Science and Religion

Science is one approach to Truth, Religion is another. Their mutual opposition is simply the opposition in man’s consciousness between the head and the heart. Science seeks to discover Truth through the mind and the intellect. In doing so it suppresses the energies of the heart and assumes that Truth is something like an inert, mechanical, unconscious energy of form. It ends up discovering what it believes in.

Religion, on the other hand, approaches Truth through the heart. It does so by suppressing the energies of the mind and the intellect. It assumes Truth to be a Superconscious Being. Therefore it ends up discovering what it believes and puts its faith into. One is blind in the heart, the other is blind in the mind.

But Truth exceeds all our intellectual formulas and formulations even as it exceeds all our experiences and ways of relating to IT. It is only by rising to a consciousness greater than the mind and the heart, a consciousness in which the two fuse and become ONE, not mutually opposing but supporting and complimenting each other that we can discover the One Integral Reality that expresses Itself in countless ways.