As neurologist Oliver Sacks puts it, "When we open our eyes each morning, it is upon a world we have spent a lifetime learning to see. Though the early chapters of our book received favorable comments, we've noticed that people, even when they've agreed with the ideas, still find it difficult to integrate those ideas with their everyday experience.Īs an example, let's look at the well-corroborated scientific idea that the objects we perceive are constructs of the mind. In those chapters, we look at a variety of scientific findings and suggest that those findings, in themselves, give us no more reason to assert that the nature of the "real" world is non-conscious, than to say that it's conscious. The major themes we explore in the videos are fleshed out more fully in first five chapters of our book, Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing Through the Eyes of Infinity.
#Ockham disparate terms series
Jan (my wife) and I are preparing a series of videos investigating the question of what it is we really know (scientifically) about the nature of the real world. Rather than presenting us with reality, the most we can say is that scientists have classified, correlated, and ultimately, measured the data received by our senses. OCKHAM'S RAZOR What, if anything, does science tell us about reality? Don Salmon Nor are there findings in any area of scienceincluding quantum physics, parapsychology or near-death experience researchwhich require the consideration of consciousness as a causal factor (both of these statements are in regard to current scientific methodology). PREMISE: There are no scientific findings which preclude considering consciousness as a causal factor in the universe. Suggestions as to why the premise of this essay is wrong:
Both have been studying yoga psychology for more than 25 years. Salmon, given presentations, classes and workshops in the United States and India on this topic. Jan Maslow, an educator and organizational consultant, has, with Dr. Don Salmon, a clinical psychologist and composer, received a grant from the Infinity Foundation to write a comprehensive study of yoga psychology based on the synthesis of the yoga tradition presented by 20th century Indian philosopher-sage Aurobindo Ghose.
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