Modern Science may claim to be a methodology — a toolkit, as it were, to enable and empower one to separate truth from fiction. In actual fact, however, “Scientific Materialism” is a belief system rooted in an ideology — no different, in essence, from any other belief system. In this century, “Scientific Materialism” has become the establishment dogma and is responsible for marginalizing and even persecuting competing theories, ideas, and belief systems.
When establishment voices speak about the importance and relevance of “Science,” they are not talking about the agnostic scientific method, per se. They are, in fact, referring to the dogma of “Scientific Materialism” — a dogma that worships at the altar of the big pharmaceutical industry (aka Big Pharma), that denounces alternative medicine and alternative science as “heretical quackery,” that venerates Darwinism and the doctrine of “Climate Change” (previously known as “Global Warming”) as its sacred texts, and that heralds the coming of its new messiah — Artificial Intelligence (or AI)!
The tragedy of this misguided credo is that it is, in fact, a belief system rooted in blind faith, rather than a thought system rooted in critical, rational analysis (as it claims to be). It dismisses outright sound evidence that may, in any way, contradict or undermine its core suppositions — namely that human existence is a purely mechanistic phenomenon, that the human organism is an organic machine that evolved purely circumstantially, and that consciousness is purely a product of random electrical activity in the brain.
Thus, the “high priests” of this establishment dogma of scientific materialism feel justified in ridiculing and marginalizing alternative science, alternative medicine, and any ideas, propositions, claims, or theories that may call their core belief system into question. In so doing, not only do they contradict the very scientific methodology that they claim to uphold (namely, the one that claims to be based on observational evidence and rational analysis), but they are in the process of making themselves irrelevant and obsolete through the process of denial and self-deception.
In actual fact, the cutting-edge claims of the very science that they claim to evangelize and venerate so deeply — the claims of Quantum Mechanics, for example — completely undermine the core suppositions of the materialistic worldview. For example, the notions that the universe can be known with certainty as a coherent, solid, material reality, that human existence is mechanistic and purely organic in form, and that consciousness is purely a product of the brain’s electrical activity, with no connection to anything beyond itself, are now being called into question by the latest scientific developments.
The course of scientific research has, ironically, completely undermined its own core foundation, namely, scientific materialism, which originally arose from Newtonian physics. The cutting-edge physics of Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and beyond, appears to have more in connection with the pantheistic spirituality and mysticism of ancient times than with more recent Newtonian physics!
Unfortunately, the political establishment of the early 21st Century is still controlled by people educated in the Newtonian model of reality and whose consciousness is immersed in that defunct mode of thinking. It will probably take a generational shift before scientific materialism is finally dismissed as the obsolete dogma it is, and the mainstream world embraces the cutting-edge claims of Quantum Mechanics.
With it, the ancient claims of mystical practices and spiritual texts from the remote past that resonate with these new ideas will perhaps finally receive the recognition they truly deserve.
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