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The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, is one of the most scientifically oriented mystical schools in existence today. But that’s not to say that we teach science in its outward form. Mysticism is concerned primarily with the development of the “Self” - that mysterious part of us that watches what we do and feels itself to be the centre of our existence. This observer is seen to have several levels and these are explored in detail as the journey of consciousness unfolds before us.
Modern science, in contrast, tries to ignore, or even do away with, the observer. It tries to construct experiments where the effects of that observer are minimised and measurements are taken with machine-like precision to prove that there is an absolute physical truth “out there”.
But science itself is proving time and time again that you cannot separate the watcher from the watched. From the smallest quantum forces to the largest effects of time and space, scientists are finally coming to terms with the fact that there is an inexplicable link between the mind of the observer and that which is observed.
To mystics this comes as no surprise, since it has long been taught that the world we each experience is unique to ourselves - our five senses appear to give us all a common world but the lives lived within it are very different. There is, for example no such thing as the colour red. We all experience it differently, and some people don’t experience it at all.
Mystics should not be dismissive of science. Science may presently deal only with the physical world (apart from psychologists who wrestle to tie science and behaviour), but it does so with astonishing accuracy in materialistic things.
The Rosicrucian teachings are always updated in the light of modern scientific discoveries, but this is set in a context of the importance of that which experiences as well as that which is experienced. To quote an ancient teacher, “The Soul, the Self, the Mind and its Objects”.
Many of the founding fathers of modern science were first and foremost mystics. Often their underlying love of creation, nature and “God’s unfolding plan” gave them the drive to achieve the startling natural insights that became the cornerstones of modern physics, chemistry and biology. Isaac Newton and Rene Descartes are just two examples of great scientists whose involvement with mysticism was shamefully covered up after their deaths.
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