The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | DECEMBER 1934
SCIENCE AND THE MIND
IT IS MOST interesting to note how modern science is now beginning to accept certain fundamental truths concerning the mind and consciousness that mystical and occult students discovered long ago—in fact, have known for centuries.
You will note in the following excerpt from the New York Times what Sir James Jeans states about all outer material things having no existence except as thought pictures in man’s mind, and will recognize this as stated at different times in editorials in this Magazine during the past two years. In fact, your Editor published this statement in an article in another Magazine back in 1926, going to considerable detail to prove how it is true.
But as science is now beginning to give its attention to the invisible world of mind, we may expect that such remarkable thinkers as Sir James Jeans, Prof. Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir Oliver Lodge, James Harvey Robinson, and others, will soon give to the world many more of the truths that you are now reading in the various articles herein on the Mind.
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Sept. 5.—Space and time and the physical world of substances have no objective reality apart from the mental concepts of them that man creates with his mind. This is “the new world-picture of modern physics as painted before a gathering of the most distinguished British scientists by Sir James Jeans, in his presidential address, at the opening here tonight of the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sounding the swan song of the old Newtonian physics with its fixed universe and its unchangeable laws, Sir James Jeans declared that nothing was real in the new world of modern physics except what is in our consciousness and our perceptions.
“Our minds can only be acquainted with things inside themselves—never with things outside,” Sir James Jeans told the meeting at Aberdeen last night. Thus we can never know the essential nature of anything, such as a centimeter or a wave-length, which exists in that mysterious world outside ourselves to which our minds can never penetrate; but we
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