namaste Yamaka.
This is in response to your post #277. If you like verbal fireworks, here is something for you.
1. You depend on your personal BELIEF to guide you in this world and possibly in your "other world".
Then, why do you care for the Science to come and support you or rescue you?
Science REQUIRES reasoning.. and is founded on rationality. Whereas, Belief, by definition, does not require any reasoning!
If you need the support of Science then you need to give up the whole or a part of your BELIEF system! Are you ready?
1. Both my personal BELIEF and your REASONSING are done by our personal brains. The believers' brains see something that yours doesn't. Both of us, however, BELIEVE our brains, as simple.
2. In your anxiety you come up with statements like "Soul weighs 21 grams" or "Soul can be stained and visualized as smudges in a picture" etc... all are terribly ridiculous.
If this is pointed out, you all feel ashamed.. feel hurt.
2. It is not the believers who came up with statements like the weight of the soul. Only some scientists did, in the same way some other scientists investigating the quantum reality of consciousness claim that microleptons have all the answers.
If these are pointed out, you people feel insecure, call their science pseudo-science and seek to trash religious and spiritual beliefs.
Scientific reality is a subset of the larger metaphysical reality in which it is contained. Followers of science cannot afford to deny it, at least as yet.
You assert that "past karma can manifest through genes" in post 276, then people will immediately ask
What's the structural and functional basis of the Jarma Poorva Karma?
Explain, please!
There are two paradigms about the conditional and ultimate reality: one given by science and another by metaphysics.
• The big picture seen by the scientific paradigm is on these lines:
big bang -> expanding universe -> wave and particular reality of the energy the drives the universe -> atoms and molecules as building blocks of the insentient world -> primordial soup -> birth of life-bulding biological components -> cellular lives -> evolution -> man.
The primordial soup theory of life is a belief because scientists have not been able to verify it experimentally:
Primordial Soup Theory
In this model, Science is yet to find out how sentient life with consciousness evolved from the action of the insentient components in the primordial soup. All actions that constitute the physical karma, so to say, are resolved under the law of conservation of energy.
• The big picture seen by the metaphysical paradigm is something as follows:
brahman as universal consciousness which is undefinable by senses -> life-force and universe projected out of brahman with its consciousness as substratum -> creation of sentient and insentient forms of the world -> ensouling the forms -> creation of individual souls with man at the top -> cycled involution of the sentient and insentient beings into their source -> souls with karmic balances caught in the reincarnation cycle -> souls with no karma getting liberated out of the reincarnation cycle.
In this model it is the life-force of consciousness that sustains the insentient and sentient forms, staying as a witness to their actions, interactions and reactions. All actions that result in metaphysical karma are resolved in the cycle of reincarnation.
The metaphysical paradigm is satisfactory to most people in the world because it establishes the uniqueness of man and recognises the divinity in his consciousness, which is the only force that can propel him into the involution curve.
Unless and until science finds a final and physical answer to consciousness, its followers can only resort to abject denial of the paradigm of metaphysical reality.
