Ronald Pearson responds to the Society of
Psychical Research and talks of progress made in America
Professor Bernard Carr must be faced with a most
difficult task in trying to satisfy the opposing factions
of the SPR and he has my sympathies. His statement that he
has never branded me a maverick or made any public statement
of his opinion about my theories is also true. Some clarification
is needed, however, so I feel it necessary to say how this
arose. He did indeed permit me a twenty minute presentation
at the SPR conference of 1996 and I appreciate this. During
lunch I managed to seek him out to see if he, as a cosmologist,
could give me any idea why all the papers I had submitted
to scientific journals, in an attempt to help solve outstanding
problems in cosmology, had all been rejected, despite no assessor
booing able to find a single flaw in the logic.
I can remember his answer very clearly. Indeed
I wrote it down and it was:
"You are well known in cosmology circles:
as a Maverick! No journal is ever going to publish any of
your work".
It was a personal reply to my question and not
a public statement. I also appreciate his frankness: I was
not seeking palliatives. Furthermore he was not branding me
personally but only telling me the consensus opinion of his
colleagues.
Of interest to Psychic News, however, is that
the paper which had been rejected by both the 'Journal of
Consciousness Studies' and the SPR was finally accepted and
published by 'Frontier Perspectives' Spring/Summer 1997 issue'
under the title, 'Consciousness as a Sub-Quantum Phenomenon'.
This scientific journal is run by Temple University in the
USA. The Editor, Nancy Kolenda, called it "A distinguished
paper" and said she felt it would be an honour if I submitted
future papers.
It started by providing a solution to a 16 year
old problem which arose from the theorists inability to find
a way of switching off their 'Big Bang' and called, the 'Cosmological
Constant'. This then led to a theory showing that mind was
part of a background medium having the potential to be immortal.
It ties in physics with the knowledge of people who read PN
and should have been just the kind of publication which the
SPR needs. But physicists insist mind = brain full stop.
It has become very clear that physicists have
been secretly operating a 'closed shop' for many years and
this is still stifling much ceded progress. You don't believe
me? Then log onto the website of Dr. Brian Martin, a physicist
who has become so disillusioned that he has switched to a
study of suppression by people of his own discipline. He alleges
that it is pointless to present any paper, regardless of merit,
unless one has a Ph.D in physics and is able to write from
a prestigious address, such as a university. But they never
admit this is their policy.
The result is that theorists are still struggling
with problems for which solutions have been available for
years. For example, Brian Greene in his book, 'The Elegant
Universe' published in 1999, is making an enthusiastic attempt
to explain 'superstring-theory': the present spearhead of
mainstream physics. On page 225 he admits that they are still
unable to solve the problem of the Cosmological Constant and
also states on page 211... 'physicists have not as yet been
able to make predictions with the precision necessary to confront
experimental data', followed by, 'Is string theory right?
We just don't know.' This theory is incompatible with the
existence of any background medium and so cannot accept the
survival of mind. So theorists make every effort to discredit
any evidence which could injure their paradigms.
If the SPR is to throw off the impression it has
been subverted by infiltration to down-play survival, then
Professor Carr is going to have to prove himself a very strong
leader. I do not envy his task and it is my hope he will rise
to the challenge.
Dr. Brian Martin author of 'Suppression Stories'
& Fund for Intellectual Dissent, Box U129 Wollongong University
NSW2500, Australia. www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents. Related material on this site: |
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"Consciousness as a Sub-quantum Phenomenon" - Ronald Pearson's paper Published in the journal Frontier Perspectives, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Volume 6. No. 2, Spring/Summer 1997 (pp70-78). ISSN: 1062-4767
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