GRGR(I): Scientific materialism

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

"Scientific materialism is an anti-mystical pursuit of the perennial ego-based 
religious goal, via the pursuit of objective knowledge - for the purpose of 
gaining power and control over objective reality. Traditional religious groups 
have always placed taboos on knowing too much and owning too much, because it 
has always been observed that when there is too much objective knowledge and too 
much objective ownership, such groups become dissociative and grossly 
manipulative, destroying the bond between human beings and all other beings, and 
between human beings and all aspects of life.
    Scientific materialism does not pursue knowledge for its own sake or for the 
sake of Liberation. Scientific materialism pursues knowledge for the sake of 
power. Therefore, its end-result is technology and politics, rather than 
religious celebration and Spirtual Awakening and Divine Enlightment. The culture 
of scientific materialism is a process very much like having someone in your 
neighborhood who owns too much, or who knows too much, or who is manipulating 
people too much - and who, therefore, needs to learn some lessons about the 
Ultimate Reality."

"Both secular science and conventional (or merely exoteric) God-religion are 
based upon the two common faults of humankind - egoity and the non-recognition 
of the Real Nature (or One-Reality-Condition, or Perfectly Subjective, and 
Perfectly non-objective, Nature) of phenomenal experience (and of conditional 
existence, itself). Likewise, both secular science and conventional God-religion 
also (and equally) support and serve the illusions of humankind, rather than the 
need for humankind to REALIZE (and to DEMONSTRATE) Reality, Truth, and Real God.
    The principal illusion supported and served by secular science is epitomized 
by the idea of 'materialism' (or of Reality as thing - without Being, or 
Consciousness). And the principal illusion supported and served by conventional 
God-religion is epitomized by the idea of 'utopia' (or of Reality as the 
fulfillment of egoity). Secular science opposes conventional God-religion, and 
conventional God-religion opposes secular science - each, in turn, proposing 
that its propositions are, by contrast to the propositions of the other, the 
correct means of interpreting (and the correct 'point of view' relative to) 
'Reality' and 'Truth' and 'God'. However, neither secular science nor 
conventional God-religion is a correct (or right and true) means for REALIZING 
(and DEMONSTRATING) Reality (Itself), or Truth (Itself), or Real God. Indeed, 
'point of view' (of any conditional, or space-time, kind) is precisely the fault 
that self-separates one and all from the INHERENT Realization of Reality, Truth, 
and Real God.
    Reality, Truth, and Real God IS the Condition of conditions - the inherently 
egoless (or Perfectly Subjective, and Perfectly non-objective) Self-Condition of 
one and all.

               REAL God IS The Indivisible Oneness
                       Of Unbroken Light"

                                                (Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj)

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