Intuition and the problem of science…
Here we go again…the continual struggle between two disparate cultures continues!
I found myself, the other day, trying to politely write a rebuttal of some of the ideas presented in a skeptic’s blog about dowsing. The author had said that dowsing didn’t work and that it was plain dangerous to believe in it and that charlatans were at work.
Having spent quite some time crafting my response, I was dismayed to see everything dismissed using logical and rational analysis of things. For example..that well-dowsing is rubbish because all it takes is field-craft to spot the surface features which will show the underground stuff (PAH!). Or that dowsing cannot be ‘proven’ therefore it does not work and is all smoke and mirrors (PAH!).
Then, after I had said that perhaps there are other things at work here which are not yet in the mainstream of science, I got hit with the “open mind fallacy” argument. (Again..PAH!)
So I stepped back and thought about it all (and there was PLENTY to think about, let me tell you) and I came to the following conclusions…
- I’m not going to bother arguing with such idiots any longer. They are not scientists, they are those who sit back and defend science without doing anything more than thinking
that the scientific approach is the whole world!
- I’m not going to try and play on their field, using their rules, because they don’t want anyone else messing with their beliefs.
- I’m not going to try and find common ground with them unless and until they make the first move to show an interest and concern in what I do and how I think. (I KNOW how most of them think!)
- I’m going to make more of an effort to feel compassion for them and, at the same time to reach more and more people and introduce them to intuition in as many ways as possible.
What I’d like to do is;
- hit them upside the head with a two by four
- call them rude names and pull faces at them
- erase their websites permanently
- tell their mothers they’ve been naughty and must be sent to their rooms immediately and be grounded for the next 10 years
But that would be too childish, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t it?
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There is a surprizing amount of energy that gets freed up when we accept that people are where they are at (how can they be anywhere else?) and thats where they are at until something shifts….
I wonder what “shifts” are in store for me?
Happy Solstice.
Yep, I agree with you. However, I’ve found that people who really think that science is the ultimate bees’ knees are pretty firmly stuck and that it takes a very large shift indeed to get them moving.
But, as we all know….shift happens!!
Happy Solstice right back at ya!
Nigel, here are couple of links to a 3d animation called “inner life of a cell”. An alternative title might be ” a biochemists dreaming of artificial intelligence”.
Loads of intuitive info about the scientific mindset streams out during the 8 minute video. Beautiful and creepy at the same time.
press release from the animation company:
http://www.xvivo.net/press/harvard_university.htm
high-resolution unedited version:
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/
“Shift Happens” ….I am printing up that saying to post on my wall…ty
Hmmm…Interesting animation, certainly. The prettiness of it all is quite enchanting. One thing came to mind as I was watching, and that was how each thingy (scientific term there!) got to do what it had to do in order for it all to function.
I know there will be mention of chemical triggers and the like, but it doesn’t seem to be enough to account for it all (at least to me).
The film seemed to ask the question…”what makes it all work?” but didn’t give an answer. Is that way off base in a blog about intuition, or is it just exactly right?
Thanks for the link, Frances!