All thoughts, feelings, intuitions, memories, desires, and revelations are the result of the swirl of neural blips, sensory acuities, and sporadic cognitions dwelling in the brain’s structures and neural pathways. (36) They later go on to explain what this means for the scientific world which is rooted in the assumption that material reality is reality in its highest form; that nothing is more real than the physical, material stuff of the universe. Yet the studies shared in this book provide evidence that, to those who experience it, spirituality is as real as an object you can tangibly touch and grasp. Albert Einstein believed that scientific interpretations of the physical world may not be as reliable as rational materialists wanted to believe. Consequently, the best that science can offer us is a metaphorical image of what’s real, and while that image may make sense, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. (171) Their conclusion: as long as our brains are arranged the way they are, and as long as our minds are able to sense a deeper reality, spirituality will continue to shape the human
All thoughts, feelings, intuitions, memories, desires, and revelations are the result of the swirl of neural blips, sensory acuities, and sporadic cognitions dwelling in the brain’s structures and neural pathways. (36) They later go on to explain what this means for the scientific world which is rooted in the assumption that material reality is reality in its highest form; that nothing is more real than the physical, material stuff of the universe. Yet the studies shared in this book provide evidence that, to those who experience it, spirituality is as real as an object you can tangibly touch and grasp. Albert Einstein believed that scientific interpretations of the physical world may not be as reliable as rational materialists wanted to believe. Consequently, the best that science can offer us is a metaphorical image of what’s real, and while that image may make sense, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. (171) Their conclusion: as long as our brains are arranged the way they are, and as long as our minds are able to sense a deeper reality, spirituality will continue to shape the human