Science originated within the schools of Greek Metaphysics where ideas and concepts were tested via logical means of testing validity by a process of hypothesis, synthesis,and a final thesis. Logic, however, proved to not be a sufficient means of testing authentic experience. Thus the idea and concept of isolating physical process by experimentation vs. imagination became the standard in which to test hypothesis, observe and analyze the process - synthesis, and then discover the results and develop the thesis. A thesis is validated as true when it can predict a result.
In Ancient civilizations Astrologers, Priests, Priestess, Psychics, Seers, and among others Shamans were the truthsayers in their cultures. Scientists evolved out of the Mystery Schools of Philosophers of Greece, who evolved as students of the Egyptians, and became widely accepted through the University system of teaching students knowledge. Over time, as knowledge became more widely available, Science became the Premier Academic Field as the Experiments and Predictions of Science have been the testing basis for our modern technologies. However, Science itself has never been able to sufficiently explain Psychic Perception or Experience. Yet, there have always been Scientists who have been small in number, who have pursued the Experimentation of the Psyche in Laboratory settings.
DOLFINA of AIWP is honored to present the work of Scientists from Around the World who have Studied, Researched, Hypothesized, Synthesized, and have presented their Thesis Papers among their Peers. These are the Spiritual Scientists who have been diligently working amongst the Skeptics. (Skepticism is also an Ancient Greek School of Philosophy)
The following websites contain Scientific Research which validates Psychic Phenomenon that Scientists call Psi, Anomylous Events, Non-Local Actions, and other Abstract terminology which Scientists feel decribe Psychic Perception, Experience, Events. Modern parapsycholgy stems back over a century with roots being studied for every known culture on the planet.
Because of patient demand, there has been a grassroots, bottom-up revolution in the nation's patterns of healthcare. In the 1950's the American Cancer society had a Committee on Quackery, later this became a committee on "unproven methods of cancer management", which then became the committee on "questionable methods." Today the cancer society has a Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In 1992 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) created an Office of Alternative Medicine. In 1998 this office became the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The budget which started at $2 million is now $100 million. In the spring of 2000 with $12 million dollars the Harvard Medical School established a new Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. There are now an additional dozen prestigious medical centers in the United States moving in a similar direction. Today half of all adults use Alternative, Complementary, or Integrative treatments, creating a $30-billion growth industry. With this growing acceptance it is now politically correct for a neuroscientist, or any biomedical investigator to research these areas -- this shift has occurred in the last two or three years. [Reference: Craig Lambert, "The New Ancient Trend in Medicine", Harvard Magazine, March-April 2002, pp.46-49,99-101.]
The OBJECTIVE of the Symposium is to set up an agenda for further international cooperation in studying biophysical, biological and medical phenomena that contradict current scientific paradigm based on the exchange of available scientific information and discussion of alternative biophysical and physical models.
"If only one per cent of the money spent upon the physical and biological sciences could be spent upon the investigations of religious experiences and upon psychical research, it might not be long before a new age of faith dawned upon the world."
Sir Alister Hardy,
The Living Stream, 1963
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