How would our lives be different if a hundred years ago, our top physicists told us the universe was merely a stubbornly persistent dream, and we are all just dream characters of a single universal dreamer? Amazingly, this did happen. They may not have put it quite in those terms, but that was the implication. In response, the rest of the scientists barricaded themselves behind a stern allegiance to materialism. But, imagine if today we all knew our neighbor as ourselves. How would our lives be different?

Materialism argues that consciousness arises from matter, therefore it can only behave like matter; it can never experience, or move, or gain knowledge in any nonlocal way. But we now know matter itself arises from nonlocal quantum fields. And yet, scientists still insist that consciousness is limited to the old Newtonian rules of matter, and that none of the new quantum rules apply. They would say the brain is too warm and noisy to allow access to anything quantum. To do this, they must conflate consciousness with the mind, the mind with matter, and matter with Newtonian matter.

This whole reductive programme – this mindless materialism, this belief in something called ‘matter’ as the answer to all questions – is not really science at all. It is, and always has been, just an image, a myth, a vision, an enormous act of faith. As Karl Popper said, it is ‘promissory materialism’, an offer of future explanations based on boundless confidence in physical methods of enquiry. It is a quite general belief in ‘matter’, which is conceived in a new way as able to answer all possible questions. And that belief has flowed much more from the past glories of science than from any suitability for the job in hand.
–Mary Midgley

Science doesn’t always get it right at first, and some mistakes get embedded for generations. For example, do you still believe the savanna theory of human evolution?

There are scientists who are less constrained by old cultural biases. For example, Daryl Bem, a renowned Cornell professor, has followed the evidence and risked his reputation publishing on Psi experiments, while other great researchers are working mostly outside orthodox science, such as Rupert Sheldrake and  Dean Radin. This century old paradigm shift has stalled some, but it is still the way forward for science.

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The universe is nonlocal, except in the loci of awareness in all lifeforms. Isn’t it possible that consciousness has a nonlocal side as well? For thousands of years meditators have described nonlocal experiences. Mainstream science seems convinced this is impossible, otherwise they would be doing it themselves.