How can we unify the relationship between matter and soul, about science and spirituality? This is a fast growing debate, in the past few years many scholars belonging to both fields of knowledge tried to give a possible explanation to the correlation between what can been observed and what is “invisible”, but nonetheless real and experienced since millennia.
Science, or better modern science, is based on the interpretation of observed phenomena, where we can extrapolate laws well supported by mathematical proof. At the other end lie spirituality, religions, every sort of events we cannot give a defined explanation. Every discipline claims its own right for being superior and unmistakable true, and so the different followers, mathematicians, physicists, astronomers by one side, shamans, healers, priests, mystics by the other.
More often is felt we need to unify both doctrines, find a univocal explanation for a theory of everything. Quantum physicists started making assumptions and formulating their questions whether the relationship mind – matter could eventually be explained. The main question is how all the –yet unknown phenomena can be inserted in a scientific frame. We are at the moment far from an answer but there are promising elements which can preclude a feeble tentative of integration between two apparent opposite realities.
The frontier of physics research is about particle accelerators. With these massive machines we can accelerate beams of particles to extremely high velocities, making them collide with each other at energies extremely close to those of creation, the Big Bang. Scientists hope to find proof to theoretical solutions about the origin of the universe and the forces we perceive in our world.
One interesting theory, conceived to justify the weakness of gravity, takes into account extra dimensions, extensions of space and time with totally different characteristic from the four we know. These dimensions are invisible to us but we can register their effects on tiny particles and deduce their existence alongside with their form and extension.
This is clearly supported by well tested mathematics and there is really a strong possibility to find their existence in a few years. So what about the unknown, what about the cluster of phenomena without any explanation? OBE (out of body experience), telekinesis, lucid dreaming, manifesting, just to name few? If extra dimensions do exist, and they are not visible, apart that validate particles energy, could they been taken as channels to give explanation to what is considered “magic” since millennia? This is a risky question, I know, but this is not an academic paper, and I want just to share opinions. I feel very much like an heavy curtain is going to be raised, and something will come to light. I trust both science (matter) and soul (spirituality), and I think they are only an aspect of the same thing, time will just tell us.
Others feel that we have ‘genetic memory’
encoded in our DNA which is imprinted in our cells and which is why we may feel drawn to or repelled by certain places, things.
I get this feeling, too. Genes are not enough to explain our psychological phenomena. Synaptic theories even less so. Slight variations in membrane potentials are in my own opinion far too unstable (I am moving my head all the time and nerves are tiny things!). On the other side: I am not sure we know all the functions of all the cellular substructures.
Certainly, people with similar genetic structures do feel a sort of affinity, but so do some that have none of that. Just check how much of our genes we actually share with chimpanzees!!!
Why do you think I LOVE this website??? Does Elio leave some quantum material on it??? Just joking, but it does say a lot of mysterious ways in which people who have never met and are probably vastly different, come to the same conclusions on very uninvestigatable subjects. We are somehow connected with the same ideas that we hope to become an exciting truth soon.
I researched this morning, trying to find more information on “Veritism” and I found that Wikipedia has nothing written on it or its founder Alfred Globus. From the inside flap of the book “Veritism: The Relationship of Science to Theology”:
“VERITISM is a form of philosophy which embodies the combination of theology and science in which logic and rationality alter the nature of theology until it bears a closer similitude to science…If theology will stand upon the shoulders of science, it can see farther and deeper into a universe shrouded in mystery…”
Religion requires FAITH, often a blind belief. Science requires PROOF, often visible and repeatable results. On this level the perception of a chasm between the two exists.
However, the world is not always so black and white. Human development is mirrored in global development. As the vibrational frequency of humans is elevated, things that were a mystery before become clear. (because you cannot solve a problem from the same developmental level where you created it.) Dualistic thinking simply indicates which developmental level a person is on. We can all move past dualistic, black and white thinking, and then the problem itself ceases to be.
Often before a paradigm is broken, the people who will become pioneers in any new era are treated as lunatics.
So, you asked about the unknown phenomena, and how we can explain it. We must first evolve on a global scale and then we will be able to grasp the concept of what’s really going on beyond our field of vision.
Elio
Should be interesting when Cern is launched tomorrow.
Science will discover the dimensions that I know are there and because science and humans in general have to see to believe, the marriage of so called “new age” beliefs and science is coming very soon.
Seth
@Gregory
I’ve heard of this theory. Very interesting, I might do some research, thank you.
@Antoinette
Thanks for your kind comment. I agree they are only feelings at the moment, but I am confident that something will be discovered quite soon:)
@Jessica
Interesting theory. Right, we must further our evolution, this is absolutely true. These are aspects of reality we can just idealize, and perhaps grasp some concepts here and there, like the top of an iceberg. Nontheless, if extra-dimensions do exist, the world as we conceive it will drastically change, it will be more complex and full of possibilities and explanations.
Elio:
I just saw this post about particle accelerators
http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/8421 at reality sandwich. I didn’t know they were such a threat to society! There are people dead-set against these experiments to recreate the big bang.