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29. See, for example, “Pigeons Show Superior Self-recognition Abilities to Three Year Old Humans,” in Science Daily (www.sciencedaily.com), June 14, 2008. Also: “Six ‘uniquely’human traits now found in animals,” Kate Douglas, New Scientist, May 22, 2008.
30. Dean Radin, op. cit., p. 109. Also see: Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ, “A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances,” published in the proceedings of the I.E.E.E. (vol. 64, no. 3), March 1976.
31. Radin, ibid., p. 144.
32. Russell Targ, Phyllis Cole, and Harold Puthoff, Development of Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communication, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, prepared for NASA, contract 953653 Under NAS7-100, June 1974. Also see: Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ, op. cit., “A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances.”
33. For example, Targ and Puthoff, “A Perceptual Channel,” op. cit.
34. Harold Puthoff, “CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute,” Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Texas, 1996. See: http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html..
35. Puthoff and Targ, op. cit., 338^0. Also see: R. Targ and H. Puthoff, Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability, Delacorte Press/Eleaonor Friede, 1977.
36. Dean Radin, Entangled Minds, op. cit.
37. See, for example, professor Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University, who has developed a model of the expanding universe that accounts for the birth of the universe “by quantum tunneling from nothing.” “Birth of Inflationary Universes,” in Physical Review D, 27:12 (1983), p. 2851. Other essays by Vilenkin: “Quantum Cosmology and the Initial State of the Universe,” in Physical Review D, 37 (1988), pp. 888-97, and “Approaches to Quantum Cosmology,” in Physical Review D, 50 (1994), pp. 2581-94. Also see: the work of philosopher Quentin Smith, who writes in his essay “The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe” that: “. . . the most reasonable belief is that we came from nothing, by nothing and for nothing.” William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
38. John Gribbin, In the Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe, New York: Little, Brown, 1993, pp. 244-45. Also see: David Shiga, “Could black holes be portals to other universes?” New Scientist, April 27, 2007.
39. Ibid., p. 245.
40. Gregg Easterbrook, “What Came Before Creation?” in U.S. News and World Report, July 20, 1998, p. 48.
41. See, for example: Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes, New York: Hill & Wang, 2006. Ervin Laszlo, Science and the Akashic Field, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2004. Primack and Abrams, op. cit.
42. Primack and Abrams, op. cit., p. 190.
Chapter 3
1. English translation provided by Jewish Publication Society, taken from http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/.
2. See, for example: The Complete Biblical Library, The Old Testament, Hebrew-English Dictionary, World Library Press, 1996.
3. Psalms 19:1, New International Version, International Bible Society, 1984.
4. For another point of view based upon the timeless nature of God’s existence, see Psalm 19:2, “Text, Translation, and Notes,” online at http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2007/08/psalm-191-text-.html.
5. Psalms 139:7—10, New International Version, op. cit., 1984.
6. New International Version, ibid.
7. Matthew Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear and Co., 1983, p. 24.
8. See: Ted Peters, Cosmos as Creation, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989, pp. 82-83.
9. It is important to differentiate between creationism and continuous creation because they differ in fundamental ways. Creationism focuses on a one-time event with no evolution, whereas continuous creation focuses on a continuous process that includes evolution as an integral aspect of its self-transforming dynamic. Creationism is a one-time event and thus static, whereas continuous