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War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not
Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow
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awareness.
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consciousness.
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researcher in consciousness.
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verification.
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“concept cells,”
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45 percent of the American public believes in evolution, but 76 percent believes in miracles.
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General relativity is a set of equations that describe the way gravity, space and time, energy and matter, all interact.
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skeptical
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objections,
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no scientific proof
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God,
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purpose.
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Randomness
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Wholeness:
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The universe, including the void that precedes creation, is one system.
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Orderliness:
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Randomness is just a way to get from one stage of orderliness to another.
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Evolution:
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entropy,
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heat is constantly being dispersed throughout the universe.
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evolution, the tendency that makes everything grow.
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Growth, once it begins, never ends.
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Creativity:
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Consciousness:
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spirituality claims that its fate was directed by consciousness.
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even if we assume that every star in the observable universe has its own life-friendly Earth—and probably few actually do—we
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Our lives are as meaningful as we make them.
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Human language excels at capturing human feelings, but we shouldn’t let our language define our concept of reality.
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You have always been eternal; you still are.
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Without some kind of vibration, there is no Big Bang, no expanding universe.
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we believe that the laws of physics are the blueprint for the universe.
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natural processes lead to the development of intelligent life.
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spirituality embraces unpredictability.
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Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it.
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TEN QUALITIES OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS
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1. Pure consciousness is silent and peaceful.
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Pure consciousness is self-sufficient, or centered within itself.
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awake.
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contains
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infinite potential;
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self-organizing.
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spontaneous.
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dynamic.
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blissful.
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knowing.
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whole.
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According to the dictionary, the difference between knowledge and belief is that belief implies confidence, while knowing implies certainty.
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But in our everyday lives, and even in science, that distinction between what we “know” and what we merely “believe” is difficult, or even impossible,
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“naive realists.”
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all knowledge of reality starts from experience
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and ends in it.”
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In modern physics, observation cannot be freed from either the human sensory system or the human reasoning system.
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The first fact is that all experience occurs in consciousness. This is more than brain processes. The second fact is that if there is a reality outside consciousness, we will never know what it is.
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Reality is pure consciousness. Nothing exists outside it.
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