This is a very interesting topic for me. I am practicing magick and I’m doing my PhD in molecular biology (one of the most hostile environments for a hermeticist). What are my observations? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I have no problem with squaring the two. They seem to me to be so different areas of life and human enquiry that it almost borders with apathy. That Saturn I look at in the night sky is at the same time the astrological entity filled with meaning and occult correspondences and at the same time it is the gaseous giant with rings and tens of moons which perhaps has no connection to life on Earth at all… and I am totally content with that doublethink. And it doesn’t seem to me that my occultism has any “unscientific” impact on my professional practice. Only problem I see is with the Richard Dawkinses and Lawrence Krauses and Neil deGrasse Tysons of this world (and their spiritual and religious counterparts) who are waging a holy war against their supposed enemies who will supposedly plunge humanity into a obscurantist/materialist (depending on your camp) catastrophe. I personally am perfectly happy with evoking Agiel and praying to the Lord who created the Heavens and the Earth for forgiveness of my sins after a long day in the lab. To each one his own I guess.
I used to separate the two until i merged spirit and matter, when i realized i was god yet everything and everyone else was also, that the mystery of existance, beyond concepts and ideas, which is beyond words and distinctions IS spirit manifestinf in different forms, that matter and spirt are one and the same albeit different aspects and manifestation of the same essence.
I quit my PhD in genetics last year during my Zelator grade. Modern science is in a really sad position right now. It is an endless struggle for publications and grants, which results in most studies being either false (sometimes intentionally) or useless due to a lack of data. Moreover, modern science does not intertwine itself with philosophy anymore. Because of this, nowadays it is even impossible to properly define what science is, what its methodology is, etc. It has been more than half a century since the epistemological foundations of modern science were heavily questioned (Quine, Sellars, for example). But no changes have been made since then. It doesn't seem to be a problem for pragmatic people (engineers, medics, etc.) because they generally don't care about how true something is; it just needs to work. But they are now subservient methodologically to scientists. I agree with the statement about religion, but it is not just random people; it is scientists themselves too. Some fields of study like parapsychology, despite having evidence of its validity, are looked down upon because they don't conform to their beliefs about the foundations of reality.
I would personally very much argue against the idea of learning for the sake of learning being useless. Application is of course the end goal, but I can't go into learning based on some specific applications if I don't already hold existing knowledge. An engineer can only begin to design solutions based on existing principles. I can't know what I might be able to use the knowledge for until I know it to a sufficient degree already. If I can't see a pattern across multiple unrelated discoveries, how could I create an application across them. Science still has purpose in the nature of seeking and discovery of the natural world, and that purpose has been twisted into turning it into a religion by those who don't know better and those seeking to exploit ignorance. As shown with the original driver for science, learning itself creates a closer understanding with our relationship with the world as well as its creator, dismissing it as useless only cheapens that relationship and connection with the world around you, suggesting we should only know it on the most superficial level possible.
Speaking of modern science being a religion, it seems you merely uttering the words “climate change” in the video triggered an automatic alert on your video from the RUclips powers-that-be
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This is a very interesting topic for me. I am practicing magick and I’m doing my PhD in molecular biology (one of the most hostile environments for a hermeticist).
What are my observations? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I have no problem with squaring the two. They seem to me to be so different areas of life and human enquiry that it almost borders with apathy. That Saturn I look at in the night sky is at the same time the astrological entity filled with meaning and occult correspondences and at the same time it is the gaseous giant with rings and tens of moons which perhaps has no connection to life on Earth at all… and I am totally content with that doublethink. And it doesn’t seem to me that my occultism has any “unscientific” impact on my professional practice.
Only problem I see is with the Richard Dawkinses and Lawrence Krauses and Neil deGrasse Tysons of this world (and their spiritual and religious counterparts) who are waging a holy war against their supposed enemies who will supposedly plunge humanity into a obscurantist/materialist (depending on your camp) catastrophe.
I personally am perfectly happy with evoking Agiel and praying to the Lord who created the Heavens and the Earth for forgiveness of my sins after a long day in the lab.
To each one his own I guess.
I used to separate the two until i merged spirit and matter, when i realized i was god yet everything and everyone else was also, that the mystery of existance, beyond concepts and ideas, which is beyond words and distinctions IS spirit manifestinf in different forms, that matter and spirt are one and the same albeit different aspects and manifestation of the same essence.
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I quit my PhD in genetics last year during my Zelator grade. Modern science is in a really sad position right now. It is an endless struggle for publications and grants, which results in most studies being either false (sometimes intentionally) or useless due to a lack of data. Moreover, modern science does not intertwine itself with philosophy anymore. Because of this, nowadays it is even impossible to properly define what science is, what its methodology is, etc. It has been more than half a century since the epistemological foundations of modern science were heavily questioned (Quine, Sellars, for example). But no changes have been made since then. It doesn't seem to be a problem for pragmatic people (engineers, medics, etc.) because they generally don't care about how true something is; it just needs to work. But they are now subservient methodologically to scientists.
I agree with the statement about religion, but it is not just random people; it is scientists themselves too. Some fields of study like parapsychology, despite having evidence of its validity, are looked down upon because they don't conform to their beliefs about the foundations of reality.
Nice summation. Thanks 🙏 Amateur Magus.
I would personally very much argue against the idea of learning for the sake of learning being useless. Application is of course the end goal, but I can't go into learning based on some specific applications if I don't already hold existing knowledge. An engineer can only begin to design solutions based on existing principles.
I can't know what I might be able to use the knowledge for until I know it to a sufficient degree already. If I can't see a pattern across multiple unrelated discoveries, how could I create an application across them.
Science still has purpose in the nature of seeking and discovery of the natural world, and that purpose has been twisted into turning it into a religion by those who don't know better and those seeking to exploit ignorance.
As shown with the original driver for science, learning itself creates a closer understanding with our relationship with the world as well as its creator, dismissing it as useless only cheapens that relationship and connection with the world around you, suggesting we should only know it on the most superficial level possible.
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Speaking of modern science being a religion, it seems you merely uttering the words “climate change” in the video triggered an automatic alert on your video from the RUclips powers-that-be
Yet another example of AI not being fool proof