The Eternea Scientific Team
Scientific Team Biographies
Rationale
for the Team
Eternea consists of a global team of highly
respected scientists who all believe that civilization's survival and
future well-being is entirely dependent upon the emergence of a
completely different worldview, one that properly addresses, in
verifiable scientific terms, our collective relationship to each other,
the environment, and the universe. The question we are focused
upon is "How do we fundamentally change the dominant world view and
replace it with a higher level of thinking?"
Achieving new views of reality and, by implication, a sustainable modern
civilization requires enlightened efforts to establish a fundamental
shift in common perceptions leading to changes in thinking, values,
behavior and actions based on the concepts of inter-connectedness,
cooperation, and interdependence in all human endeavors. This shift can
come about if a significant portion of humankind develops this new
awareness and understanding and incorporates them into individual and
societal belief systems. Science can support this shift by providing
reliable and credible empirical data in support of these premises, which
is the task Eternea has accepted as its mission.
Since the 17th century science has been based on the belief that all
phenomena are the results of blind but predictable interactions with
matter. This orientation has led to a reductionist view of reality and a
materialistic focus --- one of consumption, competition, conflict and
domination. However, by the end of the 20th century, new scientific
evidence has emerged from the field of quantum mechanics and the study
of spiritually transformative experiences that render the reductionist
view of reality not only untenable but incorrect as well. Instead, a new
paradigm is surfacing which places great emphasis on consciousness and
its role in the creation of physical reality and on the point of view
that reality is a holistic, interconnected matrix and that information,
once gained, is never lost and that these concepts are true at a deep
and fundamental level of existence.
Throughout the ages great spiritual teachers from all traditions have
spoken of reality being a limitless, transcendent and holistic
consciousness. Partly as a result of the legacy of the French
philosopher Descartes and the separations of the domains of religious
and scientific thought, the spiritual view of reality has all but been
ignored by modern science. Yet, our spiritual teachers have taught us
for millennia that we all have the ability to experience transcendent
states of awareness and intentionality and that they are demonstrably
resident in the human condition. These states are now beginning to be
understood as fundamental properties of our consciousness.
Furthermore, we realize that these states have been visited and utilized
for millennia by both our ancestors and contemporaries. These
enlightened individuals have been called by many names including
avatars, mystics, sages, saints, gurus and shamans. By whatever name
they have been called, all held a similar world view and advocated
oneness, unconditional love, living harmoniously with nature and one's
fellow humans and recognizing the interconnectedness and interdependence
of all creation.
Scientific Team Philosophy
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