Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark

The latest “Beyond Belief” conference has just been filmed, with contributions from many participants who deal in facts and who actually know what they’re talking about . Don’t expect to see many “crystal healers”, astrologers, etc.

These are crazy times and it’s always hard to believe that the more we learn about the world, the more many of us are receding into the security of cave-man beliefs. Well, that’s just easier, as I’ve written before. It was ever so, but it was never glorified as it is now, and that is the dangerous thing. We now know better and this decadence and willful ignorance is leading to decline.

The videos will be available online soon and are launched with the following portentous quotation from Carl Sagan:

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

Carl Sagan – “The Demon Haunted World”