fluid spirituality

[brightlotusmoon]

"If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview."
-Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

I replaced Buddhism with my own spiritual beliefs. I like the idea that science and faith need to work together to understand the universe. Religion should not stay five hundred yards away from science at all times.*
It's part of the reason my novel has elements of both magic and science, working in harmony.

*Name where that paraphrased quote comes from and you get a cookie.

Comments

[sophy.livejournal.com]

I've always felt like magic was the perfect blend of spirituality and science.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

That's a very good way of putting it.

My husband and I once had a lengthy discussion about the differences and similarities between magic and psionics, which might be respectively categorized in spirituality and science.

[sophy.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what psionics was until googling and wiki-ing it just now! Got my "learned one new thing" in for the day, so thanks. :)

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I do love the term. When I was a teenager, all the stories I wrote were science fiction with psionic characters. Like Jean Grey from the X-Men.