Thoughts on Buddhism

[Abracadabra]

Science has ruled out anything that has ever been described as spiritual or magical.

So?

You forgot to add some very important information to your statement.

Using our extremely limited knowledge of reality, science has ruled out anything that has ever been described as spiritual or magical.

Big deal.

I'm supposed to be impressed by that?

I'm sorry, but having been involved and highly educated in the sciences myself for my entire working life (I'm retired now) I am far too aware of how little science actually knows about the state of reality.

So just because they have "rule things out" using their extremely limited and incomplete knowledge of reality doesn't impress me as much as it apparently impresses you.

In fact, for every one thing they have ruled out, they have probably opened ten unsolved mysteries that they can't rule out. They've only just discovered the existence of Dark Energy and Dark Matter. They are seriously talking about the possibility that the universe actually has 11 dimensions instead of just 4. Seven of them they know absolutely nothing about yet.

If that situation is true, then let's see, that's 7 dimension they don't yet know anything about and only 4 dimensions that they think they understand. Hmmm? At best they could have only ruled out 4/11 of reality. That leaves 7/11 left for spiritual activity.

And that's just talking about physical dimensions.

How about undetected quantum fields and other unseen particles?

Scientist strongly believe that there exists a Higgs Field. They are spending billions of dollars searching for it. They haven't been able to detect it, yet they are confident that it must exist because it will make their theories pretty.

Well duh? If they are so sure that a totally undetectable Higgs field exists and can have such a profound effect on physical reality (i.e. give everything mass and inertia), then who's to say that maybe there don't also exist "Spiritual Fields" that are completely undetectable yet can have an influence on physical reality too!

If anything, our current investigation into the nature of reality is actually revealing to us that even the most bizarre things we can imagine may very well exist all around us yet be totally undetectable.

Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Higgs Fields, multiple hidden physical dimensions.

What's next? Parallel universes right next door?

It's anyone's guess. Zeus could suddenly pop into existence at the LHC out of the Zeus Field for all we know.

We have no clue what's coming next.

Science may seem to have ruled out the obvious simple stuff, but in the meantime they've been opening up new doors to all sorts of hidden and mysterious things.

I'm waiting for them to discover the Moon Goddess Particle.



I know she's out there somewhere in the fields of cosmic consciousness.