A New Science Worldview: A Paradigm for Better Living and Working

By Dorn Swerdlin

Most dont realize that the Western World shares a worldview based on the science from about three centuries ago, Newtonian science. This worldview and the science behind it have become both outdated and incomplete.

The good news is that more recent science provides us with an alternative worldview. If enough of us accept the new science worldview and change our beliefs and thinking based on the new view, we can create a peaceful and thriving world; no violence, no wars, no terrorism, no fear, and respect and compassion for all.

A New Science Worldview provides specific steps to help us transform our thinking and beliefs in accordance with the new worldview.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Nov 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452560922

Dorn Swerdlin

Dorn Swerdlin graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics in 1968. Dorn is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and in 1980 he founded Swerdlin & Company, an actuarial consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta. While not a scientist, he has been interested in the relationship between science and spirituality for his entire adult life. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Joanne, and has two children and two beautiful grandchildren.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 10/17/2012

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Worldview

What Is A Worldview?

How To Expand Your Worldview

So How Do We Change Our Beliefs?

Chapter 2 Newtonian Thinking

Chapter 3 Quantum Thinking

Separateness

Determinism

Reductionism

Other Newtonian Concepts

Chapter 4 Consciousness

Chapter 5 Other New Science

Biology

Gaia Theory

Chaos Theory

Morphic Fields

Holographic Paradigm

Chapter 6 2012

Sunspots

Pole Reversal

26,000 Year Cycle

So What?

Chapter 7 Creating The New Science Worldview

Consciousness

Changing The Worldview

Change Beliefs

Change Thinking

Change Worldview

Consciousness

Critical Mass

New World

Bibliography

To my grandchildren,

Graham and Avery.

PREFACE

Although I cover many scientific concepts in this book, I am not a scientist. I am an actuary by profession and have had no formal training in physics, biology, or chemistry, except for basic courses in high school and college. What I know about these fields as well as New Science (to be defined later) I learned from reading books written for laymen.

My passion since my early 20’s has been spirituality. Later in life a friend introduced me to quantum physics. We searched for books about science, and others about spirituality. We would then talk about what we read. It became clear to us that many scientific concepts have counterparts in spirituality, especially ideas in some Eastern teachings. They both describe the same phenomenon. This idea fascinated me.

In the early 1990’s my wife Joanne and I attended an intensive leadership program presented by The Center for Authentic Leadership. In this program I learned more about science and spirituality as it applies to leadership. Around the same time my whole family, Joanne and our two children, Lee and Allison, learned to meditate. One of the leaders in the meditation program was Deepak Chopra, M.D. Dr. Chopra is a spiritual leader and has authored over 65 books. I was immediately attracted to his teachings because he spoke about new science and its connection with spirituality. A few years ago I was certified as a Primordial Sound Meditation teacher at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. My goal as a meditation teacher has been to teach employees of my firm to meditate. My reasons are twofold; to enhance the quality of life for our employees, and to improve the culture in our firm. As a business owner of an actuarial consulting firm, I have seen ways to improve our firm by thinking in a different way based on the science of the last 100 years.

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