Dr. Pawan Dhar
Science and Spirituality; A Challenge to
Physicists
25.05.2012
The dimension of spirituality that exists beyond the physically known universe remains largely unknown. Spirituality is the science of the 'life giving substance'. In physics, we have moved from molecules to atoms to the sub-atomic world and identified many fundamental forces.
However, these forces only attempt
to explain how matter is formed. They do not explain the composition and nature
of the life giving substance itself. Due to this reason, there is still a huge
divide between spiritual sciences and physical sciences. Is their a unified
view somewhere? Subhra Priyadarshini
In this new series, Dr. Pawan Dhar,
director at Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences in Pune, will explore the
possibility of a unified view between the two apparently divergent fields of
science and spirituality.
The dimension of spirituality that
exists beyond the physically known universe remains largely unknown. In this
new series, Dr. Pawan Dhar, director at Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences
in Pune, India will explore the possibility of a unified view between the two
apparently divergent fields of science and spirituality.
Thus, to understand the fundamental
difference between the living and the non-living, we might need to look in the
space beyond the known physical universe. We might need to differentiate
between 'energy and intelligent energy', 'motion and emotion', 'mind and
matter'.
Given that the same carbon atom that
makes charcoal also makes a human being, it is clear that the science of matter
cannot explain the fundamental difference between living and non-living.
Several questions arise when we leave known physical dimensions and move into
the unknown space of life energies.
What is the composition of soul?
Does soul have a periodic table? What needs to be added to solar energy to make
it 'soular energy'? How many layers beyond the physical body are we composed
of? Are there any scientific means to explore spiritual dimensions? What are
the technological innovations needed to capture each layer? Can we photograph
mind and soul? What is their address? Does the address remain static or does it
change?
We know about DNA, RNA and proteins.
We are also familiar with terms like genotype and phenotype, genomics,
proteomics, metabolomics and so on. Currently, biological science deals with
the space between molecular inventory of an organism and its phenotypic
outcome. The trouble is that DNA, RNA and protein molecules are 'practically
dead' on arrival. They can be chemically synthesized and crystallised. What is
chemically synthesized can be part of the living system but cannot be the 'life
giving substance' itself.
Thus, to get a fundamental
understanding of life, we must connect chemistry with consciousness and beyond.
To do so, it would be important to define relevant terms first. Three terms
have been explained below. There could be more, depending upon our perception
and experience.
Body is what we experience at the
gross level. A chemical analysis of the human body shows that it is made of 28
elements of the periodic table with carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen
contributing 96% of the body mass. The question is: what happened to the rest
more than 82 elements. Why didn't they participate in the formation of body mass?
At what time and how was the chemical inventory of the body frozen? If
environmental context determined formation of bodies, will the composition of
body change if the environment also changes? What are the tolerable
replacements? Where do we draw the boundary?
Life energy is like an operating
system that runs the show but remains unknown. The subject of life energy has
largely remained unexplored. As of now, the scientific community swims at the
cellular and molecular surface, studying waves here and there and calling them
path-breaking discoveries.
The question is how to
scientifically find what runs us? How to see ourselves as operating systems?
What kind of preparation is needed? Can we use technology to understand the
life giving substance? Logically such technology needs to be equally
sophisticated or maybe a little more sophisticated than the life giving energy
itself? Can we ever find such a technology? How does it feel like experiencing
life in its purest form, without any additional attributes? We do not know.
Mind is what we think of as a buffer
between subtle life energies and the gross body. It is like a 'metabolic
pathway'that stays between the 'genotype of life energy' and the 'phenotype of
the gross body'. It would be nice to scientifically document the contents of
the mind to see its dimensions. We see the body, imagine the mind and believe
in the life giving substance. This needs to change.
Could there be more gross layers and
more subtle layers than this naïve abstraction? People use terms like
consciousness, sub-consciousness, super-consciousness, emotions and awareness
to describe life. Though one can play with these terms, in reality we only talk
about individual perceptions.
To get a clear understanding of life
giving elements, their attributes, their interactions, their structural and
functional correlates, the subtle-to-gross pathways, we need to generate
additional evidence in the space of existence and extend the intellectual front
end of science.
People in the spiritual domain use
mind as a lab, intent as approach and intensity as the key. People in the
scientific world use a reductionist approach to split a system into constituent
elements and weave the information into an integrated model.
In the first approach, the
technology exists within the body. In the second, technology exists outside the
body. To find a meeting point of science and spirituality, it would be prudent
to find commonalities between both and propose a logical and evidence-based
approach that probes deeper into the spiritual space.
Article
is taken from:
http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/
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