As my degrees are not in this area & I am not a scientist, I am just commenting to share what I noted on reading your article. First, congrats for following your own way, leaving one branch of study for another, not settling for a rut. Yes, too, to your statement, “ Traditional science is a sinking ship of big ideas.”
One major element leading to the sinking, from my perspective, is the mechanistic route the majority have adopted, leaving consciousness, spirit, soul, etc., to the side. What if consciousness is the fundamental building block of reality, not the atom? That would change the whole picture, certainly. I suggest that it is.
Many earlier scientists were actually alchemists, many were philosophers, as before the move to a mechanistic perspective, these were accepted branches of inquiry, harmonizing with the scientific approach. There are other ways to view life that put everything into a vastly different perspective.
Many of the things attributed in your article to body & brain could well be viewed in this other light. Our attitudes & perspectives, along with our beliefs, are the lenses through which we view everything. We have control over those & by developing a more flexible perspective, willing to take quite another look on whatever it is, amazing outcomes can result.
There is room for both consciousness & spirit or soul within science. The fact that they’re now sidelined, not taken into account, is a fairly recent move, historically, so this is not unreasonable, even just considering the field of science, itself.
In every branch of science we will one day fund underlying assumptions that weakened the entire structure going forward. It will be seen as foolishness that we took the atom, which is 99.99999% or more insubstantial, as the building block of solid substance. In maths we will realize that correcting for infinity in our results was misguided. We will laugh, looking back on how we thought to take consciousness (spirit, energy, soul or whatever) as unworthy of study, as not participating in our mechanical worldview.
When we take consciousness as the foundation of everything, much different results are obtained. The extent of the power of any theory or proposition is directly proportionate to how well it aligns with actual truth. Only things built on a foundation of truth will stand the test of the ages, as everything else will eventually break down, mandating reconsideration from another perspective.
Because there are far deeper layers of being than body & mind, we cheat ourselves when taking the purely mechanistic route. What if the brain & CNS join to form a transceiver, sending & receiving more than storing anything? What if we live in what amounts to a Thought Sphere — sometimes called the mass mind? Would this not go a long way toward explaining things like telepathy & seemingly psychic or paranormal events — among other things?
What if the ancient sages were onto something by saying there is only One — that the multiplicity is but a seeming, or Maya? That there’s no “self” when we go within, but rather the absence of that, the emptiness? These possibilities are unacceptable avenues from the mechanical perspective, yet can be profitably pursued via the consciousness perspective.
As I said, FWIW. 😉
Namaste,
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