In the service of science - Part 3

31 The Psychic Peace Circle continues to report its experiences May 1969 Contrasts exists between the natural sciences and religions that one could almost call hostile . This is the reason religious insights cannot gain scientific acknowledgement. Mankind however is rather more inclined to listen to what the sciences have to say than the expositions of theology. • Spiritualism verifies that theology is aware of certain basic knowledge that is of enormous importance to people. This animosity between the sciences and religion must one day come to an end, if mankind wants to progress in its spiritual development. It therefore doesn’t make sense for theology to try to force their creed and doctrines on the sciences. They contain too many errors . The sciences want to have as little to do with any religion as possible. They want to maintain their standpoint of demanding real evidence – and is how it should be. Theology on the other hand considerably deviates from this point of view and still demands blind faith . • Spiritualism relies only on experimental evidence, but does not ignore religion in spite of this. But the moment any research has something to do with religion, it becomes uninteresting to academic science. It is however impossible to separate religious facts from the facts of natural science. The sciences have unfortunately not yet grasped this. This situation is therefore very difficult and it prevents the worldwide enlightening indoctrination of an uninformed mankind. Academic science sticks with an iron determination to its traditions and its associated prejudices . It forcibly blocks all religious themes by distancing itself from them. One keeps one’s distance with the rational that one is not competent in regards to religious questions. This is an enormous mistake! In order to not amplify this “cold war” between theology and the natural sciences, the sciences declared themselves prepared to show reasonable tolerance towards all religions. Theology will therefore never succeed in prevailing against any closely shielded science. The question is: What is one to do? – Spiritualism isn’t short of the kind of genuine evidence that verifies the survival of the human soul. A far greater world opened up for us, a world the Churches only show a peripheral interest in. The sciences want to ignore this WORLD, because it would interfere with our sphere of existence in a too revolutionary fashion. Everything that is presently on top would come tumbling down. The consequences would be considerable! • Spiritualism doesn’t deal with blind faith, but with the natural-scientific truth. All of these circumstances do not turn spiritualism into a religion, but in an independent sciences of great renown, admittedly one with a religious character, because it is impossible to separate the religious from the purely natural-scientific. Academic science has now met the supernatural halfway by establishing “Parapsychological Institutes” at some universities. These institutes will however hardly approach the genuine spiritualism under prevailing conditions, because they too fend against any religious infiltration. Every phenomenon and all research results are forced into an atheistic formula by these institutes, something that does not allow a supernatural definition. This is why academic science finds itself