War of the Worldviews: Science Vs. Spirituality (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Leonard
• Einstein
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• “Remember that even if the spontaneous origin of life, or prolife, within any given star system is improbable, that would not preclude its occurrence, because there are ten billion trillion stars in our observable universe. So as long as by “improbably” you don’t mean less than a one-in-a-trillion shot, you could still expect over a billion star systems to harbor life. Suppose life in any given star system is a trillion-to-one shot. How can we account for being so lucky? If, out of a group of a trillion stars, through the normal processes of nature, exactly one star system develops life, it might seem to the beings in that star system that their presence there is a miracle. Certainly if they chose their home by throwing a dart at the map of the heavens, the odds would be a trillion to one against hitting a life-bearing solar system. But that’s not what happened. They were born into a star system in which life developed. And no matter how rare life is, by definition if living beings look around, they will find that they were born into a star system that harbors life. So that is not a miracle, or even good luck. It is just a consequence of logic.”

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• 1. There is an unseen reality that is the source of all visible things. 2. This unseen reality is knowable through our own awareness. 3. Intelligence, creativity, and organizing power are embedded in the cosmos.

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• the first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest to fool.

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• We need to go back to the source of religion. That source isn’t God. It’s consciousness.

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• To deny the worth of subjective experience is to dismiss most of what makes life worth living: love, trust, faith, beauty, awe, wonder, compassion, truth, the arts, morality, and the mind itself.

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• Human consciousness created science, which ironically is now moving to exclude consciousness, its very creator!

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• Beyond the reach of the five senses lies an invisible realm of infinite possibility, and the key to unfolding its potential is consciousness. Go within, the sages and seers declared, and you will find the true source of everything: your own awareness.

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• Think of someone you love. Now think of love itself. The person you love puts a face on love, yet surely you know that love existed before this person was born and will survive after they pass away. In that simple example lies the difference between the personal and the impersonal God. As a believer you can put a face on God—that is a matter of your own private choice—but I hope you see that if God is everywhere, the divine qualities of love, mercy, compassion, justice, and all the other attributes ascribed to God extend infinitely throughout creation.

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• “Nothing” gave rise to the human desire for meaning, so how can it be meaningless? The universe operates randomly, but this randomness created the human brain, which does all kinds of nonrandom things (such as writing Shakespeare and saying “I love you”), so how did the purposeless give birth to the purposeful?

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• However, at the frontiers of physics, where Nature becomes very small, matter breaks down and then vanishes. Here, the act of measuring changes what we see; every observer turns out to be woven into what he observes. This is the universe already known to spirituality, where passive observation gives way to active participation, and we discover that we are part of the fabric of creation. The result is enormous power and freedom.

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• religion isn’t the same as spirituality—far from it. Even God isn’t the same as spirituality. Organized religion may have discredited itself, but spirituality has suffered no such defeat.

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• India
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• Europe
• Nature

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1. Deepak Chopra (Author)
2. Leonard Mlodinow (Author)

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• Dewey: 291

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Spirituality
• Books › Science