Science and religion both seek the truth about reality. One explores an objective reality recognized by the five senses as tangible, and therefore “real.” One explores a subjective reality of what exists beyond the five senses in the abstraction of human reason, which is eternal, and therefore even “more real.” Human beings are a combination of both these realities. With the revelation of Einstein’s theories of Relativity and the birth of Quantum Mechanics, the line between what is “physically real” as opposed to physically “not real” has virtually disappeared. A new abstraction, consciousness, is now becoming the main focus of that mystery.

We are now beginning to understand that opposites, like waves and particles, are essentially two ways of looking at the same thing. That “thing” is the mystery. It is now becoming more and more apparent that the mystery science is seeking to understand is ultimately the same mystery religion is seeking to understand. This is the paradox we as human beings are currently facing. We are now at a point in our growth where we will likely transcend the mystery of dualism and embrace the unity of its source or fall back into the Dark Ages of Perception.

Perceiving and encompassing this mystery is the escape hatch out of duality. It is the logical next step in our natural development. However, it is critical to recognize and understand that attempting to destroy the concept of dualism is not at all the same thing as transcending dualism. It is time to stop fighting about how to solve the mystery and enthusiastically embrace the opportunity to transcend it.