Science as a spiritual practice – Authentic spirituality

The real purpose of spirituality is to rediscover your authentic path in life. Spirituality that already gives you answers and a readily trampled path to follow is not spirituality but a religion. Authentic spirituality always starts from the individual, not from the blueprint of the spiritual belief system you are attempting to follow. Many masters have made the mistake of finding their own path and then thinking that the same path will suit others, but that is not the case. We are all here to master our own field of study or passion; a musician should practise music, a painter should practise painting, a scientist should practise science, and all professions added to that; spiritual mastery is only one of the many goals life has to offer, no higher or lower than anything else, but one that has always held a major chip on its practiser’s shoulder to be held supreme among other practises.

Science has always been at odds with the spiritual teachers and masters, particularly the religious leaders. Both true science and authentic spirituality, however, have ONE GOAL, and that goal is the same for both of them, at least, it should be: To discover the truth, and neither of the disciplines should be afraid of questioning the current perception, the understanding of the truth. Both should be open to the fact that our ability to understand things is rapidly growing, and therefore, our ability to explain events is also growing and expanding. The pathway that each discipline takes to the truth is different and argued, but the goal, for both, is absolutely 100% the same. Now, both the scientists and the spiritualists are equally prone of making the same mistake in each corner; excluding scientific information from the spiritual study, and excluding spiritual information from the scientific study. Each should understand that two truths cannot contradict each other, and if they do, one or both of them is not true. So rather than ignore the findings of the other field, each should thrive to explain the other… With something a little more intelligent than “hallucination” or “imagination”.

Authentic spirituality should help science, not hinder it

Authentic spirituality, that doesn’t hold a ready answer prior conducting an experiment, in science, can be an incredibly helpful tool to discover more truths about the study. A lot of science is hindered by the lack of allowance to the spiritual side, because what spirituality can do is to help science along with leaps and bounce, the same way as science can help spiritual people get closer and closer to the truth as they go along. Spirituality can already KNOW the truth before science can prove it, but science can fortify the findings of spiritual study, if, the spiritual study was anywhere near the truth in the first place unless the spiritual practitioner is actually simply holding onto dogma, like the current scientists are holding onto the Big Bang theory, seeing holes in it but too eager to uphold the theory as the truth, because… That’s the way they’ve decided things started!

It is important, for both the spiritual and the scientific community to recognise the emotion that denotes a staunch decision to uphold a previously held idea or theory over the truth. When reality starts questioning the validity of a belief or a theory, one should instantly jump to the chance of discovering more, not insist that the theory or belief is true, no matter what new information is discovered about it, simply because an older piece of text says it is so. This is an equally valid point in scientific religion: “There is no god” or “there is no soul” or “there is  no afterlife”, discounting all evidence on the contrary “because it was biassed”. (Pot calling kettle black?)

It is also to be noted that atheism is not a scientifically valid belief system. An Atheist has already decided what the result of an examination should be, just like a Christian would have. Agnosticism is a scientifically valid philosophy: “I don’t know yet. I will make up my mind as I gather more evidence.” An Atheist, by definition, isn’t open to changing their minds if the evidence points them to another result, but they will defend their point of view of KNOWING that God doesn’t exist, or they are forced to change their religion.

An open mind is the key in authentic spirituality the same way as in true science, because… None of us should be too certain of having found the answer until the evidence fully supports it.

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