Tag Archives: Arthur Koestler

eureka process

How does a scientist make his discoveries? How does a poet find his metaphors? And for that matter, how does a chimpanzee get at a banana? Arthur Koestler said it is done through the Eureka process. The act of creation, … Continue reading

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universe as mind stuff: mystifying the expectations

…The legitimacy of an idea is often a matter of culture. Thus, in the West, we greet the notion of cyclic time with deep unease- partly because it is unfamiliar and partly because the concept of linear time running away … Continue reading

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dice need not apply: voluntary control

The cosmos is a giant thought? For well over a hundred years, scientists have systematically shattered the mechanistic universe, and made room among the black holes for ESP, psychokinesis, mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …But, as Arthur Koestler pointed out, what … Continue reading

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time running in random disorder: lamp lighters

…The possibility then is that if time runs differently in other parts of uor universe, “mind stuff” may not be exempt from its vagaries; time may switch direction in the mind just as it may for positrons and black holes. … Continue reading

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time hates waiting: in the dimension of likelihoods

…If there exist certain particles of matter not fixed in time- as we perceive ourselves to be fixed in it- then the line between precognition and recognition is more difficult to draw. Arthur Koestler was particularly impressed with the work … Continue reading

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time reversal: those elusive psychons

…Here then, is a “thing” almost devoid of the characteristics of matter, coming to us from a different universe and probably ( since it has no mass and is unaffected by gravity) moving through a different time continuum. Could mental … Continue reading

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an electron: a may, a may and a not

…An electron can pass from the orbit of one nucelus to another’s without passing through space between. It occupies no particular position in space when its velocity is under observation; when its location is fixed, its speed is indeterminate. At … Continue reading

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breeding cosmic pessimism: may be or not be

Parapsychological research. Riding Apollo 14 between earth and moon, astronaut Edgar Mitchell shuffled a pack of oddly marked cards and concentrated on flashing mental images of them to four people on the home planet. Sometimes shattering consequences can flow from … Continue reading

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parapsycho-illogical: leaning on the divine mechanic

Since the dawn of the twentieth-century, scientists have systematically shattered the mechanistic universe- and made room among the black holes for ESP, PK,mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …The myth of scientific materialism rests in a historical context. In a sense it … Continue reading

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paranormal: moving with matter

…The territory was so new that J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhines’ first experiment got the very categories of telepathy and clairvoyance scrambled. Both experimental situations involved the Rhine cards, printed with the now familiar suits of star, rectangle, circle, cross, … Continue reading

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