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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a scientist simplifies something to reach more people, what is the last thing they should ever leave out?”
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Thanks for being willing to venture into this territory! It’s vulnerable for me for sure, this is a place of large unknowing for me I agree with all of this you’re pointing; it’s because of this that studying this kind of phenomenon has been binned with all the bullshit.... - Slava...
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Same Word, Two Worlds The old hermeticists called it the Principle of Vibration three thousand years before anyone had a megahertz reading to prove it. Nothing rests. Everything moves. Everything vibrates.... - Jay Williams...
The phrase “survival of the fittest” was not originally coined by Charles Darwin. It was introduced by Herbert Spencer in 1864, after reading Darwin’s work. Spencer used “fittest” to mean best suited to the environment, not strongest, fastest, or most aggressive.... - Dion...
Your question gets directly at how we know what we know, or epistemology. Research in climate literacy has often shown that "belief" in climate change is independent of your knowledge about it - the problem isn't a knowledge deficit.... - onlooks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"by
This is related to/is an example of a wider issue that I've been chewing on for a while: Spiritual and healing folks using half-baked scientific ideas to justify their tools....