Saturday, September 26, 2009
Dan Brown, Noetic Science and Prayer
I am in middle of reading Dan Browns "The Lost Symbol". It's a fascinating and intellectual read as it explores ancient fraternities such as the Masons. Anyway one of the characters in the book is a Noetic scientist. Noetic Science postulates that since all mass has gravity thought mass has gravity as well. The implications are such that when one thinks, he has the power to effect physical reality i.e mind over matter. How much more so if thousands of people think the same thing they can pull gravity and effect reality. I thought this was interesting as we now have science supporting the mystical practice of prayer. The prophecy that in the era before Moshaich science and Torah will converge is in fact coming true. Afterall superstring theory copies the Kabbalistic concept of Sefiroth that the universe is made up of 10 dimensions and such. Quantum mechanis also coincides with kabbalah but that's another topic altogether. So we are in the Messianic era, it's here, so embrace all this chassidic and scientific knowledge. For me it's candy for the brain and soul.
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"The implications are such that when one thinks, he has the power to effect physical reality i.e mind over matter"- That's also a central idea in "Christian Science".
ReplyDeleteHey! Shriki you made it to this blog! Yay!
ReplyDelete...I also commented on the September 4th post a while ago..
ReplyDelete"Prayer" and the mind over matter theories of the proponents of Noetics and the Christians Scientists are two different things. We (Jews) never said that "if enough people think positive thoughts the world would be a better place", etc.
ReplyDeleteThant's first of all. Secondly, it's kind of silly to compare string theory with "Noetic science". It's New Age pseudo-science, not science. To say that new-age ideas verify the Torah actually make the Torah look bad in a sense..
Though of course Christianity is essentially based on Judaism, and I do agree that just because an an insight was made Christians that desn't mean it's inherently wrong, far from it...
Yes but we (Jews) do believe thought has power hence the Tanya's discourse on the topic of thought(machshava). (there is actually a book by the Lubavitcher Rebbe called Mind over Matter, if that holds any weight)
ReplyDeleteYour right I had not realized that Noetic Science was a psudeo-science. Afterall, I just posted this post while reading the book and I did not really research the information. However I was not trying to compare superstring theory with Noetic science. I was just trying to point out that we are in the age where science sort of supports kabbalistic thought.
I did not mean to come across as saying that science verify's the Torah but rather I was trying to point out the harmony between science and Torah.