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Newsletter Nr. 743
Amsterdam, November 21st, 2018


IT'S A MATTER OF FOCUS - Confusing Practicality with Faith - DAVID LANE

I appreciate that Steve Taylor has taken the time to respond to my recent essay entitled "Understanding Matter" [see "Misplaced Faith"]. As this will be my 150th article for Integral World, I find it appropriate that it will concentrate on why I have long championed being skeptical when it comes to paranormal claims. This is not because I have an a priori belief that the supernatural is non-existent, but only that the surest pathway to discover that which is lies beyond physics and the other sciences is to let those disciplines fully and patiently attempt to explain such phenomena first.

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MISPLACED FAITH - Science, Scientism and Materialist Metaphysics A Response to Lane - STEVE TAYLOR

I am grateful to David Lane for his response to my essay 'Beyond Materialism.' Throughout the essay he points out that science is a successful, practical enterprise, involving the investigation of phenomena and the reaching conclusions about them based on evidence. He suggests that this makes science superior to spirituality.
However, I do not have any issue with science as an enterprise. In fact, as I try to make clear in my book Spiritual Science (on which my essay is based), I revere science, and am an enthusiastic advocate of the scientific approach.

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http://www.integralworld.net/taylor8.html