When science – largely because of its many technological successes – nudged out religion as the ultimate source of knowledge, it also eliminated any overriding intent to all we witness. We see our world largely through the prism of existentialism – the philosophical extension of materialism where cosmic purposelessness and abandonment to a hostile environment describe reality. With the ascendancy of scientific materialism and its deliberate separation from any benign spiritual purpose, we have come to believe as a culture that if AIDS does not get us, a terrorist will.

Without purpose and without a conscious connection to Creating Source, something quite destructive seems to be happening to us. We have, I believe, exchanged faith for fear because we perceive ourselves to be so utterly alone, so abandoned to fate. I don’t think we even recognize this deep background fear as part of our mental equipment. It has simply become a cultural given that it is “a very dangerous world” to quote our experts in these matters.

The fact that we are a deeply frightened people is certainly easy to document, however. Our huge investment in insurance policies may demonstrate most clearly just how fearsomely accidental we believe life to be. Yet this is not our only fear-driven industry. We believe that without nuclear weaponry we cannot survive politically. We believe that health is a matter of chance in a game we will sooner or later lose. We believe that only cosmetics, fashion, and diet will hide the fact that we are very essentially unlovable and hence unwanted.

Spiritually arid cosmologies – such as ours – eventually lead to the kind of breakdown Western culture is presently experiencing. Scientific materialism – bereft, as it is, of spiritual dimension – fosters a world in which money is expected to slake the thirst for self-fulfillment, sex is expected to deny the fear of personal impotence and only drugs can transport us to an oblivion beyond such fears.

Paradoxically, the more we are given over to fear, the less we are able to love, because love can only flourish in the absence of fear. With our ability to love impaired we necessarily abandon those systems of concern which arise from love like ethics, morality, social responsibility, and a sense of community. In an ironic twist, the less we believe and have trust in a greater cosmic purpose, the less human we ourselves become. And so, the question must be answered: do we really wish to give credence to creation theories which champion purposelessness, especially if they are unsupported by any evidence of their truth?

— from Barbara Dewey’s book, LST (The Theory of Laminated SpaceTime)

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(Barbara Dewey’s Bio)

Thanks for being real, Victoria!