The New Idealism: Introduction for New Age Movement

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This is an article that is introduction to my book called THE NEW IDEALISM which fully outlines the spiritual New Age movement and the science behind it. This book is being published in instalments as articles in Crystal Wind.

This book examines what I have termed “The New Idealism”. It is timely that this treatise is being written for the new millennium because the concept of the New Idealism is revolutionary from a philosophical, and more specifically, metaphysical, point of view. The 20th century has been a century dictated by the concept of philosophical materialism. From academic philosophy to the far reaches of Readers Digest culture under advanced western capitalism, the notion of materialism has been rampant. In academic philosophy, materialism has ruled supreme. All the major philosophical movements of this century starting with Logical Atomism, Logical Positivism, agnostic existentialism, phenomenology, linguistic or ordinary language philosophy, structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, Feminism and analytical philosophy in general, and this would also include the notion of anti-realism, has been against the philosophical metaphysical concept of Idealism or that reality as we know it, is produced by thought, a mind, Consciousness, a mental construct, Spirit.

The Meaning of the New Idealism

When I use the term, “the new idealism” I am using the term in two senses. Firstly, the developments in science and the New Physics in general has radically reintroduced the concept of philosophical Idealism. By this I mean that the once completely banished concept of philosophical Idealism has been reintroduced and it is a New Idealism, or rather, a new set of philosophies that posit Idealism. Secondly, the New Idealism, when it is taken to its fullest extent, is actually different from the many brands of philosophical Idealism prior to the 19th century. The most famous brand of Idealism, of course, had been Hegel’s Absolute Idealism, which says that all matter in the Universe is Spirit, or mental in construct.

Generally, the notion of philosophical Idealism says that reality is not fundamentally material, but mental. The word grew out of Idea-ism, strictly speaking. In philosophy the great debate in metaphysics had been between Idealism and materialism, until the 20th century virtually abandoned the concept of philosophical Idealism.

This, however, was contained strictly within academic philosophy, which was usually seen as being at the cutting edge of philosophical research.

Philosophical materialism, and the rise of philosophical materialism has an extremely complex historical background which had been strongly vocal throughout the past four centuries. The Logical Positivists in the 20th century appealed to science to dismiss metaphysics while the analytic philosophical tradition fully emerged with the dawning of that philosophical system. These ideas represented a range of ideas characteristic of the Vienna Circle in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. They were strongly influenced by empirical tradition, and especially the work of David Hume. According to the famous verification principle, the meaning of a proposition consists in the methods of its verification. This principle is the basis of Logical Positivism’s attack of theology and metaphysics because these notions were considered unverifiable.

The Scientific Foundation of the New Idealism

However, at the heart of the New Idealism, science is once again used, but this time it is used to dismiss philosophical materialism. Right across the scientific spectrum there has been a radical swing towards philosophical issues of spirituality and Idealism. And at the heart of this scientific revolution is the major developments in physics, which is now called the New Physics. This book as I am outlining in this article will examine how the New Physics radically reintroduces the concept of philosophical Idealism. There are now many physicists, many of whom are at the front ranks of their profession, who have in common a position which rejects philosophical materialism and reintroduces the concept of spirituality in matter. This is very radical stuff, indeed, and is a complete philosophical revolution. This is because, as discussed earlier, all of the major philosophies of the 20th century were forms of philosophical materialism.

The first section of this book will be called, “What is the New Idealism”. This section will especially concentrate on the New Physics, and how the New Physics reintroduces the metaphysical concept of Idealism, and that in fact developments in physics has made redundant the notion that matter is in any way a substance which is non-mental. This chapter will concentrate on the work of many physicists including Fritjof Capra, David Bohm, Geoffrey Chew, Paul Davies, David Clark, Willis Harman, John Wheeler and Brenda Dunn.

It will also concentrate on some of the works of other thinkers who are not professional physicists but write extensively about physics. This will be very much a core section and will provide the reader to some of the exciting new developments in this region of science. Various comparisons will also be used to show how the New Physics is similar and has deep sympathies with many branches of Eastern philosophy and will make a strong connection with what is termed the New Age movement, an often highly criticised philosophical position that has gained massive respect from independent thinkers. The thinkers used here will include the work of David Ash and Peter Hewitt, two British physicists who have put forward the theory of transubstantiation, which basically concurs with the New Physics in saying that Consciousness produces matter.

However, the theory goes further and says that Consciousness is faster than the speed of light which creates a new form of energy called super energy. This is like the final nail in the coffin for materialism and is the cream on the cake of the New Physics. This is the theory that explains how Galactic Federation alien spaceships travel the galaxy.

In this section I will make an effort to combine all of these major physical systems to give a coherent overview. The section will outline Eastern philosophical systems.

Beyond Physics: Biology, Psychology and Society

Other areas of the New Idealism that will be touched upon in the next section are the other regions of the sciences that are also challenging the concept of philosophical materialism, especially biology. This will essentially concentrate on the work of Rupert Sheldrake and other biologists. It will also concentrate on the scientific discoveries in psychology. This will concentrate on the work of thinkers such as Carl Simonton, Ken Wilber, Gregory Bateson plus many other new writers, especially those who work in the medical sciences.

This next section will be called, “Justifying the New Idealism”. This section will clearly evaluate some of the extremely radical claims that the New Idealism makes and the philosophical revolutionary aspects of it. This will carefully examine the notion of what arguments philosophical materialism has against Idealism, and the concept of Idealism. Once again this will concentrate on the radical development of the New Physics. This obviously has to be the best way to justify the concept of the New Idealism but will take an extremely objective outlook at some of the major arguments that materialists use.

The third section will examine the epistemology of the New Idealism. This will look at some of the more common epistemologies from the 20th century such as Logical Positivism, existentialism, structuralism and post modernism to some of the more rationalistic epistemologies advocated by profound philosophers such as Noam Chomsky, which as a great deal more in common with the New Idealism.

Throughout, a major effort will be made to be as explicit and precise as possible, and to clearly explain what is being stated here. What is being said here is that a straightforward approach will be adopted in the use of my philosophical language to be as clear as possible, and to avoid philosophical jargon, a practice that many philosophers use unsuccessfully because it usually frightens the reader away.

Each section will be broken down into further sub-sections with headings to further help the reader gain exactly what I am saying here, and to give a clearly focused explanation on what is happening. This is very much an effort, once again, of clearly outlining for the reader what is happening, especially thematically. This will, I believe, give a firm structure for the overall book.

Because this is very much a new area of philosophy and an area that I believe is not only revolutionary but of vital importance, it is most important for the reader to clearly understand what is being stated. The New Idealism is completely revolutionary in that it will affect all fields of endeavour – from political life, economics, medicine, psychiatry, biology and many other areas of society.

There is now a strong worldwide movement that is redirecting the nature of human thought, especially via the worldwide New Age movement, although western philosophy right in the lead-up into the new millennium has been concentrating on postmodernism and anti-realism. However, the New Idealism has profoundly opened another door for philosophy and makes it a highly interesting time for the pursuit of a craft that is now of vital importance.

The section on super energy is very important because, as mentioned, it fully explains how alien spaceships come to planet earth. As outlined in the preface of this book in my previous article, the Galactic Federation aliens are now surrounding this planet. They are our galactic human brothers and sisters from other star nations and they travel through the speed of light in energy called super energy or plasma energy. Both super energy and energy are manifestations of consciousness – which is a form of idealism. This book fully outlines this further on. Their spaceships use computers to register super energy and then telepathic captains send a message to a bio-crystal “energetic” computer on the ship that gives the messages into super energy at “the speed of thought”. And this is how the spaceships travel the vast distances they do. So this book fully explains alien space travel simply for the average reader.

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