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stellauk -> RE: Do ghosts exist? (11/13/2011 5:01:42 AM)
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Short answer yes.
It wasn't just Einstein either but quite a few from that period who had interesting beliefs about energy and the spiritual. There was that scholar of Freud Wilheim Reich who was of the opinion that spiritual energy appeared everywhere and within everything and he developed this machine for busting clouds to release sexual energy. This is what the Kate Bush song 'Cloudbusting' refers to. It's about Peter Reich's 'Book of Dreams' which was mostly about his father's difficulties with the authorities.
Then you have Rudolf Steiner who devoted his entire life to trying to establish a relationship between science and mysticism and who was of the opinion that the supernatural or spiritual world can be studied just like any other science but with a different discipline.
These were however people persecuted by the Nazis in the 1930's and while Einstein made it to the United States I for one am curious as to how things would have developed had Rudolf Steiner also moved to the States. It would have been interesting as America was coming out of the Depression and the Americans were doing what they usually do best - taking an idea, investing in it, and making it popular.
Rudolf Steiner is of course best known for his work in education and the development of the Waldorf system of alternative education, which has consistently shown itself to be one of the best. But if you read up more on his work you come across stuff like Eurhythmy, a form of music, performance and theatre, and such things as economic threefolding but what is compelling, if anybody can find it, is Steiner's concept as to what happens to us after we die. I remember reading it in a book back in 1996 when I started teaching in a Waldorf school in Warsaw and it had a profound effect on my thinking, as did reading some of the other books I was given. I just can't recall the title of the book.
I feel we know far less about energy and what it does than we think we do, and there's plenty of scope for exploration and discovery of all things spiritual. I think it was Einstein who was of the opinion that 'what exists cannot later not exist' which was part of his Mirabilis Papers published in 1905 which was about mass energy equivalence. It's also interesting that he excluded anatomical matter from his theory of relativity.
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