Table of Contents for Root Meanings
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Revision: 20 Jun 2026
Science
- The systematic exploration, clarification, and unification of knowledge.
- Science passes through stages of searching for explanations of phenomena, discovering and exercising creatorship, outgrowing all understandings of reality based on finiteness, and realizing THE SUPREME.
- Science passes through stages of studying apparent divisions within Mind (without realizing that all dividedness is false), unifying what seemed to be divided, exploring the nature of oneness, and transcending the scaffolding of ideas that were utilized along the way.
- Earlier stages of science are focused on objective knowledge within a context of believed separation and finitude. In subsequent stages, the focus shifts to subjective knowing within a context of oneness and infinitude. The culminating paradigm of science is the science of radical subjectivity.
- Science and spirituality are two aspects of a single process of investigation. Profound science is unified with spiritual investigation.
- Science ends when all assumptions, postulates, and beliefs have been systematically understood and transcended in the realization of limitlessness.
- The systematic exploration of phenomena and reality.
- The systematic investigation into the nature of reality.
- Science is a path of enlightenment.
- Profound science unifies empirical and revealed knowledge.
- Profound science unifies physics and metaphysics.
- The purpose of science is to unveil reality.
- The conclusion of science is the discovery that all is YOU, that all is THE SUPREME.
Sayings:
- “Science and spirituality are two aspects of the same inquiry.”
- “The progress of science can be measured by the systematic undoing of its own assumptions, postulates, and beliefs.”
- “The progress of science is measured by how many fixed ideas and assumptions are overturned, and, even more importantly, by how many remain. Ultimately, no fixed ideas and no assumptions remain.”
- “The greatest asset of science is its systematic approach. However, when objectivity is transcended, its systematic methods are profoundly transformed.”
- “The paradigm of scientific materialism is a hypothesis that seemed to work well in certain contexts at a certain level of collective consciousness. However, this hypothesis is in the process of being falsified by mounting evidence that consciousness is primary and that the mind is not localized in the brain.”
- “The scientific method is itself a hypothesis regarding how truth can be ascertained. As of June 2026, the scientific method is half true since it does not yet acknowledge the interplay between apparent objectivity and real subjectivity.”
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