Reverie
1 min readJan 20, 2021

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Excellent article. The problem is that many scientists and "pseudoscience spiritualists" seem to be trapped in dualism. Almost every scientist believes in materialism, and scoffs at any notion of spirituality as "woo" because they assume that spirituality is something different to what they're observing. Like when people tried to find the weight of the soul via science, because they assumed that the spirit was something separate from the body.

I had someone mock panpsychism by claiming that people who believe in panpsychism/pantheism think "a single electron is conscious, which is absurd". Well yes it is absurd (and a strawman argument), because the concept of a single electron existing by itself with no relation to anything else in the universe is absurd and a figment of a materialist's imagination.

Meanwhile the anti-science spiritualists are ones who are also trapped in dualism - they intuit that spirituality is real, but they then think they have to deny science.

Both approaches are flawed.

I know that Reality can be observed and described in many different ways. Science is one of them. Mathematics is another. Music is another. Art is another. Dance is another. Philosophy is another. Storytelling is another. Etc. They all describe the endless permutations of this great effervescence we call Reality or The Cosmos or Life or God or The Universe.

There is no separation between what scientists observe as "material reality" and "the spirit". They are the same. Everything is spirit/energy/vibration, and everything is part of the matrix of consciousness.

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Reverie
Reverie

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“The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds” — Cloud Atlas

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