A blog about avant-garde science
  • Unexamined

    Jung realised that the collective unconscious contains certain pre-existent forms, the ‘psychological archetypes’. These are complex but universal types of personality that are inherited in the same way as simple instinctive patterns of behaviour – fight or flight and so on. Eight major types of complex are categorised in Myers-Briggs. Jung observed that these archetypes…

  • The New Enlightenment

    STOP THE CAR! We are in desperate need of a shift in the wind. As John Holdren reported to President Obama: The current situation of the world … is that we are in a car with bad brakes driving toward the edge of a cliff in the fog … prudence requires that we try to…

  • There is a god – it’s you!

    We stand on the brink of a momentous change to our understanding of reality. The world in which one lives is not exactly what we thought it was.It is both empowering and challenging. As QBism demonstrates, the world en­countered is defined only by the perceptions of this individual. It is determinate, real, only where it…

  • Scientific Revolution

    A major scientific revolution is in progress, yet you might never have even heard about it. Copernicus removed us from the centre of the universe, and Darwin demoted us to clever naked apes, but this time it is good news beyond our wildest imaginings. 500 years ago it was Nicolaus Copernicus who set in motion…