《心是莲花》缘起
心是莲花是由居士自发组织建立的一个佛学平台。
《莲心论坛》交流
论坛事务区》 《莲心佛音区
莲心研修区》 《莲心红尘区
佛教人物
高僧|法师 大德|居士
信仰
菩萨信仰 诸佛信仰
您所在的当前位置:主页 >> 英语佛教 >> Research >>

Welcome to the mind(14)

分享到:

      a Zen meditation cushion and also taught for three years at an
      institute run by Catholic mystic Father Matthew Fox. Rubik, a
      well-regarded hard scientist, recently attended a White House
      meeting on health care in her capacity as advisor to the NIH Office
      of Alternative Medicine, where she heads a panel on "electromagnetic
      interventions." The panel will examine everything from electrical
      therapies used to accelerate bone healing to a "neurobiochemical
      stimulator" (which, she says, "has created profound changes in
      animals' brain chemistry and moods"). Her passion, she says, is "how
      energy fields--maybe including a nonlocal field of consciousness
      itself--interact with life."
      Like a number of her Causality Project colleagues, Rubik feels her
      various spiritual sojourns have given her an inside track on the
      mind-brain puzzle. Her accounting makes it sound as if Descartes,
      last seen at his recent, merciful public interment, may yet shake
      off the clods of soil to meander among the scientific living. "I
      agree Cartesianism is dreadful," she muses, "but there is something
      immaterial about who we are. Maybe we'll need to go back to Eastern
      mystical concepts like an 'etheric' or 'astral' energy domain."
      Clearly, these ideas--particularly as they emerge from the belly of
      what looks suspiciously like a new-age Trojan Horse wheeled in
      sometime around the dawn of Aquarius--will irritate some
      sensibilities. "Media Blitz for Mind/Body Malarkey" blared a recent
      headline in a scientific-muckraking newsletter called Probe. The
      article took aim at what it held to be the moonier aspects of
      Moyers' TV series, which it called "seductively anti-medical,
      anti-scientific, and anti-rational." Its claim that "a campaign has
      been launched to radically change and spiritualize America's
      science-based medicine" received wide press coverage.
      "It's not as if anyone's saying science is completely wrong,"
      counters Beverly Rubik. "Conventional science is appropriate within
      a conventional framework. But there can be other sciences which
      exist outside of that box. We need multiple ways of inquiry that
      accord with--and I realize this will sound odd--our levels of being.
      Our usual practice of science is based on the lowest common
      denominator of human consciousness: of feeling separated from the
      rest of universe.
      "What's missing," she says, "is attention to the inner state of the
      investigator. We've been pretending we're neutral, playing dead,