Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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Vera Stanley Adler, in her book 'The Finding of The Third Eye' has cited an experiment wherein altered sense of gravity through breath-control exercise enabling one to lift heavy weights without feeling any strain is described. She has also mentioned about subsidence of painful bodily sensation by rapid, shallow breathing.
Considering the above points, we come to realise that our view of the phenomenal world is not truly objective but is, to a great extent, a subjective experience.
Shortcomings of research :
Dr. Raynor Johnson states,
The commonsense picture of the world is adequate for the ordinary business of living, but as soon as we want to know meanings, we have got to approach on a higher level of significance, and then we discover a world very unlike the familiar one - a world of which the latter is only a partial aspect ... from the viewpoint of lower grade of significance, the very existence of a higher grade may be unrecognized, and even to postulate it may seem imaginative or mystical. This general standpoint indicates the inherent limitation present in
any type of inquiry. Natural science has ordered and · classified and correlated data on one level of significance;
the physical level of sense - data ... so to fully understand the physical world, we must penetrate into and interpret from a higher significant grade.23
Today, the parapsychologists employ the ESP potential of humans in their research work thus carrying science into the realm of extra-sensory phenomena. On the basis of such research data, Dr. Alexander Cannon states,
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