 144. Science |
Many words and books are needed to explain the natural science of the modern world, and only after specializing can one understand even part of the truth. Through the integral Way, one needs only to look at one simple picture to achieve real learning. From this illustration one can understand that the function of these mental capabilities are different.
I am not saying that one way of knowledge is greater than the other, but I do think that each has different functions and that the values of each should be equally recognized. Intellectual knowledge can, of course, help explain integral knowledge of the truth.
Words, language and descriptive methods can all serve and carry the message of truth; however, they are not the truth itself. The integral mind participates directly with the truth; the intellect is only its messenger. Only one who knows the truth can accurately explain it. Such knowledge comes from the inside out, as opposed to intellectual knowledge which comes from the outside in.
This is the divergence between ancient and modern knowledge. If you that knowledge is the harvest and mind is the tool, then you must also agree that the harvest is limited by its tools. Without the guidance of the integral mind, how can one fuse all other known elements of the mind?
-Hua Ching Ni
Franklin Jones States:
Scientific materialism is the dominant philosophy and world-view of modern humanity. In scientific materialism, the method of science or the observation of the objective phenomena, is made into a philosophy and way of life that SUPPRESSES our native impulse to liberation.
ORDINARY RELIGION, ORDINARY SCIENCE, and ORDINARY CULTURE seek to experience, to know, to gain an advantage with respect to, and to gain control over what is mysterious, what is unknown, what is threatening. ORDINARY RELIGION, ORDINARY SCIENCE, and ORDINARY CULTURE want to achieve, absolute power for human beings. The quest for power (or control) over the unknown is the collective egoic pursuit (or aggressive search) of mankind, in the midst of (and on the basis of) the universal human reactions of egoic fear, sorrow, and anger – or the universal denial of un-condition relational love (and the universal non-Realization of the Love-Bliss That Is the Inherent Characteristic of Reality Itself). To affirm (as the world-culture of scientific materialism does) that this "All" of space-time is merely materiality – limited, dying, and effectively, dead – is, itself, a kind of aggressive affirmation of power, a collective cultural manifestation of a dissociative (or self-contracted) disposition that is merely afraid, self-absorbed, and deeply depressed by anger.
"Matter" is Light – not merely ordinary light (which can even change its speed, or fly about and be reflected on surfaces, and so on), but Fundamental Light Itself. Which is inherently Indivisible, inherently Unbroken. The conditional (or space-time) universes are a manifestation of the apparent breaking of Fundamental Light – a curious, simple, apparent "difference" (or division) within Fundamental Light (or Unlimited and Unconditional Energy, Itself). But Fundamental Light (Itself), or Unlimited and Unconditional Energy (Itself), Is Love-Bliss (Itself), the (Self-Evidently) Divine"Brightness". Therefore, the Real Condition (or Reality-Context) of space-time (or the conditional. Or Cosmic, or psycho-physical, domain) Is Love-Bliss (Itself). Space-time (and even the entirety of all beings, or conditions apparent within it). Is (in and As Reality Itself) Love-Bliss (Itself). Love-Bliss (Itself) Is Reality (Itself) and Truth (Itself). Love-Bliss (Itself) Is the Only Real God.
