Welcome to The Metaphysical Church of Science. We’re delighted that you are checking us out.
‘Metaphysical‘ refers to the big philosophical questions about life, meaning, and purpose. ‘Church‘ meant spiritual gatherings (long before Christianity.) And ‘Science’ is the systematic approach to understanding the natural world through observation, experimentation, and analysis, aimed at discovering facts and developing theories about how things work. All three are necessary to better understand the true nature of ‘reality,’ as Hamlet said, “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Sadly, neither science nor religion currently provide this.
We are not exactly a ‘church.’ With more than 9,000 religions worldwide, the world hardly needs a new religion, which is good because we’re not promoting ‘religion.’ We propose instead a superior model of ‘reality’ that allows for every experience and phenomenon, even paranormal ones.
Instead, we are promoting a highly successful ‘theory of everything’ meticulously devised in 1929 by mathematician and theoretical physicist Alfred North Whitehead, continuously tested and validated by best evidence from science and extraordinary experiences common to every culture throughout history. Too complicated to explain here, it differs somewhat from science’s material (physicalist) model of the universe, which has no place or role for consciousness (And here you thought you were conscious! Not according to science!) in two ways: it argues that the universe consists of matter and consciousness, every entity having a physical pole and a mental pole, and that the universe is not made of enduring stuff but is renewed at every instant, like a river that never stops flowing, driven by a creative desire for ever greater satisfaction through more novel interactions and events. This is not as weird as it at first sounds. For example, if the universe consisted only of stuff floating through space, with innovations occurring by accident, the astonishing diversity of life throughout evolution could not be taking place. Evolution is the expression of conscious creativity! That’s just the tip of a glorious iceberg, because if the proof of a superior idea is that it solves problems other models cannot, then we have a winner!
Here’s the challenge! A model of the universe that views consciousness as indestructible and capable of functioning apart from the body (near-death experiences, ghosts & apparitions), changes, well, everything! We are not here by accident. What we do matters. And spirituality is no longer a Sunday morning affair, but the very fabric of reality and daily life. We are here to have and grow from experiences! And yes, you do get to take it with you, if “it” is experiences. For these reasons, we are striving to find ways to overcome both the individual and collective effect of having lived under two mutually incompatible and deeply inadequate worldviews. If this resonates with you, we hope you will join us.
Discussions are livestreamed via Zoom every Sunday 10 am – noon.
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