Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00346)

Here's a new twist that might give us something to think and talk about -- 
(other than ourselves, the Mahatmas and HPB. ;-) Is this what we need to 
separate the theosophical wheat from the chaff? Even though, Unfortunately, 
science still has a long way to go before they realize what they've missed by 
leaving Spirit or consciousness out of their equations. It's also an 
interesting occurrence (coincidence or karma?) that a major new exhibit about 
Einstein's life and work opened this week at New York's Museum of Natural 
History. One wonders what effect, if any, all this might have on today's 
world?

LHM
Where it all came from...
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.html 
And, to pick up where Einstein left off...
http://tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
To review, discuss or comment on the ABC theory, go to:
http://www.quicktopic.com/6/D/rHrTF9DmYubq.html

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Editorial Reviews 

>From Scientific American
GOD IN THE EQUATION: HOW EINSTEIN BECAME THE PROPHET OF THE 

NEW RELIGIOUS ERA

by Corey S. Powell


Science writer Powell casts science as the new religion, with 

Einstein as god. "Sci/religion," as he calls it, "offers a 

positive and immensely appealing alternative way to look at 

the world, a religion of rational hope." Even if you disagree 

with Powell's premise, his book is a delight to read--lively, 

well informed, personable. And as a bonus, it provides an 

unusually graceful account of the history of cosmology. 


Buy your copy today!

http://sciam.rsc03.net/servlet/cc?lJpDVYWEsLhgtHNkLkFHhsDJhtE0EY

Editors of Scientific American 
>From Booklist
In anointing Einstein as the prophet of a new faith ("sci/religion"), Powell 
appropriates scriptural vocabulary in ways that some readers may find wildly 
inappropriate. After all, what kind of religion demands of its adherents no 
obedience to holy commandments in this world and inspires no hope of eternal 
life with God in the next? Still, Powell's provocative ecclesiology does 
illuminate the priestly functions modern scientists have assumed since 
Einstein first dared to inscribe the entire cosmos in a single bold equation. 
In a chronicle that opens to nonspecialists the largest of astronomical 
questions, Powell shows that pioneering theorists have emulated Einstein's 
example by framing models of the universe that reflect a worshipful devotion 
to cosmic harmony. And in testing their models, these researchers have often 
experienced a thrill of religious ecstasy upon discovering unexpected 
glimpses of such harmony, frequently manifest in near-mystical phenomena such 
as dark matter and quantum fluctuations. Though some purists will protest 
that he pushes his science-as-religion metaphor too strenuously, most readers 
will applaud Powell for his deeply stimulating synthesis. Bryce Christensen
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved 

Book Description
We are living at a turning point in human spirituality -- akin to when Jesus 
or Buddha or Mohammed was alive -- and Einstein is its prophet. That is the 
audacious, provocative, and fascinating argument Corey Powell makes with 
dazzling eloquence in this extraordinary book. Powell dubs the new faith 
"sci/religion" and unmasks today's famous battle between science and religion 
as no more than a myth. 

Religion has always been where humanity looked to resolve the big issues -- 
be they everyday ones about morality or the overarching questions of the 
universe. Just a few decades ago, Pope Pius XII described the period 
explained by the scientific theory of the big bang as "the epoch when the 
cosmos came forth from the Hands of the Creator." Astronomers essentially 
agreed. This signified a very new relationship between scientists and 
priests. Indeed, Powell shows how science has completely taken over from 
theology in answering the overarching questions of the universe. Morality is 
a secular matter now determined by conversation rather than religious edict. 
Therefore, Powell contends, sci/religion is the only fully functioning 
religion now in operation. 

For the first time, Powell identifies Einstein as the prophet of this 
religious revolution. When the most popular genius of the century said "God 
does not play dice," he wasn't merely being cute, he was creating a new kind 
of religion. Einstein called God The Old One, and, as Powell shows, he put 
The Old One into his equations describing his theory of relativity and so 
bound together two spheres of human thought, the spiritual and the 
scientific, in a way that had never previously been accomplished. The symbol 
in the relativity equations that stands for God is Lambda. It is also called 
the cosmological constant. It was also called Einstein's biggest blunder for 
a little while. Powell tells the story of how this controversial factor got 
into the equations, how it was accepted by the scientific community, then 
rejected, and then accepted again. Recent reports about how the universe is 
accelerating in its expansion are all based on this same factor, God in the 
equation. 

Einstein and his followers' use of the God factor in science has never before 
been recognized for what it is. In a tour de force Powell has forever 
identified it as clear evidence of an entirely new gnostic era, a new step in 
the history of human spirituality.