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Need for a New Science

In the northern regions of the Earth the arrival of spring is marked by golden rays of early morning light passing between the leaves which have just burst forth on branches of trees awaking from their winter hibernation. Bidding its long winter slumber farewell, the Earth becomes receptive to seeds already pregnant with all manner of fruits and flowers. This happens every year and has been happening for centuries. The Earth's imperceptible rotation suddenly brings back that season of spring when every tiny branch and twig becomes a marvelous display of the hidden order of the cosmos: a phenomena most residents of Earth are fast forgetting, because they live in an artificial world largely made possible by technologies that create a nearly impassable barrier between humanity and nature. Most people do not even notice when the last snowbank disappears and the southerly edges of the meadow become green with the first blades of grass. This divorce between human beings and their environment is not accidental; it has occurred through a series of radical shifts in the human understanding of nature over the last three hundred years. These shifts have produced attitudes which consider the vast cosmic realm of nature no more than an aggregate of matter which can be manipulated and exploited in whichever way humans deem fit. This view of nature, in turn, is a product of yet another severance which has destroyed the true understanding of the relationship between the Creator and the created. None of this has been the result of any sudden change. Rather, these shifts in relationships between the Creator and the created, the Earth and its residents, and humanity and the vast cosmic order of nature have all taken place in small increments. The fundamental drift of this change, however, has been in the same direction ever since the Scientific Revolution produced a new body of knowledge allowing humans to understand and manipulate nature in a manner and to an extent that no previous era had allowed. Modern science, and technologies developed on the basis of new scientific discoveries, is a unique and perhaps the most powerful enterprise in human history, casting a large shadow on all domains of human existence. Science and technology wedded to the state and industry, an alliance that emerged in the Western world with full force in the twentieth century, have reshaped the physical contours of the Earth to such an extent that if those who lived at the dawn of the modern era were to return to Earth they would not recognize their former abode. At the dawn of the twentieth century many of these changes--brought about by a radical shift in human attitudes toward nature--were still restricted to a relatively small part of the world. It was then possible for many remote regions of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to remain enshrouded in their centuries-old lifestyle. Then men and women could be in tune with the slow and imperceptible movement of the Earth around its axis and be witnesses to the Divine order of nature which brings forth verdant springs and long winter nights during which translucent moonlight shines over sparkling particles of snow. While it may still be possible for some residents of Earth to be part of that wonderful cosmic order of nature which acts as a pointer and a sign to the existence of things beyond the empirical realm, it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to live in a spiritual, physical, emotional, and psychological space not dominated by an artificial order created by technologies which are radically redefining parameters of human existence. The extent to which modern technologies have penetrated the natural order of existence can be judged from the fact that almost 80% of newborns come into this world through some kind of intervention based on modern technology and a greater number depart from Earth after having been subjected to one or another technological device--be it a medical instrument in a hospital or an explosive dropped from a B-52 bomber flying over a sleeping city. …