Len of the Chilterns

What cannot be emphasized enough is that what we perceive of the world, not to mention the universe, is just a tiny range of what there is. Our eyes are sensitive to just a very narrow band of a huge spectrum of radiation that includes radio waves, microwaves, x-rays, gamma rays, infra red and ultra violet light and beyond and all manner of electro-magnetic waves. Our ears pick up but a fraction of the sound that exists and we come a very poor second, in this respect, to our domestic pets. We are ...

We all have the same basic mental kit but each mind develops individually according to its owner's life experience. Lots of things we take for granted would have been unbelievable to our forbears. Even I am able to remember a childhood without radio or TV, micro-wave cookers, mobile phones, electronic calculators, computers or ball-pens and tippex. Tesia and Marconi separately developed the technique of harnessing a small part of electro-magnetic radiation and transmitting it through air and space ...

Most people can say what consciousness feels like. It’s being awake, aware; it’s knowing what is going on and the difference between you and me. It is thoughts and sounds, self-image and a sense of history. It’s about what it feels like to be you (or me).

Consciousness is a really tough nut for science, though, as it cannot (as distinct from electrical brain activity) be weighed, measured or detected with instruments. That is why a definition and assessment of it has, until ...

The Bible mainly deals with the history of Abram (Abraham) and his descendants, (a sort of family history) but the first 11 chapters give a résumé of earlier events from the beginning of the universe to the birth of Abram about 2000 BCE. This period of history is derived from two earlier histories current among the people of Judah and Israel. The older of the two manuscripts known to scholars as the J Document (J for Judean) contains legends that were current among the tribal people of the area. ...

3. One thing leads to another

Scientific investigation into psychical research is fraught with difficulties, not only because of the near impossibility of arranging sessions to order, under clinical conditions, but there is also the possibility of mediums being skilled in telepathy and obtaining information from the sitter. That was a bit of a paradox as telepathy, until the last couple of years, was itself derided by the scientific world as hocus-pocus. However, there is now excellent ...