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Zak Stein - Complexity Ensoulment Transcendence

Elevating Consciousness

CHAPTER

Religion Has the Answer for Which Science Does Not

Most people will be seeking religious solace. We're seeking some answer that revives their sense of a meaningful cosmos in the face of abject senseless pain. The ones we know as the actual traditions emerged in a context where there was unbridled violence and terrible collapsing empires. But we are way past the secular. That's gone. I remember Ken Wilbur said something like the pre-modern world God was everywhere. In the modern world, God was nowhere. And then whatever comes next after the modern God will be everywhere again.

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