 145. Science (Legitimacy) |
The Legitimacy of Science and the Falseness
of Scientific Materialist Philosophy
In the "modern" West, the findings of science are often presumed, especially by those deeply involved in (or sympathetic with) the scientific endeavor, to have undermined the (historically inherited) absolute propositions of conventional (or exoteric) "religion".
However, both conventional "religion" and the philosophy of scientific materialism (which seeks to criticize conventional "religion" as if conventional "religion" were the totality of the paths and Ways of humankind) are characteristic (and characteristically limited) "products" of the Omega [or Western] "point of view".
Science (itself) is simply a "method" for the free investigation of the phenomena of conditionally manifested existence — but science (itself) tends to be overlaid with the (traditional and ancient) philosophy of materialism, which philosophy is very much a part of the gross-minded Omega culture of the West.
The scientific examination of conditional phenomena has resulted in (and continues to pursue) the detailed mapping of the mechanisms of conditionally manifested existence, including much detailed knowledge about the functioning human organism and about the development of various modes of conditionally manifested life on Earth. (Of course, conventional "religionists" — in the attempt to defend their "creationist" mythologies — propagandize against evolutionary theories, and other scientifically proposed explanations that seem to contradict the traditionally held views of conventional "religion".)
Equipped with such maps of the structures of the human entity, proponents of scientific materialism have criticized many of the traditionally acknowledged means of accounting for human "experience" (including Spiritual "experience" and Realization), claiming that conscious "experience" amounts to nothing more than evidence of how the human brain and the extended human body are "built" to function.
According to this scientific materialist "point of view", Spiritual "experience" and Realization (and, indeed, all of human "experience" and Realization) is merely something happening in the "meat-organism", determined by its presumed-to-be-separate and fundamentally physical structuring.
That conclusion regarding the nature of human "experience" and Realization is the superimposition of scientific materialist philosophy on the legitimate observations made by means of the "scientific method". And that conclusion regarding the nature of human "experience" and Realization is a key fault, which makes scientific materialism a false philosophy.
The physical structures of the human mechanism do, in fact, pattern human "experience" and human behavior, including scientific behavior — and the entire psycho-physical range of potential human "experience" and Realization (only a fraction of which has been investigated by the efforts of conventional science) can be understood in terms of My "Map" of the seven stages of life, by means of which I have Revealed how all potential human developments are intrinsically related to the various (hierarchically interrelated) structures of the human psycho-physical (and not exclusively physical) mechanism.
And, indeed, the findings of esoteric Yogic investigation are entirely compatible with what may be observed about the structure of the human entity by means of the "scientific method" (which is still, in the "modern" era, very much "in process" relative to its attempt to discover explanations for the complex realities of human "experience" and Realization). However, the scientific materialist "point of view" reduces everything to observable physical structures — as if (for example) the association between human Spiritual "experience" and Realization and certain structures in the human brain proves that Spirituality is nothing but a "side-effect" of the functioning of the brain.
