We are philosophers and scientists, all of us. Of varying degrees and styles maybe, but surely, because extracting a model for life, from our individual circumstances is our human impulse. We create a model to deal with what happened and what may be coming. A model to launch plans in; realizing and yet not that life is the epitome of uncertainty.
George Ellis sums up this new dilemma of cutting-edge science; that of tackling untestable theories with their painful lack of evidence. There are new theories which cannot be experimentally verified, but are so compelling they have become main-stream science. On the one hand, they are tarnishing science’s reputation and on the other, are forcing scientists to rethink centuries old assumptions and methodological values.
The human condition is a panoply of breathtaking beauty and repulsive ugliness, an eclectic canvas of the loves and the hates, the blacks and the whites. Also of the greys, everything in between. The narrative of human existence, irrespective of its individuals, is an eventful ride of the highest highs and the lowest lows. With some calm plateaus in between.
What does the world understand as ‘Yoga’ today? Dominantly, sizably, as a system for exercise and fitness. The physical aspect of yoga has become so overpowering that an organisation called the International Yoga Asana Championship has been established, with the aim of taking ‘Yoga Sport’ to the Olympics. “I do not like this spirituality, enlightenment, out of the body type of thing.
Yoga means union in its most simple understanding. It is the union of our ordinary psyche-mind with a higher state. A post-human state, one that is hyper-cognitive and hyper-sensory. I know it sounds like claptrap, but just hold on. A state beyond the psyche, the mind, and the senses, above it all. One of pure bliss, uncaused and unbroken.
With the ‘Nature and Structure of Theories’, by C. U. Moulines as a framework, Yoga can be defined and outlined as a robust empirical scientific theory.