I have a friend who is an inventor.
He's in his mid 40's, and one of the rare sort who still who still invents completely independently, rather than as a part of a large team funded under corporate management. Has a Tesla coil he built from scraps in his garage and all that.
The guy also considers himself to be fully psychic. He meditates and channels, he sees images and visions from touching certain items. He sees ghosts constantly.
He also has a PHD in physics from Berkeley, and pretty much every tech and energy company in California wants to hire him (and get him to sign a non-compete,) but he stays at home and invents on his own instead.
Right now, he's obsessed with finding alternate energy sources, and is working on some pretty mind blowing stuff. He considers true inspiration to be, well... inspired. A gift from higher guides and spirits.
Point being, I bet if those of you who demand proof talked to some real inventors, their scientific process is not nearly as scientific as popular culture would have you believe. Its imaginative and instinctual.
Look who developed
the aircar. Was it the billion dollar automotive R&D industry? Or just
one man following his imagination?
Or Ben Franklin, where did he get his
ideas? Spiritually he believed in
deism, a movement that derives the existence and nature of God from reason and
personal experience.
If my friend builds what he has been seeing in his most recent visions and gets it to work (as he is prone to do,) is that science? Or psychic phenomena? What proof would you seek?
Quote:
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Imagination is more important than knowledge... - Albert Einstein |