Tantra is the collection of practices aimed at bringing us forward in evolutionary excellence, complete merger into the fullness of human potentialities.
From this we can understand that any instruction that teaches us how to properly use our body and our mind in order to direct it into such gestalts of excellence, is science. Spiritual/Transpersonal practice is also scientific. It is logical and it does teach us how to properly use ourselves and the universe for real progress, hence, it is scientific.
The central idea of spirituality -- that Infinite Consciousness is the ultimate reality -- is common to most oriental and some occidental forms of mysticism. It is not so remarkable that this idea is widely accepted by mystics and philosophers, but in the last century many material scientists have pointed out parallels between Quantum Theory and the mystical view of reality described in the ancient texts of Taoism, Buddhism, Tantra and Yoga.
Not only Albert Einstein but virtually all his contemporaries, including Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger and Max Planck, in fact most of the pioneers of modern physics, testified to a belief in mysticism. When Heisenberg (discoverer of the 'Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle') went to India and met with Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize winning poet and a great yogi, he was enormously relieved to find someone who didn't think his ideas were crazy. The ancient yogic philosophy seemed to be saying much the same thing about reality as the emerging Quantum Theory. This has been the subject of much discussion and many publications, particularly since the 1960s.
Science, in the traditional use of the term, involves exploring principles operating in the Universe, exploring also when and where such principles are transcended or contraindicated, and how to use such principles and capabilities in human life, often creating products and services resulting from such explorations to lighten our workloads and enlighten our minds.
"Science" does not have "an opinion" or "belief", in its proper and true context. Whether there are any humans or any other entities to perceive and experience the fundaments of the Universe, such faculties will continue to operate throughout the Universe, regardless of anyone's opinions or beliefs. Such is the disposition of Tantrika practice, where practices are experiential and the wisdom delivered is a direct experience, neither theory, nor opinion or belief. Tantrika practices are engineered to polish each realm of existence and carry you into subtler realms progressively.
Whatever is causative of this vast Universe, the continuum of "progress" is one from crude toward subtle. Not acknowleding the existence of something within this Universe, especially those involving subtler realms, will not cease such principles from operating simply because of some stalwart petrifying chauvinism denying such potentialities.
From the inanimate to the animate goes the process of evolution. Consider a piece of stone for instance. It has neither the power of action nor the sensation of mind. What is the reason? It is because hitherto there has been no conspicuous manifestation of mind in the stone at all. Consider the trees and plants that are more animate than the stone. There is activity in them. They grow, draw the vital juice from the earth, maintain their species by creating seeds in their own bodies, and enjoy and suffer pleasure and pain when taken care of or hurt. We see in them the manifestation of counsciousness, for mind has awakened in them. Thus progressing on the path of mental development, we see in humanity its greatest manifestation. Just as evolution takes place from the subtle to the crude, similarly the unit entity reverts step by step from the crude to subtle, towards the same Absolute Consciousness from whence it came.
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