For millennia, humans have fought physical wars “in the name of God.“ In modern times, the focal point and methods have shifted, but the same problem of divisiveness and destruction remains the same. Nowadays, the most prominent wars are psychological ones “in the name of Science.“ Never has this been more clear than during the events of the Covid narrative.
A few hundred years ago, science began to play an increasingly prominent role in our societies, influencing everything from our understanding of the Universe and ourselves to our health, medical, and food systems, and more. With each decade, people increasingly credited science with having all the answers. Ironically, this goes completely against what true science is: an endless inquisition, discovery, and an ever-expanding, ever-changing understanding of all that is. As soon as we limit the potential, claim to know, hide behind certainty, and solidify conclusions into a belief system, it stops being science.
For many people, science has become a belief system - a world view. This is sometimes called “scientism” - where people take the dogmas of science to be a kind of religious belief system. And it’s this dogmatic belief system, which I believe is now constricting and holding science back in a very serious way.
Rupert Sheldrake
True science is about observing, questioning, changing, and doing things in the most intelligent and effective ways as new data emerges for all involved. Scientism is about presenting and solidifying facts that serve a fear-based agenda and the best interests of a select few. This is blatantly visible around our world to this day in every single sector, including medicine, especially the cancer, pharmaceutical, and vaccine industries, food, agriculture, and nutrition, climate, and environmental studies, and astronomy and space.
Today, people from all walks of life and academic backgrounds pay homage to modern science as if it were some God or deity, when in reality it is a frail, faulty, and highly biased industry that has long since lost its true pursuit of science. It is, therefore, helpful to recognize that we routinely use the term “scientific evidence” against ourselves today, to the point that it has lost much of its credibility. The truth is that good science is hard to find. Most of what masquerades as science today is nothing more than well-marketed corporate and political propaganda. Yet, people keep falling for the so-called “scientific” agendas that do nothing more than push profits up for those with vested financial interests in what “science” is trying to sell. In addition, science has been grotesquely distorted by politicians to push control measures onto the populace that would have never been tolerated otherwise.
There is very good reason to believe that much scientific research published today is false, there is no good way to sort the wheat from the chaff, and, most importantly, that the way the system is designed ensures that this will continue being the case.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry - Big Science is Broken
The solution to overcome the predicament that we are in is not to fall into states of anger, depression, cynicism, or hopelessness. The solutions reside in awareness and empowerment. Until a person accepts personal accountability for their life and well-being, they remain in a perpetual cycle of victimhood, prone to manipulation and exploitation. Unless and until we connect with our inner guidance as the most powerful authority over ourselves, we allow other people to make decisions for us that rarely, if ever, have our best interests in mind. The more we connect with our own inner wisdom and listen to our body consciously and intelligently, the more we make sense of this reality and make the best decisions to live in an aligned way that creates true wellbeing. This includes connecting with authentic people and meaningful data that are based on integrity - not profit.
Overcoming Information Avoidance
Our inherent tendency as humans is to avoid information we dislike or do not want to hear. Today, social media facilitates this avoidance. Newsfeeds are carefully curated to reinforce our existing prejudices and biases, strengthening our established viewpoints. This dynamic fosters ignorance and intolerance, as individuals dismiss perspectives that may be as valid—or even more accurate—than their own. No one is exempt from this effect: not highly educated academics and scientists, nor the general public.
One of the best articles on this subject is published on the Carnegie Mellon University website. It is titled Information Avoidance: How People Select Their Own Reality. As you go through life, unless you take a mindful and conscious approach to the information you encounter, you are likely to sabotage the truth of any given situation. In such a way, you jeopardize your own highest potential. This happens by accepting only information that fits your worldview while rejecting what you find threatening. This is why many people stick to their own academic and social circles. These circles make us feel safe and comfortable, as they do not challenge our established worldviews.
The consequences of our avoiding information we don’t like or don’t want to hear further create rigid belief systems and result in people who refuse to change their minds even when new, contradictory information is presented to them. If we are not open to new information or seeing things in a new way, we remain trapped within the illusions of our own minds. We may be suffering in numerous ways because of the beliefs we choose to guide our choices, yet we still refuse to change. In turn, we have a very flawed view of reality.
These problems are rampant in modern science, which is constantly used to manipulate minds and enforce certain views, ideas, and beliefs in our society. Such dogmatic science outlines for all what is to be accepted as the “normal,” “smart,” or “superior” views. Anything that challenges these views is attacked, censored, or dismissed. As shared above, this is not true science.
They say ‘seeing is believing,’ but everyone sees what they want to see.”
Sadhguru Jaggi VasudevHow
If we are to create a better society, one that truly respects human rights and freedoms and acknowledges our autonomy, we must take steps to overcome information avoidance, especially in the fields of science. We need to stop accepting only what is convenient and what continues to propel popular narratives, and get back to the open field of possibilities that true science presents. We need to be able to make our own choices about important matters, especially how we manage our health. The paradox of information avoidance is that every message out there can be made to be true or false. It all depends on the perspective and context, which are most often hidden from public view to skew opinions in one direction only. Therefore, the intelligent thing for each of us to do is not to be quick to agree or disagree with anything or attach strongly to any single view, belief, or conclusion. There are always more sides to the story, and by avoiding them, we are getting a faulty view of every situation before us.
The Role of Science in Your Life
Consider how much influence “science” has on your life and the choices you make daily. If you are like most people, the answer is more than you realize. But how trustworthy and correct is this science that shapes how you live, eat, behave, and think? So much less than most people realize. The quote below is such a worthwhile read, as is the whole article it came from, which is linked below.
If peer review is good at anything, it appears to be keeping unpopular ideas from being published.” …. “Which brings us to the odd moment in which we live. At the same time as an ever more bloated scientific bureaucracy churns out masses of research results, the majority of which are likely outright false, scientists themselves are lauded as heroes, and science is upheld as the only legitimate basis for policy-making. There’s reason to believe that these phenomena are linked. When a formerly ascetic discipline suddenly attains a measure of influence, it is bound to be flooded by opportunists and charlatans, whether it’s the National Academy of Science or the monastery of Cluny.
William A. Wilson - Scientific Regress
My intention in sharing this information is not to create more “us versus them” division. The intention is to raise awareness and empower people like yourself to live a more liberated life that is not dependent on the whims of corporate executives or power-hungry politicians who are trying to force their destructive agendas onto you. I came from the world of “science” and idolized it at one time in my life, just as most people do, especially those who dedicate their lives to studying it. I was both a science student and a science teacher. I know how easy it is to accept the science pushed on us without questioning it, and instead to see what we want to, need to, and are programmed to see.
The more awareness we infuse into any given situation, the more we can loosen the strong attachments we have to our ideologies, beliefs, and ideas. Some of these may be serving us well; most of these are sabotaging our physical, mental, emotional, and social health. Most ideas promoted as “science” today lead us astray, keep us feeling small and scared, and limit our human potential. We need to swing the pendulum to some reasonable balance in how we think and live to regain control of our own destiny. As long as we keep giving our power away in the name of “science,” we will keep suffering and struggling. I invite you to have the courage to expand your mind, start questioning more, and focus on thinking for yourself. Stop relying so much on the information of “others” or taking things at face value, and start observing for yourself. What does your personal experience tell you about any given situation - about your mind, your body, your relationships, our environment, and the Earth? Do you really see what they want you to see, or is there a different reality present in front of you? What does your experience tell you?
Real Science Starts With You
Question EVERYTHING that modern science tells you, because it is often far removed from the TRUTH.
Evita Ochel
Navigating reality intelligently and with balance requires extensive deconditioning and deprogramming. To truly benefit from science, it is essential to remove the influence of money, politics, and the fragile egos of some academics to restore objectivity—the foundation of true science. We will get the best of science when we start using it within holistic and wholistic frameworks that help us see the big picture and not just isolated details presented out of context. Any science that is not wholistic in its approach - one that considers its wholeness, rather than just its individual parts - is missing too much significance and value for the greater good. For example, whenever any “science” dismisses nature’s wisdom, the self-healing ability and intelligence of the human body, the holistic, interconnected makeup of this reality, and the significance of consciousness, it is cutting itself off from the foundation of life itself. Such science will never accurately describe the workings of this world or guide people along the right path. Such science is only capable of serving agendas of fear, oppression, control, and profit. Such a science is not science.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
Wars in the name of science and social division will diminish as we each take responsibility for the contents of our own minds. Instead of continuously looking outside ourselves to be told what to think and what to do, we must start looking inside ourselves and guiding ourselves based on critical thinking and real-world experience. Neither mainstream media nor social media will ever give you the truth of what is actually happening, regardless of what “expert” or “influencer” is featured.
If we want to be guided by science, we must each take on the mindsets of true scientists who question, observe, collect data, and perpetually refine what they think they know. If we ever find ourselves jumping to conclusions, feeling certain, clinging to beliefs, or getting offended by someone else’s different ideas, these are all clues that we have lost our way. In such cases, we are no longer guided by science but have fallen into dogmatic scientism, which is no different than any other ideology or social cult that came before it.
True science does not demand belief in anything, and it does not coerce or force others to see things its way. True science is open, not closed, and it creates collaboration, not division. Consider how that stacks up against what you are being told by the modern medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, and other divisions of so-called science.