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Chapter Three
What We Have Learned about:
Remote Viewing
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Science is not simply a device for explaining away events and capacities hitherto thought to be God-given. . . . All great scientists have understood this. But, those who hold a slavish belief in "scientific facts" and who do not understand uncertainties of modern science are likely to come to small conclusions that are as trivializing as reducing "remote viewing" to repetitious "readings" of a pack of cards. As I understand contemporary trends of physical science, there is increasing recognition of vast unknown areas which science may explore and assist in ordering, but to which it may never provide anything like complete answers.
 
Margaret Mead Preface to Mind-Reach, by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff
How I Was a Psychic Spy for the CIA and Found God
What are these "vast unknown areas" of science that Margaret Mead refers to, for which we may never have "anything like complete answers"? One thoughtful person working on this problem is physicist Roger Penrose. He contends that our consciousness is one of the areas for which we will find no present-day scientific explanation. He tells us that "the mind cannot be explained at all in terms of the science of the physical world," echoing Austrian mathematician Kurt G"odel, who declared that no self-consistent model can be entirely self-explanatory. 1 In other words, consciousness may not be able to explain itself logically.

 
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