Now I promised to pile on but I have to start with that one paragraph
Why, Hummin, do so many people turn away from religion? Is it because the easily recognise the fallacies? The many contradictions? The faulty logic? Of coarse.
So those searching for answers to life and who once believed that religion had all of the answers now begin searching elsewhere. Many then turn to science as science does offer facts based on evidence, proofs and is backed up by solid logic. Science's answers can then be used quite practically to create numerous inventions for the benefit and convenience of mankind. How supremely wonderful!
But, as Sunmaster so wisely points out:
Here are a few quotes from Seth which would serve to further elucidate and expound on Sunmaster's quite astute answer. He is referring to science with this opening statement. The underlined, bolded text is per Seth's request.
I should warn you first: if you have any aversions to learning you will loudly protest over having to read too much, or you'll excuse yourself by objecting to "copy & paste," or you'll come up with any other lame reason to not read . . . and then comment on what you've read. Or, as you've done in the past, you'll claim that it's "beyond" your understanding. Any reasons you offer as objections will not at all be true reasons but just excuses passed off as "credible" reasons. So far in any of your investigations, you have been probing exterior
conditions, searching for their interior nature.
To make this clear: When you dissect an animal, for instance, you
are still dealing only with the "inside" of exterior reality, or with
another level of outsideness. (Pause.) In a manner of speaking, when
you probe the heavens with your instruments you are doing the same
thing. There is a difference between this and the "withinness" out of
which all matter springs. It is there that the blueprints for reality are
found. There are various ways of studying reality. Let us take a very
simple example.
Suppose a scientist found a first orange, and used every instrument
available to examine it, but refused to feel it, taste it, smell it,
or otherwise to become personally involved with it for fear of losing
scientific objectivity.
In sense terms he would learn little about an orange, though he
might be able to isolate its elements, predict where others might be
found, theorize about its environment - but the greater "withinness"
of the orange is not found any place inside of its skin either.
The seeds are the physical carriers of future oranges, but the blueprints
for that reality are what formed the seeds. In such dilemmas
you are always brought back to the question of which came first, and
begin another merry chase. Because you think in terms of consecutive
time, it seems that there must have been a first egg, or seed.1 The
blueprints for reality exist, however, in dimensions without such a
time sequence.
Your closest point to the withinness of which I speak is your own ·
consciousness, though you use it as a tool to examine the exterior
universe. But it is basically free of that reality, not confined to the
life-and-death saga, and at other levels deals with the blueprints for
its own physical existence.
In the entire gestalt from cellular to "self" consciousness, there is
a vast field of knowledge - much of it now "unconsciously" available
- used to maintain the body's integrity in space and time. With
the conscious mind as director, there is no reason why much of this
knowledge cannot become normally and naturally available. There
is, therefore, a quite valid, vital, real and vastly creative inner reality,
and an inward sequence of events from which your present universe
and life emerges. Any true scientist will ultimately have to learn to
enter that realm of reality. So-called objective approaches will only
work at all when you are dealing with so-called objective effects -
and your physicists are learning that even in that framework many
"facts" are facts only within certain frequencies, or under certain
conditions. You are left with "workable facts" that help you manipulate
in your own backyard, but such facts become prejudice when you
try to venture beyond your own cosmic neighborhood and find that
your preconceived, native ideas do not apply outside of their context.
Because of your attitudes, ideas do not seem as real to you as
objects, or as practical. Thoughts are not given the same validity as
rocks or trees or beer cans (two of which sat on the coffee tab/,e between us
at the moment) or automobiles. In your terms an automobile gets you
somewhere. You do not understand the great mobility of thought, nor
grasp its practical nature. You make your world, and in an important
manner your thoughts are indeed the immediate personal blueprints
for it. When you manipulate objects you feel efficient. The manipulation
of thoughts is far more practical. Here is a brief example.
( 10:36.) Your medical technology may help you "conquer" one disease
after another - some in fact caused by that same technology -
and you will feel very efficient as you do heart transplants, as you fight
one virus after another. But all of this will do nothing except to allow
people to die, perhaps, of other diseases still "unconquered." People
will die when they are ready to, following inner dictates and dynamics.
A person ready to die will, despite any medication. (Emphatically:) A person who wants to live will seize upon the tiniest hope, and
respond. The dynamics of health have nothing to do with inoculations.
They reside in the consciousness of each being. In your terms
they are regulated by emotions, desires, and thoughts. A true doctor cannot be scientifically objective. He cannot divorce himself from the
reality of his patient. Instead, usually, the doctor's words and very
methods literally separate the patient from himself or herself. The
malady is seen almost as a thing apart from the patient's person -
but thrust upon it - over which the patient has little control.
The condition is analyzed, the blood is sampled. It becomes "a
blood sample" to the doctor. The patient may silently shout out,
''That is not just a blood sample - it is my blood you are taking." But
he [or she] is discouraged from identifying with the blood of his
physical being, so that even his own blood seems alien.
The blueprints for reality: In greater terms they reside within
you. In private terms they are part of your being.
