I mean Science or Spirituality?

24. February 2019 – Text & Photo original by Diana

If you would live on the surface of a coin, let’s say the head, you would most probably be aware only of that part of the coin. The same if you live on the tail side. Let’s imagine that someone who lives on the tail side meets on the edge of the coin (the only point where they could meet each other) someone from the other side.

They begin to speak about their worlds. There maybe be some common things, like the gravitational laws or the material their world is made, and perhaps they look quite alike. But there are certainly some things they could not agree about, namely the perspective. And indeed from their different worlds, they see the stuff around differently. They could never agree about what are they seeing.

But imagine yourself keeping this coin with your fingers. You can move it around and see both surfaces of the coin, and you would know they are not two separate or different things, but they both build just one. You can see this, only when you transcend the appearance of this “two” worlds.

Making an analogy, I consider the science and spirituality are the two levels that build our world. I see that clearly! Nowadays are only a few domains where the scientists are speaking the same language with the spiritualists, and this is Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics!

The Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California was founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who took part in the Apollo 14 mission. This Institute conducts researches, studies and experiments on the intersection between science and the profound human experience, on topics such as spontaneous remissions, meditation, consciousness, alternative healing practices, consciousness-based healthcare, spirituality, human potential, psychic abilities, telekinesis and consciousness after death.
In their studies, they try to understand how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world. So, it seems that these scientists managed already to transcend the physicality in their research. If you want to know more about noetics: https://noetic.org.

But of course, there are also many scientists who are criticising these researches and their results. So even if it is a subject of controversy, such an institute opens the path of unification between science and spirituality and the acceptance of a truth: that we are both physical and spiritual bodies.

Many years ago at a conference, a speaker said:

“The one who drinks the glass of science by half becomes an atheist, one who drinks the glass of science to the bottom becomes faithful.”

I would paraphrase that by saying that the one who drank the glass of science to the bottom does not believe, but he knows that there is a force that brought the universe into existence. Someone calls It God, other Creator, other Great Architect or the Universal Energy Field.
The name really doesn’t matter, isn’t it?