ultimate knowledge apprehended

Spirituality and science are different fields of enquiry. While the former examines the nature of the self and finds the same underlying truths in any culture and age, science measures matter and its truths change with every new discovery, developing discursive norms to describe its culturally specific version of the world - a necessary function of the means of production and exchange (scientific research is chiefly financed by corporations for the purpose of producing consumer goods). So the spiritually aware among us cannot be that enamoured of theories about the nature of material reality that currently predominate here in our technocratically advanced nations. Spiritual truth reveals itself in the individualised mind opening up to deeper and broader awareness, ultimate knowledge apprehended in the formless infinity of pure consciousness that underlies it, and serves as the singular basis of all material form. Which is neither culturally or socially specific, even if our modes of discourse are influenced by our period and place. But it is interesting to see how the limitations of current materialist enquiry bumps up against such truth. This pair of videos present the evidence from a Buddhist perspective, and is useful in drawing parallels between certain strands of scientific enquiry and spiritual understanding. I question that there are real parallels though, as science can never understand the nature of the self and reality by focussing on the world as exterior object, as ultimately this will always reveal itself as a delusion constructed by the viewer - as even science itself acknowledges.