Science and Spirituality - SCI-ART LAB2024-03-29T14:34:47Zhttps://kkartlab.in/forum/topics/science-and-spirituality?groupUrl=some-science&commentId=2816864%3AComment%3A84785&groupId=2816864%3AGroup%3A80038&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat did Carl Sagan mean when…tag:kkartlab.in,2021-08-09:2816864:Comment:2374852021-08-09T05:50:47.263ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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<div class="q-absolute qu-fullX qu-fullY qu-borderAll qu-borderColor--darken qu-borderRadius--circle BadgeWrapper___StyledAbsolute-kazm88-0 bgqkju">Krishna :Different people define spirituality in different ways. Different people experience life’s meanings in different ways.</div>
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<div class="q-text"><blockquote class="q-relative qu-color--gray qu-borderWidth--retinaOverride"><p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>You can explain spirituality in this way too:<br/>Spiritual journey is actually an inquiry into one's own existence. It is an inquiry into existence and non-existence and the relationship between these two. It is realizing true existence. An inquiry has to be open without any fear in mind about the ability or outcome. So being fearless is the first step in the path of realization. We are always under the influence of some or other fear. The fear is an outcome of either illusion or weakness to understand and tackle the situation. Illusion can be overcome by acquiring knowledge while weakness can be overcome by acquiring strength. Fearlessness is prerequisite as well as an outcome of spiritual quest. For this to happen, you have to be emotionally neutral. First you should not get associated with anything mentally and should be able to analyze everything rationally. That is what science tells us to do! (1)</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Scientists have in their mind a project of being able to definitively answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. That's not a project to approach lightly. It involves a lot of very careful distinction between truth and falsehood, between reality and perception, between logic and epistemology and ontology.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>So, scientists don’t follow religious dogmas blindly but try to understand the world around us in a rational and systematic way. They try to help the world with the knowledge gained in the process. They feel this path started with a clean mind free of all beliefs, an unbiased mind in search of truth and work that can help the world can lead to spiritual fulfillment in the true sense. (1)</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>These are full words of Carl Sagan: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is profound source of spirituality. When we recognise our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. (2)</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>If you try to understand that Science says what it says and that it is on the pursuit of truth without any fear, illusions, preconceived notions and beliefs, you will realize why he said what he did.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Science is the best way in the present circumstances to find evidence based facts about the universe, life, and every thing we experience as human beings. If anything can show you reality as it is, it is science. If you realize these facts, that experience is truly spiritual.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Please click on the first link given below to know more about this process.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Footnotes:</span></p>
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<li class="q-relative"><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline Link___StyledBox-t2xg9c-0 roKEj" title="kkartlab.in" href="https://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum/topics/science-and-spirituality" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Science and Spirituality</a><span class="q-inlineBlock qu-verticalAlign--text-bottom"></span></span></li>
<li class="q-relative"><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline Link___StyledBox-t2xg9c-0 roKEj" title="www.brainpickings.org" href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/06/12/carl-sagan-on-science-and-spirituality/#%3A~%3Atext%3DAnd%20yet%20science%2C%20Sagan%20argues%2Ct%20diametrically%20opposed%20to%20spirituality.%26text%3DWhen%20we%20recognize%20our%20place%2Chumility%20combined%2C%20is%20surely%20spiritual." target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality</a></span></li>
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<p>Complex societies evolved without belief in all-powerful deity</p>
<p>Emergence of politically sophisticated societies may be assisted by faith in supernatural spirits, but does not need "big God" religion.<br/> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/complex-societies-evolved-without-belief-in-all-powerful-deity-1.17040" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/news/complex-societies-evolved-without-belief-in-all-powerful-deity-1.17040</a></p>
<p>Complex societies evolved without belief in all-powerful deity</p>
<p>Emergence of politically sophisticated societies may be assisted by faith in supernatural spirits, but does not need "big God" religion.<br/> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/complex-societies-evolved-without-belief-in-all-powerful-deity-1.17040" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/news/complex-societies-evolved-without-belief-in-all-powerful-deity-1.17040</a></p> The unexpected can reveal pro…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-11-24:2816864:Comment:1220252014-11-24T03:04:23.542ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>The unexpected can reveal profound truths, writes MUKUL SHARMA</p>
<p>Once a photograph of Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.</p>
<p>— Astronomer Fred Hoyle, 1948</p>
<p>There are certain aspects of reality that our minds are intimately and integrally tethered to, which when severed for any reason, results in an extremely uncanny experience. One such aspect of reality is our physical body, because any form of perceived…</p>
<p>The unexpected can reveal profound truths, writes MUKUL SHARMA</p>
<p>Once a photograph of Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.</p>
<p>— Astronomer Fred Hoyle, 1948</p>
<p>There are certain aspects of reality that our minds are intimately and integrally tethered to, which when severed for any reason, results in an extremely uncanny experience. One such aspect of reality is our physical body, because any form of perceived separation from it — usually called an out-of-body-experience — is an event that typically involves a sensation of floating outside its ambit or in some cases, perceiving the physical body from an external location. However, people who have had an OOBe as it’s called, also report a sense of profoundly peaceful other-worldly experience.</p>
<p>Enter out-of-planet experience. Up until 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into orbital space aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, no one really thought we were also tethered to another body which was a much larger one — Earth. No one knows what Commander Gagarin’s thoughts were after his umbilical separation from his home planet, since he must have been too anxious or too busy at the controls to look outside — except that he did and the first words ever uttered from space came from his lips. “I see Earth. It is so beautiful!” he said.</p>
<p>Then in 1968, the Apollo 8 crew did something extraordinary for Earth-bound mortals, too. Author Frank White tells the story: “I was watching it on television and at a certain point, one of the astronauts casually said, ‘We’re going to turn the camera around and show you the Earth,’ and he did, and that was the first time I had ever seen the planet, hanging in space like that, and it was profound.” One of the astronauts gave it a slightly different perspective. “When we originally went to the Moon, our total focus was on the Moon,” he said. “We weren’t thinking of looking back at the Earth. But now that we’ve done it — that may well have been the most important reason we went.”</p>
<p>Frank White calls it the Overview Effect. In his book by the same name, written in 1987, he describes it as an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. “It refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space,” writes White, “which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, ‘hanging in the void’, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish and the conflicts that divide people become less important.”</p>
<p>The reason is simple: It’s suddenly becoming privileged to witness the big picture that reboots our sense of belonging to the rest of the universe. How many of us can see a sunset and realise that it’s a huge closeup view of a star sliding below the horizon to produce the same twinkling things in the sky. It generates a new kind of planetary self-awareness, leading to a cognitive shift that can actually produce a meditative effect.</p>
<p>Cosmonaut Oleg Makarov, who spent 20 days in space said later, “Something about the unexpectedness of this sight, its incompatibility with anything we have ever experienced on earth elicits a deep emotional response…. Suddenly, you get a feeling you’ve never had before…that you’re an inhabitant of Earth.” Or in the words of Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on the Moon: “I was overwhelmed with the sensation of physically and mentally extending out into the cosmos.”<br/> <a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/new-age/a-feeling-you-ve-never-had-before?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_digest&uid=5989&date=20141124&suid=NTk4OQ==" target="_blank">http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/new-age/a-feeling-you-ve-never-had-before?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_digest&uid=5989&date=20141124&suid=NTk4OQ==</a></p>
<p>A Feeling You’ve Never Had Before</p> Societies living in harsh env…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-11-13:2816864:Comment:1218982014-11-13T02:21:08.429ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>Societies living in harsh environments more likely to believe in moralizing gods, study finds<br></br> Just as physical adaptations help populations prosper in inhospitable habitats, belief in moralizing, high gods might be similarly advantageous for human cultures in poorer environments. A new study from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) suggests that societies with less access to food and water are more likely to believe in these types of deities.</p>
<p>"When life is tough…</p>
<p>Societies living in harsh environments more likely to believe in moralizing gods, study finds<br/> Just as physical adaptations help populations prosper in inhospitable habitats, belief in moralizing, high gods might be similarly advantageous for human cultures in poorer environments. A new study from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) suggests that societies with less access to food and water are more likely to believe in these types of deities.</p>
<p>"When life is tough or when it's uncertain, people believe in big gods," says Russell Gray, a professor at the University of Auckland and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for History and the Sciences in Jena, Germany. "Prosocial behavior maybe helps people do well in harsh or unpredictable environments."</p>
<p>Gray and his coauthors found a strong correlation between belief in high gods who enforce a moral code and other societal characteristics. Political complexity—namely a social hierarchy beyond the local community— and the practice of animal husbandry were both strongly associated with a belief in moralizing gods.</p>
<p><a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-11-societies-harsh-environments-moralizing-gods.html#jCp" target="_blank">http://phys.org/news/2014-11-societies-harsh-environments-moralizing-gods.html#jCp</a></p> tag:kkartlab.in,2014-11-01:2816864:Comment:1217572014-11-01T03:19:45.673ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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</p> This misconception is an expl…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-06-24:2816864:Comment:1180512014-06-24T01:21:38.224ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>This misconception is an exploitation of quantum mechanics by a certain breed spiritualists and self-helpers, and epitomized by the abomination, [the movie] What the Bleep Do We Know? Quantum mechanics, famously, has measurement at its core. An observer measuring position or momentum or energy causes the "wavefunction to collapse," non-deterministically. (Indeed, I did one of my first columns on "How smart do you need to collapse a wavefunction?") But just because the universe isn't…</p>
<p>This misconception is an exploitation of quantum mechanics by a certain breed spiritualists and self-helpers, and epitomized by the abomination, [the movie] What the Bleep Do We Know? Quantum mechanics, famously, has measurement at its core. An observer measuring position or momentum or energy causes the "wavefunction to collapse," non-deterministically. (Indeed, I did one of my first columns on "How smart do you need to collapse a wavefunction?") But just because the universe isn't deterministic doesn't mean that you are the one controlling it. It is remarkable (and frankly, alarming) the degree to which quantum uncertainty and quantum weirdness get inextricably bound up in certain circles with the idea of a soul, or humans controlling the universe, or some other pseudoscience. In the end, we are made of quantum particles (protons, neutrons, electrons) and are part of the quantum universe. That is cool, of course, but only in the sense that all of physics is cool.</p> The supposed 'war' between re…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-05-19:2816864:Comment:1170882014-05-19T02:04:56.959ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>The supposed 'war' between religion and science and its casualties</p>
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<p>The supposed 'war' between religion and science and its casualties</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865603354/The-supposed-war-between-religion-and-science-and-its-casualties.html" target="_blank">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865603354/The-supposed-war-between-religion-and-science-and-its-casualties.html</a></p> When asked " Do you think of…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-02-06:2816864:Comment:1138732014-02-06T04:56:37.918ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>When asked " Do you think of spirituality more in a person and individual sense or more in terms of organised religion and church doctrine?” Almost three-quarters opted for “personal and individual.” in a study!…<br></br></p>
<p>When asked " Do you think of spirituality more in a person and individual sense or more in terms of organised religion and church doctrine?” Almost three-quarters opted for “personal and individual.” in a study!<br/> <a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/new-age/i-am-spiritual-but-not-religious?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_digest&uid=5989&date=20140206&suid=NTk4OQ==" target="_blank">http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/new-age/i-am-spiritua...</a></p>
<p>Individualised spirituality that includes picking and choosing from a wide range of alternative religious philosophies. They typically view spirituality as a journey intimately linked with the pursuit of personal growth or development. They are spiritual pragmatists looking for usable <a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/thoughts/wisdom">wisdom</a> wherever they can find it That a distinction has emerged between religion and spirituality is in itself a major change.</p>
<p>W C Roof, a religious scholar at the University of California cites the rise of panentheism (not to be confused with pantheism), which he defines in Vedantic language: “The self is the indwelling of God. The world is the abode of God. All is one, and one is all. In the tradition of the ancient upanishads, we find the oneness of our Atman with the all.”<br/>Like all complex social phenomena, these trends have multiple causes. But every reputable analyst says that access to <a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/journey/india">India</a>’s spiritual teachings has been a central factor.</p>
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<p>Today, large numbers of people who never heard the word Vedanta are, in outlook and practice, Vedantists. They view spirituality as a developmental process in which each person’s path must constantly adjusted to suit his temperament, circumstances, and ever-evolving needs. What could be more American? Abridged from ‘American Veda,’ Random House.</p> Turning spiritual means takin…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-01-13:2816864:Comment:1133712014-01-13T03:18:33.072ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>Turning spiritual means taking your destiny into your hands by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev</p>
<p>Turning spiritual means taking your destiny into your hands by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev</p>