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Matter Is Merely Mind Deadened By The Development Of Habit To The Point Where The Breaking Up Of These Habits Is Very Difficult.

For More Than 200 Years, Materialists Have Promised That Science Will Eventually Explain Everything In Terms Of Physics And Chemistry. Believers Are Sustained By The Faith That Scientific Discoveries Will Justify Their Beliefs.

The Gaia Hypothesis Of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] Puts Forward A Scientific View Of The Living Earth, Which In One Respect Is Modern, Empherical, Scientific, In Another Respect Re-awakens An Ancient Archetype, Which In Fact Is So Clearly Suggested By The Very Name Of The Hypothesis, Gaia, The Greek Name For Mother Earth.

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.

I'm Talking About Science On The Leading Edge, Where It's Not Clear Which Way Things Are Going Be Cause We Don't Know, And I'm Dealing With Areas Which We Don't Know About.