Week 7 - Miguel Flores

“Science catching up” is a profound statement that we rarely hear all the time. Our perception of Science, Western Science at least, is always associated with advancements, new discoveries, debunking mysteries and natural phenomena. Watson and Lanza outlines a sentiment that proposes that Science is not always what we know. Science, at the essence of it, is limited in uncovering the truths and the mysteries to our world’s complicated reality. We think of Science as a system that can unravel and explain things to us, but the truth of the matter is that Science do not resolve or answer the questions that we have. Consciousness, for example, is a subject matter that is filled with conjectures, theories, and hypotheses. Science is good at eyeballing general thoughts and rationales in fleshing out theoretical statements or things that is beyond our world. Consciousness are studied and observed, but as many scholars state; consciousness is shrouded with mystery and awe. Consciousness is what we all have and it is what people gets attached to when they start channeling their spiritual consciousness. The human element in researching and uncovering our own consciousness is hard to accomplish because of our own biases and the challenges of really splicing out the components of our conscious mind. Studying the conscious mind and its behavior in a spiritual mode also proposes many challenges because of the lack of research and general interest on the topic. Lanza and Watson provides a sentiment that although Science is catching up there’s still a lot of components to unpack. 

University of Cambridge spearheaded a research studying the human mind consciousness and how it behaves in real-time. Photo Credit: University of Cambridge

As Watson and Lanza discussed in their articles, it is great that science is catching up to the spiritual realm and it refreshing to hear that science is opening its area of study to look at different dimensions and alternate realities. These sounds like all science-fiction, but these are becoming significant because of the evolving capabilities of consciousness and the emerging forms of spiritual oneness. I am all for this forward direction, but it is hard to study consciousness if we do not know what it really is and what type of research questions do we need to answer? Inter-dimensional and alternate realities are so hard to hypothesize when it is not tangible and literally not physically existent. The direction we are in is a good starting point in really looking at these things. Even though we barely scratch the surface of it, it is a promising indication that science is ready to study and closely examine how different consciousness and realms affect our human experience.