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are a single harmonious flow, and happen at each moment. Mutation transforms the relationship with the known, it is also the beginning of new relationships with the unknown. The tool, now emerging, is direct perception (intuition) to communicate that intuition by verbal cognition (words are drawn from factual memory) and rational inference (quantum logic). Rational inference is totally rational and sane. Quantum logic is synergistic to classical logic. Quantum logic has the capacity to construct a rational and sane society.
Both science and spirituality deal with the search of truth. Both accept the non-authoritarian approach-an approach not conditioned by the authority of the past. The subject of cognizance in both cases is the trans-psychological dimension of consciousness. Both deal with ending human misery and suffering. Seen in this light, there is no conflict between science and pure religion, between physical sciences and the science of spirituality. These are two complementary disciplines in the life of man and the real aim is to produce fully integrated human beings. Spirituality aims at actualization of the hidden human potential. Spirituality is fundamental and science is a derivative.
Nature responds to experimental interrogation. Experimental dialogue is possible when the subject is unrelated to one's beliefs, ambitions, hopes, motivations, and so on. The subject is called non-reactional attenti. veness and it sees the fact. The classical objective science sees the external time-space matrix, the "knowlege of structural form, and not knowledge of the content" in the words of Arthur Eddington. Spirituality perceives the knowledge of content of consciousness, so spirituality is the science of the wholeness of life.
The new world order is neither a political issue, nor an economic one. It is basically a psychic issue. It is a fundamental question of evolution. And this question is: will mankind as a whole be able to end the cutting of the
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