Len of the Chilterns

Sceptics have always been fast to dismiss the idea of telepathy – auto-communication between separate, individual minds but now new brain-scanning technologies in various parts of the world are producing new and fascinating evidence of the phenomena.
Perhaps four out of five of us have experienced thinking, abstractly, of a friend or relative of who we had heard nothing in years when suddenly that person telephones.. There are many instances of what appears to be a telepathic link between ...

Observed colour is all in the mind. It is the sensation in the visual cortex of the brain resulting from the impact of light of a particular wavelength of electromagnetic radiation on the cones of the retina of the eye. These radiations are transmuted into electrical impulses and relayed back to the brain which “classifies” them as "colours".

Light has three characteristics: “hue” which is determined by its wavelength; “saturation”, the extent to which a colour departs ...

Just over a decade ago distinguished British theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose hypothesized that consciousness may be the result of sophisticated quantum effects within the brain. The idea was not generally accepted as it was argued by others that such effects were too delicate to survive the relatively high bodily temperatures. Sir Roger was too highly respected and far too big a gun for lesser scientists to start baying at his heels as happened to the likes of Professors Robert Jahn of ...

Scientists have (again) discovered the secret of pigeons' remarkable ability to navigate perfectly over journeys of several hundred miles. They do it by smell. Research found that pigeons create 'odour' maps of their neighbourhoods and use these to orient themselves. This replaces the idea that they exploited subtle variations in the Earth's magnetic field to navigate. 'This is important because it is the first time that magnetic sensing and smell have been tested side by side,' said Anna Gagliardo, ...

Suppose there is another, possibly higher, form of life out there in the universe? - There could be, probably is. Would they be loved (by God) more than us? Would they regard
us as we now regard chimps, dogs, porpoises or even insects? It’s a bit of a cheek to suppose that God would give preference to this planet.

To borrow from Plato, I view God as "a rational essence, a free-floating, eternal intelligence". I cannot envisage God as a Caucasian man with a long ...