03-10-2013, 07:47 AM
everyone loves bashing mainstream science these days, don't they? 
hey, don't get me wrong, I loved some of Sheldrake's work; esp Presence of the Past which was something I came across as an 18 year old. Blew my head up at the time along with the Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.
but just like mainstream politics, there seems to be a sense that, hey, if we somehow removed or rejuvenated this institution, then everything would turn around suddenly, we would be living in a 'new paradigm'. Problem is, while these institutional structures do work from the top-down, they are also grown from the bottom up. What I am saying is, if you took a census of the planet and where it's values are, they support these institutional bulkheads.
you can't just change the top and expect the world to change. The top is just an acculturation of what the masses want.

hey, don't get me wrong, I loved some of Sheldrake's work; esp Presence of the Past which was something I came across as an 18 year old. Blew my head up at the time along with the Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.
but just like mainstream politics, there seems to be a sense that, hey, if we somehow removed or rejuvenated this institution, then everything would turn around suddenly, we would be living in a 'new paradigm'. Problem is, while these institutional structures do work from the top-down, they are also grown from the bottom up. What I am saying is, if you took a census of the planet and where it's values are, they support these institutional bulkheads.
you can't just change the top and expect the world to change. The top is just an acculturation of what the masses want.