Editorial March 26, 2001 Issue

News you may have missed

Russ Gerber

Just about anything qualifies as news these days. A celebrity's wedding, political gossip, who-wore-what to the Academy Awards. When something truly big happens, on the magnitude of a major scientific advance, one naturally assumes the story will get widespread coverage.

A significant evolution of thought is going on in society that has yet to capture the spotlight it deserves. It's a profound shift in humanity's most basic assumptions about the basis of life. Matter—the substance so long believed to be the foundation of everything—is gradually losing the bedrock support it once had among physicists and researchers. "To put the conclusion crudely," wrote distinguished physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, "the stuff of the world is mind-stuff." Or, as author and physicist Dr. David Darling, a recent guest on the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition, put it in his book Equations of Eternity, "The freeing of the mind from its organic shackles will be the most spectacular leap in the evolution of consciousness as a whole."

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