What?
This "theory" has lots of big, important-sounding words like: Helicy, resonancy, integrality, energy fields, rhythmicities, continuous dynamic metamorphosis, homeodynamic postulates, irreducible wholes.
Sound confusing? Like some pretentious idiot masturbating with big words? Confusing obscurity with profundity?
Ms. Rogers, the guru who founded this "nursing theory", also has a "Theory of Paranormal Phenomena".
Here's Wikipedia's definition of Paranormal Phenomena: This theory focus on the explanations for precognition, déjà vu, clairvoyance, telepathy, and therapeutic touch. Clairvoyance is rational in a four dimensional human field in continuous mutual, simultaneous interaction with a four dimensional world; there is no linear time nor any separation of human and the environmental fields.
Science has debunked every one of those, "Paranormal Phenomena". None of the phenomena identified by the Concept of Pandimensionality has ever been proven by science; quite the opposite. Rigorous blind testing using the scientific method has repeatedly demonstrated that paranormal phenomena are an illusion fostered by fraud or ignorance.
Here is Mosby's Dictionary of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine definition of pandimensionality: the science of unitary human beings, the non-linear, non-spatial, non-temporal reality underlying the realm of everyday experience.
Does any of that make sense to anybody?
Is this really being taught in an American higher education by professors? Can they really spout off this bunk with a straight face? Here's a question for any professor teaching the Concept of Pandimensionality:
Do the words coming out of your mouth travel around to your ear? Or do you have on a white plastic collars like they put on dogs so they can't lick their stitches--but you wear it hitched forward so your ears are on one side and your mouth on the other?
The Theory of Pandimensionality
Nurse's Note: I wish nurses would stop working so hard to add more letters behind their names and put more effort into keeping their patients turned, poop-free, heparin drips titrated correctly and another bag of levophed available.
Nurse's Note: I wish nurses would stop working so hard to add more letters behind their names and put more effort into keeping their patients turned, poop-free, heparin drips titrated correctly and another bag of levophed available.
The author is correct. It is not science unless specific causes generate expected results which can be repeatedly and objectively verified. It is also not science unless it can be proven wrong, and those who promote paranormal phenomena are rarely willing to admit that their ideas can be incorrect. I recommend http://www.skeptic.com/ for those interested in detailed examples on this subject.
ReplyDeleteScience has it's own dogma and inherent belief system. Quantum physics and eastern thought can make a reasonable explanation for a multiverse with many dimensions. Their are no objective results in an omnijective world. Research by David Bohm, Karl Pribram point to a view of the world that may be beyond conceptual understanding. While it may not be science that you're accustomed to it also can not being dismissed has having no possible credibility.
DeleteA scientist believes that a premise is not true if it cannot be disproved. A zealot believes his faith is true and therefore cannot be disproved.
ReplyDeleteI am aware of no responsible quantum theorist who takes seriously the many pandering Tao/quantum analogies out there in popular literature. Such analogies are tenants of faith, not science.
It is certainly true that the universe may be "stranger than we can know," but that does not mean that we should accept that which we do not understand as credible. It is merely unverified, or possibly unverifiable.
...unless you are Buddhist.
ReplyDelete...unless you are Buddhist.
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