Noetic Sciences – Noetic Science

Dr. Deepak Chopra believes “there is a realm of reality which goes beyond the physical.” (ABCNEWS.com)

Dr. Deepak Chopra, who is well-known for his insights on science and spirituality, says these prayer experiments are proving what he’s been saying all along: There are healing forces in nature that science is only beginning to understand.

“What physicists are saying to us right now,” he says, “is that there is a realm of reality which goes beyond the physical … where in fact we can influence each other from a distance.”

But the final verdict on prayer is still not in, says Dr. Gary Posner, a skeptic of remote healing who says most prayer studies to date have been sloppy and untrustworthy.

“I suspect that 50 years from now people looking back at this genre of prayer research will kind of shake their heads and call it junk science.”

Chance alone, he says, might account for the effect that they thought was due to the prayer.

But Chopra says he is just glad science is taking the belief seriously enough to want to study it.

“At the moment, I would agree that some of these studies are tentative, that we should be cautious in the way we interpret the results,” says Chopra. “But the studies are encouraging enough that we should pursue them, because if we don’t, we may have missed one of the most amazing phenomena in nature.” Copyright ABC News 2001

Every writer draws inspiration from somewhere, in the case of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, much of the spiritual aspects Dan Brown recounts in the book can be found in Maya writings. I have selected a few fascinating paragraphs from “The Mayan Prophecies for 2012 by Gerald Benedict.

…The Prophets predicted a time when their ancient hidden knowledge would be recovered and given to the world by a future generation of elders and time keepers…

…The [Mayan] Prophecy speaks of a collective spiritual amnesia from which our civilization suffers, and it refers, in modern terminology, to what is called “recovered memory”. Once our memory of cosmic wisdom has been retrieved, we will have a deeper understanding of who we are, and of our relationship with Nature and the universe…

…Every human being can, by birthright, achieve cosmic consciousness, but the teaching tells us that some form of initiation or guidance is helpful…

…Western culture’s sensitivity to “place” has been numbed by fundamentalism and the politics of institutional religion and sectarianism. We no longer sense the numinous power and holiness of the sacred sites…

…Once we have recovered the memory of our right rightfulplace in the universe, together with our sense of unity with it, humanity will, once again, have the means of realizing its spiritual potential and of solving the problems with which it is faced…

…Despite the persistent execution of their prophets and teachers by the spanish colonizers, and the destruction of all but a few of their sacred codieces, the Maya were able to preserve their traditional wisdom literature. The Prophecy speaks of our urgent need of teachers who, by sharing this recovered wisdom, will lead us back to the basic, but ominously neglected sources of self-fulfilment, and of life itself…

…We have given our minds over to the technology it has invented. It is generally accepted that we have never developed the genetic potentialwith which we are born…

…”A simple theory of consciousness can be advanced by accepting that the mental is a property of matter”…Piero Scaruffi

…I am Another Yourself… Lak’ech, the Yucatec Mayan Code of Honour

“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly we shall all hang seperately…Benjamin Franklin

Read more about the Mayan calendar and the Procession Of The Equinoxes