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We have trained our minds to accept the limits placed upon us by science and religion. If it cannot be described by either, we cannot imagine it.

So what does religion tell us? That we are limited creatures, submissive to a greater intelligence we cannot possibly comprehend. Yet we grow and evolve as a species and as individuals. Who is to say that the ultimate destination of our evolution could not take our awareness to greater levels that, at this moment, we cannot possibly comprehend?

Science tells us many things about ourselves:

·      Biology says we interact with our environment as chemstry and electricity, but does not explain what “life” actually is.

·      Classical physics tells us we interact with our environment as mass and energy and that we are subject to gravity, but this science does not understand the causal foundations of any of these components.

·      Quantum physics says that we can be more than one thing at once and be in multiple places at once, that our quantum particles can move around in time and space without observing the rules of classical physics.

·      String theory suggests an infinite number of realities, but offers no sensory or intuitive proof.

All these sciences, like all religions, are incomplete descriptions of the reality in which we live. We are now seeing distinct intersection points between science and spiritual thought, which suggests that we may, in the future, be able to comprehend the foundations of life, the universe, and reality itself. This book suggests, if not a Unified Theory of Everything (like you, I am a student—rather than a master—of information and spirituality), then at least a direction of thought, a vector along which we might aim our efforts to improve the world—or worlds—we create, within and without.