June 06, 2009

DNA secrets

As an ex-genetics student I am still interested in the subject and always keep an eye out for something interesting on the field. I ended up quitting the study, first because I had a mind-blowing spiritual experience that made me see everything differently. Second because after the experience I got utterly disillusioned with formal study. I found that what they teach in universities, and even the most current research is still too far behind the knowledge that we are able to get about reality and ourselves experientially, just by going within, that Buddha's way was in the end the most practical way. It is really more useful to do meditation than follow any science curriculum in schools, which is completely out-dated and still stuck in ancient misconceptions and dogmas. I do not see any advance in this in the near future either and have abandoned the idea of trying to find another formal study, which of course would make my own life more easy, but anything partial, incomplete and riddled with illusions and ancient paradigms simply does not interest me.
Because until the science-religion debate is finally binned, progress in formal science to my mind is simply not possible. (The only exception probably quantum physics, which is based of the mind-matter connection). Of course there are many scientists who are aware of the limitations and the importance of transcending the limitations of old newtonian materialistic world-view, but they face a terrible compromise- they can a) stay in mainstream science in which in order to get scientific support to their theories they have to abandon any spiritual ideas or b) move outside of these rigid limits, into something which the blind have turned into the ridiculous, dubbing indiscriminately everything, either illuminating or hoax with a curse word- new age. Just like the ridicule and hate that hippie culture now experiences, there seems to be a powerful resistance towards true values and anything that does not support materialism, consumerism and ego-mind.

I have found however more truth in whatever out-there "new-age" underground scientific research there has been, than in any scientific newspaper ultimately controlled by the corporate world and advertising and most of all- the very minds of the traditional scientists still unaware of who they are. Sad state of affairs, but the truth in any case.

Here is a very "enlightened" video on DNA




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