26/10/2026 I have observed that, in the sciences of matter (incorrectly called the sciences of Nature, precisely for the reasons we shall explain), a change in perspective and outlook is taking place as a result of certain findings derived from the application of quantum theory. The point at issue is the recognition of the intervention of consciousness in the observation of molecular phenomena. For some scientists, the matter ends there, with the change in the phenomenon brought about by the particular observer. For others, however, the consideration that, if the phenomenon occurs in everything observed, there ‘must be’ a consciousness that transcends individual observers leads to the recognition of a Consciousness that underlies Nature and precedes matter.

The consequences of this theory, which is presented as a scientific demonstration, are far-reaching, because it may lead to another way of perceiving, thinking and, perhaps, feeling. To begin with, the materialist assumptions that scientific thought itself had created and upheld for centuries would be refuted, rendered obsolete and scientifically demonstrated to be erroneous. Our scientists undoubtedly deserve to be congratulated on this work, which we know has been most meticulous and painstaking.

From a philosophical and spiritual standpoint, we must welcome the fact that the sciences have found a shared point of convergence, for, after Romanticism, which was the swansong of Western thought, we have seen nothing but nihilist or materialist ideologies which, alienated from spiritual reality, have contributed to the general bewilderment. I have dealt with the origins of this alienation and its development in different periods and places (which I cannot elaborate on here) in my philosophy of history, and with the psychic process that has generated it in my Psychosophy.

In fact, we find Consciousness or Spirit as the underlying and pre-eminent reality in Nature, in countless variations, from the dawn of humanity, in all mythologies and religions; this view has been upheld philosophically in Western Idealism for some 2,500 years, and in the East for somewhat longer (see Parallel Civilisations), and continues to be upheld within a philosophical framework by contemporary authors, including the author of this article. Strictly speaking, what scientists have found is a reality that transcends time and space: in other words, metaphysics, an ancient discipline that has occupied philosophers for twenty-four centuries. In philosophy, then, we did not need this scientific verification, which appears as a discovery and a novelty only in a sphere removed from spiritual reality.   26/10/2026