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Unfortunately, At Present, Practically No One Under Thirty Goes To Workshops. It's A System Of Education Entirely For The Middle Aged.

In No Other Field Of Scientific Endeavor Do Otherwise Intelligent People Feel Free To Make Public Claims Based On Prejudice And Ignorance. Yet In Relation To Psychic Phenomena, Committed Materialists Feel Free To Disregard The Evidence And Behave Irrationally And Unscientifically, While Claiming To Speak In The Name Of Science And Reason. They Abuse The Authority Of Science And Bring Rationalism Into Disrepute.

The Assumption That The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal Is A Vestige Of The Christian Belief System That Informed The Early Postulates Of Modern Science In The Seventeenth Century. Perhaps The Laws Of Nature Have Actually Evolved Along With Nature Itself, And Perhaps They Are Still Evolving. Or Perhaps They Are Not Laws At All, But More Like Habits.

The Cumulative Nature Of The Evolutionary Process, The Fact That Memory Is Preserved, Means That Life Grows Not Just Through A Random Proliferation Of New Forms, But There's A Kind Of Cumulative Quality.

Machines Are Designed Not To Be Random. When You Call Up A Word Processing Program On Your Computer, You Don't Want It To Be Different Every Time You Call It Up. You Want It To Stay The Same.