Rabelais makes his good giant Gargantua say this magnificent aphorism: “Science without conscience is only the ruin of the soul”. We are not omniscients, nor omnipotent. Quite the opposite is often true. Rabelais the Ceptic is the founder of modern skepticism. He castigates those who deny human limits.
From a modest condition, Rabelais is the thinker of finitude. This philosophy of finitude is the opposite of that of Pascal who defends a weak human nature, but aware of its weakness. On the contrary, Rabelais rejects the knowledge of the ignorant in order to better honor knowledge, the key to ultimate wisdom.
Pascal thinks small, Rabelais cultivates haenum. Nice word from Gustave Flaubert. With him, énorme becomes the emphatic Hénaurme, with a capital letter please. He imitates the exaggerated pronunciation of the precious, and points out the extent of human stupidity.
This aphorism is one of his most beautiful finds. It comes from a long and edifying letter that Gargantua addressed to his son Pantagruel in the book of the same name, undoubtedly his masterpiece.
“Did science promise happiness? I don’t think so. She promised the truth, and the question is whether we will ever be happy with the truth,“ writes Émile Zola. We would like it to be like this again… Since Zola, science has even renounced the truth. Its thing now is dogma.
Science, especially the human sciences, has become a religion in which mandarins take the place of bishops. The so-called human “sciences” have no science other than the name. They have become literary genres and their pseudo-theories, tired fictions.
Science is best when it works for the good of all. It is also necessary that the researchers are sincere, that their bosses are open, that it only serves knowledge. When it turns into dogma, is it still at the service of everyone?
Did their science lack conscience? No doubt. Yet there are other ways to flout the scientific ideal, more devious and more dangerous too.
“The scientific method consists, roughly speaking, in the application of rigorous principles of mathematics and logic and in the deduction of solid conclusions from a set of postulates. The first step of the scientific method is to find some facts through observation and experiment. The next step is to classify and relate many facts into a single general expression, which is then called a law.”
That is what Linus Pauling, the Nobel laureate in physics, says. And Rabelais would agree with him.
Science without conscience is a soul’s decay.
Yet, in many disciplines, scientists have no alternative but to enter into religion, that is, to adhere unreservedly to the dominant theory. If they refuse, they will have nothing: neither position nor credit.
Choosing between science and survival, the unfortunate do not hesitate. Dismaying application of natural selection, these followers who came to swell the ranks of the faithful will one day become, in their turn, the new popes of the reigning faith. And through them the sect will be perpetuated, even stronger and more rigid. Strengthened by shame, cemented by shamelessness, armored from below.
The hard-line Darwinians are a good example of this, but the case of the cave paintings in Altamira offers another illustration. These two cases, and others, show how power corrupts the soul.
What is the point of instrument accuracy if the results are spiked by dogma? What is the point of precision in dating methods if the most common one consists of giving the date found in books? What good is research if all the researcher’s work consists in copying the master’s work?
Scientific method demands a total honesty and respect of data. Nevertheless, some scientists ruin their soul by dissimulating facts and discoveries menacing the established order. Happily, some of them do resist. They produce their proofs, expose their doubts, and try to publish their results. Step by step, they collected facts, emitted hypothesis, verified their theories. On their conscience science can rely. This website is their tribune, to welcome them is our pride.
In all my research, I put a rigor that can be described as scientific. My discoveries are so different from the general credo, so against the current, to see official science recognize and admit it, if only by hypothesis, it’s not tomorrow the day before. The day before last, maybe? We can dream…
Mister Researcher, don’t leave your brain outside the lab, you may need it in your work. As a result, our right brain is atrophying, according to Dr Morse. Who cares about it, since nobody uses it? Actually, why do we ignore half of our mental potential? Should we be afraid of being too smart?
Those of us who use a little right brain are the artists, designers. Those who use a lot of right brain are healers, seers, shamans. Those who rarely use the right brain are all the others. And it’s killing them.
Why do we have a right hemisphere? Just for show? To describe his ability, the shaman will not speak of the right brain, but the “left side”.
For him, the brain plays a secondary role in the activity of the mind. As he spoke of the whole body. The right side of the brain becomes the left side of the body because the brain is the opposite of the body. The left side, or the nagual, the door is open to all possibilities. The pure creativity. The power shrinks. The key to the Akashic records and intuitive knowledge. Why deprive ourselves of such an asset?
It comes with the intelligence of the belly, which can set many clocks to solar time.
The Castanedian sorcerer or the nagual warrior do not speak of the right brain, but of the “left side”. For Castaneda as for myself, the brain plays only a secondary role in the activity of the mind.
Also, he is talking about the whole body. The right side of the brain is the left side of the body, because the brain is opposite to the body. The left or nagual side is the door open to all possibilities. Pure creativity. Physical powers. The key to the Akashic annals and infused science. Why deprive yourself of such an asset?
As a result, our awareness of the world is incomplete. And our science is flawed. For lack of resources, scientists deprive themselves of the most beautiful hypotheses and persist in searching in the wrong place.
Accordingly, their consciousness of the world is incomplete. And their science is flawed. Without resources of clairvoyance, scientists are deprived of the best assumptions, and persist in looking in the wrong place.
Fifteen years ago, a Soviet oceanographic mission came to get a large pyramid engulfed at the bottom of the Channel. They surveyed off the Scilly Islands, but in vain. If they used clairvoyance, they would search the French shore, where they should find the pyramid.
When you don’t know what you are looking for, no chance to find out.
This false science imposing its dogmas and errors is worse than ignorance. It offers a sad collection of clichés and mistakes that the average man -scheduled to be stupid- buy cash. The important thing, after all, in this temple of profit is to sell. If the devil is in the details, he is especially pervasive and universal, mouth full of hatred, blowing his relentless string of hazy theories on human smallness, on our ape origins, on foolish hope or submission.
Cowardice, hypocrisy, conformism, cynicism, tribalism, sexism, selfishness, pride, conceit, stupidity and total lack of respect for science are the main qualities of the modern scientist. Young people, if you do not have all, forget the scientific careers.
Let’s say the truth ever since the Lie is constantly widespread and by many: in the press and books, school and university, and everywhere it exerts its influence.
The magical sword of King Arthur contains in its name the key of its origin
The celestial androgynes created the human race. They are reptilian astronauts.
Thanks to Her, I’m growing at full speed. It’s confusing. But the evidence is bright.
Constantine sets up his capital in Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
I had a conscious dream. In a white robe, I wandered around ancient Byzantium.
Ama, the Virgin and Mother Goddess, has lived so long she has no age. Once…