Fingerprints of God_ The Search for the Science of Spirituality - Barbara Bradley Hagerty [153]
CHAPTER 11. A NEW NAME FOR GOD
1 Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann (New York: Dell, 1973), p. 255.
2 For an excellent account of Einstein’s “God,” see Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), pp. 384-93.
3 Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 174.
4 Gregory Benford, “Leaping the Abyss: Stephen Hawking on Black Holes, Unified Field Theory and Marilyn Monroe,” Reason, April 2002, p. 29.
5 Paul A. M. Dirac, “The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature,” Scientific American 208 (May 1963): 53.
6 Max Planck, quoted in Charles C. Gillespie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Scribner, 1975), p. 15.
7 Anthony Flew, There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (New York: Harper One, 2007), p. 155.
8 Freeman J. Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 250.
9 Larry Dossey, Recovering the Soul (New York: Bantam, 1989).
10 The analogy breaks down slightly because, as Dossey and others have it, non-local mind possesses infinite information, not just boatloads of it, and non-local mind knows what is happening in the past, present, and future.
11 Dean Radin, Entangled Minds (New York: Paraview, 2006).
12 A. Aspect, P. Grangier, and G. Roger, “Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell’s Inequalities,” Physical Review Letters 49 (1992): 91-94. Many experiments have proved the same thing, separating particles by as much as thirty-one miles and still seeing entanglement.
13 Radin argues that each level is built on smaller ones: atoms are built from subatomic particles, molecules are built from atoms, chemicals are a lot of molecules, biology emerges from chemicals, society is a group of biological beings—all the way up to the level of the universe. He believes that science will find unexpected properties in biological systems (including ESP) that emerge from elementary forms of entanglement, just as water emerges from a unique combination of oxygen and hydrogen. From either individual element alone, you could not predict water.
14 Studies have been conducted also at Bastyr University in Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, the universities of Nevada and Hertfordshire, and University Hospital of Freiburg. See S. Schmidt, “Distant Intentionality and the Feeling of Being Stared At: Two Meta-analyses,” British Journal of Psychology 95 (2004): 235-47.
15 Of the more than fifty studies, three of interest to me were: L. J. Standish et al., “Electroencephalographic Evidence of Correlated Event-Related Signals Between the Brains of Spatially and Sensory Isolated Subjects,” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10 (2004): 307-14 (published by Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, Inc.). In five of the sixty subjects tested, the receiver’s brain showed significantly higher brain activity when the sender was projecting an image. The chances that this would happen randomly to this number of people are more than 3,000 to 1. However, when researchers tried to replicate the results with the five successful subjects, only one showed a statistically significant “response.”
D. Radin, “Event Related EEG Correlations Between Isolated Human Subjects,” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10 (2004): 315-23 (published by Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, Inc.). For three of the thirteen pairs of adult friends or relatives, the receiver’s brain-wave activity jumped when the partner was sending positive intentions. On average, the receiver’s EEG peaked 64 milliseconds after the sender’s, then sloped downward, as did the sender’s.
D. Radin and M. Schlitz, “Gut Feelings, Intuition, and Emotions: An Exploratory Study,” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11 (2005): 85-91 (published by Mary Ann Liebert Publishers,