.An Immaterialism Discussion Group .A not so small step for academia I am surprised and delighted to find an active discussion of immaterialism on the web. (See the KARL JASPERS FORUM.) One of the non-participating mentors is Amit Goswami who now maintains an e-journal called Science within Consciousness. He is a physics professor in Oregon with a Quantum Physics textbook to his credit. I had the good fortune to meet with him several years ago.
Like most of the immaterialists in the forum he bases his belief on a radical reinterpretation of quantum physics. Also like most of the participants he is a conservative idealist. He does not see any immediate dramatic consequences of the immaterial paradigm. Over the years I have scaled back my estimation of the necessary magnitude of the impending cosmic drama, the apocalyptic revelation. I am a relative minimalist in that regard, but there is still a considerable gap between myself and the academic idealists of the Jaspers Forum.
The academic mind is generally much more comfortable with mystical idealism coming out of the eastern mystical tradition. I am coming from the western prophetic tradition. The problem is that the scientific community has a long history of happily ignoring mysticism. Some of the idealist academics may migrate to a more prophetic stance, as they become frustrated with the narrow-mindedness of their materialist colleagues.
This is why the quantum computer or something very much like it will be necessary to shake up the establishment. It would be the minimal substitute for the proverbial UFO landing as a harbinger for the revelatory Second Coming and dramatic paradigm switch. In this regard I am keeping an eye on the quantum physics e-prints. (See the latest entries on my New Links page.)
Nonetheless, the Jaspers Forum is a big step in the right direction. Its development merits close attention.
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