I would like to share with you a reflection on science-spirituality by Karl Jaspers, a 20th century philosopher. I will present this in two or three parts because I think it is relevant and maybe a bit long for the forum.

"Part 1: The problem of our era (as seen fifty years ago)

The course of events has led us from an era of bourgeois contentment, progress, education, which pointed to the historical past as proof that it had achieved security, into an age of devastating wars, mass death and mass murder (accompanied by an inexhaustible generation of new masses), of the most terrible sense of menace, an age in which humanity is being extinguished and chaotic disintegration seems to be the master of all things.

Is all this a spiritual revolution, or is it an essentially external process, arising from technology and its consequences? A catastrophe and an immense, as yet unclear possibility, something which will be merely destructive until man awakens and becomes able to react to it, until, instead of unconsciously renouncing, he discovers himself amid the utterly new conditions of his existence?

The picture of the future is more uncertain and unclear, but perhaps both more promising and more hopeless than ever before. If I am aware of the task of humanity, not with regard to the immediate requirements of existence, but with regard to eternal truth, I must enquire concerning the state of philosophy. What should philosophy do in the present world situation?

We venture to assert that philosophy cannot cease as long as men are living. Philosophy upholds the aspiration to attain the meaning of life beyond all worldly purposes, to make manifest the meaning that embraces all these purposes, cutting in a sense across life to fulfill this meaning by actual realization, to serve the future by our own actuality, never to debase man or a man to the level of a mere instrument.

Our enduring task in philosophical endeavor is to become authentic men by becoming aware of being; or, and this is the same thing: to become ourselves by achieving certainty of God."