Scientists cannot even explain what death is and why nucleic acids stop functioning or why the enzymic proteins stop working, leading to loss of energy generation and the resultant breakdown of cells’ structural proteins at the time of death.
Spirituality is the science of ‘purposeful life’, and the dimension of spirituality extends beyond this Universe to a realm beyond the manifest cosmos (Universe of universes). Though material or physical science could help understand the dimension of spirituality within this Universe, an understanding of the dimension of spirituality beyond the cosmos would need a bent of mind of spiritual science. No doubt, physics has moved from the world of molecules to atoms to sub-atomic and still subtler particles. It has also understood the many fundamental forces, all of which only help explain how matter gets formed.
Well, well, what are we now hearing? “The universe itself is conscious”? This view is all about a new scientific concept taking shape and is called “panpsychism”. The idea of panpsychism is the perception that the universe itself has some degree of consciousness. Is traditional material science going to take a somersault?
Material scientists allude stubbornly to the false idea of ‘primacy of matter’. So, they remain confounded and baffled by Consciousness. Questions such as ‘why we have it? & how we have it?’ have remained unanswered.
Our birth distorts our vision and, leads us on an errand path away from the ultimate supreme principle. `Sometime after we get conceived and when we are born, we have started our journey as a soul with our consciousness ensheathed within the causal, subtle and gross bodies.