Peter Russell
Science has explored deep space, deep time and deep structure and found neither place nor need for God. Now that it has begun to consider consciousness, it has embarked upon a course that will eventually lead to the exploration of ‘deep mind’. In doing so it may ultimately be forced to open up to God. Not the idea of God found in contemporary religions—which have inevitably suffered distortion and loss as they were passed down from one generation to another, from one culture to another, and from one language to another—but the God that the teachings spoke of originally, the essence of our own selves, the essence of consciousness. Such a possibility is anathema to the current scientific super-paradigm. It is like Galileo telling the Vatican that the Earth is not the centre of the Universe. But if there is one certainty of science, it is that all certainties change with time. The scientific models of today are, in almost every area, radically different from those of two centuries ago. Who knows what the paradigms of the next millennium will look like? A science that included deep mind would be a truly unified science. Such a science would understand the root of all our unnecessary fears, understand why we do not live life to its fullest potential, why we are not at peace inside. The consequence of such a science would be the development of inner technologies that help us quieten the mind and transcend our fears. It would be a science that helps us become masters rather than victims of our thinking, so that we can live with this accident of evolution, prosper from its benefits, but not let it so fill our minds that we lose awareness of other aspects of our reality—including our true inner nature. Now doesn’t that seem a worthwhile enterprise?