At more than 500 pages, The Grand Illusion is a hefty tome that is jam packed with so much quality research and detailed information it could make your head swim - except it doesn't. Murphy masterfully weaves complex information with an easy readability- and sensibility- that makes TGI the rare non-fiction book that is actually hard to put down.
Our current "official" science denies the existence of such phenomenon as telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, human energy fields and the like - labeling them with derogatory terms like "paranormal", "metaphysical" and less formally "woo woo". People are taught to regard these concepts with a sort of hostile and superior skepticism and dismissal. Respectable mainstream research institutions and peer reviewed journals refuse to even consider the subjects. The common belief is that none of them have been successfully investigated or demonstrated by the scientific method.
I myself had never understood why this attitude was so rigidly held until I came across a passage in a scholarly article that said that the translation of the word "chi" (subtle energy) into English is "spirit". The line in the sand between science and religion that was drawn hundreds of years ago is still in play here - subtle energy and anything having to do with it is simply verboten in our secular sciences because it is perceived as "spirit".
However, the fact of the matter is that thousands upon thousands of rigorously conducted scientific experiments have been conducted that DO show the validity of these phenomenon. And numerous brilliant minds have investigated and explained how and why things like telepathy, remote viewing and distance healing work. This evidence has been swept under the rug, repeatedly, until it has become a towering elephant of unarguable data. Murphy does a brilliant job of throwing back the rug, pulling out the evidence (the depth and breadth of his bibliography is mind-boggling), and explaining how and why it all hangs together.
The explanation, ultimately, is a relatively simple one -the existence of subtle energy, also known as aether/time-space/the zero-point field/the implicate order/torsion fields/the Higgs field (and many other names besides): the holographic connective medium of pure potential and geometric patterning that underlies and connects all of creation. This element has been removed from our cosmology, leaving us in a purely explicate order of separate, mechanical things where there is no approved scientific mechanism to explain the "paranormal".
Murphy shows us that ultimately, it's all normal. He erases the line in the sand between science and spirit with matter of fact clarity, arming those with open minds and disarming the skeptics, bringing us all closer to the resolution of the non- beneficial and illusory science/spirit duality that in many ways defines (and contributes to the sickness of) our culture.
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