YouTube delivers interviews with a great many scientists whose life’s passion is to understand the meaning of their discoveries.
That’s why we know science has, for instance, actually measured the age of known existence. Scientists wonder at how far mankind has come in a comparatively miniscule number of years of sentient existence to discover there are wonders like actual machines made of proteins in our cells; that the universe is so vast, trillions upon trillions of galaxies with trillions of planets and galaxies for instance, that even they contain trillions of planets too; that infinity might not exist; that mankind is made up of the same materials as the stars; that mankind has begun its emigration to the cosmos; that there may be a design to existence, perhaps even a designer; that scientists are beginning to accept we are at a very primitive stage of a very short lived existence.
But all of this human fortune and scientific effort is limited to examination of material, physical, mass existence, though since the 70’s there has been an outburst of worldwide university level examination of the experience of non materiality. Scientists now exist who wrote doctoral theses that dealt exclusively with non material human experiences like MER.
Nevertheless, the error of science in trying to grasp mysticism is that all such scientific effort, from Eckhart, James, Huxley, Jung, Rumi, the Tao and all the others is built on the presumption MER is all about humans. It isn’t.
It’s about humans becoming something other than human, even more like Reality than we are now, even the nearest to Reality already experienced in varying degrees by the spiritually sensitive, Seekers and even mystics.
The short lived human body and brain dissolve on death. Our truer more expansive destiny lies beyond.
However, we have to ask, do the above points give cause for hope the mystic experience is slowly, inexorably, taking the subject mainstream?
After all, the MER’s expressed in this Blog do indicate mankind’s destiny is not the stars, not even anything to do with mass, the material, at all …
Revolutionary eh?
All is Well.
Mystical Experiences of Reality 
Love the new header! Yes, about time modern science gave up its didactic and extremist approach. The materialists have long been on jihad and its about time they understood they are probably missing 9/10ths of reality
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It is true that some scientists are beginning to acknowledge that there is more to reality than the purely physical and are “trying to grasp mysticism” (the Galileo Commission for example). Their focus however tends to be headed ‘the science of spirituality’ and, since they are encouraging and enabling an acceptance of a spiritual dimension to life, one might think these are shifts in the right direction. I am not so sure.
A science of spirituality seems to be based on the premise that once science understands something then it becomes accepted. Mmm. Sorry but isn’t that whole premise part of the problem?
To my perspectives, the troubles facing the world are because we rely on science and technology to solve all our problems, rather than accepting and working with our innate spiritual selves. Let me explain.
Following on from various equality movements, such as Black Lives Matter, there is now an active decolonisation agenda across a number of spheres of human life (including, for example, academia). Gradually this is highlighting how so many aspects of human activity have been colonised by a very particular way of thinking and working. Until recently this has been characterized by “white, male, European”, these being the individuals responsible for colonising so many lands around the globe over the centuries.
But is that the real or only issue here? With white colonisers has come the idea of ownership of land, of hierarchical control and of rational thought. And, as the supremacy of rational consciousness has spread, so it has swept aside connection with land and seasons and a natural way our thinking, as practice even today by indigenous peoples. It is not just lands, peoples and cultures that have been colonised but ways are thinking. And a big part of that spread of rational consciousness has come in the shape of science.
This, I would go so far as suggesting that science has colonised human consciousness.
This colonisation has become so all encompassing of human endeavour that there is a belief, so subconscious that few of us are even aware of it, that anything that does not fit within the remit of science does not exist and has no meaning!
To talk about ‘the science of spirituality’ is to further this erroneous belief! Spirituality, a felt connection to something beyond the rational and even human, exists in and of itself. It does not need a science to explain it! On the contrary, those of us who have experienced the mystical, the spiritual, have found our minds transcended, beyond the rational and scientific.
Thus, to promote a science of spirituality, to me, is part of the problem not part of the solution. The spiritual, the divine, existed long before science and will exist long after it. It may well be that for many years to come science will play an important part in society but the spiritual has to live at least alongside it, not be subsumed by it. Are those of us who have had a transcendent experiences know that the spiritual pervades absolutely everything. It is the inner, the spiritual that gives life meaning. Let us not take away that meaning, its innate value, by attempting to creating a science of it.
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