How to effectively critique New Age ideas?

[Confused Ape]

Enough of this Lanza/Chopra bullshit.

Biocentrism Demystified:
http://nirmukta.com/2009/12/14/biocentri...-universe/

I didn't say that Biocentrism is true. I was just pointing out that New Agers get their ideas from scientists who appear on DC's show. When the scientist concerned agrees with something that DC says the New Agers will disregard any criticism of things they want to hear. They'll also disregard any criticism of respected physicists like Schroedinger saying that the universe runs on consciousness.

Quantum mechanics is just the physics of the very small which works very differently from what we understand of Newtonian physics on the larger scales. We haven't been able to unify these two yet. But just because it's very strange it doesn't mean there's anything mystical going on it's still just physics and understandable natural laws.

Did you take a look at any of Amit Goswami's books on Amazon? Quote from his Amazon page.

Goswami has written six other popular books based on his research on quantum physics and consciousness. In The Visionary Window, Goswami demonstrated how science and spirituality could be integrated. In Physics of the Soul he developed a theory of survival after death and reincarnation. His book Quantum Creativity is a tour de force instruction about how to engage in both outer and inner creativity. Goswami's book, The Quantum Doctor integrates conventional and alternative medicine.

@cato123

I found something very interesting in that article you gave a link to.

We can safely assume that Lanza and Chopra are more concerned with the implications of Darwinian evolution on the nature of the human ego, and not on the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Both Chopra and Lanza seem to be disillusioned by the perceived emptiness of a non-directional evolutionary reality.

Unfortunately I can't add that to my opening post in my own topic because the time for editing has long gone.