Scientifically Proven /December 13, 2013
Scientifically Proven
"They have done studies you know....60% of the time it works everytime!"
This is one of the brilliant lines from The Anchorman used to describe the cologne Sex Panther. If you haven't seen the film before it makes great Christmas viewing! Although I am not so sure that Sex Panther is the ideal stocking filler for the Gentleman in your life!
What is so brilliant about the line is its nonsensical familiarity. It seems so many of our choices these days must first seek the approval of the appropriate authority. "Tests show" or "scientifically proven" seem to ease our decision making, somehow removing the responsibility of our own judgement.
I used to encounter this often when discussing the bio-resonance programme with parents. Bearing in mind we never advertised and only got new clients by recommendation, I would invariably be asked if the technology was scientifically proven or more pertinently was it scientifically possible. One woman decided not to engage because her 18 year old son assured her it was scientifically impossible.
To even begin the conversation about the possibility of our technology with a conventional scientist is to go to the most fundamental level of their belief, a place most scientists seem to have conveniently by-passed. This was beautifully demonstrated by the poster boy of modern TVphysics Brian Cox, who in a radio debate explained that anything other than science can be dismissed as a belief system. Furthermore, he argues, his absence of a belief system is not in itself a belief system. The interview was conducted at Glastonbury where there was a field dedicated to alternative therapists which Brian Cox, (amusingly in his mind) described as the Field of Liars. This is the level of debate I used to encounter quite often.
We needn't discuss the increasing power of the placebo and devastating effect of the nocebo, but lets just say a little belief may not be a bad thing!
I am glad to say times are changing.
It is refreshing to read an accredited scientist, Rupert Sheldrake, explain how so much of science is based on a series of dogma rather than experimental evidence. Now, as I understand it, a dogma is the basis of an ideology or a belief system, and is laid down by a system's authority as an incontrovertible truth. A common attack of science on religion, spirituality or alternative therapies is that they are founded on dogma, rather than direct experimental evidence. Strange then that closer investigation reveals the same of so much of science.
Bruce Lipton describes brilliantly in his book The Biology of Belief how he entered the scientific discipline to escape the fragility of dogmatism, only to discover an aspect of his field of study, genetics, was based upon a similarly unproven assumption!
Challenging Authority
I am neither a scientist nor mathematician and I used to find it easy to cede my power to those whose language and 'superior knowledge' left me unable to challenge my very real misgivings about the certainty of their authority. However, when neither science nor medicine nor any other 'authority' could explain the cause of or overcome my son's inability to read I broadened my mind and looked elsewhere for information. The results were remarkable and opened up a whole world beyond the narrow confines of accepted scientific knowledge.
From that point on I took the advice of Leonardo Da Vinci :
"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings."
My personal experience and that of countless others contradicts much of what authority insists and so I have spent the past 13 years basing my own reasoning on my own findings. I have embraced what has proved effective and dismissed, hopefully without condemnation, that which wasn't.
The consequence of following my own experience and intuition as opposed to seeking affirmation and permission from accepted authority has been the revelation of a world rich in possibility well beyond the confines of scientific certainty.
Become your own authority, you will be amazed at how much you know and how much is possible. You may even find that 60% of the time, you are 100% correct.
Love
Bill