Recent CMPEs have been opening up new thoughts for me about the future of science. Specifically, CMPEs I’ve had in the last year have given me a vision of a future science that actually investigates God.
I’ve written a couple of posts about these signs, if you want to go back and read them. One was “A sister phenomenon to CMPEs?” and the other was the recent “Could something be speaking to us?”
But can science investigate God? For a long time I embraced Huston Smith’s view, which he elucidated in his classic book Forgotten Truth, that science is like a flashlight that can only illuminate the physical, not the spiritual. Science could therefore only investigate the former, not the latter. That made terrific sense to me for many years.
However, I now see things differently. Yes, science shines its flashlight on the physical, but God intersects with the physical. There are places where God touches down. There are particular phenomena that are points of intersection between the physical and the spirit. So far, my signs have focused on four: CMPEs, near-death experiences, psychedelics, and kundalini. Again and again, signs come along and focus on the scientific investigation of such phenomena, tying that to confirmation of the reality of spirit and even (actually, especially) of God. With three of these phenomena, scientific investigation has already been happening.
All four of these phenomena evoke contoversy (or head-scratching) in many minds. But they do seem like potential points of intersection between the physical and the spirit. And shouldn’t we be all over such points with our best instruments? Why shouldn’t we have teams of scientists landing at those points with all the latest technology? I am sure there are many, many more such points than these four. Of course, many of the points of intersection that people would put forward amount to quackery. But many of them, I expect, are quite genuine—just under the cultural radar.
Can you imagine a science of the future that honed in on potential points of intersection between the physical and God and turned all the tools of science on them? Given the influence of science in our society, such a science would powerfully contribute to a new world. The idea of a new world arising tends to be thrown about rather casually, but if you can actually imagine a number of scientific disciplines all converging in finding powerful evidence for God, then it really is no hyperbole to talk about a new world arising.
What are your thoughts? Do you think such a science is possible? If you can imagine it emerging, what effects do you imagine it having on the world?
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Funnily enough, the same day you posted this I was saying something similar on another website. The question posed there was: ‘Do you have any empirical proof that there is no God.’ My response was:
No, but I think it’s easier to find empirical proof for the existence, if not of God, of something more than Western material science has so far been either willing or able to recognise. I’m thinking of the work being done by serious scientists like Robert Jahn, Dean Radin, Stuart Hameroff and Bruce Greyson (to name but four). Guys who are all exploring the non-local nature of mind and consciousness. Something which, I predict, will before too long blow conventional Western scientific thinking completely out of the water.
I do think there are sound grounds for thinking we are on the verge of a new era in science in which the restrictive view that “only the physical is real and so we won’t even countenance the possibility that anything non-physical is real” will be discredited and widely accepted as found wanting. Personally, I can’t wait.
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