“Science, Religion & Spirituality”
-Clarity on what is what
-Spiritual and Material Science
-How Religions are born?
-Objective and subjective studies
-Areas of application: Science for matter and Science for spirituality
The Blog
Scientific methods for studying matter and scientific methods for studying our own (subjective) psychological state of being are two completely different aspects of human life.
The first method studies the material reality and another studies the psychological state of consciousness and self-awareness or the psychological mechanism of our being. The latter one I call spiritual studies or higher form of psychological studies.
As there is pseudo science there is pseudo spirituality too, which has nothing to do with this higher or subjective form of psychological studies!
The forms of various religions have lot such pseudo spirituality involved not requiring to study or observe anything but just mugging up the commandments written in some book. They do not have any systematic studies or method of verification for anything and completely relies on a belief system without any verification or pseudo verification. Such pseudo form of spirituality is seen in the organized religion we see all around the world. They have their own wishful ideas, beliefs, rituals and labels of right or wrong conduct, etc.
And as there are methodologies to reach and verify the truth of physical reality, there are also methodologies to study one’s psychological reality and states of consciousness or self-awareness, and then being able to transform the state into a better one resulting in more evolved being in behavior and approach towards the world and sometimes resulting into a very rebellious personality.
I consider both such studies scientific studies; study of matter or object and study of self/being or our own psychology subjectively as scientific studies. Be it, studies of matter or studies of our being or our own psychological state, both require a hypothesis and methods of verification.
Though the psychological state of a person can be studied from outside i.e that one person studies another person in a similar fashion one studies the rats in a lab, but such observational studies on another person only give you results or knowledge limited to their habits, behavior, cultural impact and mass psychology; do not give you real information or knowledge about their being; and distort valuable information sometimes without knowing the holistic approach.
Scientific studies are done to obtain a goal of betterment, so is self-study done to obtain a higher state of self-awareness or consciousness resulting into a better or superior human having better control over his mechanism of emotions, thought process, reactions and behavior.
Studying a person as an object doesn’t give you any power to transform his own psychological state on a permanent level giving him or yourself any taste of higher forms of consciousness or self awareness.
Such studies done on others do not give any power to self to change anything in one’s own being or life on psychological level or allows one to experience any higher form of self-awareness, which is qualitatively different from our normal psychological state. The goal of such subjective studies or study of self is normally to become free of our psychological and emotional bondage or any other such mechanism.
Methods to study our own self has existed since centuries, however, it has remained very limited to small groups of people and later such methods have taken forms of various organizations having belief system, ideologies of what is moral and what is not and the core methods of studying oneself became less important or completely lost in such organizations; such organizations are known today as religion. They are dead and feed themselves on people’s ignorance by giving them various unverified ideas, beliefs, morals, etc.
The science of matter is studied by humans with different states of consciousness called focused attention or one directional attention. And, the science of studying self requires a different kind of attention, where the attention is directed in two directions; one, on the object of study and another, on the subject who is studying the object. This is a very unique feature of human brain function having ability to observe oneself.
“The more scientists study animal behavior and brain anatomy, however, the more universal consciousness seems to be. A brain as complex as a human's is definitely not necessary for consciousness.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-awareness-with-a-simple-brain
The study of our own psychology and states of awareness and consciousness requires a hypothesis, which normally comes from someone who has been able to study their own self and have verified certain facts about their being and have given the same methods to others to verify such facts or possible human psychological evolution. Such studies with proper methods of verification to verify the hypothesis of a given information or knowledge can be called spiritual science or subjective psychology.
The results of scientific studies can be enjoyed by others if studied and verified by one person or group in the form of inventions but in case of subjective psychological studies, the benefits of such results remain limited to people who study or practice such methods.
If we study our state of being or psychology through a proper system then we can verify the truths of a given hypothesis and can transform our psychological state by that knowledge or method and such changes can reflect in our behavior, but cannot be directly experienced by others who are not studying their own self. Further, if 10 people studying through a proper system would come close to similar experiences and self knowledge, it would mean that 10 people can verify the same truth/understanding by that method.
Many times, people possessing a higher understanding of their own being guide and counsel a large number or limited group of people in their daily difficulties related to their mental states, and thus forming a kind of school where such students interested in self study or higher forms of psychology attend such meetings but not necessarily everyone is able to or is willing to practice in such studies.
This is purely a matter of personal interest. Most of the students come for psychological consolation to such people who have transformed their psychological state of being. However, it is hard to verify who has really transformed his being or is just repeating the facts given by a person who has transformed his being.
The chief person who has attained a higher form of psychological control of self and knows more about self and his own mind or somehow has experienced higher forms of self awareness or conscious states, which might have changed his behavior towards people, when passes away, such schools take the form of an organized religion in most of the cases worshiping the scientist who spent his life studying his self. This kind of worshipping is seen also in cases, which are not related to such spiritual study groups.
One can see people worshipping in a different way by being fanatic about Carl Marx or believing his works of Das Capital and considering that book similar to a religious scripture.
Such spiritual study groups in longer duration take a distorted form and have their pseudo supreme authorities feeding their vanity and many times taking a shape of a bigger religious organization spread across the world dealing with huge money and profits or sometimes pride of being superior and pious than others.
One must understand that one cannot change the material aspect of life just by changing one’s level of state of consciousness or self-awareness; and similarly you cannot change your state of consciousness and self-awareness by changing your material reality.
We must understand that both these aspects of science in this materialistic and spiritual world are two parallel wings and require to be balanced to fly in the sky of life.
The issues related to the world like money, ecology and technology, wars are technical in nature and require studies related to matter to bring a solution. The spiritual knowledge or knowledge of self-study has no great role in all these solutions. In fact, a scientist or a technocrat does not require to study self or his psychology at all to bring a solution to the issues of the world.
Religions claiming that world peace can be attained through its devotional practice is just an opium for the masses. Religion itself is a pseudo entity to real subjective psychological studies. It cannot provide any solution even on a psychological level of self transformation at all.
However, changing the material reality will not be enough for humans. Humans will always face emotional challenges in relationships and distress through feeling of having less than the want, vanity, pride etc. Solution related to such problems might require a different kind of study and understanding, and may require therapies to treat such issues. However, the problem of having a question about self and wanting to reach a higher state of consciousness till now can only be solved through methods of self-observation.
I don’t see any conflict between scientific approaches of studying self/our own psychological reality or the studies related to material reality at all. One must be clear of what can solve what.
Religion stands nowhere in between for finding any global solution.
-Clarity on what is what
-Spiritual and Material Science
-How Religions are born?
-Objective and subjective studies
-Areas of application: Science for matter and Science for spirituality
The Blog
Scientific methods for studying matter and scientific methods for studying our own (subjective) psychological state of being are two completely different aspects of human life.
The first method studies the material reality and another studies the psychological state of consciousness and self-awareness or the psychological mechanism of our being. The latter one I call spiritual studies or higher form of psychological studies.
As there is pseudo science there is pseudo spirituality too, which has nothing to do with this higher or subjective form of psychological studies!
The forms of various religions have lot such pseudo spirituality involved not requiring to study or observe anything but just mugging up the commandments written in some book. They do not have any systematic studies or method of verification for anything and completely relies on a belief system without any verification or pseudo verification. Such pseudo form of spirituality is seen in the organized religion we see all around the world. They have their own wishful ideas, beliefs, rituals and labels of right or wrong conduct, etc.
And as there are methodologies to reach and verify the truth of physical reality, there are also methodologies to study one’s psychological reality and states of consciousness or self-awareness, and then being able to transform the state into a better one resulting in more evolved being in behavior and approach towards the world and sometimes resulting into a very rebellious personality.
I consider both such studies scientific studies; study of matter or object and study of self/being or our own psychology subjectively as scientific studies. Be it, studies of matter or studies of our being or our own psychological state, both require a hypothesis and methods of verification.
Though the psychological state of a person can be studied from outside i.e that one person studies another person in a similar fashion one studies the rats in a lab, but such observational studies on another person only give you results or knowledge limited to their habits, behavior, cultural impact and mass psychology; do not give you real information or knowledge about their being; and distort valuable information sometimes without knowing the holistic approach.
Scientific studies are done to obtain a goal of betterment, so is self-study done to obtain a higher state of self-awareness or consciousness resulting into a better or superior human having better control over his mechanism of emotions, thought process, reactions and behavior.
Studying a person as an object doesn’t give you any power to transform his own psychological state on a permanent level giving him or yourself any taste of higher forms of consciousness or self awareness.
Such studies done on others do not give any power to self to change anything in one’s own being or life on psychological level or allows one to experience any higher form of self-awareness, which is qualitatively different from our normal psychological state. The goal of such subjective studies or study of self is normally to become free of our psychological and emotional bondage or any other such mechanism.
Methods to study our own self has existed since centuries, however, it has remained very limited to small groups of people and later such methods have taken forms of various organizations having belief system, ideologies of what is moral and what is not and the core methods of studying oneself became less important or completely lost in such organizations; such organizations are known today as religion. They are dead and feed themselves on people’s ignorance by giving them various unverified ideas, beliefs, morals, etc.
The science of matter is studied by humans with different states of consciousness called focused attention or one directional attention. And, the science of studying self requires a different kind of attention, where the attention is directed in two directions; one, on the object of study and another, on the subject who is studying the object. This is a very unique feature of human brain function having ability to observe oneself.
“The more scientists study animal behavior and brain anatomy, however, the more universal consciousness seems to be. A brain as complex as a human's is definitely not necessary for consciousness.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-awareness-with-a-simple-brain
The study of our own psychology and states of awareness and consciousness requires a hypothesis, which normally comes from someone who has been able to study their own self and have verified certain facts about their being and have given the same methods to others to verify such facts or possible human psychological evolution. Such studies with proper methods of verification to verify the hypothesis of a given information or knowledge can be called spiritual science or subjective psychology.
The results of scientific studies can be enjoyed by others if studied and verified by one person or group in the form of inventions but in case of subjective psychological studies, the benefits of such results remain limited to people who study or practice such methods.
If we study our state of being or psychology through a proper system then we can verify the truths of a given hypothesis and can transform our psychological state by that knowledge or method and such changes can reflect in our behavior, but cannot be directly experienced by others who are not studying their own self. Further, if 10 people studying through a proper system would come close to similar experiences and self knowledge, it would mean that 10 people can verify the same truth/understanding by that method.
Many times, people possessing a higher understanding of their own being guide and counsel a large number or limited group of people in their daily difficulties related to their mental states, and thus forming a kind of school where such students interested in self study or higher forms of psychology attend such meetings but not necessarily everyone is able to or is willing to practice in such studies.
This is purely a matter of personal interest. Most of the students come for psychological consolation to such people who have transformed their psychological state of being. However, it is hard to verify who has really transformed his being or is just repeating the facts given by a person who has transformed his being.
The chief person who has attained a higher form of psychological control of self and knows more about self and his own mind or somehow has experienced higher forms of self awareness or conscious states, which might have changed his behavior towards people, when passes away, such schools take the form of an organized religion in most of the cases worshiping the scientist who spent his life studying his self. This kind of worshipping is seen also in cases, which are not related to such spiritual study groups.
One can see people worshipping in a different way by being fanatic about Carl Marx or believing his works of Das Capital and considering that book similar to a religious scripture.
Such spiritual study groups in longer duration take a distorted form and have their pseudo supreme authorities feeding their vanity and many times taking a shape of a bigger religious organization spread across the world dealing with huge money and profits or sometimes pride of being superior and pious than others.
One must understand that one cannot change the material aspect of life just by changing one’s level of state of consciousness or self-awareness; and similarly you cannot change your state of consciousness and self-awareness by changing your material reality.
We must understand that both these aspects of science in this materialistic and spiritual world are two parallel wings and require to be balanced to fly in the sky of life.
The issues related to the world like money, ecology and technology, wars are technical in nature and require studies related to matter to bring a solution. The spiritual knowledge or knowledge of self-study has no great role in all these solutions. In fact, a scientist or a technocrat does not require to study self or his psychology at all to bring a solution to the issues of the world.
Religions claiming that world peace can be attained through its devotional practice is just an opium for the masses. Religion itself is a pseudo entity to real subjective psychological studies. It cannot provide any solution even on a psychological level of self transformation at all.
However, changing the material reality will not be enough for humans. Humans will always face emotional challenges in relationships and distress through feeling of having less than the want, vanity, pride etc. Solution related to such problems might require a different kind of study and understanding, and may require therapies to treat such issues. However, the problem of having a question about self and wanting to reach a higher state of consciousness till now can only be solved through methods of self-observation.
I don’t see any conflict between scientific approaches of studying self/our own psychological reality or the studies related to material reality at all. One must be clear of what can solve what.
Religion stands nowhere in between for finding any global solution.