I'm reading the new book by Dan Brown at the moment - The Lost Symbol. I'm only about 60 pages into it and it's already gripped me! He has this amazing talent of weaving fact and fiction so that you're not sure where one leaves off and the other one starts. This one has Masons, symbols in Washington DC, and Noetic Sciences. He refers to a book that I've actually read!!! The Intention Experiment.
The premise of Noetic Science is that the human mind can influence the physical environment via thoughts. This idea appears in alot of the "self-help" books out there. And then weaves some quantum physics into the mix, touches on spirituality and voila... you have a new vision of the universe, and our place in it. So far, I like where the book is going, and I am anxious to see what comes next!
Now, hard core scientists would say that Noetic Science is all fluff and puff. It brings together paranormal stuff, which many scientists don't know what to do with. But really, Noetic Science could be the bridge that links "science" with "consciousness"... There is a bridge... we just haven't recognized it yet and embraced it...
Some people are looking ahead to 2012 and the supposed "end of the world" on 21 Dec 2012 as the moment in which human consciousness will take a quantum leap... Be interesting to see if Dan Brown weaves that into his story...
There are stranger things out there than we have dreamed of...
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