Seek the Eternal World

GOD AND THE LIFE HEREAFTER mystical perspective is mere ecstasy: It is not spiritual evolution in the real sense. The cause for this failure is that people could not obtain the very point of reference of spirituality. Before the scientific revolution, man erroneously believed that his heart was the centre of his thinking and feelings. Thus, since the ancient past, the human heart has remained the centre of all spiritual practices. Meditation and such spiritual exercises originated in the ancient past and were based on the heart. However, as we know today, the heart is only a means of blood circulation. It is not the centre of thought and feeling. Because of this, all of man’s spiritual exercises became useless exercises. They could not become a means for the development of man’s spiritual personality. Man’s nature is that if he continuously focuses his attention on something, he experiences a strange joy, called ‘ecstasy’. It is, as it were, a sort of thrill. When engaged in heart-based spiritual exercises, a state of ecstasy is produced. Because of their unawareness, people believed this sort of ecstasy to be the goal of spirituality, so ‘spirituality’ and ‘ecstasy’ became synonymous terms. Because of this, knowledge of spirituality stopped at a low level of ecstasy. It could not reach the stage of higher intellectual development. In the pre-scientific age, man developed wrong concepts about many things. After the scientific revolution, man acquired a better knowledge of these. He began to live in a new intellectual age. For example, the moon was considered