Most today look to science and scientists for the best, most reliable answers about our world. Most would also say that that is a really good thing given the alternative as the source of authority prior to the age of science in the Western world was the Church or the…

This is the 16th post on the topic of dual aspect monism. But this is not like the others, so it perhaps should stand alone. In the first fifteen I explained how others a lot smarter than me were thinking about this fertile idea. Even though the scientists and philosophers…

The fifteenth post exploring dual aspect monism. This summarizes the key elements of this idea, focusing on those things on which most or all of our thinkers agree. Imagine for a moment that we are Flatlanders. This refers to the 1884 book by Edwin A. Abbott titled Flatland: A Romance…

Post fourteen on dual aspect monism. We continue our summaries of the ideas on the unitary foundation of mind and matter. Here, we review the contributions of David Bohm and his collaborator Basil Hiley and conclude our review with Sir John Polkinghorne. David Bohm and Basil Hiley David Bohm is one of the most famous…

This is the 13th in the series on dual aspect monism, and the second of a summary of the various views on this idea. In the previous post, we reviewed ideas dating to the ancient Greeks, through Spinoza, to the Pauli-Jung conjecture. We continue the summary with Harald Atmanspacher and…

In this, the twelfth post exploring the idea called dual aspect monism, we go to the deepest level of the idea — what is this thing called the Unus Mundus, the one world, the holomovement, the pregeometry and prespace? These are all names given to the psychophysical neutral stuff from…

This is the 11th in the series on dual aspect monism. As we near the end of our exploration of this idea that unites mind and matter in a single unitary foundation, we are contemplating the contributions of British physicist-priest Sir John Polkinghorne. In the previous post, we saw Polkinghorne’s…

In this, the tenth post on dual aspect monism, we explore the ideas of yet another leader in the development of quantum physics, but one who saw those discoveries as supporting the basic tenets of his traditional Christian faith — Sir John Polkinghorne. John Polkinghorne (1930–2021) was a British mathematical…

The ninth in the series on dual aspect monism — the idea that mind and matter are aspects of a single underlying unity. Before considering the views of physicists David Bohm and Basil Hiley on dual aspect monism, a brief review may provide useful context. First step: eliminate non-physical causality Our modern minds, schooled by…