But we as a culture have lost the deep intuitive understanding that Creation exists on many levels. We have succumbed to the scientific viewpoint. Nothing characterizes ‘the modern world’ more completely than the loss of faith in Transcendence, our arrogant lack of any genuine appreciation for levels of reality above our little everyday affairs. The deepest wounds to the human soul have been caused by our lack of appreciation of levels. By shutting the door on transcendence, we have cut off any light from that world that might have illuminated this one, leaving us in darkness, leaving us with nothing but a dead world where scientists are merely performing an autopsy. Andrew Cort
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For years, the scientific method has been the only way people thought about the world. Everything was broken down to its smallest parts; everything was analyzed and dissected to see how it worked. To many people, this was the only way to investigate a problem or understand something. However, there is a problem with this approach: it doesn’t explain everything.

Our understanding of the world is limited by what we can see and touch. It’s why scientists have so much trouble explaining things like life after death. They don’t know how the brain makes decisions or how emotions are triggered in our bodies.

Science is limited by the physical world that we live in and cannot explain anything that lies outside it. However, our cultural view is different. In many ways, we have decided to believe that nothing exists outside of the physical world, nothing exists outside of ourselves.

That includes miracles and supernatural occurrences, because they don’t fit in with our scientific view of our world. There are a lot of things going on inside us and in our lives that science cannot explain without resorting to magic and superstition.

Source: Love, Wisdom, And God: The Longing Of The Western Soul

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