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The Vital Question
Twentieth Century Science is moving towards the spiritualist camp willy nilly; Dr. Paul Brunton in his book 'The Quest of The Overself' states,
A silent revolution is taking place in physical sciences ever since the great war. The naive materialism of the nineteenth century no longer appears credible, and is pitifully out of date, while the theory of relativity, the quantum theory and wave mechanics are transforming our view of the universe. When the solid atom was broken into electrical charges and then dissolved into pristine ether, materialist was robbed of his matter. We are beginning to expound the doctrines of the ancients, the teaching of Babylonia, Egypt and India, but we are doing so by the light of modern scientific progress. Evidence accumulates that science is beginning to say the same things as those forgotten ancienis, albeit in a different way. 25
Twentieth century scientific discoveries afford the intelligentsia of today, an opportunity to witness how science has been stumbling upon fundamental truth expounded by the enlightened mystics thousands of years ago.
Insight attained through spiritual refinement : Its direct evidence :
Sir Jagdishchandra Bose provided modern science the
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