Quantum Science and Intuition--Implications for Our Understanding of Consciousness

Nov. 13, 2008 - PRLog -- The Mindshift Institute Presents
Quantum Science and Intuition
What New Scientific Studies Are Revealing
About Consciousness
Paul Bernstein, PhD

In this fascinating talk, Dr. Bernstein connects two sets of scientific findings which, when looked at together, strongly imply a view of human consciousness that is substantially different than that proposed by either mechanistic neuroscience or various branches of metaphysics.

Dr. Paul Bernstein will share with us what leading scientists have learned about INTUITION from laboratory experiments examining common forms of intuition, such as "remote viewing," "precognition," and "telepathy."   He will also discuss the advances in quantum physics that indicate how such transmissions of information could occur without the involvement of our basic five physical senses.  He then will invite the audience to discuss their own experiences of intuition, and will talk about how one can test one’s own intuition, become more familiar with it, and become more certain of its accuracy.
We first met Dr. Bernstein at the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER), directed by Dr. John Mack at Harvard University, where he was a Research Associate and co-editor of their publication, PEER Perspectives.  He also served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and was Editor-in-Chief of their quarterly publication, Vital Signs.  As part of an international team of physicists, mathematicians, and psychologists, he published a chapter on Intuition in their 2005 book, Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective.  Presently he is co-leading a team of psychotherapists in France in the writing of a Clinical Handbook on Extraordinary Experiences.  

Dr. Bernstein has degrees in both the biological and social sciences, from Stanford University and the University of Michigan.

In recent years, fundamentalists in religion and fundamentalists in mechanistic science have been engaged in an increasingly vitriolic public battle.  The extremists in each camp are blind to the limits of their own worldviews and seem unable to recognize that, after 6-8000 years of our present mechanistic-mystical civilization, neither way of knowing has answered the most basic questions we have—What is life?  What is consciousness?  What kind of universe do we inhabit?  And what is our place in it?  

We hope you can join us and Dr. Bernstein for an exploration of the exciting work being done today, not by those who have “the answer,” but by investigators who are searching to deepen and expand our understanding of reality.

November 19, 2008 at 7 pm
Forbes Library, Northampton MA
For more info call 413-238-4433
Or go to www.mindshiftinstitute.org

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The Mindshift Institute is focused on (1) expanding our worldview through new discoveries in frontier science and (2) waking up from "the trance,' a profound detachment from our inner and outer reality.