Recent Change in Worldview

Until very recently, the Western worldview was dominated by a science that believed that reality was basically matter-- measurable in time, space, and substance. Any other experience of reality was not 'scientific.' As you can deduce, there was little room in this view for spirituality.

But this has changed in the last 50 years, in part due to quantum physics, which holds that "matter" is actually energy and not a finite substance. All that we think of as matter interacts in myriad ways with everything around it. Thus, when we look at the current fields of science, religion, philosophy, medicine, mathematics, biology, chemistry, or physics, we see each discipline trying to understand both the personal and the universal, the inner and the outer worlds.

This section: ~5 min.