Scientific
Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the
White House!
Chapter 3: Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will
Not Be Announced by the White House
The False Religion of Scientific Knowledge
Scientists tend to imagine themselves to be “humanists,”
or individuals who possess a superior regard for the
well-being of mankind. Indeed, organized groups of
scientists commonly promote themselves as a kind of
independently superior and humanistic conscience, whereas in
fact their general effect on the world is often quite the
opposite. (At the very least, their effect is no more
superior or ultimately beneficial than that of any other
organized and socially powerful point of view, past or
present.)
The scientific establishment has been organized in league
with the highest levels of concentrated political, economic,
and propagandistic power in the world today. Science is
simply the primary method of knowing in modern societies,
and its rule is established in no less an irrational and
authoritarian manner than was the case with any religious or
philosophical principle that ruled societies in the
past.
The method of science has now become a style of
existence, a mood or strategy of relating to the world and
to other human beings. That method now describes the
conventional posture taken by “Everyman” in every form of
his relationship to the conditions of existence. Science has
become a world-view, a presumption about the World-Process
itself. It has become a religion, although a false one. And
modern societies are Cults of this new religion. Can this
new religion establish us as individuals and communities in
right relationship to each other and to the World-Process?
Absolutely not! Science is only a method of inquiry, or
knowing about . It is not itself the right, true, or
inherent form of our relationship to the conditions of
existence. No matter what we may know about the conditions
of existence, we cannot account for existence itself. And we
are, regardless of our personal and present state of
knowledge about the natural mechanics of the world, always
responsible for our right relationship to the various
conditions of experience, to the beings with whom we exist
in this world, and to the World-Process as a whole.
Relationship is inherently and perpetually a matter of
individual responsibility, founded in intuition, prior to
the analytical mind.
The method that is science is inherently incapable of
establishing us in a right relationship to the conditions of
existence . Love and self-transcendence are realized outside
or prior to the play of conventional knowledge. The
scientific method is not a moral or a spiritual and
intuitive disposition. It is a strategy for acquiring
objective knowledge. If it were a moral disposition, then
scientists would all be great moral beings. But in fact, the
daily application of the scientific method is not itself a
moral practice, or a kind of meditation that transforms the
practitioner. Rather, the application of the strategy of
scientific inquiry is only a special intellectual
discipline, and it forever stands outside the higher
intuitive and radical psycho-physical processes whereby the
individual may be transformed in either evolutionary or
moral or spiritual terms.
Those who embrace the attitude of verbal thinking,
observing, analyzing, comparing, categorizing, and so forth
must understand that to do so is not the same thing as to
exist and live in the most fundamental and responsible
terms. Rather, it is merely a way of observing and verbally
considering the patterns of phenomena, in order to know
about them. And if one abandons the fundamental process of
self-transcending Communion and unity with the
World-Process, and opts instead and exclusively for the
position of the separated analytical observer, then one
begins to operate in defiant opposition to the primary
conditions of human existence.
Science must again become simply a method of inquiry, and
it must be renounced as the universal style of our very
relationship to the conditions of existence. It must cease
to characterize the totality of Man himself. Rather, it must
again become an “employee” of Man-a specialized instrument
for certain kinds of work. Otherwise, Man will cease to be
capable of either the moral or the spiritual and
evolutionary exercise of personal responsibility.
The verbal mind, or the left hemisphere of the human
brain, is not suited to be the Ruler of Man. It is only an
attribute or potentiality of Man. Therefore the “urge” to
science, which is the ultimate method of the analytical or
verbal mind, must be disciplined and held in right
perspective by a higher or more complete understanding.
Every exercise of a part of Man must be understood relative
to Man as a whole, and submitted to the process and ultimate
Condition that includes and involves Man prior to all his
knowledge.
The right hemisphere of the human brain was once the
Ruler of Man, in early societies founded in the methods of
magic, psychism, and a truly active and inward religious
consciousness. But the method of psychic inquiry proved to
have severe limitations, because of the variables involved
in personal subjective processes and the competitive
conflicts between societies organized around different
historical accumulations of conventional religious belief.
Therefore, the functions of the left hemisphere of the human
brain began to evolve and to achieve cultural prominence.
And now they are the dominant characteristic of modern
verbal and analytical Man. But the results of the dominance
of the left brain are equally as limited, troublesome, and
psychologically devastating as the results of dominance by
the right brain.
The right-brained or “oriental” Man enjoys psychic
attunement with the World-Process, but he cannot
differentiate himself sufficiently to acquire responsibility
for his destiny in the natural world of psycho-physical
phenomena. And the left-brained or “occidental” Man, even
though he is committed to responsible analysis of natural
phenomena and control over the laws that govern the
World-Process, is incapable of the higher morality or
disposition of self-surrender, self-transcendence, psychic
illumination, and participatory Communion with the Radiant
Transcendental Reality that may be intuited to be the Truth
of the World-Process and the Source of the Happiness of
Man.
Therefore, we must awaken from our solid pose of
intellectual superiority and our irrational belief that
knowledge about the processes of natural phenomena makes a
superior humanity. A superior humanity will not be derived
from authoritarian scientific decrees, imposed through
powerful technologies. Man cannot live happily, nor survive
long, without the intuitive certainty of Transcendental
Love, or Spiritual Communion with Divine Power, Bliss, and
Purpose. Without higher religious consciousness (free of the
dogmatic nonsense of conventional religious beliefs), the
future made by scientific acculturation is an abominable
fiction, a mechanical contrivance in which Man is,
paradoxically, both satisfied in his desires and desperate
in his being.
And I do not argue this point of view out of despair. I
have Realized the Truth, and I see the present and the
ancient errors in Man. I am also a knower about the natural
world, except that I have been committed to the higher
discipline of Man as a totality, and Man as an inherent
Sacrifice in God. Therefore, I have seen all the mechanisms
of our evolution, and I have understood all the necessary
structures of a true culture of Man. But it is extremely
difficult to be heard in the midst of a society that is
bound and determined to follow its present strategy to the
end of its course. The Wisdom of transforming our
disposition before we fail is considered disdainfully by the
popular and intellectual mentalizing of this day. Everyone
is endlessly chatting, comparing concepts, looking for
consoling pleasures, fascinations of mind and body. Everyone
is possessed by a lust for knowledge about the natural world
and about the experiential mechanism of Man. But it seems
that very few are interested in being Man at this present
time. Very few seem willing to accept the discipline that is
the totality of Man and to fulfill the destiny of personal
transformation in bodily, emotional, psychic, mental, and
Transcendental unity with the Radiant Mystery of the
World-Process, which is eternally prior to all our
knowing.
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