Siren Song

Perhaps the shamanic traditions of this planet are the keepers of an understanding that uses the human body/brain/mind as its vehicle, leaving the present state of the art, which our own "scientific method" has achieved, a very poor second. This is really an old idea—the siren song of Pythagoras— that the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than... 

See R. F. Bellamy, Medical effects of conventional weapons, World Journal of Surgery, 16, 1992, 888-92, quoted in L. Klotz, M. Furmanski and M. Wheelis, Beware the Siren s Song Why Non-LethaV Incapacitating Chemical Agents Are Lethal, April 2003, available at the Federation of American Scientists website www.fas.org/bwc/papers/sirens song.pdf, last accessed 28 November 2003. 

Just the same way that adventurous and enterprising explorers from France, England, Spain, and the Netherlands competed to claim land in the New World, modem chemists have been lured by the siren songs of fame, fortune, and innate curiosity to claim and develop new reactions involving C—H bond activation. Doubtlessly, the development of cross-coupling reactions that involve C-H activation has become one of the most competitive fields in modem synthesis research. The field has matured rapidly over the past two decades and has been reviewed numerous times. ... 

Fawcett, Quirm. 2003. Siren Song. New York Forge Books. 

Rene Lemarchand, The Siren Song of Self-determination , 6 UNESCO Courier (1993). 

Comes, R. 1990. The siren song of software . The Guardian, 19 July. 

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