Exhibit Book Part One (Preview Copy)

Our emotions affect what we see and even what we are (consciously or
unconsciously) looking for.
If all is one and everything is interconnected at a deep level, then what
we see is in some sense a projection of ourselves, of our own conscious-
ness. Change within will yield change in what we see, how we see it,
and/or what we are looking for. It will change what and who shows up
and how things turn out. Mind and body, self and other, inner and outer
are all interconnected.
We are never an innocent bystander. Though our degree of engagement
may vary, we all have an involvement in what we observe. We might
“do” nothing, but the act of directing our attention is influential and it
might be done without our conscious awareness. It’s very important to
become aware of where we are putting our attention as well as become
aware of the quality of what we are thinking/feeling.

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We hear all the time how amazing the brain is, how complex. We be-
lieve it’s like a super advanced computer and there’s been much talk
about artificial intelligence, but such intelligence can only mimic the
left brain logical, analytical, linear, computational, and verbal faculties.
Computers will have no right hemisphere faculties (imagination, tran-
scendent perception. Introspection, etc) which have strong ties to the
emotional brain (because those faculties draw heavily on what you can
feel). Computers have no emotional brain structure, no nervous sys-
tem, and no frontal lobe to decide what it wants something to mean.
The human brain has a left and right hemisphere, frontal lobe, animal/
mammalian emotional brain and its precedent, the reptilian brain/ner-
vous system. Only if conventional thinking confuses the whole of intel-
ligence with left brain intellect, will we think that AI can do what the
human brain can do.
We hear all the time that no one has yet really explained consciousness
but Newtonian materialist mechanistic science conceives of it as chem-
icals secreting and neurons firing…a physical assemblage yoked to con-
ventional physical laws and limitations, and to the left brain models of
intelligence.
For those willing to look at the evidence, the brain, consciousness, and
reality are far more wondrous.

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Your breathing moderates your brain chemistry and physiology. Short
shallow breathing in your chest causes your brain to secrete chemicals
of anxiety and fear, and your nervous, endocrine, and immune system
are all affected. Shallow breathing makes your heart beat faster and
when your heart is racing so is your mind.
(Mind affects body and certainly your body affects your mind. Nowhere
would we suggest that our physical structures and systems don’t affect
consciousness.)
Children who have anxiety and stress because of breathing wrong or be-
cause of emotional distress from issues at home or at school (like having
no interest in or much aptitude for left brain subject matter) can’t focus
and are then labelled (often sent to special ed which has been called a
pipeline to prison) and put on medication, when their own breathing is
a big part of the problem and could be a solution.
The man who “discovered” ADD/ADHD admitted it was a made-up
disease.
“ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” After turning 87 years
old, American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, MD made this statement
to the German weekly Der Spiegel, months before he died.
Snopes has claimed the statement mostly true but that Eisenberg was
referring to the influence of social and environmental risk factors for
the condition which – even if so – does not refute “fictitious disease”
and does not justify a prescription medication treatment. Especially
when breathing diaphragmatically is free, can lower heart rate, blood
pressure and anxiety and can help strengthen focus and concentration.

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For decades there have been outspoken professionals very concerned
about the prevailing biochemical model.

“We do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are no
data to indicate ADHD is due to a brain malfunction.” Final statement
of the panel from the National Institutes of Health Consensus Confer-
ence on ADHD.

“Despite more than two hundred years of intensive research, no commonly
diagnosed psychiatric disorders have proven to be either genetic or biolog-
ical in origin, including schizophrenia, major depression, manic-depres-
sive disorder, the various anxiety disorders, and childhood disorders such
as attention-deficit hyperactivity. At present there are no known biochem-
ical imbalances in the brain of typical psychiatric patients—until they are
given psychiatric drugs.” Peter Breggin, MD - Psychiatrist

While “there has been no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for
psychiatric conditions…not one has been proven. Quite the contrary. In
every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found,
it was later proven false.” Joseph Glenmullen, MD - Harvard Medical
School psychiatrist

“There’s no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say,
‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There
are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?” Ron Leifer, MD
- Psychiatrist

“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by
medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific
document… DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making best-
seller—its major failings notwithstanding.” Loren Mosher, MD - Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry

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“Regarding the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), “[Two] former editors joined a long list
of professionals signing petitions against approval of the document who
worried that DSM-% authors were in bed with the pharmaceutical indus-
try. Big Pharma, the claim goes, will not rest until every man woman and
child in America is given a diagnosis (two would be better) that in turn
requires a pill to remedy.” Kent Sepkowitz, A Swarm of Angry Shrinks,
Newsweek Dec 17, 2012.
Correlation (with brain states) is not the same as causation (by brain
states)
What if autism is a fine attunement to the more subtle dimensions of
the universe, a right hemisphere reliance on images not words, and a
feeling that stimulus from our dense 3 dimensions can be overwhelm-
ing to their senses?
What if we are all on the ‘spectrum of attunement’ with capacity to ad-
vance to more subtle levels of perception and awareness?
What if sometimes the voices and visions are not “figments of imagi-
nation”? What if sometimes they are a valid source of information, and
sometimes they are an unconscious projection or expression of fears
or hopes?
These questions - and the millions who are affected directly and indi-
rectly from the answers - deserve serious consideration. Our current
paradigm is forced to deny that there are non-material levels of real-
ity that would include emotions, imagination, the “dream world,” and
these other non-physical or beyond-physical dimensions (“meta” from
Greek means beyond).

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For imagery to be most effective it should make use of all the 5 physical
senses not just “seeing” (which “imagery” implies). You need to expe-
rience what you are imagining as fully as possible…it can’t be just an
abstract thought about what you want or will do, and you can’t just see
yourself being/or doing, you have to feel it in your body. Your body has
intelligence and imagery engages it by getting you out of your head and
into experiential input. Imagery bridges mind and body.
Your sixth sense, your emotions, are also a hugely important compo-
nent. If you don’t have confidence, if you don’t really believe your imag-
ery, those emotions will sabotage your imagery. Imagery can help you
build confidence and emotional strength; rehearse ideal scenarios and
outcomes to become “cellularly expected,” meaning you feel it down to
your cells.
For optimal imagery it’s best to breathe diaphragmatically (in your bel-
ly). Shallow (chest) breathing releases stress chemicals and makes it
harder to feel anything. Take for example the state of shock (which is
extreme stress); you can have your arm cut off and not feel it.
Imagery is a practice just like diaphragmatic breathing.

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Back in the day (late ‘70s early ‘80s) when my life was 360 degrees of
chaos and drama, overwhelm and anxiety, filled with many addictive/
compulsive behaviors, I would have likely been diagnosed with some
kind of mental illness. Fortunately I started down this path of study and
self-development.
My first test of imagery (after having read an article about it in the
mid-seventies) was when I re-injured ligaments in my knee and it was
so swollen and sore that I couldn’t straighten it or put any weight on it.
Since I lived in disaster scenarios then, I was stuck on the conclusion/
fear/automatic imagery of having to have my leg amputated. For me,
fear of amputation was the motivator to try imagery.
Every night for 4 nights I imagined in great detail a team of scrub men
and women with overalls and old fashioned Amish-like skirts and
aprons, sweeping and mopping the fluid down from my knee and out
my leg through my foot…talking to each other and merrily going back
up to my knee with towels to wipe down the inside and with screw driv-
ers and other tools to tighten up or adjust whatever needed repair. The
fifth morning I woke up and my knee/leg was totally fine…as good as
before the initial injury from when I was about 12 years old.
I’ve used and “prescribed” imagery many, many times since. As with all
of this, there’s no guarantee that you will get your desired outcome, but
a guarantee you will greatly improve your odds!

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“We were down by 11 points with only 4 minutes left. I imagined the clock said
there was 30 seconds left and that the scoreboard said we were up by 6. We
won by 6 points.”

Tayler Johnson – Minneapolis North High Polars basketball player

The right hemisphere – specializing in imagery – is also
wired for transcendent perception and awareness. It’s not so
tied to time and space.
Transcendent consciousness goes beyond divisions and
physical limitations or outlines…beyond the illusion of
separation, the illusion of time, and the illusion that there is
only one reality existing separate from your perception.

DOES YOUR REALITY MATCH WITH AN HONEST LOOK AT RELEVANT FACTS, AND ARE
YOU DREAM-MAKING OR IS THERE TOO MUCH DRAMA?

“...Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing
will change for the better and the catastrophe towards which this world
is headed, be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown
of civilization will be unavoidable. . . The truly reliable path to peaceful
co-existence and creating cooperation must start from what is at the root of
all cultures and lies in human hearts. It must be rooted in self-transcendence. Transcendence is
the only real alternative to extinction.”

Vaclav Havel – first president of the Czech Republic

Music, also right brain, is universally popular in large part because it feeds transcendence. Music can
take you to places far away and can unite a concert hall of different people.

Newtonian, materialist, mechanistic science focuses on the
3 material dimensions (width, height, and depth), and on either/or

thinking. Quantum Physics goes beyond.

Your consciousness and its influence do not stop at the bounds of your
skin or skull. The Observer Effect was named from the findings that the
act of observing an atom can change its direction, location and velocity.
The effect comes from placing your attention, NOT from measuring de-
vices or physical intrusions. It’s another indication of the interconnect-
edness of everything and the central role that mind or consciousness
plays in affecting the behaviors of others and the outcome of events.
Much of imagery is unconscious and you are likely influencing out-
comes – for better or for worse – without knowing it. We are condi-
tioned to believe we have to do something to effect outcomes but I re-
alized how much drama and chaos I created around me from the chaos
and overwhelm inside me. To the degree we can create tremendous dra-
ma we can also create “miraculous” new opportunities.
I have many examples from my own life and from others’. One from my
life: I was a very good figure skater when I was young, quit when I was
13, started up again when I was 49 and began competing when I was 51.
The rules and expectations had always been and still were that you had
to wear your hair tight up in a bun (not a good look for a 51 year old),
wear skating dresses (I liked leggings), and skate to instrumentals not
songs with words (I’m a top 40 gal and love my pop and R&B music).
I routinely imagined skating with my hair down or more loosely up, in
leggings and to some of my favorite songs. After my first competition
(as an adult) in 2007 I discovered the rules had just changed. After de-
cades and decades, now you could wear what you wanted, wear your
hair how you wanted and skate to any song you wanted.
We are interconnected with each other and all of life. We must under-
stand that we go beyond the physical and logical definitions and limita-
tions of self and the world, or be trapped by them.

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The universe is made up of opposites uniting.
Like expansion and contraction, up and down, positive and negative.

THERE’S POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IN EVERYTHING. LITERALLY.

Atoms, which make up the physical universe, are made up of
positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons.
Positive and negative coming together to create the universe.

You think winning the lottery is positive? It can be very positive
but what if people come out of the woodwork and constantly ask
you for money? What if you can’t trust that new friends really like
you and not your money? What if you have things but not good
relationships? What if the money creates indulgence then addiction?

You think living in the worst slum in Rio and having 6 family
members (innocent of any crimes) killed by the police is one big
negative? That happened to Vera in Vigario Geral. Yes, there is A LOT that

is terribly negative, but it wrought some positive transformations in the

community, including Casa da Paz, House of Peace. It began with Vera’s

response – (from love not hatred or revenge): She began picking up the

first of the 12,000 bullets that had accumulated near her home over the

years, which in turn attracted attention, support and new opportunities.

EVERYTHING HAS POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO LOOK FOR, FOCUS ON AND MAGNIFY?

DON’T IGNORE THE NEGATIVE. CAN YOU SEEK TO LEARN FROM IT AND GROW?

THE CHINESE SYMBOL FOR CRISIS INCLUDES BOTH DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY OR GROWTH.

WHAT CAN YOU CREATE?

This is not about denying the negative. It’s about recognizing it, even
feeling it, but then moving past it and transforming it into the opportu-
nity for growth.
Can you examine yourself to see what role you might have in bringing
about the circumstances and if you can’t see any, can the circumstances
be a door or portal for you to pass through to a better, deeper version
of yourself?
Can dealing with the situation make you stronger, force you to develop
new skills or more compassion towards others facing challenges?
Yin and Yang from the Chines philosophy states that there is positive
and negative IN EVERYTHING.

Are you going to look for the positive? How do you activate your frontal
lobe? There are decisions that are conditioned reactions, and there are
thoughtful choices. There’s a BIG difference between the two.
Where do you put your attention? What meanings to you choose?
Those choices will express and shape who you are and what kind and
quality of life you create.

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Creativity is more than art music or dance, it fuels the emergence of life itself.

“People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity
is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Maya Angelou – poet

Creative expression is like self-expression and should be developed toward self-directedness.
We’re too other-directed. If education steers too much towards the left hemisphere (outward focus)
STEM domain, the right hemisphere (inward) is stifled. We are wired to be creative and self-organizing

but face epidemics of dependencies and lack of meaning and self-worth.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken “One must see the invisible
joy in creative expression and knowledge.” to do the impossible.”

“Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable.
And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life’s negative aspects
into something positive or constructive.”

Viktor E. Frankl – concentration camp survivor

Humans are creative beings able to envision new connections and possibilities, to physically
manifest ideas and dreams – or drama. Our born capacity to imagine, make new combinations,
and manifest new possibilities from the realms of ideas, information, and consciousness, is how

we can create new realities – individually and together.

When I was digging out of my deep hole I came across a book with a
quote that said “…living the creative life will cause fears and doubts to
vanish like rain before the sun.” That had an enormous impact on me as
I had recently discovered Sperry’s Nobel research on the creative right
hemisphere, and realized that with all my intellectual left brain develop-
ment - dad a doctor, mother a math teacher, brothers going to graduate
school for law, neuropsychology and geology, plus having gone to the
University of Chicago Lab school and high school since third grade – I
felt alienated from my own creative nature. I rejected the boxes society
was trying to put me in but had no clue – only fear – about where I
could fit in.
What do you do with a philosophy major?
I wanted to change the paradigm and styled my own “Youniversity”
program, which included creativity from my high school days – wood-
working!
I had an idea and took steps to physically bring it to life. It felt really
good and boosted my self-esteem and sense of self. I made mistakes and
learned from them. I didn’t listen to the people who told me I couldn’t
be a furniture designer/builder because I didn’t go to school for it. I
got out of my comfort zone, created opportunities, then showed up for
them no matter what else was going on. I manifested something from
the realm of ideas.

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GREEK PHILOSOPHER -SCIENTISTS
SPOKE OF THE REALM OF IDEAS:
Plato’s Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas was
that non-material forms or ideas represent the
most accurate reality.

WHAT IF PHYSICAL MATTER
IS THE 3-DIMENSIONAL VERSION OF WHAT EXISTS FIRST
IN ANOTHER ABSTRACT, “INFORMATIONAL” DIMENSION?

In 1990, John Wheeler suggested that information is fundamental to the physics of the universe.
According to this “it from bit” doctrine, all things physical are information-theoretic in origin.
“How does something arise from nothing?” he asks about the existence of space and time.
(Princeton Physics News, 2006)

“Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed
always…the source and condition of physical reality.”

George Wald, MD – Nobel biologist

Are our physical circumstances 3D constructs of “information”
from quantum waves of potential onto which we, as
observers, add our meanings and affect our physical,
3-dimensional (plus time) reality: who shows up, what shows
up, and how things turn out?

As I was working with these concepts back in my screwed up days
(BIMSUD), for some reason it occurred to me that everything is just
information, neutral information, and it was up to me to use it for my
growth. It took a lot of the power away from the circumstances and re-
turned it to me. Information is a fascinating topic and field of study that
is expanding past the conventional models.
This is about “information” as underlying coherence and potential; an
organizing principle or wave field guiding a process of interactions and
of “becoming”…a form of intelligence to be used for the realization of
potentiality.

“De Broglie and Bohm conceived of a particle as a singularity in a wave
field, in harmony with what Einstein stressed in Unified field theory: a
particle is simply a singularity or very high space time concentration of
the non-linear master field. The particle is guided by the wave field. Ex-
periments by Holt confirm the findings.” From Space-Time and Beyond,
Bob Toben with physicists Jack Sarfatti and Fred Alan Wolf.
The wave field is not a material/physical entity.

“The ‘collapse of the wave function’ is how quantum processing creates
what we call a physical photon. This informational approach gives in-
sights into issues like the law of least action, entanglement, superposition,
counterfactuals, the holographic principle and the measurement problem.
The conceptual cost is that physical reality is a quantum processing out-
put...” Brian Whitworth, PhD - Massey University Centre for Discrete
Mathematics, Aukland NZ
We need a WHOLE new concept of reality. The conventional mecha-
nistic/materialist/3D + time notions are not adequate.

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Knowing that “logically impossible” things can be true opens up many
new possibilities. Living in boxes ruled by logic is crippling. Logic is
very important and useful but it’s a tool to navigate these three dimen-
sions (and time). There are other dimensions and other kinds of tools/
resources.
BIMSUD, I would face a situation in which logic would signal big trou-
ble but I would say to myself “Just because [insert a set of circumstances
with a seemingly foregone conclusion], doesn’t mean [insert foregone
conclusion]. This is a very strange and magical universe where logically
impossible things can be true!”
I had just moved boxes from the basement of a cockroach infested
building in which I’d had a subsidized efficiency apartment, into the
unfinished lower level of my then-fiance’s brand new townhome. After
leaving those boxes in his lower level for a few days, I went down to
unpack them and before I even was all the way down the stairs I saw a
cockroach half way across the room. Wired as I was for the disaster sce-
nario my mind immediately raced to the image of myself as a bag lady,
wandering the streets because the townhome had to be burned down to
get rid of all the cockroaches and the eggs they laid in all corners.
Fortunately by then I knew diaphragmatic breathing, and knew to pull
my thoughts and emotions away from the disaster scenario with the
recitation of “Just because those boxes were stored in the basement of a
cockroach infested building for months and I just saw one before I even
hit the last step downstairs, doesn’t mean there are more. This is a very
strange and magical universe where logically impossible things can be
true.” I never saw another cockroach.

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WILL POST-MATERIALIST SCIENCE ADVANCE TO A QUANTUM PARADIGM
OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF LIFE, ECHOING

THE ANCIENT AND INDIGENOUS TEACHINGS?

“Being is without beginning and indestructible... It is universal,
and without end... It is all together, one, and continuous.”
Parmenides of Elea 515-440 BCE
“All things arise out of the boundless...the unlimited is the
first principle of things that are.” Anaximander 610-546 BCE

“The ancients knew something, which we seem to
have forgotten.” Albert Einstein
Or maybe we weren’t ready to understand it?

More than 5,000 years ago in Egypt, the young god Horus guarded the doors to the
great mystery schools. The ancients believed that this knowledge should only reside in
the hands of those persons of moral responsibility. All candidates for instruction in their

mystery schools had to undergo many tests of character. This has been reported by Greek
scholars such as Pythagoras who came to Egypt to study.

Can modern science unlock the doors to the ancient wisdom?
Is it a key to becoming fully human?

What is moral responsibility? I would say it is what upholds decisions
and actions for the betterment of more than just the material wellbeing
of self and one’s own “affinity group,” and supports principles of inter-
connectedness, transcendence, personal responsibility and the creative/
manifestation capacities of all humans.

Britannica: “…decisions a person makes are the result of his desires, and
his desires are determined by his circumstances, his past experiences, and
his psychological and personality traits—his dispositions, tastes, temper-
ament, intelligence, and so on. Circumstances, experiences, and traits in
this sense are obviously the result of many factors outside the individual’s
control, including his upbringing and perhaps even his genetic makeup. If
this is correct, then one’s actions may ultimately be no more the result of
free will than eye colour.”

True unless educated to understand how to transcend or move beyond
those factors, and that one ALWAYS has a choice, even if a congenital
amputee, even if in a concentration camp.

Michael Gazzaniga, PhD, a top cognitive neuroscientists found that
the left hemisphere wants to come up with explanations, justifications
and rationalizations.

It seems the left hemisphere needs to try to make sense of something -
even if the explanation doesn’t fit with facts.

The right hemisphere keeps a more accurate record of facts, has more
connections to the animal/emotional brain, and developed before the
left hemisphere. The intangibles of moral responsibility may be in the
domain of meaning and transcendence. We must loosen the grip of the
left hemisphere which keeps us focused on the outer logistics of doing
rather than the inward states of being. The universe is more like a mir-
ror than a machine and what you have going on inside – attitudinally
and emotionally – can affect who shows up, what shows up and how
things turn out.

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We evolved with the planet but stepped into a role of using resources
towards ends that did not have the best interests of the ecosystem in
mind. Rather than live in harmony and negotiate with Nature, humans
strove to control and dominate it – and other humans – for material
gain.
As we have focused on external conditions and assets for a sense of
security and happiness, statistics show our health and well-being, in-
cluding relationships, have suffered. As Jill Bolte Taylor realized after a
stroke shut down her left hemisphere, she felt the boundaries of herself
disappear and felt a greater sense of inward peace and compassion…
not the impatience and snappishness of the “out there”, me-against-the-
world focus.
Some early scientific studies of meditation investigated patterns of brain
activity in the right versus left hemisphere. These studies found a great-
er degree of activation in the right hemisphere for meditators versus
non-meditators. Pagano & Frumkin, 1977; Earle, 1981
“Mindfulness and meditation are so popular because research shows that
turning inward is very good for you. https://blogs.scientificamerican.
com/guest-blog/what-does-mindfulness-meditation-do-to-your-brain/
MRI scans show that after an eight-week course of mindfulness practice,
the brain’s “fight or flight” center, the amygdala, appears to shrink and as it
does, the pre-frontal cortex – associated with higher order brain functions
such as awareness, concentration and decision-making – [and assigning
meaning!] becomes thicker.”

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“It has been maintained that consciousness is peculiar
to man, and that no animals possess it. Even if we deny
this, and insist on attributing consciousness to the
higher animals, we might hesitate to extend it all down
to the amoeba or to plants. It may be difficult even to
stop there, so that presently we should find ourselves
regarding the whole inorganic world, also, as conscious.
There is perhaps no conclusive reason why we should
not do this. Any alternative will, of course, suffer from
the disadvantage of postulating a breach of continuity.”
JW Sullivan, MD – Doctor, mathematician, musician, philosopher,
author (from The Limitations of Science). One of TIME’s 5 most
brilliant interpreters of physics to non-scientists. Considered one of
his generation’s most accomplished men.

Cleve Backster (inventor of the polygraph test, familiar with both scientific protocol
and truth-telling) presented evidence of primary perception in plant life.

Backster secured a plant leaf between electrodes to measure electrical resistance. He
decided to obtain a match to burn the leaf being tested. Without making any movements,

only making the decision, at precisely 13 mins 55 secs there was a very pronounced
upswing of the pen on the tracing chart.

Additional experiments with plants, living tissue of fruit, vegetables and several forms of
animal cell life found similar results, including Marcel Vogel and Pierre Paul Sauvin (described

in The Secret Life of Plants), and more since.

Native American traditional philosophy holds that consciousness is in
all life. The Dagara tribe in West Africa maintains that trees are the
highest form of intelligence, and science has started to take plant intel-
ligence seriously.
“My work is not about metaphors at all,” says Monica Gagliano, PhD.
“When I talk about learning, I mean learning. When I talk about mem-
ory, I mean memory.” Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist, is talking
about plants. She’s adopted methods from behavioral experiments used
to test animal intelligence and found that plants respond in a similar
manner. The results of her research suggest plants might possess intelli-
gence, memory and learning, although the mechanisms at play may be
fundamentally different from those of humans and animals.
Notably, however, there’s been almost no criticism of the methods or
results of her peer-reviewed studies. One critique of her methodology
was resolved with a clarification. Forbes.com Mind Without a Brain –
the Science of Plant Intelligence Takes Root
“…plants perform a sort of biological light computation, using informa-
tion contained in light to immunize themselves against diseases that are
prevalent during that season.” Stanislaw Karpinski, PhD – University
of Warsaw
Christine Foyer, PhD, a plant scientist from the University of Leeds,
said the study “took our thinking one step forward. Plants have to survive
stresses, such as drought or cold, and live through it and keep growing,”
she told BBC News. “This requires an appraisal of the situation and an
appropriate response - that’s a form of intelligence.”

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“It’s typical of new fields trying to emerge within the status quo. The cre-
ation of new fields of science has always made people simultaneously ex-
cited and nervous. They’re skeptical about it and resistant but they can’t
stop it. Eventually, the new field ceases to be new and it’s now the status
quo. There are plenty of examples and one that comes to mind is the pio-
neering research by Barbara McClintock with corn plants—her unsettling
idea that genes could be unstable and change position on chromosomes
was largely dismissed and ignored for 30 years. And then, once they re-
alized, ‘oh, she was right,’ she got honored with a Nobel Prize.” Monica
Gagliano, PhD – Evolutionary ecologist
“What the new work shows is that plants, by means we do not yet fully
understand, are capable of behaving like intelligent beings. They are capa-
ble of storing—and learning from—memories of what happens to them.”
Richard Mabey – National Geographic.com
“Mother Nature is a brilliant chemist. From earliest times, our ancestors
have learned to use plants to heal and promote good health.” Michael J
Balick, PhD - vice president for Botanical Science at The New York
Botanical Garden

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Plants are nourishment as medicine and as food.
Part of a natural system to sustain life.

Cooked Tomato Raw Tomato

Organic Mushroom Commercially Grown Mushroom Cooked Broccoli Raw Broccoli

The more we do to, or process, foods and plants
the more they lose vibrancy, their nourishing and healing information.

“All living cells of plants, animals and human beings emit biophotons which cannot be
seen by the naked eye but can be measured by special equipment developed by German
researchers. This light emission is an expression of the functional state of the living organism
and its measurement therefore can be used to assess this state.”

Marco Bischof – awarded the 1995 Book Prize
by the Scientific and Medical Network (U.K.)

DNA continually absorbs and releases a web of light. Does it
interconnect molecules, cells, tissue and organs as a regulatory network?
“Biofield therapies,” including Therapeutic Touch (TT), Healing Touch (HT), and

Reiki, manipulate energy systems within and surrounding the body.

Kikuo Chishima, PhD, asserts that the ‘energetic’ or ‘frequency infor-
mation’ of the food we eat is even more important than the nutrients.
Food contains molecular compounds of amino acids, complex carbo-
hydrate chains and various chemical elements, with their own unique
frequency or vibration. Vibrations of the nutrients raise the vibrations
of the body’s tissue...our food has to be in the utmost coherent energy
state because that is what is taken into our cells in the form of biopho-
ton energy. And our mindset has an effect, too.

Bruce Tainio of Tanio Technology in Cheney Washington developed
new equipment to measure biofrequency of humans and foods.

• Distilled water w/2 drops of peppermint has 78 MHz, w/2 drops
lemon is 76

• Tap water has 32 MHz (Chlorinated water is worse than coffee)
• Canned food is 0-15
• Dry herbs 12-22 (Fresh herbs 20-27)
• Fresh produce 15-22
• Essential oils 47-320 (rose oil)

Clinical research shows that essential oils have the highest frequency
of any natural substance known to man, creating an environment in
which disease, bacteria, virus, fungus, etc., cannot live.

“The discovery of biophoton emission also lends scientific support to
methods of healing such as various somatic therapies, homeopathy and
acupuncture. The ‘ch’I’ energy flowing in our bodies’ energy channels (me-
ridians) which according to Traditional Chinese Medicine regulates our
body functions may be related to node lines of the organism’s biophoton
field. The ‘prana’ of Indian Yoga physiology may be a similar regulating
energy force that has a basis in weak, coherent electromagnetic biofields.”
Marco Bischof – science writer

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Practitioners in oncology have described evidence for a positive impact of biofield therapies with people
experiencing symptoms associated with cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery (Coakley & Barron, 2012).

• The normal self-healing capacity of the human body is
supported by the free and balanced flow of energy through
its subtle energy system.

Before Healing During Healing • Disease or disorder can be detected in the energy system
(perhaps before it manifests in the physical body) and can be
affected therapeutically by the action of energy practitioners,
in support of the self-healing capacity of the body.

• Conscious healing intent and compassion are considered
essential to the effectiveness of biofield therapies.

According to a 2008 AHA the survey, 84 percent of hospitals indicated patient demand as the primary
rationale in offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services including Reiki, and 67
percent of those surveyed stated “clinical effectiveness” as their top reason. UCLA Health

Lutgendorf et al (2010) found that the energy treatment group demonstrated improved cellular
immunity. Similarly Jhaveri et al (2008) found that healthy cells got healthier while unhealthy cancer
cells actually deteriorated compared to placebo treatment.
A systematic review of 66 peer-reviewed clinical studies of biofield therapies demonstrated strong
evidence for pain-intensity reduction in pain populations, and a blind study with women receiving
radiation for gynecologic or breast cancer demonstrated a significant increase in health function with
HT treatment compared to placebo. Jain and Mills (2010)
A University of AZ study found that for range of motion for patients with mobility issues, 10 minutes of
energy healing was as effective as physical therapy. Baldwin et al (2013)
Dr. Mark Melrose, an emergency medicine physician at Urgent Care Manhattan, said there’s “infinitely
more that we don’t understand,” about medicine, and that alternative therapies such as energy healing
could benefit patients. “If it makes you feel better, then it’s probably helping.”

Ch’ulel or life-force: what ancient Mayan culture believed is everywhere and
in everything; mountains, animals, plants, rocks, buildings and people are all

connected in this other-worldly force.

Light. Energy. The Force. Intelligence. Consciousness. Realm of
ideas. Information…Science begins to ask new questions about

non-material dimensions of life and reality.

Lack of physical touch can actually kill babies. Feb 2010 Science Times
had an article reporting that touch can ease pain and lift depression.
The lack of touch for babies can impede growth and even lead to death.
Fortunately when placed in loving homes the damage can be reversed.
UCLAHealth.org: NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University
Campus conducted one of the first blind random studies which showed
Reiki lowering heart rate and blood pressure.
These “energy healing” modalities help with Post-operative pain, cog-
nition in elderly related to dementia/Alzheimer, pain in chronically ill
patients, and depression and stress.
Hospitals using these healing modalities include: Duke Integrative
Medicine North Carolina, NY Presbyterian, Yale-New Haven Hospital,
Sharp Memorial Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Citrus Val-
ley Medical Center Cancer Resource Center
Even with no physical contact there is impact…a manipulation of a
field, a field of energy…of information.
“I got your vibe.” What does that mean? “I feel you.” I received non-ver-
bal information about who you are. We are vibration/frequency*. Things
you eat and think, people you hang around, music you listen to all have
a significant impact. (*Frequency as in pitch or level, not how often.)

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Ed Belbruno is a brilliant artist (with his work in major galleries and the
Smithsonian) and scientist, discovering a whole new route to the moon
while working at NASA. Painting trigged his discovery process. Like
Einstein, Ed has both his hemispheres quite developed.

The conventional view of information is very narrow. This is about an
information principle expressing the self-organizing and creative in-
telligence that interconnects the universe. For various emotional (and
often professional) reasons, many are prevented from being able to see
evidence that their foundational assumptions are inadequate.

“The complex character of the wave function in Schrodinger’s equation
means that what is there is a kind of potentiality. …adding an informa-
tion term to the Schrodinger equation would force state vector collapse.
When we carry out a complete measurement loop the math will force
the whole thing to have nice, steady real solutions only if one of the states
happens and all the other states vanish. When the loop closes, state vector
collapse is forced to happen…the link between measurement loops as the
cause of state vector collapse and the observer as the cause of state vector
collapse.” Evan Harris Walker, PhD - physicist (asked to present in Vi-
enna at 100 yr anniversary of Schrodinger’s birthday):

Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Sir John Eccles said that materialists
believe the problems of understanding consciousness] will be resolved
with a more complete scientific understanding of the brain, perhaps in
hundreds of years, a belief he termed “promissory materialism”. “I main-
tain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reduc-
tionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually
for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This
belief must be classed as a superstition.”

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What do you own or rely on for managing your life that is almost 400
years old?

In the 1500s Francis Bacon broke from the Aristotelian view that knowl-
edge is contemplation and famously insisted that science put nature “on
the rack” to give up her secrets so that humans could use knowledge as
power, and control the environment. The “modern” mindset is focused
on predictability and control of the material parts and pieces.

“Just a few decades later, Descartes told the intellectuals of Europe to stop
fussing over theological matters and philosophical abstractions and to get
about the business of ‘mastering’ nature. To be sure, this shift in conscious-
ness gave rise to the modern sciences and their attendant technologies,
but it also, [German-born theologian and philosopher Romano] Guardini
worried, led to a deep alienation between humanity and nature. The typ-
ically modern subject became aggressive and self-absorbed, and the natu-
ral world simply something for him to manipulate for his own purposes.”
Father Robert Barron reviews The End of the Modern World

“The extreme mechanistic materialist position had been outlined as early
as 1841, when du Bois-Reymond quoted the French materialist physiolo-
gist Henri Dutrochet approvingly: ‘The more one advances in the knowl-
edge of physiology, the more reasons one will have for ceasing to believe
that the phenomena of life are essentially different from physical phenom-
ena.’ A year later, du Bois-Reymond and Ernst Brucke had sworn to ‘val-
idate the basic truth that in an organism, no other forces have any effect
than the common biochemical ones.’” Paul S. Agutter, Denys N Wheat-
ley – Thinking about Life: The history and philosophy of biology

The Newtonian, materialist, mechanistic paradigm has led us to its log-
ical conclusion: all problems and their solutions come from the phys-
ical/material realm and so society treats symptoms, does not address
underlying causes, and misses the non-material dimensions of major
problem solving.

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THE PARADIGM SHIFT

“Paradigms gain their status because they are more successful than their
competitors in solving a few problems that the group of practitioners has come to

recognize as acute...Mopping-up operations are what engage most scientists.
They constitute what I am here calling normal science. No part of the aim of
normal science is to call forth new kinds of phenomena; indeed those that
don’t fit the box likely won’t be seen at all.”

Thomas Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, U of Chicago Press.
“A landmark in intellectual history” – Science Magazine

“Major problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that
created them.”

Albert Einstein

“We have entered an Age of Disruption. Yet the possibility of profound personal, societal,
and global renewal has never been more possible. Our disruption deals with death and
rebirth. What’s dying is an old civilization and a mindset. Our future requires us to tap into
a deeper level of our humanity, of who we really are and who we want to be as a society.
It is a future that we can sense, feel, and actualize by shifting the inner place from which
we operate.”

Otto Scharmer – senior lecturer in MIT Management Sloan School

“Dream big and work hard for yourself and our human family. It’s
only by getting out of our comfort zones that we can create new
possibilities for our future.”

Surya Bonaly – Olympic figure skater (and only figure skater
in history to land a backflip on one foot), ambassador for the

international Peace and Sport Foundation

Like Einstein said, “Major problems cannot be solved with the same con-
sciousness that created them.” We need a new paradigm of conscious-
ness.
There is increasing talk of disruption as a needed remedy for busi-
ness-as-usual. Given dismal statistics for school drop outs (5,000 kids a
day in the US), rates of anxiety, depression, bi-polar, addiction, suicide,
obesity, cancer, diabetes, violence, homelessness, poverty, divisiveness
and polarization, we need some paradigm disruption.
Considering the failures of our current models, when do reasonable
people step back and say Maybe we need to rethink our fundamental
assumptions about the nature of reality, who we are, and what we need
to learn/know in order to live healthy, harmonious and fulfilling lives?
We need to unleash our imaginations, recognize our interconnected-
ness, heal our emotions and use our best strategies with disciplined
physical efforts in order to do what may seem impossible.
Like Surya Bonaly, the only figure skater in history to do a back flip on
the ice - and land on one foot. Who would even think to do that on ice?
As a black figure skater in a very fair-skinned sport, she had to overcome
many obstacles, enduring unfair criticisms including that she “doesn’t
look like a figure skater”, and “her skates make too much of a ‘scratchy’
noise on the ice”. Her back flip – which should have given her an ad-
vantage as no other skater could match it – was banned for being too
dangerous yet pairs skaters can perform lifts that have someone held up
by one arm way up in the air – higher than Surya’s back flip.
Surya works to help others reach new heights.

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CURRENT PARADIGM OPERATING ASSUMPTIONS

1. Reality is what you know through your 5 physical senses. Reality is what
you can physically measure, publicly observe, and repeatedly test.

2. There is one reality “out there”, separate and independent from us, that
we can observe, measure, repeatedly test and “know.” Science is objective:
you can make observations and gather facts without affecting what you
observe.

3. Subjective consciousness like imagination, emotions, thoughts and dreams
are not measurable or publicly observable so they aren’t real. Measureable
brain chemicals and observable neuro-networks are what’s real. Since
thoughts and emotions are chemicals, chemicals should be prescribed to
correct mental/emotional problems.

4. Left brain logic and reason = intelligence. Rational thought is the key to
problem-solving. Emotion gets in the way. The inner world of dreams and
intuition (“women’s intuition”) is fantasy and cannot provide reliable or
valuable information about the nature of reality.

5. Logically impossible things cannot be true.
6. The highest part of our brain, the frontal lobe, is for the executive function

of making decisions and managing logistics; getting things done.
7. We are often victims of circumstance and cogs in the wheels. This is a vast,

cold, accidental, and inhospitable universe. You must be aggressive and
predict/control in order to get ahead and be safe.
8. Success and security is measured materially.

“Directly and indirectly, social values depend…on whether consciousness
is believed to be mortal, immortal, reincarnate, or cosmic…localized and
brain-bound or essentially universal.”

Roger W Sperry - Nobel brain scientist

“Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear” Marvin Gaye,
from the song, Heard it Through the Grapevine
What if the Greek philosopher-scientists, Mayan teachers, Vedic schol-
ars, Einstein and many other scientists were right? What if the material
world is not the whole of reality, or even the most important aspect?
What if there are more than 3 dimensions and children or adults who
access them are wrongly diagnosed as having some kind of mental ill-
ness or “condition”? What if personal responsibility needs to extend to
taking responsibility for how one’s patterns of thoughts, emotions, ex-
pectations, etc. influence who shows up, what shows up and how things
turn out?
BIMSUD, I thought all the crazy roommate drama I had was bad luck
and an unfair universe. They were the problem and if I just got rid of
them things would be ok. Except I’d get rid of one and another would
take her place…always sounding good “on paper” and in an interview
but always devolving into same old drama. After all I was a good, smart,
fair, hardworking and very amicable person with many close friends I
wasn’t doing anything wrong to deserve roommates whose friends stole
my jewelry or who were alcoholic, or suicidal, or had a physically abu-
sive boyfriend, or who was right brain damaged and a control freak
venting frustration on me in crazy ways including putting salt in my
bed, pulling out my plants, and carving into my antique wood dresser.
I didn’t do anything wrong…but cause and effect isn’t just about “doing”,
it’s most importantly about states of being. I was chaos on the inside.
The universe runs more according to emotion than to logic

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Now that’s not to say that every bad thing or person that shows up in
your life is because of some unresolved emotion, negative thought or
unconscious memories/expectations you’ve been carrying around.
However, if the frustrating, hurtful, chaotic drama keeps recurring,
then you have a pattern indicating unresolved issues.
I call those unresolved emotional issues, buttons. And if you have a
button, given the interactive nature of life, the universe can’t help but
send someone or something to push it. Since our eyes see only a sliver
of the light spectrum, we can’t physically see the connections between
ourselves and those people/circumstances, but they are there. If, like
Jill Bolte Taylor after a stroke shut down her left hemisphere (panel 7),
you were operating out of just your right hemisphere then you would
perceive the fundamental interconnectedness of the “out there” to the
“in here” of states of consciousness.
That said, if, however, something or someone comes your way that is a
painful challenge but not part of a pattern of relationships or events or
stirred up emotions, it is a door or window to experience and grow in
some new way.

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“With the emergence of the new physics and cosmology, many of the social and cultural
values that the classical scientific revolution contributed as part of the enlightenment
project of the modern West are now outmoded, or at least problematical.”

Tu Weiming – director, Harvard-Yenching Institute,
Fellow of the World Economic Forum

Classical Newtonian, materialist, mechanistic science said that your brain’s wiring
was set, you couldn’t change it. Now we know, in a paradigm of renewal and
transformation, by changing thoughts and emotions (consciousness)
you can rewire your brain.

In the materialist paradigm the chain of
cause-and-effect is made up of physical, measurable,

publicly observable links or steps. In the quantum
paradigm, consciousness is causal (can cause
changes in physical conditions).

THE MATERIALIST PARADIGM SAYS GENETICS CAUSE CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
WHAT IF GENES PREDICT THE LIKELIHOOD OF, SAY, FRECKLES BUT DON’T CAUSE THEM?

Are your genes biologically encoded consciousness?

Are genes the physical reflection or expression of consciousness that may correlate
with physical, emotional, or mental conditions but don’t cause them?

I asked a well-respected neuropsychologist for his best evidence that
genes were the cause of mental illness. He sent a well-known study of
twins separated at birth. Both twins in the study grew up with anxiety
and depression. I asked, don’t you think that being separated from each
other and their mother would create emotional problems like anxiety
and depression? I don’t remember getting an answer, though years later
he suggested I see the documentary Three Identical Strangers. A GREAT
documentary about triplets separated at birth. They each grew up with
emotional/psychological issues. The aunt of one of them said as an in-
fant he would beat his head against the side of the crib.
The young unmarried mother had substance abuse and “mental health”
issues so the assumption was the boys’ inherited genetics was the cause.
Think about it, a young single woman in the ‘50s got knocked up. She
drank and was promiscuous – or even if she was in an exclusive rela-
tionship - the guy ditched her and the babies. Might that be an indica-
tion of, or a cause for, emotional problems?
“Emotional problems” or states of consciousness can influence gene
expression. That has been proven, why then do we continue to focus
on genetics rather than on what it takes to modify our genetic predis-
positions?

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This is very hopeful!!
If we are taught to be optimistic and learn concepts like synchronicity,
paradox, and the illusion of matter, we will recognize the magical pos-
sibilities.
Education needs to focus on strengthening our internal world of emo-
tions, thoughts, attitudes, imagination, intuition, expectations, etc.,
teach youth to breathe correctly, and how to use imagery. It will help
left brain processes, too!
If we don’t understand that we are all interconnected and that disre-
specting others will come back on you, or that personal responsibility
means you must take responsibility for the influence of your unresolved
emotions (including those you hold unconsciously), we will perpetuate
dysfunction.
If schools do not develop right hemisphere capacities, then we will be
replaceable by AI.
A computer will never dream of being more than its physical parts and
processes, or of being in a new home or office. Let’s hope humans don’t
lose what makes us human. Like the capacity to dream!
Are dreams a portal to other dimensions? When our conscious mind
shuts down are the obstacles to a deeper broader perception removed?

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but
the content of their character.”

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

BOLD VISIONARIES DREAM WHILE AWAKE OF WHAT CAN BE, AND BRILLIANT INVENTORS
DREAM AT NIGHT OF BREAKTHROUGHS AND EVENTS TO COME – AS DO MANY PEOPLE.
DREAMS AND VISIONS HAVE BEEN COMMONPLACE THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND CULTURES.

“The dream world is more real than the world you are experiencing now.”

Dagara Elder (West Africa)

“During a dream an idea emerged. It was the design of an experiment to determine
whether or not the hypothesis of a chemical transmission that I had uttered 17 years
earlier was correct. I got up immediately and performed a simple experiment based
on the nocturnal design…its results became the foundation of the theory of chemical
transmission of nerve impulses.”

Otto Loewi – 1936 Nobel Prize Winner Physiology and Medicine

“The soul in sleep gives proofs of its divine nature; for when free and disengaged from the services of
the body, it has a foresight of things to come, when we may conceive what will be its state when entirely
freed from this bodily prison.”

Roman statesman, Cicero 78 BCE (from De Senectute)

A dream while Friedrich Kekule was sleeping inspired one of the critical foundations of
organic chemistry. It has been called a brilliant piece of prediction in the history of science.
To an audience of chemists Kekule once said, “Let us learn to dream”.

Renee Descartes, who created the Scientific Method – which relies on the 5 physical senses to assess
evidence of reality – got his idea from 3 dreams. In other words, the assumption that things like dreams

should be ignored came from dreams.

Our capacities for imagination and imagery, for dreaming and daydreaming, are profound.
Are they portals through which we connect to and work on other levels of reality?

Dream big and put in the work.
Open a new universe of possibility.

Descartes got his idea for the Scientific Method from three dreams but
then said dreams (because they are not physically measureable, ob-
servable and testable) aren’t real and can’t help the quest for knowledge
about the universe.

I have heard hundreds of stories of very detailed dreams that happened
a day, a week, or years later just as dreamed or with a relatively slight
modification. Like the mother who had a dream of being up north on a
lake with her niece and her daughter, and her daughter was drowning!
She ran into the water and pulled her daughter out. She did mouth to
mouth and CPR, water came out of her daughter’s mouth but she lapsed
back into unconsciousness. The mom repeated the process, more water
came out and her daughter was ok. Months later, she was up north at a
lake with her niece and her daughter, and events unfolded exactly as in
the dream except it was her niece not her daughter who was drowning.
She never had CPR training and if it wasn’t for the dream she wouldn’t
have known what to do.

“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense
is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the
supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity
of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extrav-
agant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific
community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior
commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods
and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material expla-
nation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced
by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of
investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations...”
Richard C Lewontin, PhD – Professor of Zoology and Biology, Har-
vard University

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