“The anthropic principle, also known as the “observation selection effect”, is the hypothesis, first proposed in 1957 by Robert Dicke, that the range of possible observations that we could make about the universe is limited by the fact that observations could only happen in a universe capable of developing intelligent life in the first place.”
This is the scientific view. Science seems to have come to the basic understanding existence is so big on so many levels it is beyond the design of human beings to comprehend anywhere near such an intricate, complex vastness. (Professor Geoffrey Hinton, ‘the godfather’ of AI, a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, ex Google AI engineer now Professor at Toronto Unversity, says AI will soon see things humans will never see).
The mystic experience is much like the current science conclusion, but mystic experience is of a Reality that is much larger. This Reality that creates and sustains everything known and unknown reveals part of Its vastness only to humans in which it develops the abilities to know some of Reality, i.e., mystics.
Even then, mystics are not given more than they can humanly bear. Mystics become spiritual whilst remaining part human as this process develops them to know more.
Mystics are given discernment. They become aware of humanity’s history and its limited evolutionary future. They see humanity as a hindrance to spiritual growth. They keep humanity at arms length. (Those who don’t can lead unhappy if not dramatically tragic ends, as human history shows).
Science in the meantime only sees endless evolutionary development of the cosmos as an exciting promise of limitless assuagement of their chronic, spiritually ignorant, materialistic curiosity …
All Is Well.
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Mystical Experiences of Reality 