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Science as a way to God
Reflections on the sense of human life

We, the people of western cultural tradition, recognize different ways to the numinous, divine realm. Some people still imagine that somewhere under the skin of their bodies, there is something like an immortal soul and that this soul somehow makes them look for the reason why they exist in the world and what they are looking for in this world. However, there are people in today's technologically advanced civilization who are exposed to mass media and official political and economic machinery working in the opposite direction: renown atheistic experts day and night keep explaining to them that something like that is just an archaic fairy tale and that we are here in our lives primarily to consume, to satisfy all the sensational pleasures that our bodies provide us. We are ensured that if we did not use our consumerist life on earth, it would mean an irreversible loss of all our life chances. The fact that most educated people believe just in this earthly life is very convenient for this campaign.

My search for the sense of human life began in natural science

Once I was a great skeptic in terms of finding a valid truth about "the sense of human life." Almost all my life I tried to find the valid truth about existence only through natural sciences. However, I had found only the truth about a part of existence which is actually examined by these sciences. It was a very credible truth, because it was objectively verifiable. Science, however, failed to provide an answer to the question about the sense of the universe and me in it, which interested me most of all. On the contrary, my scientific knowledge rather led me to believe that the question itself, about the sense of existence and man, is wrongly put, because natural sciences are not able to answer it. I considered these sciences to be the whole science and their truth to be the whole truth. Therefore, I mentally suffered a lot because my scientific knowledge suggested that the entire existence either has no objectively valid sense or only the sense that we people ourselves subjectively put in it, after a mutual agreement. As a result, this would mean that without us people, (e.g. if we induced a disaster and disappeared as a biological species from the Earth), even this subjective sense of the whole existence, which we mankind agreed on, would be lost.

Moreover, natural sciences are verifiably proving that the entire universe is only temporary, and it has its own space-time beginning "Big Bang" and its end is "Big Crunch". Mere successful surviving of man in such a temporary material world, even if we prolonged it by medicine and our exemplary behavior, eventually leads to a pessimistic answer to the question of the sense of human life anyway. It seems that we live in this world just as a random product of the material evolution on a cosmically insignificant and temporary planet Earth. And in real life, the only certainty we have is that sooner or later we ourselves, as an integral part of the fundamentally passing material of the universe, will finally vanish. Wouldn’t it be better for any member of the human population not to be born? Is it worth living for those little sensational experiences that are just temporary? With our death certainly everything disappears, even the little we remember at old age, if we ever reach it. In my world of verifiable natural sciences, life was thus not worth living.

How I met God

And then I faced a change that dazzled me like lightning when I experienced a completely spontaneous entry into "human unconsciousness" (non-sensory awareness or cognition). As a man oriented to natural science, I had no idea about the existence of "human unconsciousness". I was suddenly, in fact against my conscious will, acquainted with the new reality, whose real existence I had never consciously admitted before. In my spontaneous experience, I was aware in scientific terms (not just in metaphorical images and parables) with a spiritual existence I had been rejecting for almost all my life. (And the vast majority of my atheistic friends reject it to this day.) During this nine-hour long ecstatic experience at my desk, and later in a series of other smaller visions, I suddenly understood another essence of the human psyche and the role of the Creator in the universe who is standing behind the process of creative evolution. I gained an absolute certainty, which only scientific knowledge can provide, that the Creator is a conscious memory of the whole existence that we usually call "God". You can certainly ask me: Can you prove that what you experienced is not just your rampant imagination or a delusion we often see in mentally ill people. (In fact the number of such persons in today’s advanced society increases continuously and if they are not placed in psychiatric institutions they usually need constant assistance of competent psychiatric experts.) I should, however, also prove that what I have experienced is really supported from scientific knowledge. I do not need to prove anything to myself of course, because after my entry into the unconsciousness, i.e. after meeting God, there occurred a total transformation process of my personality called individuation in terms of Jungian depth psychology.

I will mention just a few examples of such transformations. In my sixtieth year when my enlightenment began, I was a sick man who was systematically treated by doctors who had prescribed to me daily doses of various medical drugs to keep me alive for about thirty years, since my health was slowly getting worse. I suffered from cardiac arrhythmia, recurrent borreliosis, gout, diabetes and increasing sciatica problems. After my divine experience suddenly all these diseases disappeared (as the doctors confirmed) and my taste preferences completely changed, too. At the same time there was a distinct change of all my mental abilities. Now, when I write my books my individual mind actually does not have to interfere in my writing. Answers to any questions somehow “emerge themselves” from my unconsciousness so I experience a strange intense feeling that I myself learn information I did not know before and that I actually did not write the text myself. More over, all my previous basic life values changed. The pessimist and atheists, who refused to live and was considering suicide became a man who feels great satisfaction of life and no fear of death. During my transcendent experience I realized with an absolute certainty that God exists objectively and that our real life does not end with death, but it actually begins. Since the experience of my "individual last judgement", which I underwent during my spontaneous entry into the unconsciousness at age sixty, I have not been able to transgress consciously certain principles of metaculture, i.e. against objectively accepted morality. It was because I understood in fact the meaning of a "sin" and I did not know anything worth committing which violated God's order. I know that someone who has not experienced one’s individual last judgement will probably never understand this fact. On the contrary, sins are still a temptation for most people.

Total shift of my approach to science

It is time to indicate briefly the shift in my scientific knowledge. I did not stop recognizing the truth of modern science (theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, theory of physical vacuum, cybernetics, genetics, etc.). I understood, however, that natural sciences are not the "complete truth" about existence in nature. Although sciences are able to explain everything in terms of material memory of existence, their cognitive approach is not suitable to explore and interpret human conscious mind, especially human unconsciousness. Most scientists still have not accepted that there exists an analytical and empirically objective and verifiable science of the human psyche - "Jungian depth psychology" - which is explaining human spirituality in a verifiable way as our evolutionary internal memory. However, there is much more to understand about the science of existence of all that is. It still remains to explain the uncreated spiritual conscious memory of the whole existence we usually call "God" in a scientifically verifiable way.

I found in science a testable way that would satisfy this requirement when I combined natural sciences with Jungian depth psychology. This way I managed to create an integrated whole from all the scientific knowledge which has become a complex, and not just a partial, truth about existence. I call this unified whole of scientific knowledge the "integral paradigm of science." I basically came to an understanding that in science we have to assume, in addition to the space-variable temporary material universe, also the eternal conscious memory of its existence from which the universe "emerges" and into which it "immerses" again. Without this provable assumption it is impossible to explain either the "Big Bang" or the "evolutionary emergence of existence" or the "inner sense of existence." In autonomous unified science therefore, it is not sufficient to know how processes occur, but it is necessary to explain in a verifiable way why they occur in the way they occur. Into this scientifically-based integrated existence, it is possible to insert its superhuman or transcendent moral dimension - the dimension through which we can determine objective morality, and not the one generally accepted by people.

About the relationship of scientific knowledge and theology

If man reaches such a valid scientific certainty and knows who is the real Creator of the universe, then he is literally dominated by incredibly strong selfless love of God, which exceeds all the love he has previously been able to feel towards beings or entities of the earthly world. This sort of intersection point joins the efforts of mystical, artistic and religious approaches, based on love as the only way to God, with a new cognitive way of integrated science as a way of objectively valid wisdom. Both paths also have one thing in common: a man is walking along them who gets so far and then can no longer continue. Then he may experience "ecstatic entries into the unconsciousness" and God will give her/him, figuratively speaking, a helping hand and suddenly with God’s help s/he will comprehend things s/he would never find out by using only her/his human power. Something special will happen that we can sometimes consider to be a "miracle" (usually because we lack for it today a better explanation) or an "emergent shift" in our knowledge, and we experience a mental state called "enlightenment".

No one will become God this way, because nobody has dispositions to be God, no matter how spiritually developed s/he might be. No person can ever become God’s conscious memory in which everything lasts and from which the whole material universe of space-time existence emerges. But a human being, after immersion into God’s memory, is enabled to understand where his enlightenment is coming from (if he is able to deny the egoism of his individual "conscious self"). Man is not his own "author", but only a "receiver". Every human being could contribute by accepting God’s enlightenment at a specific socio-cultural level of knowledge that one has achieved previously in human society. Human evolution - unlike animal evolution - is not under way just through changes to our genetically inherited natural memory, but mainly through changes of spiritual paradigms of our "socio-cultural memory." Our human way to God is a way of our growing in "spiritual maturity" in which we move toward God cognitively. Achieving both, metacultural scientific certainty and intense metaphorical belief in the existence of God, will never mean the cognitive identity of man with transcendent God. In this sense man should remain modest and humble.

On the scientific evidence of God’s existence

The actual scientific evidence of God’s existence can not be performed in the same way as scientific evidence for the existence of space-time physical objects (such as the evidence for existence of certain plants, animals or even galaxies). The existence of these sub-objects is distinguished in being and we prove it (even in areas inaccessible to human senses) using specific technological cognitive activities commonly known from various scientific disciplines. If we ask, however, about the existence of God as a conscious memory of all of existence, then the scientific evidence of God’s existence could be performed as I briefly show below. At first scientists should realize exactly whether there are some general scientific theories or partial scientific paradigms that verifiably apply to the whole of existence. All these partial universally valid scientific paradigms are absolutely essential for proving God, since if we do not take into account any of them the scientific proof of God’s existence fails. With these basic partial paradigms it is possible to prove that material existence must have a space-time beginning, commonly called the Big Bang (the name differs according to a specific theory). Material existence can not be infinite in any respect. On the other hand, however, it is also truly impossible to "explain" scientifically the beginning of the universe (Big Bang) from any partial scientific paradigm separately, although the existence of such a beginning may "imply" from it. For a scientific explanation it is necessary to design an "integral scientific paradigm of existence" to complementarily connect the necessary knowledge from all sub-paradigms of specific sciences.

The role of science in proving the existence of God

Physics (theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, theory of physical vacuum, etc.) has revealed the underlying dynamics of mutual material-energetic interaction in various areas of the world and especially proved the necessary existence of the Big Bang.

Cybernetics (systems theory, information theory, control theory, etc.) has established the basic principles of memory evolution of existence which apply to all its levels, and strictly proved the relation between information and energy effects.

Depth psychology when exploring the internal aspects of the human level of spiritual memory revealed that its unconscious memory can be objectively and scientifically derived from the conscious memory of all existence which human cultures have always called God.

The theory of socio-cultural development of human knowledge, which explores cognitive ways of earthly conscious beings, found that their cognition leads to more and more accurate correlation of their knowledge with ontic reality. Therefore, it is necessary to reject philosophical "postmodern approaches" in science which try to relativize this fact.

The most common mistakes in proving God’s existence

GGod is often proven or disproven from one partial scientific paradigm or one generally valid scientific theory. Inside modern physics, which has grown into a series of relatively independent verifiable theories like the theory of relativity, quantum physics, theories of physical vacuum, etc., it appears to be feasible to search for a physical "theory of everything". When applying this theory, some people seem to find the question of God’s existence decidable.

Similar tendencies once appeared in cybernetic disciplines, too. And we should not forget the interesting efforts of C. G. Jung and post-Jungian depth psychologists who attempted to find such evidence in the paradigm framework of depth psychology. God is also very often speculatively proven from various mystical experiences and religious disciplines that are acquainted with some partial scientific theories, and if they miss some pieces of the scientific knowledge puzzle they complete it with mystical aspects coming from their own cultural tradition. Thus they achieve an impression of scientific authority in the eyes of their lay readers. Another very popular way of proving God can be found in various metaphorical narratives of persons, who went through extreme situations, e.g. "near death experiences", and experienced something unusual and incomprehensible that convinced them forever that it must originate in something supernatural, in God. Their confessions are especially effective if they themselves are already famous and reputable celebrities. Proving God using common sense based on illustrative examples imaginable to our senses generally looks very convincing to most people who are lacking a scientific background.

You can usually hear "the same words" used in science as well, however these words do not refer to the same conceptual content they have in today's science. Sometimes this evidence intentionally conceals the changes in scientific theories that establish some concepts, in order to create an impression that these concepts still have the same importance as they once had in history when they appeared in various sacred books. Thus people are shown a kind of sensual or visual theater that has become a thing of the past. This is happening at a time when scientific knowledge achieved real objectively true stories that apply to all people, although they are hidden from their senses. However, we need to understand the objective truth of the existence of the whole world, even the invisible one, which we live in today.

A few words about the academic atheists

In conclusion, I would like to note that for our contemporary atheistically oriented academic community (to which I once belonged), it should be important to verify the scientific wisdom hidden in deep psychic visions. Experiences of this kind accompanied humanity throughout its whole existence, despite all atheistic "final refutation" attempts (such as the efforts of Paul Kurtz or Richard Dawkins). These experiences come again and again, sometimes even in visions of scientifically oriented atheists. Human deep spiritual experiences can not be ignored for another reason - without them the material being would miss its inner aspect which is very important for understanding the sense of human existence and can not be replaced just by external sensory findings preferred by academic atheists.

Human unconscious spiritual memory or "human unconsciousness" has a direct relationship to the conscious mind of God. There is only one divine conscious memory and it is directed to individualized unconscious spiritualities of all cosmic beings, and the more their unconscious memory becomes conscious, the more knowledge of God’s creation enters into them. Individual spiritualities of all conscious beings actually become aware of the original spiritual activity of God himself. This ontic God, from whose creative memory all information in the entire material universe is gradually being created, should not be equated with the various ideas about God, or his various depictions or idols, which humanity was step by step putting together during its history, according to its particular cognitive maturity.