The Articulation of an Indigenous Spiritual Science, a Fully-Realized Science of the Spirit
“The genius is the scientist or geographer for the supersensible regions and will design
a map for the new supersensible areas.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
The physical sciences grew out of a religious or spiritual view of the universe. They, in turn, provided the basis for the natural sciences, which, provided the basis, in turn, for the social sciences and, in our day, for the cognitive sciences.
What has characterized each of these disciples is the spirit of reductionism. Following the dropping of the bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein wrote: “The splitting of the atom has changed everything, save our mode of thinking and thus we drift toward an unparalleled catastrophe . . . . We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Einstein’s point was a central one: We can not solve the imposing problems of our day with the same thinking that created them in the first place. To attempt to do so, he added, “is insanity.”
The articulation of a spiritual science or fully-realized science of the spirit offers us, we suggest, a way to reverse the insistent trend of reduction — the reducing of life, the creation itself, to its lowest common denominator, annihilation, in its fullest consequence. Such a promise awaits us through not the reductionistic thinking, appropriate to the physical world. Rather through a thinking that fulfills itself, accordingly, with the elements of life (natural science), the soul (social sciences) and, finally, not merely the brain alone, but the mind/spirit: a spiritual science.
“I am not without hope that we may, even here and now, obtain some accurate information concerning that OTHER WORLD, which the instinct of mankind has so long predicted . . . . Surely we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe.” – Henry David Thoreau, “A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers”
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For more information, contact: Steve Burman at info@concord-ium.us