A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

And finally ... Why should any of this matter at all? Well, I suppose I would need to go back to what I feel myself
in terms of taking a wider view of who we humans really are, why we are here, where things might be going and
our connection with Nature. I believe we have previously known but forgotten about many of these things, and
I feel it is time for those of us who are ready, to expand and again practice greater consideration of them. So, in
ending, this has been my own little contribution to help bring this about.
A Final Indulgence ...
Here is an extract from the book 'Consciousness Beyond Life' by Pim van Lommel, MD [7-2] …
"According to the philosopher of science Ilja Maso, most scientists employ the scientific method based on
materialist, mechanistic, and reductionist assumptions. It attracts most of the funding, achieves the most striking
results, and is thought to employ the brightest minds. The more a vision deviates from its materialist paradigm,
the lower its status and the less money it receives. Indeed, experience shows us that the upper echelons of
the research hierarchy receive a disproportionate percentage of funding, whereas the lower echelons actually
address the conditions, needs and problems of the people. True science does not restrict itself to material
and therefore restrictive hypotheses but is open to new and initially inexplicable findings and welcomes the
challenge of finding explanatory theories. Maso speaks of an 'inclusive science', which can accommodate ideas
that are more compatible with our attempts to learn about subjective aspects of the world and ourselves than
the materialist demarcation currently allows." [7-3] [and further on in that book ...]
The psychologist Abraham H Maslow offered a fine definition of what such an inclusive science should entail:
“The acceptance of the obligation to acknowledge and describe all of reality, all that exists everything that is
the case. Before all else science must be comprehensive and all-inclusive. It must accept within its jurisdiction
even that which it cannot understand or explain, that for which no theory exists, that which cannot be measured,
predicted, controlled or ordered. It must accept even contradictions and illogicalities and mysteries, the vague,
the ambiguous, the archaic, the unconscious, and all other aspects of existence that are difficult to communicate.
At best it is completely open and excludes nothing. It has no entrance requirements.” [7-4]
175 | A final word