Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

Creative Evolution

Reared in the sacred Hindu Tradition, Amit has devoted his career to integrating science and spirituality.

He shows that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being. Here he takes the final step, integrating all science into a coherent whole in a way that resolves the heated controversy between evolution and intelligent design. This revolutionary work will encourage and satisfy you:

-If you believe in intelligent design but see through the naivete of creationists

-If you don’t care for intelligent-design talk, but see through the naive materialism of neo-Darwinish thought

-If you are a thoughtful lay reader or professional scientist tired of seeing the field of biology become preoccupied with engineering while shunning the search for the human soul.

True believers (either in scientific materialism or in the Bible) are also warmly welcomed. Goswami’s vision may heal, not only the divide between evolution and intelligent design, but all deep societal rifts arising from the division of scientifc and spiritual thought. It may also lead to a new paradigm for biology – one that recognizes lifes purposefulness.

Does Spiritual Economics Solve Capitalism?

Does spiritual economics introduced in a previous article solve the problems mentioned of capitalism?

First, the problem of limited resources. Capitalistic growth economics depends crucially on keeping consumer demands going. This is done often by creating artificial physical needs. An example is new annual fashions for women’s garments. It is very wasteful, very detrimental to finite resources.

In idealist economics, as people’s higher needs are met even partially, their physical needs reduce, reducing the demand for consumption reducing the wastage of limited material resources. The economy still expands, but in the higher planes where the resources are unlimited (there is no limit on love and satisfaction!).

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Toward a Spiritual Economics

Many people think that capitalism and market economics grew out of materialist philosophy that classical physics has given us. But this is myopic thinking of people who have missed the evolution of consciousness in the affairs of the manifest world.

First notice that during the period that capitalism developed in the hands of such luminaries as Adam Smith, it was Cartesian dualism under the modernist umbrella that was the influential metaphysic, not materialism. In modernism, mind and meaning are valued. Continue reading…