Science Through the Lens of Myth
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- A series of clips from a live event called "Taiwan at a Crossroads."
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You are a wizard of gentle disruption.
Thanks Charles, I look forward to slowly digesting each of these short audios! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I thought you were doing standup comedy from the thumbnail to the video !
Love this parallel between science and religion. It is indeed, uncanny.
Thank you 🙏🏼
So good...
Jesus taught the POWER of belief. Everyone is getting what they believe. He is walking the earth today teaching the physics of godhood. Einstein said "Religion without science is dead and science without religion is lame." They are coming together now because science has proved the Spiritual (non-physical) and matter (physical) are ONE.
They just changed black coats for white ones.
If or when scientific-mindedness and skepticism becomes too challenging, a soul or group of souls will revert to the familiarity of fundamentalism from which they had rebelled. Then we see appearance of pseudo science or scientism, which is described well by CE.
science is never set, it questions itself and will change when a new proof is found. not dogma, not doctrinaire.
Agree! Me too.
I love your communications and descriptions and understanding of reality, the universe and Spirit. Thank you! There is, however, a huge difference between religion and science! Religion relies on Faith, believing in that which can't be observed or proven. I have Faith that there is a Divine energy in the universe, I know it exists based on my inner-knowing, but not through empirical observation or measurement of this energy. Science is the observation and study of the make-up and workings of the universe, with its foundation being empirical evidence. From there we extrapolate into scientific theory. Medical science, such as studying viruses and developing and using vaccines, is based on empirical evidence and does not rely on Faith or belief. The practice of medicine certainly looks a lot like religious ritual, and in the past behaved a lot like ritual, and is not always science-based in how it is practiced. When it is science based and relies on empirical evidence, such as using vaccines, it is nothing like religion. One can choose to have a religious belief, or choose not to, and vaccines still work for either party. One does not have to believe in anti-biotic and may actually not believe in them (can you say flat-earther), but they will still stop a bacterial infection and save millions of lives yearly. There is a lot we do not know about the human body and so its called a practice of medicine, using empirical evidence and then extrapolating into areas outside the fully known to do the best we can to assist in the healing process. I am of course very sensitive to this discussion because of the recent uptick in the use of misinformation. There is a lot that we do not understand about the universe and how reality works, and I think that Spirit and reality work together in ways we may not yet fully understand. But, science, and the facts derived from scientific observation, should not be confused with the idea that if I don't believe the facts, I can simply make up an "alternative fact". One may be a breatharian, but if they jump off a third story building, they, by means of gravity, will fall and surely die. All spiritual understanding must transpire from a base of current reality, or it becomes magical thinking and living in delusion. Magical thinking will not stop the bus from killing you if you step out in the street at the wrong time. Science and Spirit can coexist, one does not need to exclude the other, but distortion may occur in the world of religion and spirit if we deny facts or current reality. This rant is not directed at you, Charles, but just a triggered reaction on my part!
Is there anything of sufficient substance in any of the world religions adequate to build the microphone in your hand?
The domain of religion is intangible abstraction.
The domain of science is the understanding of physical reality.
That’s pretty different.
Correct. The domain of science is physical reality, but the man-made practice of science sits within the abstract and intangible system. Those abstractions are the economy, political actors and their decisions, and so on. Thus science as a tool cannot be, and isn't, neutral. It exists as a product of the system itself. Science can build a microphone, it can build a tiny little microphone that could be used to listen into someone's conversations. Would science, or scientists, ever have built that tiny microphone in a system that didn't resemble our own? What is and isn't studied isn't abstract, but it is often a product of abstraction (money). "Trust the science" is also an extremely manipulatable instruction. For example, I could create a test for an illness that provided a quick diagnosis for anyone who wanted to check. I take the test and it returns positive, but I have no symptoms, so I must be asymptomatic. However, what was not clear was that there was a figure declared for a number of cells, or other signifier, that said if you have greater than this number then you have illness X, otherwise not. That number was recently changed after political intervention, and now I have the illness. Do I really have the illness? If I'm not ill, then can I have an illness? What, then, if we have an illness that can only be detected by test? What actually is an illness, and who defines it? Is that science? Or is that science, plus something else? Who gets to decide the something else?
When science seems to often agree with he who is sponsoring the science.... that is not science. When "trust the science or we will destroy your life" is " science".
When "Believe the science or else we, as be god of the earth, will end your life as you know it, and put you in hell on earth" please, explain how science is not a religion, a faith, a god, to its non thinking believers?