They were afraid that it would deny religion and god. So they religiously fought against the new scientific findings to the point that they would kill the scientific belief and the believer at the same time, if it was needed.  They were scared and did not want to come out of their cave. One wonders, what would happen to their god if Galileo showed that the earth is round? Do we also avoid, kill and normalize a big portion of our findings and evidences just because it may shake our philosophical belief?

 

Carrying the myths and beliefs of our ancestors over only creates disaster. I can't imagine how anybody can take those kind of stories seriously. We need to build new theories based on today's knowledge. Traditionally humans take advantage of knowledge and intuitions of previous generations and use current findings to reach to new perceptions and beliefs. However, it seems that old religions are facing a dead end. trying to prove the old concepts by using today's knowledge is futile. We need a new vision.

 

Spirituality is a portion of our everyday experience. We have to redefine it but we can not deny it. Consciousness researches are in their preliminary stages. Future is going to reveal a new and exotic picture of reality. Surely twenty first century human is going to move ahead. Humans are truth hunters. Slowly but surely we are going to devolve into deeper levels of reality.

As I mentioned, one reason for objections that is normally put forward is that, anything beyond our observation tool is out of our reach and is not accessible to us. Thus, we cannot observe and understand it or experiment with it. So it does not fit inside scientific domain.

Above, I tried to show that some of the characteristic of the entity outside of the space-time is debatable by scientific methods. Quantum mechanics, positive cosmological constant, dark energy, dark matter, black holes and transpersonal psychology are expanding our horizon to beyond the current boundaries. Is this the right time to look at new frontiers? Isn't it the time to at least fantasize, and hypothesize theories, which expand beyond space-time? I believe, if it offers logical solutions to our questions, it worth the speculation.

 

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Last Word

 

A new way of looking at the physical world is presented in this view. Roger Penrose suggests that:

“Physics has to find an objective reduction theory to connect quantum level to classical level. While these two levels are computable, the new theory has to be non-computable and non-local.”⁵

 

It seems this view meets the above requirements. Since the presented concept has the potential to offer solutions to some of our long lasting questions, it deserves further attention and speculation. This view not only can offer solutions for a number of unanswered problems in physics, but it has the potential to shed light onto many mysteries such as life and death, mind, life sciences and psychology, Para-psychological findings, etc.

Finding a new model to describe consciousness and spirituality is another very important task ahead. Old frameworks are outdated and unfit. New scaffold can work as a platform for a huge leap in history of mankind.

 

The concepts presented may not only change the way that we look at our world, it also can change the way we live.