Friday, April 5, 2013

An 8-week Online Course


Starting Science From God
An 8-week SHS Outreach Online Course
April 22—June 14, 2013
Tuition — Free
Course enrollment limited to 15 students
Dr. Ian Thompson,
Nuclear Physicist and Swedenborgian Author
 Many of us sense there is something real beyond the scope of naturalistic science. But what? Must mental and religious lives always remain a mystery and never become part of scientific knowledge? Can theism ever be connected with science? This course will explain a new rational approach to combining science and theism, using ideas from Emanuel Swedenborg. It presents theism as a scientific theory, explaining its basic postulates, consequences and predictions as simply as possible and without paradox. Dr Thompson will show how a following of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the universe. Students will see if those predictions agree with the world as they observe it, both externally in nature and internally in our minds. In fact, they mesh surprisingly well with the structure of reality already revealed by modern quantum field theory and by theories of developmental stages in human minds. The result is a promising new rational theory encompassing theology, psychology and physics.
The content will be based on the book of the same name: 
Starting Science From God  by Ian J. Thompson,
published by Eagle Pearl Press, 2011. ISBN 0984822801.
Available from Amazon and by order from all booksellers,
and also as ebook for Kindle, Nook and iBooks

Buying Options
Registration will open shortly. Course will be available for CEU credit
For more information please email:  fmccrossan@shs.psr.edu
Sponsored by the Swedenborgian House of Studies at Pacific School of Religion — www.shs.psr.edu