Friday, June 25, 2021

An Agnostic Analysis of Spirituality

 Friends, I like to introduce to you a book I am currently reading. It has a fancy title -- I'll put 3 chips on God, in case there is one, and its subtitle gives a better idea of the content of the book -- An agnostic analysis of spirituality.

This 300 pages book is written by Preeti Gupta.  She lives in NewJersey, USA and she works there as an accountant.  Her parents are from India and she keeps connection with India.  I believe she is around 40 years old now.

 As she grew up, Preeti asked the basic questions of existence such as why we live here and what is the meaning of  our life. With an open mind, and with a willingness to learn,  she listened to whoever claimed to have answers to these questions. She read people like Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra, and she kept herself open to all religions and their teachers

 She does not claim to have found any answers to those questions,  but she continues her quest with an open mind. She presents her current understanding in this book. She shares in this book with the readers some important information she happened to gather. Endowed with a very clear mind she has managed to synthesise the information and has come up with an excellent hypothesis of how we may approach spirituality as rationally as possible. 

 Preeti respects all religions and all the religious teachers, and she is willing to learn from them all, but she prefers to call herself a human being. She does not want to remain a believer of any religious dogmas or doctrines. She describes herself as an agnostic. An agnostic is someone who is willing to admit his or her ignorance rather than hold beliefs about unknown things. A theist believes that God exists, and an atheist opposes the theists for holding such beliefs.  An agnostic does not simply believe in things nor does he oppose the believers, but merely admits his ignorance of the unknown. Such an honest approach is, I think, necessary for any quest for truth.

Let me try to summarise here her primary hypothesis.

Energy is defined as a fundamental force of nature that is transferred between parts of a system resulting in some physical change to the system and usually regarded as the capacity for doing work. Energy can take a wide variety of forms. Human body uses energy. Mainly we use chemical energy, which is generated from the food, water, and oxygen we ingest. These substances combine with others in our body to form certain chemicals or reactions that cause our blood to flow, our cells to metabolize glucose, and other such biological occurrences.

Some people think that there is another kind of energy in our body. A science person may call it life force, a Hindu may call it atman, or prana, a Chinese may call it Ki, but Preeti prefers to call it soul energy. 

Until a few decades ago, we did not know much about many common forms of energy, such as kinetic or sound or light. All types of energy already exist in the world, because according to science, “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.” But we first have to discover a new form of energy before we know it exists.

What if there IS such a form of energy as Soul Energy, but we haven't discovered it yet? Just because we don't know about it now, doesn't mean we won't be able to prove it exists in the future. It's possible, we are discovering new forms of energy all the time.

How do we discover a new form of energy? There are two criteria that must be met in order to establish the existence of energy:
1) Show a force that works to cause a change in a physical system.
2) Show that the force can be converted to and from other forms of energy.

 A microwave needs electricity first, and then it converts it to heat energy to boil water. Some electricity is also converted to light energy to lighten the oven.

In the same way, perhaps our DNA (our microchip) is coded to convert incoming energy chemical energy into other types of energy to perform various tasks. Sometimes our DNA may take chemical energy and convert it to kinetic, sound, or wind energy, which allows the body to perform work such as moving, talking, or breathing. Other times the DNA may instruct the body to convert chemical energy to Soul Energy, which allows the Mind to perform work such as thinking and feeling.

Like the recent discovery of nuclear energy in the 1930s, or solar energy in the 1830s, we may one day “discover” what has been in front of our noses all along. We may finally crack the entire code on our microchip, our DNA, and discover the secret to Soul Energy. Or maybe we never will, because it's not meant for us Humans to discover.

This books further explores some implications of soul energy in human life. 

Conclusion
 This agnostic approach to spirituality broke open by Preeti Gupta can serve to bridge the widening gap between science and spirituality. If Science can discover the Soul Energy as a new form of energy, it will be a great breakthrough. It can serve to cast fresh light on so many age-old puzzles regarding miracles, faith-healing, spirits, ghosts, near-death experiences, and many more similar topics.

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