The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All | Bernard Haisch

The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All | Bernard Haisch | Mysteries Magazine review

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	The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All Bernard Haisch Red Wheel/Weiser, 2006 - 157 pages average customer review:based on 72 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Against Dogmatism

In this slim but often thought-provoking volume, Bernard Haisch adds his voice to a growing chorus of scientific professionals who are working toward a science that admits to the possibility of a deeper spiritual meaning behind the "mindless machine" that physicists sometimes claim to have described for us. His most noteworthy contribution are his insights regarding the role of the zero-point field, which he suggests may be the source of the evidently "solid" matter making up the physical universe we experience through our waking senses. But this physical universe, he suggests, is only a secondary phenomenon, not the actual foundation of reality. Hence, this makes it scientifically plausible that consciousness, or God, manifesting via the zero-point field, is behind the big show.

As other reviewers have pointed out, this notion is not new but it helps that someone as well grounded in mainstream physics as Bernard Haisch makes the case. More scientists may start to take the idea seriously.

Haisch's book brings to mind another book, written from the perspective of biology rather than physics, "Intelligence Came First," edited by E. Lester Smith (1975). As Smith's book and others since have made clear, the notion that consciousness underpins all physical experience has better intellectual support than is generally recognized (or taught) within the mainstream academic community.

Haisch makes the point that the best years of scientific inquiry may yet lie ahead of us, since we can now better appreciate what it is we are actually studying! He hopes for a world in which the gulf between scientism and religious dogma will be narrowed, if not closed. This cannot happen too fast! Many well-known scientists need to open their minds as much as the more notorious religious zealots among us. Further enlightenment depends upon it.

One does have to wonder at the source of the resistance so many scientists harbor toward the notions expressed in this book. Could it be that they find belief in a mindless universe morally convenient? After all, so much of science is devoted to creation of weapons of war and the destruction of our shrinking natural world. Life is much easier for those scientists who believe the universe just isn't paying attention to what they are doing with their lives.

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Mysteries Magazine review

How does consciousness arise from matter? Is there a God? Is there a compatible bridge between faith and science? Can the multiverse and superstring theories of cosmology be rendered consistent with an infinite intelligence? These are just some of the questions The God Theory attempts to answer.

An astrophysicist by trade, Dr Haisch combines science and religion into a rational, uplifting spirituality. Gathering upon the findings of his government-funded research focusing on zero-point electromagnetic fields, Haisch concludes that traditional esoteric beliefs of light and consciousness form the basis of the material world and that light is consciousness from which everything is created. Since light is God and we are consciousness, we are therefore a filtered aspect of God. Haisch also believes that God initiated the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, and his ideas support the astrophysical inflation theory of multiverses.

And Haisch has the credentials to back up his theories. In addition to his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, he did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He also held positions at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany.

The God Theory may just be one of the most important books you will read this year because what it offers is a dramatic paradigm shift on how we view our relationship with God and the universe around us.
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DaVinci Code, Einstein, & Indiana Jones

DaVinci Code, Einstein, & Indiana Jones .....these are a few of my favorite things. A well-woven tale that spans decades of time and schools of thought packaged with intrigue and unburdened from romance/relationship underthemes yet strengthened with inter-relationships. A good read that floats you on a whitewater trip of scenes and themes and leaves you with with the aftertaste of "What If Inquiry" If you like attempting to put the puzzle pieces of our reality together with the help of a stimulating story then you will enjoy this book.

Good Compilation of Interesting Ideas

The God Theory brings together some interesting ideas. Although none of the ideas presented are new, this quick compilation is a great way to get your interests flowing in a variety of exciting directions. The book appears to focus on two primary points:

First, that "God" is an infinite potential that has chosen to experience and realize its potential by creating our universe (and perhaps others) with its will manifested as the laws of physics and its being manifested as living creatures -- us. Haisch calls this The God Theory, although the idea was made a very popular a while back by Neale Donald Walsch in his Conversations With God series, in which he wrote extensively on this exact concept (Haisch does mention Walsch).

Second, that the reductionist, if-it's-not-matter-or-energy-then-it's-not-there attitude of modern day science is misguided. In my opinion, Haisch made this point ad nauseam, returning to it at every turn and making me think that he's got some bones to pick with some of his contemporaries. He could have made this point once or thrice then moved on, especially given that his main reason for choosing a God Theory universe over modern science's soulless, dumb universe is because science's view is a less pleasant way to describe the data -- rather than less valid way, since neither view answers "how did it start?" or "what does it mean?" in any way that is remotely provable.

But, aside from my complaints (that The God Theory is simply a repackaged version of the ideas of Walsch, and probably many others, into what you might have thought would be a new theory, and that Haisch burned too many pages beating the God-less reductionist dead horse), the book throws out some tantalizing tidbits and ideas. My three favorites are 1) the analogies he makes between white light and God -- both containing within them infinite potential, but only realizing it by subtracting some of that potential and projecting themselves upon a medium, 2) the discussions of the work of him and others relating inertia (along with other things affecting the universe's ability to exist such as atomic stability) to the zero point field, and 3) the very thought-provoking discussions of light's privileged reference point and how there must be a way to explain its apparently impossible properties that we're just not getting.

All in all, it's a worthwhile read, especially if you're interested in how science relates to some of the newer trends in spiritual thought. Not a tough read by any means, but a brain stretcher nonetheless (a good combination).

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Mini Review: The God Theory by Bernard Haisch

Mini Review: The God Theory by Bernard Haisch

The God theory is written by an American AstroPhysicist who has spent much time exploring other fields. He has a wealth of experience under his belt. He confesses to be a Christian, yet much of what he says in The God Theory goes against established Christian thought and Scripture. What he tried to do in this book is give reasonable evidence for the existence of an intelligent mind, or conscience, that existed before matter and has always existed. He frequently chastises his fellow scientists for being dogmatic reductionists, and yet he believes in evolution, dismissing ID out of hand. A definite and obvious contradiction, though I often wondered if he was doing this simply to avoid being labeled an ID proponent himself.

Much of the book is given over to explaining his Zero Point energy theory, particularly surrounding the cause of mass/inertia which he theorizes is caused by background energy and the hold this has caused by the ZeroPoint energy. A plausible theory and one he seems to have proven through 2 different experiments. This background energy is also possibly what Genesis 1:1 refers to as light.

One thing I do like is repulsion of the theory of infinite universes in order to explain this universe. The multiverse idea is far more insane than any religious answer to the creation of this unique universe, and here is a top notch scientists who's prepared to say so.

The book is hard to read at points and even harder to write a review for. My passion for science has allowed me to understand pretty much the whole book, but only because he has purposefully made it as simple as he could have. I sure can't make it any simpler to provide you with a review. If you don't have a college-level grasp of physics, I am not sure you'll enjoy this. I read it because the book has been acclaimed as giving evidence of God without the use of Intelligent Design, but it's not for the layman.

Being that he believes in evolution and calls evolution a fact backed up by undeniable (yet missing, to honest searchers) evidence, and that his God is one of his own making, contradicting the God of the Scriptures, yet does provide a theory which challenges Methodical Materialists to consider the reality of God, I give it 3 out of 5.

I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.
- Bernard Haisch, The God Theory

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