987. 
> 
> Hamerof, S. Chi: a neural hologram? Am. J. Chinese
> Med., 2 (2), 163-70. 1974. 
> 
> Hamerof, S. Information processing in microtubules.
> J. Theor. Biol. 98. 
> 549-61. 1982. 
> 
> Lipton, BH. Microvessel endothelial cell
> transdifferentiation: phenotypic 
> characterization. Differentiation. 46:117-133. 1991.
> 
> 
> Lipton, BH. Histamine-Modulated Transdifferentiation
> of Dermal Microvascular 
> Endothelial Cells. Experimental Cell Research. 199,
> 279-291. 1992. 
> 
> Nijhout, HF. Metaphors and the role of genes in
> development. Bioessays 
> 12(9):441-446, Sep, 1990.
> 
> LHM 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 03/20/02 2:46:29 PM,
> bri_mue@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> >What you write is already in the Set-material of
> 1969, and that is 
> >probably where Carlos Castaneda read it, whom you
> among others 
> >mentioned as your inspiration.
> > 
> Bri.
> >
> >--- In theos-talk@y..., leonmaurer@a... wrote:
> >> 
> >> In a message dated 03/15/02 2:53:12 PM,
> bri_mue@y... writes:
> >> 
> >Jerry: The Planetary Chain, or Gupta Vidya Model as
> I call it, is the 
> > bedrock of Theosophy. The fact that it is entirely
> mayavic and a
> > "finger pointing to the moon" is ignored by most
> Theosophists."
> >> 
> >Bri.: Yes, Theosophy describes a septenary cosmos
> as an 
> >interdependent whole, yet Theosophists cannot 
> explain then 
> >why "occultism" and Theosophy are rejected by
> modern science , when 
> >Theosophy supposed to "encompass" all the sciences.
> >> 
> >> And, what value as "proof" of anything does that
> rejection 
> >by "modern 
> >> science" have (based on nothing more than their
> negative, 
> >scientifically 
> >> "religious" belief that nothing exists other than
> what can be 
> >physically 
> >> sensed and measured with their "material"
> instruments)? 
> >Unfortunately, for 
> >> those followers of the established scientific
> dogmas, the new 
> >mathematics, 
> >> such as that used by Superstring theorists, is
> beginning to punch 
> >big holes 
> >> in those beliefs -- since zero-point "vacuum"
> energies in the form 
> >of 
> >> "coadunate but not consubstantial" primal energy
> fields cannot be 
> >seen, 
> >> touched or measured physically (although the
> "Casimir effect" has 
> >> inferentially "proved" their existence -- to the
> consternation of 
> >many 
> 
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