9 Religion and Science are two sides of the same coin – Mind
Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviours and practices, morals, beliefs, world-views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements — although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings. (Wikipedia)
Science
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies. Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as engineering and medicine. While sometimes referred to as the formal sciences, the study of logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science (which study formal systems governed by axioms and rules) are typically regarded as separate because they rely on deductive reasoning instead of the scientific method or empirical evidence as their main methodology. (Wikipedia)
Mind
The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances, and unconscious processes, which can influence an individual without intention or awareness. The mind plays a central role in most aspects of human life but its exact nature is disputed. Some characterisations focus on internal aspects, saying that the mind transforms information and is not directly accessible to outside observers. Others stress its relation to outward conduct, understanding mental phenomena as dispositions to engage in observable behaviour.
The mind–body problem is the challenge of explaining the relation between matter and mind. Traditionally, mind and matter were often thought of as distinct substances that could exist independently from one another. The dominant philosophical position since the 20th century has been physicalism, which says that everything is material, meaning that minds are certain aspects or features of some material objects. The evolutionary history of the mind is tied to the development of nervous systems, which led to the formation of brains. As brains became more complex, the number and capacity of mental functions increased with particular brain areas dedicated to specific mental functions. Individual human minds also develop as they learn from experience and pass through psychological stages in the process of ageing. Some people are affected by mental disorders, in which certain mental capacities do not function as they should.
It is widely accepted that non-human animals have some form of mind, but it is controversial to which animals this applies. The topic of artificial minds poses similar challenges and theorists discuss the possibility and consequences of creating them using computers.
The main fields of inquiry studying the mind include psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. They tend to focus on different aspects of the mind and employ different methods of investigation, ranging from empirical observation and neuroimaging to conceptual analysis and thought experiments. The mind is relevant to many other fields, including epistemology, anthropology, religion, and education.
The mind is the totality of psychological phenomena and capacities, encompassing both conscious and unconscious states. The term mind is sometimes used in a narrow meaning to refer only to cognitive functions associated with perception, reasoning, awareness, and memory. In a broader sense, it also includes processes like feeling, motivation, and behaviour. The precise definition of mind is disputed and while it is generally accepted that some non-human animals also have minds, there is no agreement on where exactly the boundary lies. Despite these disputes, there is wide agreement that mind plays a central role in most aspects of human life as the seat of consciousness, emotions, thoughts, and sense of personal identity. Various fields of inquiry study the mind; the main ones include psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. (Wikipedia)
Two sides of the same symbolic coin
I view every possible two opposites in life as two sides of the same symbolic coin. Each theme analysed in this way is just another coin. Since I have analysed a lot of themes I am, symbolically, rich, having collected so many coins.
Demons and Angels in religion and their function in the mind from the psychological point of view.
From the Holy Bible – Galatians 5:22-23 we can retrieve an interesting list of types of behaviour.
I created a list of these behaviour-types together with their opposing type of behaviour.
Demon or Angel from the religious point of view.
| Demon & Ethical bad | Angel & Ethical good |
| Selfishness, hatred | Charity, Love |
| Sorrow | Joy |
| War | Peace |
| Impatience | Patience |
| Cruelty, malignancy, rudeness | Benignity, kindness |
| Evilness | Goodness |
| Impatience, agitation, wildness | Longanimity, long-Suffering |
| Rudeness, roughness | Mildness, gentleness |
| Fear, mistrust | Faith, trust |
| Arrogance | Modesty |
| Incontinence, unconstraint, impulsive | Continence, self-control, temperance |
| Promiscuity, lust | Chastity, submission of physical desire to right reason |
God vs Collective Mind of The Omniverse
God
All love and knowledge, so, all wisdom, which exists in the Omniverse (infinity in every sense of its meaning) is a Singularity. We can communicate with this Entity with rituals, meditation, prayer, visions and dreams. God is expressed in all that exists, all is part of God, and all is, at its core, divine by nature. This includes all living beings, but also all those forms of matter regarded by most people as not living and having a kind of consciousness.
My interpretation of the God concept is a hybrid of gnostic and agnostic.
It is also a mix of dualism and monism.
Opposites evolve to an integrated and balanced unity in a process of synthesis.
Every aspect of Dualism grows in knowledge and love to become a Monistic and Brighter aspect of existence. Each time-element is a step on the staircase of eternal learning. Each step up brings you closer to Gods light. This divine light is what makes the next, deeper level of your own subconscious mind visible for you. The next level of knowledge and love, your next level of wisdom.
In the next time-element, new opposites evolve from this unity, this level of enlightenment. You start to become aware of a deeper level of the contrasting dark and light force inside your subconscious mind. These new opposites an evolve to their own integrated and balanced unity in their own process of synthesis. This is how we grow towards the next higher level of unity. This process is the eternal school of learning to grow in knowledge and love, and therefore wisdom.
The Collective Mind of The Universe
My psychological concept of “The Collective Mind of The Universe,” is the result of integrating many sources of information, mainly scientific. Carl Gustav Jung inspired me to discover this concept. His concept of multiple layers of the subconscious mind started my search for more layers of the conscious and the subconscious mind.
In the chapter about modular reincarnation, you can read how you can discover these layers yourself.
The layers of consciousness are:
Layer 1: This Universe as a large system of space and time
Layer 2: Our galaxy, the Milky Way
Layer 3: Our Solar system, our Sun, and all objects (planets, moons, asteroids, comets, gas, and dust) in a large cloud around it
Layer 4: Our planet Earth with its Moon
Layer 5: The culture or cultures you are part of
Layer 6: Your family
Layer 7: Your body as an individual
Layer 8: Your rational mind, your conscious thinking, the archive of thoughts of which you are aware
Layer 9: Your emotional mind, your conscious feeling, the archive of feelings of which you are aware
Layer 10: Your subconscious mind, the archive of thoughts and feelings of which you are not aware
Layer 11: Your subconscious collective mind, the archive of thoughts and feelings that you are not aware of and are shared by your family, culture and other people and cultures you relate to
Layer 12: “The Observer”, your immortal Spirit, the part that watches and guides all your lives in the past, the present and the future
Layer 13: A collective of Spirits cooperating as a team to guide the mortal incarnations in the process of eternal progress
Layer 14: The collective of all the Spirits involved in all the processes within this Universe, also called “Cosmic Consciousness”
Layer 15: The collective of all the Spirits involved in all the processes within this Multiverse, also called “Supra Cosmic Consciousness”
Layer 16: The collective of all the Spirits involved in all the processes within the Omniverse, also called “God”. If you study the Holy Books of all main religions deeply, they confirm this is a respectful definition of God, so this is no blasphemy, but a way of giving God the respect God deserves from the religious point of view.
Religion and science together can guide you to replace fear, sorrow and anger by faith, hope and love.
Religion and science together can guide you to replace “the fear of loosing control” by accepting “the love of the God, the Unity of All that Is, the Collective Mind of the Omniverse.”