Modern Materialistic Science states emphatically, that there is the real world. The physical world. It exists, and it is what is real.
"Metaphysics, dreams, OBEs, spirits, God, all of these are things that man made up", these hierophants say. However, if you ask a Yogi, they will say that this physical world is nothing but an illusion.
Modern science made the largest of errors when they decided to split physics from metaphysics. After that, they got rid of the aether, and now science hasn't progressed in dozens of years, because they threw away the real, to explore the imaginary.
Is it really the real world?
Modern Materialistic Science believes that they are exploring the real world, however, by their own experiments, an atom is 99% "empty" space. (as in, there isn't anything there. Mostly)
The Modern Materialistic Hieropant slams his hand down onto the table, and exclaims, "This is real!" While the quantum physicists discuss the experiment results that say that unless you are looking at it, it is just a wave pattern. It doesn't really exist.
Experiments have routinely failed to prove that reality exists.
And then you get all kinds of strange stories. Mothers lifting cars to save their child. People surviving accidents where their car is completely crushed, and they are sitting on the grass next to the road. People having experiences of dejavu. All kinds of strange anomalies that shouldn't happen "in the real world".
Despite all of this, the ivory tower hierophants hold firm to the notions that they are studying the real world.
Where does thought happen?
Most Modern Materialistic Scientists shout that thought happens in the brain. Thought is the electrical stimulations in our cranium.
However, everyone who has had an OBE, or gone very deep into meditation, or astral traveled all know that thought is happening in the body. They are off, somewhere else, far from the body, and they are still thinking. Yogis and other deep spiritual practitioners have all gotten to states where they know that thought isn't happening inside the brain.
There are even cases where someone in a hospital is having an OBE, and their brain waves are showing no activity. And then, they come back, and tell the hospital people about where they have been and what has been happening (sometimes telling the hospital staff what they were doing in another room, while their body laid in ER). So, how were they having thoughts, while their brain wasn't doing anything?
The problem is, that all of this evidence is personal experiences. Not testable, not repeatable. And so, the Modern Materialistic Scientists throws it all out, and continues to believe that thought happens in the brain.
Thoughts create reality
Nothing show that reality is downstream from consciousness than "thoughts create reality".
People like SaiBaba created things out of thin air. Well documented, even videos. But, western science never admitted that this was happening.
For most spiritual people, they have had experiences of the Law of Attraction working surprisingly well. Down to the color…
Synchronicities happen all the time to people who allow them, making one in a million chance meetings, happen one time in two. (or better) They think of something or someone, and they appear in their lives.
So many tests on randomness (like dice rolling) and human thought/expectations show that thoughts affect the dice rolled. From p>55 to p>95. Way above what randomness can provide.
And then there is the Double Slit Experiment and all of its derivatives. Showing that thought/attention/focus can change a wave into a particle, even going back into the past to do it.
The ivory tower hierophants refuse to allow any of this evidence to move them.
If you assume that the world is real, and everything else is imaginary, you get a certain mindset, where you have to ignore so much of what you experience. And you are trained that you are a "good scientist" if you ignore what is imaginary.
On the flip side, if you realize that the spiritual is what is real, and that the world is a projection, then you can accept all of the events happening around you, and work out a much better science to explain what is happening.
The framework of our thoughts greatly effects/restricts what we can interact with. And Modern Materialistic Scientists are going to be left way behind as new marvels and areas are opened up. I will not be surprised that the current hierophants are found, still in the ivory towers that are crumbling to dust around them, still holding onto the Michelson-Morley experiment, and clutching their text books tightly to their chests.
There is so much to explore, both in our world, and in the realm of consciousness. We will be see so much scientific advancement as soon as we put things in their correct order.
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