Science-Mysticism

"Science alone cannot discover Christ. But Christ satisfies the yearnings that are born in our hearts in the school of science. . . Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.” The quote is Teilhard's. I found it at the following site:
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/dr-gerry-lower-pierre-teilhard-de.html

This article says a great deal of importance. The sense of the word 'Christ' is significant, because in the contemporary milieu it seems contradictory. "Christosphere" is anachronous, not in the sense of being old fashioned but in the sense of it being too new fashioned! The cognitive dissonance dissapears and all that is left is a unified vision of truth. Truth is composed of the empirical facts established by science and at the same time is radically miraculous. Traditionally, 'miracle' meant the overcoming of natural law by supernatural act (cf. Francis Cornford). Paradoxically in the present era, miracle now amounts to accepting the contemporary world as amazing and wonderful. Teilhard explodes the sense of the 'miraculous' to each molecule, duck weed, protozoan, CD player, telephone, website. He explodes the miraculous into each pore of interstellar space, and the interminable distances between atoms. This is a PARADOX. We so routinely perform miracles---consider: each Google search is a stupendous feat---that we have become numb to the amazing wonder of light and script---speech itself.

Science and religion are bifurcated. On the other hand, in the mystical perspective of Teilhard the bifurcation dissolves. Science reveals the truth in one manner, and religion speaks of the same phenomenal reality but in mystical, analogical terms. The mystic speaks of the divine while at the same time acknowledging that the divine cannot be spoken of in human language. It is spoken of 'analogically' or by way of analogy. Hence, Jesus Christ, the name, refers to the historical Nazarean, while 'Christ' refers to the global messiah. When Christ is 'light' or 'life', on must ask in precisely what sense of 'light' and 'life'. Teilhard sees the Christ as co-terminous with the entire phenomenon of the universe. Christ is 'truth'---what a strange locution! 2+2=4---true, but Jesus Christ 'true'---What can this mean?

A coherent vision is offered. It is in this spirit that Teilhard's coherency of vision springs. Professor George Dolnikowski, the finest of teachers, once said that: "All learning is one."
Teilhard agrees---all learning is one in a vast orchestration of speech, language, script, type...but learning aims at what is real---the beautiful and the true ('kaloskagathos'). To discover existence itself ---('Sat') with awareness ('cita': sanskrit') is to discover bliss ('ananda'). Sat-chit-ananda.

I must recall once more the words of esteemed professor, Ulrich Libbrecht, sinologist at K.U. Leuven: "Your everday life is the highest form of spirituality." Double wow! What a mantra. ॐ.

Another fine teacher, a Flemish metaphysician, Jan Van der Veken, professor of philosophy at the University of Leuven in Belgium once proclaimed that the sense of the miraculous is not in one solitary overcoming of natural law, but rather in the sense that the miracle is continuous with space, time, space-time and the phenomenon of man!