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To: TigersEye

I have that video, and it is not about science per se,
but a paen to some 30,000 year old being named “Ram” or
something like that...At first, it seems interesting,
cause it tries to make the macro physics world behave like
a Plancks length physics world, and though it points out
that there is lots we don’t know, it gives very little historical
evidence for the 30,000 year old being...save for a very shall
we say “funkay” female spokesperson..It also likes to
point out that we say to ourselves can change our
world...i.e. “perception is reality”...clearly not something
western scientists tend to accept..we usally like to
find out the “reality” behind the perception...no?
I know a philosophy profesor who used the video to help
open the eyes of her usually mentally sedentary students as
to how ideas, thoughts, facts, and perceptions can mix it up
a bit, but she herself knows the video is not really about
demonstrating the Plancks length physics scenario...


229 posted on 07/30/2007 9:05:43 PM PDT by Getready (Truth and wisdom are more elusive, and valuable, than gold and diamonds)
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To: Getready
It has been a year and half since I've seen it but I don't remember anything about a 30,000 yr old being named Ram. Not saying it isn't there I just don't remember it. All I can say about that is that it wasn't what impressed me.

..It also likes to point out that we say to ourselves can change our world...i.e. “perception is reality”...clearly not something western scientists tend to accept..we usally like to find out the “reality” behind the perception...no?

I'm a tantric Buddhist. There are a lot of things about reality and perception that scientists wouldn't accept. Does the observer phenomena in particle physics bother you at all?

This is also something you might contemplate if you really want to understand how things exist. The statement "perception equals reality" however is in error. Perception is an illusion. It neither creates reality nor apprehends it. More appropriately it would be said that "thought creates reality." But intent must also be considered or that statement would fall apart upon examination.

244 posted on 07/30/2007 10:08:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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