Drop-in Study Group: Every Monday, Beginning January 12, 7 – 8:30 pm.
(originally published in the UK as The Science Delusion)
By Rupert Sheldrake
$5 per class
Dr. Rupert Drake, one of the world’s most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity.
According to these assumptions, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless, consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.
But should science be a belief system, or a method of inquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist idealology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price.
In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery.