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ANPHEON.org – Sorce Theory Homepage: the landmark work which most strongly supports the reinstatement of causal understanding at the core of the physical sciences by means of describing all observable physical phenomena in terms of a deeper, physically existent causal substrate. Some of the most relevant Sorce Theory books by Gerald Lebau are available for free. It is appropriate to remember again that the understandings that can be gained from Lebau’s constructions are in fact the main motivation for the creation of Aethernitatis, which in a sense can be considered a modest reaffirmation and (still embryonic) extension of ANPHEON.org. SpinbitZ.net – The pioneering ontological and epistemological meta-paradigm envisioned by Joel Morrison, whose goal is to revitalize the prematurely abandoned project of philosophical and mathematical rationalism, which was aborted with the “enlightenment” of scientific materialism. SpinbitZ intuitively and sensorially reconnects to the understanding of Infinity and in the process it provides an innovative operational map for explaining the many hidden polarities that pervade most systems of thought. Although some SpinbitZ concepts are still in development, its overall vision will already be depicted in some of the Aethernitatis articles. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn – A synopsis of a classic book which is almost a mandatory reading in order to truly understand the nature of science. Kuhn shows in his book that science has always worked and evolved as the lone “crank” against the establishment. He demonstrates the necessity of alternative competing paradigms (“Extraordinary Science” which deals with accumulating anomalies) during the evolution of “Normal Science”, and the difficulties proper to inter-paradigmatic judgements. Kuhn also shows that there is a self-protective mechanism intrinsic to the mainstream scientific establishment, which is actually necessary for “Normal Science” to function. This is mainly the reason why alternative paradigms cannot penetrate the established peer-review filter. The widespread unawareness of this repeating pattern throughout history is likely one of the key factors that result in Popperian science to be still very much an ideal.
Skeptical
attitude vs. Dogmatism
– Healthy
skepticism is about enquiry and doubt, not about denial. This is
a crucial difference which is often overlooked, and there are
several contemporary examples that demonstrate that mainstream science
tends to practice dogmatism, censorship and even suppression of facts in
some cases (all of which evidences Kuhnian science in operation). Here
are two sites which I found helpful to clarify the difference between
rigorous yet open-minded skepticism and unreasonable dogmatism so as to
defend a given ideology, as well as to
identify some dogmatic
attitudes proper to the scientific establishment:
The
Big Bang
– While the reigning
cosmological theory has had several problems since its inception, it is
a bit pointless to analyze each of them in detail considering the fact
that the theory has been empirically falsified many times over. Indeed,
there exist numerous independently verifiable refutations, each one of
them falsifying the Big Bang’s main pillar: the implausible concept of
the “expansion of the Universe”. While many scientists and observers
have contributed to this refutation, a good deal of this evidence should
be attributed to just one person:
Mainstream
difficulties The Living Universe – An inherently fluid conception of physical reality as a whole, together with the notion of an infinite depth of irreducibly unified causal complexity, quite certainly fosters a great sense of the Universe as living (i.e. fundamentally animated). The colossal amount of raw scientific data gathered by Richard Michael Pasichnyk in his “Vital Vastness” book series deeply resonates with this idea, demonstrating ubiquitous symbiotic interconnections between bodies at various levels of scale and showing that many of what are usually considered non-biological structures are very life-like, among other matters. David Pratt’s Exploring Theosophy – If the current empirical data bank is re-examined once the materialistic and reductionistic tendencies proper of modern scientific thought are suspended, several notions found in some ancient wisdom teachings (subjective insights) start to make quite a lot of sense. Among some of the most enlightening of these traditions is the the mystical philosophical system called Theosophy. David Pratt’s web resource consists of an interesting collection of very well researched and thought out articles spanning a large amount of diverse topics, where he focuses on observational evidence understood through common sense reasoning and interpreted via a theosophical perspective. Ken Wilber Online – Certainly one of the greatest synthesizers of our times, Ken Wilber is the foremost theorist of the so-called Integral Movement. Having labelled himself a mapmaker, he focuses essentially on constructing an “Integral Theory of Consciousness” in which insights of mysticism, postmodernism, science and systems theory harmoniously come together (are integrated) to form a coherent representation of the Cosmos.
Raw
Observational evidence for a Self-Similar Cosmos
(or maybe just some empirical support for the
ancient hermetic principle: "As above, so below; as below, so above") |