One of the obvious questions to ask when considering the relationship between science and spirituality is whether they could possibly be considered compatible.
When I was younger, it was a lot harder to be taken seriously by a confirmed materialist when advocating for a spiritual view of the world. Even more so than today, for many people there was no room (nor any need) for Spirit in the universe, given the apparent success and progress of the scientific worldview ever since the time of, for example, Isaac Newton. On the other hand, it was also much harder for people to accept vegetarianism as being anything other than unhealthy - or the idea that the quality of food we eat could involve anything other than the amounts of protein, carbohydrate and fat within it!

Thankfully, for many young people, that earlier ignorance (or prejudice?) is now much less common.

So today one detects also a more open attitude to the Spirit; as more and more people experience at least in their feelings the inability of the purely materialistic, scientific world view to a) give satisfactory explanations to the inner experiences that we all share; and b) to solve our enormous social, political, economic and cultural problems. For many people, with an explanation of these inner experiences becoming a necessity of the heart, they find the "scientific" view of them - as being nothing but for example, "excitations within the brain" or worse as being illusory - as just not ringing true!

In this brief article, I'd like to show simply how, in my view, both the materialistic, scientific viewpoint and a more esoteric spiritual knowledge can, not only exist together, but can enlighten each other - provided there is a willingness from both sides to recognise the contribution that each can make to world knowledge.
Also, not as two separate bodies of knowledge, which forever run parallel to each other, never coming into contact or having any influence upon each other, but which have a real possibility to address each other's inadequacies and to throw light on the whole of universal knowledge.