Here is an article I wrote following an exchange with the astrophysicist
Neil DeGrasse Tayson. It was published in my newsletter following a
Constellation story about a client with endometriosis. Here is a link to
the newsletter www.HiddenSolution.com/0510.htm.
I will be interested to read about how CT members answer these questions.
Dan
Are Constellations Paranormal?
With Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Rupert Sheldrake
Physicians see endometriosis as a physiological condition. The pain is
caused by the interaction of hormones, tissues, and nerves. Could imagining
and praying to Sami great-grandmothers and Viking warriors really affect
this patient's healing after 15 years of worsening pain?
About 80% of my clients report that after their Constellation the issue they
present improved or resolved completely. Many cannot say that the
Constellation caused the improvement, only that things are definitely
better.
Our technological culture straddles a great philosophical chasm between
world views. One embraces spiritual visions of universal connection and the
other subscribes to strict materialism.
Is it possible to bridge the gap between proponents of collective
consciousness and critics who insist the mind is only brain function?
I recently exchanged e-mails about Constellations, representative
perception, and non-local communication with the preeminent
astrophysicistNeil DeGrasse <http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/>
Tyson.
I asked whether the non-local information I perceive in Constellations has a
plausible explanation. For example:
* Standing as a client's mother, I felt the presence of an older
brother who died in infancy. The client insisted his mother had only a
younger brother, but a phone call with her afterward confirmed my
perception.
* Representing a client's sister, I said an obscure idiom. Shocked,
the client said it was her sister's signature phrase.
I have hundreds of similar experiences, as do others who experience
Constellations, whether facilitators, clients, or representatives. I
understand them as normal, if poorly understood, properties of human
perception. Occasionally, these are proven inaccurate, but most are
on-target.
What seems commonplace to me, is far fetched or even delusional to others,
including many of those engaged in the sciences. How is it possible for me
simply standing and feeling for "mother" to gain awareness of her long
deceased older brother?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson responded that my understanding of this phenomenon was
probably faulty, i.e., these hits were gleaned from subtle cues, educated
guesses, or were in normal proportion to the number of misses which I
dismiss or ignore.
According to Tyson, the hypothesis that someone's detailed personal data -
not resident in my brain -can be perceived or discerned in silence amounts
to a claim of supernatural powers. "The laws of physics compellingly argue
that we know all the ways that information can move from one point in time
and space to another."
He added that in all eras, certain humans have claimed the ability to
ascertain information that is not presented to the 5 senses. "The history of
such claims over the past two thousand years is one of abject failure.
People who claimed non-materialist accounts of the natural world have
routinely failed in the face of properly conducted experiments."
The lack of credible supportive experimental data along with a well
establish set of theoretical laws, lead him to be extremely skeptical that
my examples are normal qualities of human perception.
How can I argue my subjective personal experience against conclusive
experimental research? As he notes, "The methods and tools of science have
wholly replaced our feeble five senses as tools of inquiry to the natural
world. So what something looks like to your senses is no longer the measure
of what is true in the physical world."
Being a left-handed, colorblind, Jewish heretic makes me well accustomed to
standing 3 standard deviations from the norm. However, that means eclectic,
not endowed with super powers. While these occurrences are incidental to the
Constellation process, Tyson's responses give me much to weigh and consider.
I reported my exchange to another scientist whose work I respect, Rupert
Sheldrake <http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html> . Over the last 30 years,
Sheldrake has built a large experimental database of tests of psi phenomenon
that produce positive results.
He responded, "I think it's ridiculous to pin the argument down to the
well-understood laws of physics. We have no explanation even of biological
morphogenesis in terms of the known laws of physics, and less understanding
of consciousness. To assume that all these things will eventually be
understood in terms of laws of physics is an example of promissory
materialism. It's essentially a faith position and not one you can ever
refute by argument."
Sheldrake, Dean Radin, Gary Schwartz, and many other clinicians and
scientists are engaged in experimentation and theory building to create the
ground for these Constellation experiences to stand. An excellent source of
news and debate on these questions is Skeptiko.com
I fall back to an observation from Stephen Jay Gould, "Each of us has to
have a personal metaphysics. There are questions that are formally
unanswerable on which nonetheless every individual must take a position in
order to integrate various pieces of his life."
Science wrought to its uttermost becomes myth.
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