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In reply to the discussion: Five things that modern science cannot explain: [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)If you don't want to post it, feel free to Pm me.
And yes there are big drawbacks to the TED talk whose link I provided. For one thing, we will never figure out "reality" when we discount the other section of "reality."
So much work on earth gets accomplished in the non physical realm.
One example that I always refer to is the major escalation in tensions between the governments of India and Pakistan. I can't remember if it was 1998 or maybe as recent as 2002, but these escalations were so serious and so severe, that the US government got all their people out of the embassy in India, and almost all their people out of Pakistan.
The crisis was mentioned on Monday Tuesday Wednesday of that week, and then overnight it was resolved. But no comments were ever made on the Nightly News that I heard that week. It simply was no longer discussed!
And regarding, "The Right Stuff," I have always loved Tom Wolfe for putting that section of the book about the aboriginals and their Dreamtime music prayers that they employed while our spacecraft needed help.