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An Arrow Through Chaos: How We See into the Future by David Loye Ph.D.
The Sphinx and the Rainbow explores how the frontal brain may interact with the right and left brain in forecasting the future, how the new psychophysics may explain old questions about mind-brain relationships and the mystifying phenomena of precognitions. Loyes book comprises a historic synthesis - of neuropsychology, psychology, parapsychology and physics. His book is a pioneering attempt to put together a coherent picture of the predicting mind.
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First published January 1, 1983
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December 14, 2022
"Over and over again, we see this evidence that all life is shaped by the swirling of energy into patterns that press upon our senses like the imprint of a line of type upon paper, giving form to this flow. The image of the hologram is generally taken to suggest that these patterns are arranged in the way William Blake expressed in his famous vision that we may "see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.""
June 22, 2024
This book is horrible trash that has expanded my list of the worst books I've ever read from 3 to 4 (the others are Obama's first two books and Lo! by Charles Fort–see my review here for the last one). Talk about cherry picking test results to reinforce your pre-formed bogus theory that precognition is real and scientifically proved!
His biggest fundamental flaw is a fundamental error understanding evolution, which truly, is nothing more than natural selection. Nobody, no other species, are evolving towards higher beingness. Only individual humans can pursue that. Nobody is evolving towards anything.
He concludes his book with something Devo proved wrong back in the 70s:
"This complex, reminiscent of the qualities of seers as diverse as Plato, Buddha, Jesus, and Isaiah, indicates that the average human of the future will not only foresee more of what lies ahead, but will be a much more sensitive, caring, and smarter being."
Devo is correct, we are devolving, unless you think the Trump cult is a cult of beings with higher consciousness, rather than the crude, sub-100 IQ medievalists that 1/3 of Americans devolved into ever since the Reagan cult took over the US government.
The author lived a long life until 2022, so he lived long enough to see the Trump cult epidemic destroy every hop that humans are advancing. In the 40 years since the book was published NOTHING he claimed to be scientifically true has been proved valid, so this is a dead-end science book. I'm probably the last person who will ever read it, unless you find it, like I did, in a free box of books.
His wife Riane Eisler BTW is another narcissistic I-know-it-all-and-am-blessing-you-with-my exalted-better-than-everybody-else-profound-knowledge-and-wisdom wingnut who became very popular in the Green politics movement shortly after this book came out with her nonsense, The Chalice and the Blade. I debated her at an eco-feminist conference in Eugene, OR back then. She brainwashed a lot of people back then. She helped turn the Green Party movement in the US into a pretend neo-feminist cult.
His biggest fundamental flaw is a fundamental error understanding evolution, which truly, is nothing more than natural selection. Nobody, no other species, are evolving towards higher beingness. Only individual humans can pursue that. Nobody is evolving towards anything.
He concludes his book with something Devo proved wrong back in the 70s:
"This complex, reminiscent of the qualities of seers as diverse as Plato, Buddha, Jesus, and Isaiah, indicates that the average human of the future will not only foresee more of what lies ahead, but will be a much more sensitive, caring, and smarter being."
Devo is correct, we are devolving, unless you think the Trump cult is a cult of beings with higher consciousness, rather than the crude, sub-100 IQ medievalists that 1/3 of Americans devolved into ever since the Reagan cult took over the US government.
The author lived a long life until 2022, so he lived long enough to see the Trump cult epidemic destroy every hop that humans are advancing. In the 40 years since the book was published NOTHING he claimed to be scientifically true has been proved valid, so this is a dead-end science book. I'm probably the last person who will ever read it, unless you find it, like I did, in a free box of books.
His wife Riane Eisler BTW is another narcissistic I-know-it-all-and-am-blessing-you-with-my exalted-better-than-everybody-else-profound-knowledge-and-wisdom wingnut who became very popular in the Green politics movement shortly after this book came out with her nonsense, The Chalice and the Blade. I debated her at an eco-feminist conference in Eugene, OR back then. She brainwashed a lot of people back then. She helped turn the Green Party movement in the US into a pretend neo-feminist cult.
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January 9, 2010This book lends insight into the way our brains work to predict short and long term events. Definitely a collection of some of the most interesting brain research facts, but it does more for you by uncovering the actual understandings about our reality that comes along with the findings from our last century or so in neuroscience research. (though it may not be completely up to our current date's research, it is super rich and interesting)
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