"We need a revolution in our understanding of science and of the world. Living in an age dominated by science, we have come more and more to believe in an objective, empirical reality and in the goal of reaching a complete understanding of that reality. Part of the thrill that came with the announcement that the human genome had been mapped or with the idea that we are close to understanding the big bang rests in our desire for completeness.

But we’re fooling ourselves."

The above quotation is from an article by Robert Lanza appearing in The American Scholar, in which he seems to be arguing that all of what humanity accepts as facts, including all our theories of quantum mechanics, evolution, spacetime, etc., are nothing but our creation. In other words, all those things are real only to the extent that we make them real. So, time only passes, and we move through space because we create the concept of time and space.

If what Lanza says is true, then it's not too difficult to explain why for example, "ghosts" can walk through walls and doors — the walls simply don't exist in the ghosts' "consciousness". It seems that Lanza is expressing the concept of mind over matter in a different way. And, as I said in an earlier posting, the ancients have long known these things, so maybe "modern" science is only taking us "back to the future".

After you've read the article, you'll probably wonder if indeed you're here today, reading this blog entry, or maybe it's just something you made up. Indeed, I'm almost asking myself, did I write it?