the grand design hawking (final)

8/8/2019 The Grand Design Hawking (Final)

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CREATION, THE GRAND DESIGN - OR THE GRAND FAILURE

The latest offering by Hawking is unfortunately another example of

the modern tendency of scientific writers to make money out of

God. But, underlying this, just what is Hawking (and his twin God

detractor,

Dawkins) so much in fear of, that they have to stray across the

boundaries of material science into the area of belief to make their

point, when no one, with even a fraction of material insight,

believes that a conscious godlike entity was responsible for

creation.

They are material scientists and however complete and exclusive

the scientific view of reality is, as represented by this book: The

Grand Design, it surely misses the point, that there are six billion

reasons why we should fear for the future and each one of these is

a subjective human entity. By attacking the sources of belief, one

presumes that the writer's hope is for wholesale change in the

orientation of the masses and particularly those susceptible to

religious radicalism. Unfortunately, in doing so, they are completely

overlooking the social sciences, that informs of their impossible task

and that social programming, as practiced by Mao and other

powerful totalitarian leaders, demonstrates much greater

effect for changing large populations of humans. The fact that

Western

State mechanisms have turned away from science as a mantra for

control, in an uncertain environmental future, in favour of fear and

somnambulant material programming, demonstrates the panic that

has set in over the prospect of social meltdown. In the face of such

uncertainty, it has always been the case that people will turn to

faith. The fact that Christianity is now growing in China at a

remarkable rate, for whatever other reasons, simply demonstrates

how humans are willing to exchange a material philosophy for a

faith

based religion. There is no contradiction between the alternatives,

they both offer the prospect of a kind and loving father, whereas

science simply offers, cold hard facts.


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It is therefore understandable, that these latest offerings on the

completeness of science, is delivered with a dogmatic tone. One

suspects that the twin pillars, of what might be a new religion of the

sciences, are in fear of being swept away by a rise, in what they

see as their antithesis blind unquestioning faith in an unseen,

non material phenomenon, i.e God. My suspicions are however,

that there is a real threat to the scientific orientation of mind, that

comes, not from conventional religion and God, but from a

completely new order of being. This new order is as rational as the

scientific mind, but also incorporates communication with a system

of reality, based upon an orientation towards the phenomenology

and teleology of deity and inclusive of Hawking it is to be found

in the unconscious of every one of the six billion subjective

humans on this planet.

If the resources of science, had once cared to treat belief as a

reality, which it undoubtedly is despite what appears to be an

irrational basis, science might have begun to make progress in the

right direction, which is towards a more embracing view of reality.

Science veers away from religion, because it regards a religious

orientation and its objects as being untestable by the scientific

method. It is true, that certain researchers have worked with

subjects professing belief and other obscure subjective states,

through the application of neural science, but their approach is to

try to understand the process in relation to the brain. The idea that

there might be an actual, phenomenological entity of mind, seems

somehow never to have crossed their minds. This ignorance is

unforgivable, because it obviates the very science that was

designed

to deal with the phenomena, namely depth psychology.

But even in psychology, a blanket of silence has descended, which

I believe comes from a quite natural fear of its proponents towards

ridicule by the general community of science for dealing with the

irrational.

We should show sympathy, for in the main, these are, after all,


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just men and women who have a life to lead, like other

scientists do. But, the quite natural fear, and numinous seduction

of

the objects of the unconscious, demand far more than a nine to five

orientation. It is ironic, that a freak like Hawking, should not have

been the preoccupation of psychological analysis. It would certainly

have been the case if Freud and Jung were alive they feared no

hallowed ground and political correctness. The one sided approach

of science, in clinging on to a material philosophy and explanation

of reality, seems to me to be wrapped up in the symbol of the

illness

and being of the poor unfortunate Hawking. One cannot, but be

overwhelmed with sympathy and pity for this man, who has had his

prospects for a normal life, based upon our evolution from primates,

almost completely thwarted and as a result, or as a synchronicity,

he has turned his seemingly unfettered mind outwards, to wrestle

with the complexity of cosmology and the origins of material

creation.

It is however, my shocking understanding, that any approach

towards a further evolution in the species that Hawking appears to

be appealing to in his work as a scientist and popular writer, will

involve a similar, though perhaps not so extreme degree of

deprivation to that which Hawking himself suffers. It should be

obvious to any psychologist reading this piece, that any real

involvement with the objects of the unconscious, will take a heavy

toll

on the natural instincts and human subjectivity. It is my anticipation,

that the teleological function of the central archetype

of the unconscious, is towards the development of a specialised

form of expanded human consciousness, that will involve a very

extensive erosion of the primary instincts. This will almost certainly

mean a necessary evolution of morphology towards a more

cerebral

based entity, the final object of which, will have an optimised body,

that runs on minimal resources and a phenomenal mind, that will

incorporate a much deeper interaction with the complexities and


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extent of the universe it occupies.

RC

8.9.2010

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