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Originally Posted by craig1120
Why is that a necessary jump in your mind? Does science need to be the vehicle for spiritual development?
Of course the individual man can enter into these realms without being a scientist nor following the scientific exegesis.
In days of yore "religion" , via a "revelation" brought news from the supersensible world to which man was able to accept gleefully for he in some measure knew himself as a soul/spiritual being occupying an earthly body.
As my reference to Achilles points out the time of darkness concerning the spiritual came about and played itself out with the advent of modern science of the 15th century. The power and influence of science throughout the world, in present times, is evident even though our mechanisms or machines are not what would be called a pristine scientific endeavor;. there is science and there is technology.
Nonetheless there are those who seek world and cosmic knowledge with a breadth of acknowledgment and those are the scientists. they are on a search, or that to which the religions no longer do, and in this search they influence everyman in house and hut.
Of course nothing comes easy nor should it, for at present the science of our times speaks only to the earth , considers man an earth being, denying the influence of the cosmos of stars, planets, and even wind and weather. On the earth we have the ethos of passions, desires, contentions, and all that which at present separates each and every man from another.
The star borne emollient of a peaceful and rational thought, a spiritual activity, has been arrogated to fulfilling the earthly wants and desires sans the spirit. Look around you; are they not cutting up the planet into bits and pieces attempting to wolf more than his neighbor under pretense of nation, race, gender or whatever else can be manufactured to appease one's egoistic desires ?
This is a destructive process, buoyed by fallacious and fabricated inner contentions of an egoistic self centerdness. The spirit is needed for it speaks to the truth and the divine and it can no longer be separate from the guidance of the scientific milieu. Science and religion can merge in an active activity, not the passive observation of an external world heretofore accomplished.
The comprehension of reincarnation and karma leads one to a knowledge of the nature of the soul and the spirit or the two higher bodies of man. this becomes the science of thought which mandates the insight that a man is born into this world with a characteristic personality and travels between birth and death for his ennoblement; dies and carries those fruits of the earthly sojourn to the Divine , changed and improved, only to gain fruits of the heavens prior to return through birth.
To be clear, reincarnation and karma is not forever for the state spoken to in the Revelation of John and others as the New Jerusalem is the ennobled Man, the cosmic immortal spirit being who by overcoming death enters into new fields of existence.