In its attempt to understand the nature of Reality, Science is encountering startling and strange phenomena about material existence at both the macro and micro level. It is becoming more sophisticated in its own physical understanding of life, even as it is utterly baffled by its mind-twisting discoveries. Whether at the level of quantum physics or black hole astronomy, the illogical and unbelievable is becoming commonplace. Trying to rectify the theories of the large and the small add to the difficulties.

Meanwhile, in the realm of the spirit and spiritual experience, there have been dramatic new insights into the nature of creation and the process of involution and evolution, particularly by the Indian sage and seer Sri Aurobindo and his admirers. He has expressed a complex, modern view of the omnipresent Reality that transcends all previous understandings of existence. His insights, including the revelation of the descending Force that he called 'Supermind' and its vast power to alter the conditions of life is also startling in their own right.

And yet he has answered all of the major questions of life that religion has told us was unknowable, including the nature and makeup of the Divine Reality, what the process is by which the universe unfolded from a Divine Source, the purpose of life on earth and human existence, the course of our evolutionary destiny, and so forth. Many others have followed in his footstep, applying this unprecedented cosmic knowledge and unique slant on Existence and Reality and applying it to the modern world. This is particularly true of Karmayogi, the multi-dimensional spiritual genius of South India.

Thus, Science's view of the material world is becoming more sophisticated, as is our capacity to understand the Divine Reality in its various facets. Integrating the two will be a further breakthrough in human knowledge, and will require the resolution of these two disparate points of view.

Science can begin this process by moving beyond its physical, material-centric view of existence and embrace all other planes of existence -- inner and outer, and vital to mental to spiritual. Religion and spiritual thinking needs to embrace the more sophisticated knowledge and insight about the nature of Spirit, the omnipresent Reality and our evolutionary destiny, which it previously considered unknowable, but now has ample evidence and explanation to support that knowledge.

In combination, an expanded Science that includes life not just matter but all of life in what we can call a 'Science of Life,' and a spirituality in which the seemingly unknown can be fully known and experienced in all its dimensions by any person, can change the course of human understanding and the history of life on earth.