{"id":3834,"date":"2014-09-02T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2014-09-02T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T07:00:12","slug":"psychic-phenomena-why-scientists-deny-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/psychic-phenomena-why-scientists-deny-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychic Phenomena: Why Do Scientists Deny It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Even though films like \u2018Inception\u2019<\/strong>, \u2018Waking Life\u2018<\/strong> and more recently, \u2018John Dies at the End\u2019<\/strong> and \u2018Now You See Me\u2019<\/strong> wouldn\u2019t be approachable without assuming the authenticity of unexplainable events, most people, including most scientists, are unaware of the vast abundance of compelling scientific evidence for psychic phenomena, which has resulted from over a century of para-psychological research.<\/p>\n Hundreds of carefully controlled studies \u2014 in which psi researchers continuously redesigned experiments to address comments from their critics \u2014 have produced results that demonstrate marginal but statistically signi\ufb01cant effects for psi phenomena, especially with regard to telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis.<\/p>\n Biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Neurologist Vilaynur Ramachandran, and Physicist Dean Radin<\/strong> are modern scientific pioneers in this field and speak of compelling evidence for psychic phenomena, which imply that our minds are also more interconnected to one another than previously imagined.<\/p>\n These perspectives have dramatic implications when they become the basis for how we see the world, where we de\ufb01ne boundaries, and how we view the process of extinction.<\/p>\n According to Radin, a meta-analysis of this research demonstrates that the positive results from these studies are signi\ufb01cant with odds in the order of many billions to one.<\/p>\n Princeton University, the Stanford Research Institute, Duke University, the Institute of Noetic Science, the U.S. and Russian governments,<\/strong> and many other respectable institutions have spent years researching mysterious phenomena such as remote viewing and super-soldiers, and conventional science is at a loss to explain the results.<\/p>\n This question into the authenticity of the research is based on a very deep-seated, kind of knee-jerk prejudice reaction, and there\u2019s nothing new about it.<\/p>\n If you read the kind of comments that scientists made about some of the early psychical research in the 1880s and \u201990s, it was just as ignorant, with almost the same words they use today. Firstly, the reason is ideological. A lot of scientists are committed to a materialist ideology because they cannot imagine a world that would exist otherwise.<\/p>\n The mind is nothing but the brain or the activity of the brain, so, therefore, it\u2019s all inside the head.<\/p>\n So anything like telepathy, clairvoyance and the like that suggests that there might be mental inferences working beyond the spatial boundaries of the brain simply doesn\u2019t \ufb01t into a clockwork view of the world, and therefore it has to be rejected.<\/p>\n This attempt to ignore or reject things that don\u2019t \ufb01t into a worldview is a very well known human tendency. It\u2019s happened over and over again in the history of science. In the end, the evidence wins out, but in the case of psychical phenomena, this denial is still quite strong.<\/p>\nThousands of archaeological finds also suggest the use of such phenomenon in prehistoric times.<\/h2>\n
Essentially, they think that the mind and the brain are the same things.<\/h3>\n