Margins of Reality
By Robert J Jahn and Brenda J Dunne
This book is basically a doctoral thesis on the role the
conscious mind plays in reality. It’s at
odds with today’s classic science that insists on taking the experimenter out
of the experiment. It takes a very
academic/scientific two-step process.
Step one is to describe a theory in a way that can be scientifically
tested in a lab or in the outside ‘real’ world. Much of the material faces an obtuse
scientific community as they tend to rebuff the notion that consciousness has a
crucial effect on the real world, mental and physical.
A primary challenge in putting any claim to the consciousness
play on reality is the enormous amount of data required and then the
statistical analysis methods that could make any sense around any final
thesis. Hence, the first one third of the
book is ladened with statistics. In the
end the stats on their own fall short of a winning argument. Which only spurs the team in PEAR Team at Princeton to
delve into quantum concepts, and finally into consciousness particle waves. I think the most fascinating areas discussed
were Precognition and Parapsychology…ESP and telepathy.
As usual in my book reviews I include notes of which will be forthcoming by end of September. Promise!!!
