 131. Quantum Physics (Living Light) |
The God who is irreducibly separate from Man is an Idol, a false God. Such a God is not the God who grants Life and who is Life.
The realm of Nature that Man may only observe and know is a Mirage, a terrifying Illusion, a Lie. Such a World is not the World that is Alive and that is not other than our own Life.
God is not the Supreme Object, related to the body of Man like the Sun is to the Earth.
Nature, or the World-Process, is not the Supreme Object, related to the modern analytical mind like the ancient God was to the ancient religious mind.
God and Nature are a single Paradox, incapable of existing as an Object or Other to Man. Man is inherently involved in the Paradox of the World-Process. Man is inherently one with the Living Presence of Radiant Existence.
All our conventional knowledge and all our archaic beliefs are motives toward Illusion and Idolatry, unless we constantly transcend both knowledge and belief, by intuitive self-surrender into the Ecstasy of Unity with the Living, Radiant, Transcendental Reality, the Paradox in which childish religion and adolescent science constantly dissolve and are transformed.
The radical and more mature (and thus more “esoteric” or less popularly understood) scientific knowledge that is now beginning to emerge (since the original work of Einstein, and others) is pointing beyond the archaic mentality of the mechanical sciences that produced the modern movements of scientific materialism and conventional technology. The radical new scientific movements are founded in the higher and paradoxical physics of Nature, and these movements are less associated with the rigid, mechanical conceptualization of the universe (and the development of absurd technological inventions) than they are with the creation of a new cosmological understanding of the paradoxes of “matter” and of “bodies” and of “things” and of “mind.” The radical new scientific movements are approaching a Divine Conception, in which the primary Destiny of Man is Ecstasy, rather than one or another kind of self-binding success.
Likewise, a radical new understanding of religion and the spiritual process is also now beginning to emerge. That understanding points beyond the archaic mentality of the ancient religions and the naïve mysticism of traditional spirituality. A radical new movement in religion and spiritual science may now be founded on the higher and total psycho-physiology of Man, rather than on naïve cosmologies that are nothing more than symbolic extensions of the neuro-anatomy (or nervous system) of Man himself.
Therefore, the new or emerging culture of Man will be religious or spiritual in the highest evolutionary sense, but it will be associated with a rational cosmological understanding. Likewise, the scientific basis of that new culture of Man will be associated with an essentially Ecstatic or participatory view of Man within the World-Process.
There will be no conflict between religion and science in that new and future culture of Man. Religion will not be irredeemably distorted by the illusions of “subjectivity”, and science will not be irredeemably distorted by the illusions of “objectivity.” Rather, all human beings will engage in common disciplines of knowledge and of self-transcendence (or Ecstasy). It will be a higher human culture, established in the ultimately unknowable Paradox of the Divine Unity, the ultimate Identity of God and Man and the World. And the higher or religious and scientific dimensions of that culture will not be subservient to the vulgar subhuman drama of present-day economics and politics. Rather, the religious and scientific dimensions of the new culture of Man will be the very foundation of the culture—and all matters of economics and politics will be guided and determined by the higher Wisdom of that foundation itself.
