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Chapter 2 - Scientific Metaphysical Healing - A Quest for The Truth.
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The nature of Science.
The Science which provides the key for opening the door to the infinite is also coupled with the admission that the absolute or infinite is not yet fully understood. Science looks for expanding horizons rather the finite limits. In the scientific world, no matter how slight or profound the current understanding may be, it is commonly recognized that the highest perception of reality is still nothing more than a theory that is necessarily incomplete. This perception sets the stage for further discoveries which in due course take us beyond the old theories and make them obsolete. This mind-set which recognizes no terminal limits makes any Science a positive development system.
Dogmas, on the other hand, close the door to discoveries for they are deemed final. Dogmas (or elitist theories) are advertised as absolute truth, yet they set up a negative development system which by the nature of such a system cause the destruction of individual consciousness, or of man and mankind physically. Every dogmatic structure stops development and discovery by imposing a finite viewpoint. The scientist, however, looks beyond to what the eye can see. He perceives with the mind what the eye cannot behold, visually. And he is reaching beyond even that, to what thought cannot yet comprehend. He looks at what was evident in the works of pioneers, even that which presents a certain absurdity to conventionality. Thus, a multitude of questions appear that cry for answers. That is how progress is won.
The scientist creates scientific models to order all that is known, and so sets up a stage to explore all that which lies beyond. In this pursuit of science, and this too, happens in literally every scientific endeavor, the concept of failure actually has no meaning, for in the absolute sense, any human perception is inevitably but an approximation until the human and the divine coincide. What has meaning on the human scene, is the tiny increment in one's understanding of Truth which brings to light newer perception, clearer ideas, easier demonstrations, and more progressive advances in freedoms gained. These scientifically attained discoveries of Truth outshine all so-called failures that have gone on before as the new knowledge opens the door wider towards the infinite.
In physical theory, Isaac Newton understood the universe with all its exquisite diversity in a profound, although rather limited way. None-the-less, his discoveries were momentous, with applications that revolutionized the way mankind understood the nature of the universe. Newton saw a world that was made up of a few hundred basic elements which he recognized as atomic structures consisting of nothing but empty space in which infinitely tiny particles interact at enormous speeds, bound together with enormous energies. Newton saw a universe constructed out of patterns of particles and mutual attraction that causes them to interrelate with each other in an incredibly complex order. Of course, Newton was wrong at some points. The particles that he saw as solid entities, are recognized today as but patterns themselves, of still deeper interactions of energies within an underlying order. Physical science may well discover some day, that the universe does not really exist in any fundamental way, except as patterns of incredible energies, complexities of order, bound together by intelligent arrangements.
Here the discoveries of science, and the evidence that the human senses behold, are as far apart from each other as night is from day. What the senses behold represents an erroneous concept compared to the scientific revelation of the truth. This simply means, that with a background of science, the mind's eye can interpret the visual world in a more accurate fashion than the physical eye can. With the mind's eye, backed by scientific discoveries, a tree, for instance, is 'seen' in a different manner than it was seen before. The mind's eye interprets knowledge into patterns that can have profound practical applications. Today's field of microelectronics presents us with ample evidence of those more advanced concepts of reality. We find them in quantum mechanics that have overturned Newton's once revolutionary perception of particle mechanics. Literally, every person on the planet is touched by the advances made possible by what the mind's eye can see. The utility of clearer concepts of reality is thereby realized. The results that we benefit from come directly from a deeper insight into Truth.
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