I am impacted by the scientific culture because everything about the dominant culture is impacted by the scientific culture. We're not just impacted by the applications of science. The scientific culture impacts our mindsets.

That scientific culture is different than the scientific method. The culture surrounding science and the scientific method is biased because humans have biases despite scientists efforts to remain unbiased. We often forget that.

I have this judgmental voice in my head that holds my unscientific mystical mind up to scientific scrutiny. I need to root out this judgmental voice because it's unhelpful, and when it pops up again and again, I have to shrug and shake my head.

Six Lifetimes of Love

by

A. M. Davis

I vow to see who you are
completely and without fail
for this life
and five lifetimes after.

If you come back as a spider
and I come back as your mate,
even as I devour you
I will hold my abdomen
with two of my eight legs
and rock back and forth for a while
as I digest you

because I will
miss you already.

And if I come back as a clear-cut forest
and you come back as an industrialist
I will enter into your dreams
when I am fallen and made
into your four-poster bed.
And I will sigh into your aching heart
and that will be my gift to you:
a heart that can finally
be broken

because I will love you into that lifetime,
too.

And then you can be a squirrel
and I can be
the acorn
that falls at your feet
that you bury until winter.

And you can be the thirsty man
and I can be the rain.

And I can be the rain
and you can be the rainbow
that the people see.

At Cambridge University ⁠Rupert Sheldrake worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. And yet, the scientific community has ostracized him because of what he investigates, even as his methodology is sound.

Below I have a few links to references I made in this podcast.

https://www.sheldrake.org/

https://noetic.org/

https://richarddawkins.net/

https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2023/07/13/169/120/CREC-2023-07-13-pt1-PgS2953.pdf