Mysticism transcends Science

The rift between mysticism and the modern sciences derives mainly from elements of scientism: certain branches of the natural sciences, broadly disavow subjective experience as meaningless, misunderstanding the limitations of the ancient languages. That said, several areas of study in biology (Mae Wan Ho and Lynn Margulis are two examples) and philosophy address the same issues that concern the mystic, and modern physicists now struggle to understand a multiple dimensional reality that mystics' have attempted to describe for millennia. Physicist David Bohm speaking of consciousness expressing itself as matter and/or energy would be completely understood by the mystic.

Philosophy tends to be concerned with issues closely related to mysticism, such as the subjective experience of existence in Existentialism. While existentialism suggests a nothingness rather than a oneness, the mystic's pursuit of emptiness points directly toward a potential unity between physics and psychology that does not at present exist. The mystic's attempt to describe cause and effect between one's internal state and the miraculous, hints at a close connection between psychological stability (ego transcendence) and the mysterious realm of causality quantum physicists are now deciphering - dimensional reality shifts that synchronize with states of consciousness and unconflicted choices.

Known laws of physics are inadequate to explain the phenomenon of human consciousness. New physics specifies the requirements for a bridge between classical and quantum mechanics. The present computer is unable to have intelligence because it is a deterministic system that simply executes algorithms, as a billiard table where billiard balls act as message carriers and their interactions act as logical decisions. The rational processes of the human mind are not completely algorithmic and can thus be duplicated by a sufficiently complex computer -- this is in contrast to Biological Naturalism, where human behavior but not consciousness might be simulated. The human consciousness transcends formal logic systems because things such as the insolubility of the halting problem and Gödel's incompleteness theorem restrict an algorithmically based logic from traits such as mathematical insight.