Science of the Mystical [Paperback]

As I began to delve deep in to the enigmatic recesses of the human mind and mulled on human behaviour, misery and death; I realised that the present day scientific knowledge is insufficient to either provide answers or to mitigate all this suffering; though it is making strides in this direction. The world seems and in reality, is much more complicated than what can be explained by present day knowledge of science alone. Can life be because of a series of biochemical reactions that took place as a matter of coincidence or accident? Definitely not!! So the cosmos would not have happened just like that. Then also consider the universe around you. Earth rotates once at 24 hrs – making it a day; revolves round the earth once in 365 days – making it a year, seasons change in precision, consider the water cycle and so on. There is so much order and fine tuning in the universe. What is the need and how is it possible?

Mysticism and estorism has always intrigued me. I felt compelled to explore the spiritual realm, which perhaps holds the key to these mysteries. The wonders, the why and how – the conundrum of creation all implies that there exists a dimension much beyond our ordinary level of awareness that ‘other’ dimension, higher; that what we term as mysticism or estorism- the spiritual realm! A superior power at play – that power, which we term as GOD!! Thus perhaps we are reduced to mere instruments in the hands of that superior power.