Hello friends, beautiful beings, and free 
spirits! What is scientific spirituality?
If you have a logical mind and you are
pragmatic, you are analytical, but you
also have a spiritual side. You are
deeply connected to your inner-being and
deep inside you know there's more to
life than materialistic experience. If
this is you, you may be a seeker of
scientific spirituality. Scientific
spirituality is the new science because
it incorporates science and spirituality.
The smartest and most advanced spiritual
teachers, yogis and yoginis of our times,
have emphasized the importance of
incorporating spirituality in our lives,
in our healing practices and for our
evolutionary path. So there is no true
growth and evolution and healing if
there's no spirituality in your life. And...
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don't know what's gonna happen. Anyway... So,
if that's you, you're a seeker of
scientific spirituality and scientific
spirituality encourages people to
analyze and think and experiment for
themselves just like a scientific method
does. Let me give you an example in the
form of a story that involves famous
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. Carl Jung
was born in Switzerland and he became
very famous around the 1950s when he was
in his midlife or advanced midlife
and he was very interested in
understanding the spiritual side of
individuals to help them in their
personal growth and their healing and he
incorporated a lot of spirituality in
his therapy -- psychology theory -- which is
the analytical psychology or also called
Jungian Analysis. And so I was
curious to know where Carl Jung got all
of his ideas and Carl Jung is very
famous because he talked a lot about the
importance of incorporating spirituality
in people's everyday lives and in their
spiritual growth for healing. So, he and
many other spiritual teachers, made
emphasis on this that there is no way
that you can evolve as a person, heal
your mind, heal your body, and grow
without a spiritual component. And this
is truly the basis of my work as a life
coach and a student of counseling and as
a speaker and community educator through
my work with a non-profit. I base all my
platform in incorporating this healing aspect, spiritual aspect, for healing
and progress. And so going back to Carl
Jung, he talked a lot about the
Unconscious and he believed that we can
help a lot of people heal as counselors,
teachers, or therapists, through
understanding their Unconscious. I have
spoken about the Unconscious on prior
videos and you are encouraged to
take a look maybe you want to click here
below, up here,  to watch my video on the
Unconscious, Conscious and Super
conscious as explained by Swami
Vivekananda in India. Anyhow...so Carl Jung used
the Unconscious to analyze his clients, his
patients, and come up with conclusions on
why they were feeling the way they were
feeling and he was very into analyzing
dreams and symbols. But Jung...he don't...he
didn't I believe only in individual
unconsciousness but also in the
Collective Unconscious and he defined
the Collective Unconscious as inter-psychic forces and symbols that were
shared by a human experience throughout
history. Some that this is where you see
symbols throughout history since many
many years ago we see drawings in caves
and then art carvings on the wall and
paintings and symbols like mandalas in
India and other parts of Asia and these
were believed to be portals that carried a
lot of force and symbolism for
evolutionary growth of the species. And
this is fascinating! So... Carl Jung was
very very fascinated by all of this and
he always wanted to go to India to learn
more and he studied Eastern philosophy.
So, one day around the 1940s Carl Jung
received an invitation from the
British government in India at that time
and to visit India and meet one of the
most famous and well-respected
sages and spiritual teachers of that
time Ramana Maharshi. And, Ramana
Maharshi meditated for many many years,
all his life,  near the Arunachala Mountain
which is a very famous mountain in India
with a lot of energy and it has
thousands, if not more, of visitors every
year and it's one of the most spiritual
places in the world.
So... Ramana Maharshi went there to a cave
inside a cave and spent days and hours
meditating to achieve enlightenment. So...
Carl Jung knew about Ramana Maharshi
through a book he read about the secrets
of India and he was
fascinated. So, off he went to India to
meet Ramana Maharshi and the moment he
arrived at the ashram where Ramana
Maharishi was living, he went into the
room with him to meet him and have a
one-on-one conversation with him which
is something very privileged, and...
immediately, without saying anything,
Ramana Maharshi, 
as if he was reading Carl Jung's mind,
he said-- Yoga philosophy and spirituality
are science based as much as the science
that you have in the West. And he
explained how and why. So very briefly
I'm gonna explain what he said in a
nutshell. And he went through all the
steps that yoginis and yogis take to
clean their body, calm their mind, through
yoga, meditation, proper nutrition, and
achieve a state of mind where they can
experiment their energy inside their
body, handle their energy in a way that
is gonna help them self-realize. And he
said that this is a true
scientific method of experimentation
very personal of each individual and is
just exactly as the steps we take in the
West for a scientific study
which is taking a sample from the
population, in appropriate
conditions, in a lab (preferably), in the
appropriate environment, with the
appropriate methods. And this is exactly
what yoga provides: the appropriate
environment with the appropriate methods, 
techniques, scientific techniques, that
have a method, a science to them, to help
people achieve evolutionary growth and
self-realization, enlightenment. And this is
all about energy inside the body. And
then... you have a conclusion like science
and the results and you use specific
methods and that's what yoga is, you have
a result which is self-enlightenment and
realization. So, this is very briefly
explained, I hope it makes sense. But the
bottom line is that Carl Jung was
impressed by this explanation. He went
back to Switzerland with an enlightened
mind, he was so impressed by Ramana
Maharshi and his intelligence and depth
of thought! And from then, from that point,
Carl Jung came up with a lot of theories
and methods for his psychological
theories like archetypes on symbolism. That is what scientific spirituality
tries to bring-- science and spirituality
together for the betterment of humanity.
As always, take care of yourselves, stay
healthy, and I will see you in the next video.
