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Norm's thesis emerging from his comprehensive and wide spectrum search for the role of values in science has given him both a history and experience with science of physics, information theory, logic, metaphysics and philosophy as well as mathematics and axiology that give him a perspective grounding from which he can leap, make quantum leaps into the unknown and feel at home – he shares here knowledge of this shifting reality from materialism to organism.
Skye brings her empirical experience of using the emerging insights in coaching, healing, learning, of meeting with people up close and personal. In this interchange, new world- views emerge out of the uniqueness of this intersection, healing and becoming true to ones own nature becomes more fully realized. Skye tells her story of life with Norm and their learning and loving together on this journey of discovery.
| How it all works!! Life - you and me - nature |
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We live in a time of a-morality, greed-driven and power controlling efforts
that are out-growths of deep mis-understandings driven by scientific
materialism as the primary view of reality. Terrorism, war, government and
business corruption, pollution, crime, poverty, hunger, gaps between poverty
and rich, and inadequate health care are on the increase. A new mind is needed and it is emerging. New knowledge is being generated that brings into question
commonly held beliefs about what is reality. TAI asks difficult questions like what
is life? How does it function? With 50 years of deep inquiry beginning with the
laws of physics, our scholars are discovering a more primary foundation than
the laws of physics. TAI scholars are pointing to a new way of knowing.
Research and discoveries over the past two decades are bringing into question
the dominant scientific materialism worldview. Scholars like Alfred North
Whitehead and Robert Rosen were among the first to begin this questioning. Now
TAI is taking the inquiry to the next level. The results are shattering and
hopeful. Life's organizing primary coherence conditions reveal new possibilities for complex living
problems. We have a perceptual problem. To go beyond the dominant paradigm, TAI questions our 2500 years of metaphysics, philosophy, and logics. That which has been invisible is becoming visible but new metaphysics, philosophy and logics are needed to meet the demands of new discoveries that laws of physics cannot account for. Energy equal Mass multiplied by the Speed of Light Squared takes on new significance when life is primary, not matter. If Life-itself is "energy" that obeys a set of "natural laws" now being revealed, we can begin the process of making sense of discoveries now coming out of quantum physics, biophysics, relativity, consciousness, value dynamics, and social dynamics. What's shifting: Over the past 2000 years the pre-occupation of study and perception has been that reality is material and its motion. From that has evolved widespread belief that life sprang from an unusual combination of chemicals and atmospheric conditions that existed to produce the cosmos. The problem-solving logic that followed from that perception produced the physical sciences as is dominant today. The world's social conditions have grown out of an ignorance of life-itself's organizing coherence. The traditional sciences have actually "prevented" us from perceiving what's being revealed. Social problems have been approached with the same reasoning as though humans were just stones to be assembled into a pyramid, and if we can just apply the right forces in the right design we can get all the stones to line up the way we want them to. That's now changing. But in the last few decades new research suggests that our past science models of life are not only inadequate, but are fundamentally wrong. What if…… *Life created matter, rather than arising from matter? * Life learns by initiating creative acts using will and observing the results? * Life does not obey the same laws as physical matter, and life energy cannot be perceived using traditional scientific methods? * What if there are coherence conditions imposed by Life-itself that guide living process? Understanding the nature of life itself and living processes towards a new science of life is the mission of TAI. We believe that four elements need to be brought together to advance our understanding of life-itself. *Defining a new science domain of life-itself using both philosophical and scientific methods to produce coherence of knowledge and integrity of results. * Making a distinction between science and philosophy, and understanding that both are necessary to develop our new understanding of life-itself. * Conducting research on life-itself under sponsorship and conditions that will allow seemingly radical ideas to be discussed and understood without repression or suppression. * Individual development in self-knowing and awareness of the coherence operative within life-itself. Join in the process. hirst @autognomics.org |
