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According to Phillipians 4:7 in the King James Cristian Bible, “the peace of God surpasseth all understanding”. But, in a world where spirituality and science are both matters of faith for millions of people around the world, it is not only the peace of the divine that appears to be beyond our collective powers to grasp.
Scientific proof, planted as it is upon a bedrock of empirical evidence, can only explain so much. In particular, it has proven to be at best only partially successful at accounting for individual and subjective phenomena. Science cannot satisfactorily demonstrate why we should love our children, nor why every single human society in history has entailed some sort of belief system founded on the supernatural, the religious or the mystical. There is only so much that science can teach as we seek to unravel the mysteries that surround us and, at the same time, that are part and parcel of each and every one of us.
In a world that is increasingly focussed on the technological and the material aspects of our lives, the steadfast few who seek to retain the status of the spiritual are all the more valuable, representing as they do a connection with the deepest part of our collective consciousness.
Much of what is practised within this arena is dismissed by sceptics as being of unsound or unproven value. For those with such closed minds, the terms by which they establish their proof are fundamentally flawed. Medical science is highly adept at numerically mapping what happens across large scale populations. It is far less able to predict or explain what will happen to each one of us.
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