Towards a spiritual worldview
What is More Fundamental— Matter or Consciousness?
Here are 9 reasons why it is more likely the latter
Several years ago, after reading the debate-styled book War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality by Leonard Mlodinow (representing a scientific materialist worldview) and Deepak Chopra (representing a spiritual worldview), I was a bit disappointed and reluctant to conclude that Leonard won the argument. I didn’t want Leonard to win. I really didn’t. But I felt that Deepak’s arguments too often fell back on something like: Holding a spiritual worldview makes you feel better, so it must be the truest worldview. And — I am sure you would all agree — that’s not really a good enough argument to win out.
However, time has moved on and as I now reflect on this science vs spirituality question or rather — as I like to say — scientific materialist worldview vs spiritual worldview, I really think that we are starting to see a paradigm shift out in the world. What I am picking up is that more and more scientists who previously held a scientific materialist worldview are either openly or in private beginning to entertain the idea that a spiritual worldview might make more sense. In other words, rather than matter and energy being more fundamental than consciousness — as is the…
