From The Maze Where Realities Converge
The Ultimate Comment could be described as having a sciento-mysticist theme, the word being a portmanteau of scientism and mysticism, since it holds that there are mystical, unknowable secrets, but that they can be discovered and confirmed through the advance of science-driven technology, such as the invention of the internet or LSD-25, and on a long enough timescale will eventually satisfy the scientist desire to be experimentally proven.
As Pope Bob has pointed out*, Mysticism does not stand alongside Religion in opposition to Science. Rather Mysticism & Science are allies standing in opposition to Religion. Mysticism & Science both trust the sovereign individual to make his own investigation into What's What, to accept only that which can be confirmed empirically and to apply reason and logic to experiential knowledge. Religion, on the other hand, expects the individual to base his view of What's What on authority and faith. We could even say that Mysticism is an investigation of consciousness in the same way that Science is an investigation of the material world.
*Reference: he said it in that documentary about him.
See Also
External links
- Psychedelic Futurism
- 'The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism' by Fritjof Capra - an extraordinary book doing exactly what it says in the subtitle.
- Tony Smith's website includes writings on Sufi physics, Vodou physics