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The Prophets Conference Monterey is honored to have Peter Russell as a member of the prestigious faculty coming together in the beautiful setting of Asilomar during the weekend of March 29 31. http://www.greatmystery.org/montereyconference.html The following abstract is of Peter Russell's Monterey presentation.
FROM SCIENCE TO GOD: A NEW LIGHT ON REALITY
From quarks to quasars, Western science has achieved remarkable success in explaining the world around us. But when it
comes to our inner world, science falls curiously silent. Physicist, psychologist, and philosopher, Peter Russell offers one of the
most lucid accounts of why the great spiritual teachings might have science by the tail when it comes to consciousness and how
collective wisdom is so valuable during these troubled times.
Peter's latest book, and the theme of his talk at The Prophets Conference Monterey, From Science to God, is as much a
personal story of an open minded skeptic as it is a tour de force of scientific and religious paradigm shifts. Russell takes us from
Galileo's den to the lecture halls of Cambridge University where he studied with Stephen Hawking. "If you had asked me then if
there was a God," says the bestselling author of his scientific beginnings, "I would have pointed to mathematics." But no matter
what empirical truths science offered him, one thorny question remained: How can something as immaterial as consciousness,
ever arise from something as unconscious as matter?
And so Russell brings us to Buddha and to Einstein, daring us to wonder if science may have it all backwards. With
characteristic warmth and rationale he leads us to a new world view in which consciousness is as fundamental a component of
reality as space, time and matter, and God takes on new meaning, one that neither conflicts with modern science, nor diminishes
traditional spiritual teachings. In so doing he offers poignant insight into solutions to humanity's great malaise:
"This meeting of science and spirit is crucial, not just for a more comprehensive understanding of the cosmos, but also for
the future of our species. Today, more than ever, we need a worldview that validates spiritual inquiry, for it is the spiritual
aridity of our current times that lies behind so many of our crises."
Large scale problems call for innovative thinking and true innovation often appears radical in the face of old paradigms. Amidst
terrorism, political deception and the violence all around us, peace and healing are radical notions indeed. With hopeful
reasoning Peter Russell shows us that beyond the limited constructs of our brain and five senses, lives the greater power of the
human mind and heart.
"Peter Russell is a brilliant theoretician who brings an astonishing creativity to every topic he touches.
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