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The Cosmic Religion

Ablert Einstein once spoke of a ‘grand universifying theorem’, this theorem would overcome the biggest dilemna in human thought. The split between science, philosophy, and religion. The split driven by the scientists of the 21st century, beginning in Vienna with the logical positivists postulating an incredible wall between the subjects. 

The logical positivists argued, and stood in strong belief, that everything could be reduced to numbers. Today, the reductionist argument-- that all phenomenon can be reduced to numbers -- still stands. All in all it is impossible to reduce every experience into numbers. Phenomenology, most simply defined as the ‘study of phenomenon’ explains the world to us by attempting to understand ‘phusis’  or being itself. 

In the famed essay by Thomas Nagel, entitled “What is it like to be a bat?” Nagel beautifully illustrates the ridiculousness of the logical positivists claim. Nagel argues that it is impossible to ever understand what sensations the bat goes through. The bat’s world, even if we were to experience in the body of a bat, would also not replicate what it is to be a bat. The consciousness of the bat is incomprehensible.  Indeed, even if one were to be in the form of a bat, utilizing all its functions, it would still not be possible to understand the phenomenology of a bat, its reasons, its morals, its habits, its universal world view. 

Consciousness is the key to unlocking the cosmic religion. It is the unexplored realm. Much like the dream realm. Consciousness can be seen in the world around all of us. Every living thing seems to possess it. The plants in the morning, move towards the rising sun. Bees create hives, they protect their queen. All these beings operate as per dharma. Dharma is best defined as cosmic order. Many questions can be asked about consciousness. For instance, why do we possess more of it than other beings? Can the human body really just possess more capacity for consciousness? Even then, why so? 

Question everything

SR