The Present Relations of Science and Religionįifty or sixty years ago anyone fluttering the pages of one of the the many magazines which then catered for the cultivated and intelligent English reader would have been fairly certain to come uponĪn article bearing somewhat the same title as that of the present paper. Religion, Philosophy and Psychic Research (London: Routledge, 1953). The life we live is filled with purpose and meaning, and we humans have work to do to bring our world along.Published Philosophy 14 (1939): 131-54. Sound strange? What is far stranger is the materialist notion that existence burst forth out of absolutely nothing! That’s why this book “matters.” The life we live is not based in some mindless and mechanical machine. Life has always been latent in the universe every species is aware, intelligent, and chooses and existence-according to spiritual and scientific conclusions alike-is one unified evolving and emerging intelligent being, purposefully partnering with the universe in influencing what it is to become. This virtual experience we are having is nevertheless alive and conscious and deliberately makes choices. The world we experience, therefore, must be an illusion, like a holodeck program or a virtual game.Īnd no one disputes the conclusions of this mysterious science-Quantum Mechanics underlies all of reality.There is only subjectivity without any objective truth.A conscious observer is a necessary condition for anything to exist.There is no such thing as matter or space or time.Traditional science holds that everything that exists starts with matter, but this undocumented belief must be false, according to Quantum Mechanics. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
SO great and unquestioned have been the recent advances in psychology, in chemistry, in physics. We have come to the time when the serious minded refuse to go to school to the teacher who has to have himself whipped into acceptance of the nature truths which research has uncovered. The better understandings, therefore, of what this human is, in his inmost being, are to be reached by a careful estimate of his permanent outward correspondences, and of his actions under them, and of the degree of mastery which they have over him. If man has come up out of things, he will not, in the long run, be largely influenced by any theory of detachment. The religious instinct is such a persistent radical, and so evidently here to stay, that the whole issue of the soul's fellowship with the Di vine may be investigated from the viewpoint of the unity of creation.
Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.Įxcerpt from A Cosmic View of Religion These pages undertake to deal with religion in its generic aspects, and from the side of the uni verse.