I still have my self-gag order in place, when it comes to writing here. Today I’m in the hospital doing a chemo infusion, and as they say, idleness is the Devil’s workshop. I will avoid saying anything about Christianity as to give fodder to someone who wants to misunderstand my point and use it to prove I don’t have a real relationship with God or at least as not as good as their’s. I left “competitive Christianity” in 1990 and that game no longer interest me. However, I think it is safe to give a more generalize warning about our cultural trends and I’ve stumbled upon a video that was so good at this, I felt like I had to share it. But take it or leave it, as you wish.

As I’ve said before, the way we think runs in fads just like the way we dress. You can trace about 4-5 such major trends in western civilization in the past 2,000 years. We are presentlly nearing the end (I hope) of post modernism. All thinking fads swing like a pendulum, going to the extreme (and dangerous) before reverting to the opposite position. Even my favorite movement, The Enlightenment, went to seed as modernity and a form of unhealthy scientism, thus ushering in post modernism.

Post modernism has had a powerful influence starting in the 1950s. While it started in a healthy position of questioning social norms (like I like to do), it eventually gave up all aspirations of truth and now, it’s final encore, is to question the very existence of reality. I’ve heard chatter for years from new age gurus including new age Christian speakers such as Richard Rohr and Rob Bell (new verson of him), using these same false terms.

I am a science guy. I love classical science because it is the pursuit of honest knowledge about the real cosmos. I identify with Newton in his regard of how science dovetails with his relationship with God. But you don’t have to be a theist to enjoy the cosmos.

I see God creating the cosmos is like when I created a wonderful playground / skate park for my children. There is nothing that made me happier than watching my children explore and enjoy the skate park that I had built for them. How sad for me if they rejected my real playground to spend all their time in an imaginary playground.

However, in this age when the overwhelming thought fad is saying that there is no truth, no reality, the gurus are now using “science”–that they poorly understand–to try and prove their mysticism, especially quantum mechanics. I believe “spirituality” or “energy” has become the most abused word in our present culture.

“Professor Dave” is a social media icon in science education. He is very knowledgeable and articulate. I think he did an excellent job in disputing these charlatans of pesudoscience. If you have heard of these ideas that reality doesn’t exist or time doesn’t exist and claim (falsely) that this is what quantum physicis is telling us, it is worth listening to this truth about quantum physics.

At times I feel like I’m a salmon swimming upstream against the tsunami of new age mysticism and so-called spirituality, but someone has to speak up. It is not an issue of evil per se, but dishonesty. The more we live in true reality, the better life is. That’s my point. Mike