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Old 19-September-2009, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by dwnielsen View Post
That he is a paid, respected government physicist [...]
Be that as it may, the following:

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[...] what Campbell presents is not a phenomenological Theory of Everything in the physical sense. What he means, from what I understand, is an idea that accounts for the unconscious realm, the realm of human perception, the realm of superstition, and all various understandings of reality.

[...] he practices aura medicine and the like.
...simply does not qualify as physics.

Although I find your admission that:

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But then, I haven't read the books.
...a little troubling. If you haven't even read his books, how can you be so sure of what he says in them? And why do you care?...
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