Hardly any perspective on life has stayed with me as consistently over the years as the one I first heard about from Rupert sheldrake a good 12 years ago.
The commonplace materialist worldview... has flaws! Not only does it come with a bag of unquestioned assumptions that have been refuted and superseded by science itself, the materialist paradigm clings to philosophical notions and unfactual theories like a religion.
The difference of course is: Religious people KNOW they are religious. In academia however most "scientists" prefer to claim that they are not religious - they know "the truth"! But do they really? ;)
Anyone with an actual scientific mindset will raise an eyebrow over claims like this, because science is emergent, science builds on what its investigations found. True science rests on actual experiments that repeatedly demonstrate something to be true - until a better theory will come along and is proven in turn.
Context matters. What may be true within a small frame will not remain true when the frame of reference is greatly expanded. And if your frame of reference happens to be bigger than those of your peers you might easily say something that will infuriate them, and make you sound like a charlatan in their indoctrinated ears.
A real scientist is making efforts to be aware of his dogmas and his frame of reference. He does not fudge the data to make his theory work in practice. He goes where the evidence leads even if that means having more questions than answers in the end. It means disagreeing with the "majority" of scientists and "scientific consensus" when his findings make it clear that most others may have missed something important.
A true scientist is a renegade, a champion only dedicated to truth and honesty rather than a pandering yes-man with no backbone.
Few true scientists remain these days. Most are dependent on their income and think they cannot afford to go for truth when the truth hurts their livelihood. It's the same sad situation like anywhere else in the system we grew up in. But somebody has to start, and the herd may eventually feel empowered to share what they found, even if it's not the convenient thing to say.
For a few days now, this lecture by Rupert Sheldrake has been spooking around here, and just now life gave me another clue - time to share it again. It held its significance in a marvelous way and is an absolute basic resource on the way to question everything.
What if the 10 basic tenets of science were formulated as questions that could be tested, rather than being taken as certainty to dismiss new findings?
There is a wave of openminded inquiry in the air and I am simply riding that wave and forwarding that vibe to anyone not yet familiar with this talk. New books need to be written because the dogma of the past age no longer holds water.
Maybe you don't need this, but your aunt might be ready now!
Or your sister in law who just can't put the damn mainstream journals down even though she is scared shitless about all the alleged dangers "experts" are warning about in public.
"Relax Susan, we don't really know anything!"
Well, this lecture might just do the trick. An introduction to the non-thoroughness of modern science's foundations and how most of what people have been sold as "settled and certain" is really a glaringly open question with audacious levels of indoctrination and make-belief, even in 2025.
My eternal gratitude to Rupert for being the essential nudge that put my on my path to truth-seeking all those years ago. May this lecture find you well!
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#2 - Parapsychology in the Laboratory
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