The Armor of Man

I read something today wich really struck a chord with me... and got me thinking. It's in concert with my personal belief actually.. wich may rock both the skeptic AND believer out there a lil... I ask you just to consider what was presented in my reading.

Our civilization is rooted in mystical religion and mechanistic science. These together comprise the principal intellectual forces in the world we live in. Both of these forces are products of armored man.

Imagine the Armor... it is protective. A musculature wich has become biologically rigid in order to protect. The armor shapes the character and mentality; it affects how people think. It is the root of contradiction between mechanism and mysticism.

The MECHANIST armors himself in such a way that he cuts off his perception of and his contact with his own deepest nature. He becomes rigid and limited in his thought processes. He develops a mechanical concept of nature and becomes deterministic in his view of causality. The mechanistic scientist reacts against the concept of lets call it "Aether" or "Spirit of God" because they correspond to exactly that portion of nature that he has armored against.

The MYSTIC is not completely cut off from his nature or the concept of "Aether" or "Spirit of God" but has distorted this contact because of his armor. A split perception of mind and body develops in the mystic, so that the mind seems to him capable of existing in nature in the absence of the body. Along with this the mystic tends to develop a magical view of causality. Recognition of the real tangible creative process, as expressed in the Aether concept, and threatens the mystic's concept of God as an intangible, essentially unknowable entity.

So what do you think? Way off.. or ringing some bells with you too? I have always believed within mySELF that the truth will become obvious when Science and Religion can see how they fit TOGETHER! Truth is truth...afterall.