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vaccine to make us not get affected by the virus called 'spirituality'. We are not advocating a 'return to nature', or the discarding of technology. What we need is a holistic integration of science and spirituality, a science that investigates topics related to consciousness and subtle bodies, in particular instead of ignoring them. Since the energetic and spiritual effects of drugs or any form of technology are never tested or documented, anything could happen.
But even without a disaster scenario, if nothing were to counterbalance the formidable wave of materialism that is presently unfolding, we could well end up in a polarized world where genuine forms of spirituality become more and more marginalized. The problem is, nowadays something is considered scientific if it works on rats and if you can make statistics about it, all the more it is proved. This attitude can at best capture only the most superficial effects of spiritual experience, never its essence.
The emerging trend of global thinking and feeling which must necessarily be understood only in terms of types of human consciousness requires a scientific approach to study this phenomenon. An attempt at a systematic exploration of states of consciousness is sought to be made in ISRC. From the diaries of meditation and other reports including some discussions I had with about 150 persons regarding sadhana in PAM, I try to present the broad contours of spiritual awareness. The rather
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Exploring Consciousness
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