The eighth post in the series on dual aspect monism –– the idea that mind and matter are two aspects or manifestations of an underlying unity. These two great scientists agreed on the role of the mind in bringing physical matter into determinate existence therefore creating the world we experience. …

This is the seventh post in an extended series exploring the concept of dual aspect monism. This view, both ancient and new, rejects the dualism that separates mind from matter as two distinct substances. Instead it sees ultimate reality as a unity with the thoughts, experiences and consciousness (mind) and…

In 1932 two brilliant scientists came together in a most unusual way. What came out of their friendship and correspondence opened the way to a new understanding of reality. The dual aspect monism of their “conjecture” posits that there is one basic reality from which the mental and the physical…

This is the fifth in the series on dual aspect monism and the second focusing on the conjecture developed from physics and psychology. Dual aspect monism is a theory about the nature of reality that dates back to early days of Greek philosophy. Because it suggests that our mental experiences…

The young scientist was heartbroken. His cabaret singer wife left him for an old boyfriend after less than a year of marriage. The old boyfriend was a chemist and the jilted, brilliant young scientist complained that if his wife had left him for a bullfighter, he might have understood. But…

Sometimes I wish those attempting to persuade others of Christianity would just go away. That may be because while I am a believer I find their attempts at “proving” God exists or rationalizing some of the tenets of the faith that strike modern minds as absurd as, well, absurd. Then…

In the previous post we briefly traced the history of the concept of dual aspect monism. Parmenides and other ancient Greeks held versions of this view as did the neo-Platonist Plotinus. Baruch Spinoza, reacting against the substance dualism of Rene Descartes, formulated the concept in a way that was influential…

The previous post introduced the philosophical idea of dual aspect…

This is an introduction to a brief series of posts on the philosophical position called dual aspect monism. This includes examining the Pauli-Jung conjecture, Sir John Polkinhorne’s information and energy idea, David Bohm’s “implicate and explicate order, and the Hindu Vedanta tradition as explained by physicist Harald Atmanspacher. One might…