Homeopathy: The therapy that dare not speak its name?
According to modern pharmacology, there can be no biochemical basis for homeopathy because substances diluted out of existence should not have any effects, let alone…
Author: Richard Irwin
Director of SMN since 2015 with responsibility for rebuilding the Network's on-line presense. I have a passion for reconciling science with spirituality (see http://danceineternity.com), who also composes and arranges music (see http://hymnswithoutwords.com).
The Cosmological Constant
The universe owes its existence, not to reality, (of which we know precious little), but to human imagination and mathematical equations. Only through the medium…
Reflections on the Reception of Unconventional Claims in Science
As a sociologist of science I remain outside of the controversies surrounding unconventional claims in science. My commitment is to the judicial process within the…
Seeking for whom the bell tolls: Exploring mind-matter interactions on a global scale
Is there a global mind? Could it be detected quantitatively? In an empirical approach to this question, over the last decade a half-dozen researchers have…
Who Am I?
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle! Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Human beings can speak, and when…
Science and Wisdom – Compassion
It has surprised me that so many people who are convinced of the universal and objective nature of scientific knowledge work so diligently to…
The Skepticism of Believers
I used to think of skepticism as a primary intellectual virtue, whose goal was truth. I have changed my mind. I now see it as…
Living Philosophy and the Joy of Life
The art of living is second to none. The art of understanding is also important: it should help us not only to comprehend the ways…
THE PHOENIX GENERATION: A New Era of Connection, Compassion & Consciousness
In the years ahead we are going to see great change sweeping through our diverse human societies. It will be change not only brought about…
Psyche and Cosmos: the emergence of order out of chaos
Recent developments in the fields of complexity, self-organising systems and cosmogenesis have revived interest in the anti-reductionist idea of emergence, and this paper will examine…