CONSCIOUS ACTS OF CREATION: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW PHYSICS

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A Modern Jew in Search of a Soul by J. Marvin Spiegelman, Abraham Jacobson (Eds.). Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications.

The story which I have been asked to share here is about my experiences as a Jewish woman who went far from her roots, and who is engaged in a process of return. The point of view is that of a woman who is interested particularly in the body and in spiritual life, and who did not find these interests addressed in her early experiences of Judaism. Therefore I travelled elsewhere: to dance; to seven years immersion in Buddhism; and to years studying psychology; anthropology, Jungian analysis, and the goddess religions.

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2003 Annual Conference Proceedings of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research

Over the last century and a half, the successes of science in explaining our normally sensed world have led to further attempts to expand science into the realm of the para normal and explain the para-normally sensed world of psychic phenomena. These attempts have helped to establish a greater and growing variety of psychical experiences as well as offer a real challenge to our traditional concepts of religious experience. Within this context, science first came into contact with the paranormal with modern spiritualism, then to parapsychology and finally to paraphysics and a new interest in consciousness and spirituality. At each stage of this evolutionary process, changes in the scientific attitude toward the paranormal coincide with changes in the evolution of attitudes in normal science as well as changes in religious attitude.

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Spirituality Matters! The ASPSI e-Newsletter

Science, the paranormal and spirituality form a spectrum of sorts, ranging from the physical world and the logic that science uses to describe and probe it, to consciousness and intuition where the roots of the paranormal and spirituality can be found. The paranormal mediates between our scientific and spiritual worldviews, just as consciousness seems to bridge the enormous chasm between our internal mental image of self and the external material world. Therefore, a scientific study of paranormal phenomena seems the best way to understand spirituality at a higher level of physical reality than just our normal intuitive feelings for the world in which we live, our purpose in the world and how we interact with it. Within this context, the scientific study of the paranormal can be broken down into several historical periods. Each period coincides with specific developments and advances in scientific worldviews that are sometimes separated by paradigms shifts, both large and small. This fact is important because a new change in scientific worldview has recently begun to emerge and it coincides with new advances in the scientific study of consciousness which will greatly enhance and alter our worldview of the paranormal and spirituality.

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