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Originally Posted by alextsakiris  It's nice to imagine one experiment might 'revolutionize' some part of science, but that's too much to expect. Sheldrake, Radin and Schwartz (among others) have shown how difficult it is to open a closed mind... closed institutionalized science. |
I hear ya. It's a major shame that it will probably be mostly ignored. Like the near-death experience, in all probability it will be given a slipshod explanation and left alone by the skeptics after that.
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Originally Posted by alextsakiris As far as adding animal communicators to the research design, well this is one way the dominant materialistic paradigm has made our job easier. They don't think ANY kind communcation like this is possible, so if we can demonstrate the phneomena using communicators psychics, shaman, or whatever, we'll have somehting... then we can leave it to future researchers figure out what it is and how it works. |
Absolutely. That was the 'wow' factor for me. It's like you've added an entire dimension to the experiment. When I first saw the splash page for this episode, I thought "Yep. He's finally flipped." It wasn't until I listened that I realised just how well this would all tie in together. If this experiment yields results it will certainly prove the existence of psi phenomena to
me (this is, of course, assuming that all criticisms raised against it will be addressed). I don't know too much about OpenSourceScience yet, but I'm hoping you can grab the attention of the severe skeptics as well. I agree with Marylin Schlitz that all they can really do is help the process along (except when they then go on broadcasts rallying about how horridly wrong it is and construing the facts a la JREF).
It would be especially interesting to get Richard Wiseman involved since he's been the most major critic of Sheldrake's work.