The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

If you expect the physical science to understand what is not physical you must have big expectations.
It would be something like calling a carpenter or an electrician when your sink need a plumber.

Physical science can't explain what isn't physical but research into the role of the pineal gland is indicating some interesting things.

Human pineal physiology and functional significance of melatonin.

In lower vertebrates, the pineal gland is photosensitive, and is the site of a self-sustaining circadian clock. In mammals, including humans, the gland has lost direct photosensitivity, but responds to light via a multisynaptic pathway that includes a subset of retinal ganglion cells containing the newly discovered photopigment, melanopsin.

If it also produces an enzyme which enables the body to manufacture DMT it will explain why this 'third eye' is related to spiritual experiences and why nobody talks about opening up the toenails. People who want spirituality without religious dogma will be able to use techniques involving the pineal gland without being put off by instructions called 'How To Open Your Third Eye'.

In yoga we don't have this kind of problems.
There is only one supreme consciousness to focus and this require the mind to come under control so it is possible to concentrate on the only reality.

A lot of religions do have those problems, though, because they're bogged down in theology. Theology is just ideas that people have about God and science can show that many of those ideas are wrong because they're not related to reality. Or not related to how God created things to be where people who believe that God created everything are concerned.

The brain is the fuel, the mind is the vehicle and the Atman or the I is the driver so i wouldn't give that much importance to the brain other than it play some role.

But studying the brain can still prove beneficial. Let's go back to little Ricky and his mangoes. What's happening in his brain when he eats the fruit which will satisfy his hunger? Once this has been established the travellers move on and come across Mary and Dave. Mary eats pears and Dave eats oranges and they're forever fighting over which is the 'right' fruit to eat. What's happening in their brains when they eat their chosen fruit? If it's the same as what happens in little Ricki's brain it shows that all the fruit is good to eat and which one is right depends on the individual.

Ramachandran is still searching.
One day he like everybody else will put an end to this search.
In the meantime is exactly like you.
Just searching.

I have no idea if Ramachandran is searching for anything in his private life but, in his professional life, he's a scientist who specialises in brains. His work is helping people such as those who suffer from phantom limbs.

What hantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

His next subject, Jimmy, felt that his phantom hand was always agonisingly clenched, with his phantom fingernails digging into his missing hand.

Ramachandran put a mirror between Jimmy's arms and asked him to move both his phantom and healthy limb simultaneously, while looking at the reflection of the healthy limb - effectively fooling Jimmy's brain into thinking his phantom was moving in a normal way.

Jimmy felt his clenched fist release almost immediately.

"I tell my medical colleagues that it is the first example in the history of medicine of successful amputation of a phantom limb."

He called the treatment Mirror Visual Feedback therapy or MVF. But it wasn't until much later that MVF was properly acknowledged by clinicians.

Imagine what life must have been like for Jimmy before Ramachandran discovered that therapy. The brain works in mysterious ways but learning how it operates doesn't disprove the existence of God. If everything is a manifestation of God it's telling us how God operates as a brain.

"The unending endeavour to bridge the gap between the finite and the infinite is mysticism."
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

I suppose Jungian psychology could be classed as a kind of mystical path because he was one of the pioneers of Transpersonal Psychology.

Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology. It is also possible to define it as a "spiritual psychology". The transpersonal has been defined as "experiences in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond (trans) the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, psyche or cosmos".[1] It has also been defined as "development beyond conventional, personal or individual levels".[2]

Religions create problems all the times but even without religions people would cut each other throat anyway.

This is true. There's a dark side to human nature but if we don't recognise our own dark aspects we can project them onto others or fool ourselves into thinking we are justified in acting out our dark impulses.

Modern science is discovering that the little ego self really is an illusion. It's no longer possible to dismiss that as nothing more than religious bullshit.

Finally, I came across an interesting Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Does that sound familiar? The universe is in us is a scientific fact. Is there anything beyond the physical? Science cannot answer that but, if there is, God is manifesting as the universe within us.