An Analytical Approach to Spiritual Science

AN ANALYTICAL 

APPROACH TO 

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

Chris Taylor

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Published by AuthorHouse    06/11/2012

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: Discovering truth of spirituality from first principles

CHAPTER 2: Procedures to assess validity of spirituality or religion

CHAPTER 3: Suggestions for improvement of society by social reform

CHAPTER 4: Comparisons / similarities between material and spiritual science

CHAPTER 5: History and development of spirituality as science

CHAPTER 6: Analytical proof of spiritual science

CHAPTER 7: Spiritual laws and their practical application

CHAPTER 8: How positive thinking works and evidence

CHAPTER 9: Predictions for future advancement of mankind

CONCLUSION

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Acknowledgements

I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all those who have offered me great support not just for providing me with the inspiration to write this book but also to give me spiritual healing, guidance and encouragement during some extremely testing and difficult times I have experienced. In particular, I would like to thank all the healers and holistic practitioners at the local Mind Body and Spirit Centre, the Wessex Healthy Living Centre and the Spiritualist Churches both in Charminster and central Bournemouth, who have assisted greatly in reducing my anxiety and stress levels. This includes the various mediums who have given me readings when I have attended spiritual meetings as part of a congregation or audience. I am also grateful to those who have provided teaching at various venues and advice to both me and others on a group basis.

I extend my thanks to the kind and friendly people I have met in my spiritual and life journey who have shared their knowledge of spirituality with me, and to those who have helped me with transportation to various events. It is difficult to single out individuals as there are so many that I have met briefly or for longer periods who have been helpful in various ways. In addition, I would like to thank the speakers, organisers, instructors and voluntary staff who have assisted in my development at places such as the Buddhist Centre, the Positive Living Group and several different yoga classes. Furthermore, I am very grateful to Cygnus Books for making available an incredibly wide variety of spiritual literature at wonderfully competitive prices which has greatly assisted my research, and also for their regular monthly magazine which includes uplifting and stimulating articles.

I acknowledge as providing ideas and background information for my writing the numerous television documentaries, internet websites and all other available media regarding many aspects of both physical and spiritual science. The speed of access of information and the vast resources of learning available in today’s technological society can greatly assist anyone to make discoveries and insights which would have been extremely problematic in a previous era. Finally, I also extend my gratitude to the efficiency, generosity and professionalism of Authorhouse, without which I would have been unable to publish this book.

Foreword

By Pepa Rosa Dominguez

It is a tremendous pleasure to be asked to write a few short paragraphs to act as a recommendation for you to read this enlightening and very forward thinking book. I have known the author, Chris Taylor, for several years now as I initially met him with a mutual friend when he attended a six week Personal Effectiveness workshop which included relaxation techniques and meditation. Since then he has regularly come to see me for spiritual healing sessions at the local Mind Body and Spirit centre. Occasionally we also see each other at other spiritual events including yoga as I have recently completed training and qualified to be a yoga instructor.

As far as my own career experience pathway is concerned, I first qualified as a Counsellor in 2001 and am a member of the British Association of Counsellors. I have worked for Dorset Mind and Poole Mental Health Services, which involved teaching, leading support groups and acting as a private therapist with individual clients. As a result of wishing to incorporate the more holistic dimension of spirituality into my work, since 2003 I have progressed onto becoming a spiritual healing practitioner specialising in the pioneering technique of Etiotherapy and also using Craniosacral healing methods.

From a review of the contents of the book it appears to be very well structured and methodically considered and researched and there seem to be great innovative ideas to help mankind discover its spiritual truth and to move our civilisation forward in the near future in a very constructive and pragmatic way. Chris has needed to discover the realities of spiritually for himself for his own development and growth, and as a result he is clearly willing to share helpful suggestions with others from what he has learnt as a result of facing and overcoming his own personal problems and challenges. He has attempted to use his analytical background and writing skills to bring across the concept of spirituality as being a science directly applicable to our everyday lives.

I hope the readers of the book also find it enjoyable and helpful to give them valuable pointers on their ongoing spiritual journey. Personally I share the view held by Chris that our planet is on the threshold of very exciting and powerful positive change which will in the medium and long term lead to an exponential increase in our happiness and well being both on a personal basis and collectively as a world. Due to the positive and down to earth honesty of the subject matter of the book I am very happy to give this my personal endorsement.

Introduction

My motivations for writing this book arose from suffering intensely from the pressures and strains of life and from receiving what felt like a sort of intellectual spiritual revelation. I probably was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and what helped me pull through was presumably an extended period of rest and a considerable amount of spiritual healing. It seemed as though my life and society as a whole had become very mentally complicated, materialistic and competitive and there did not seem to be very much genuine happiness, joy or even kindness in the way ordinary people related to each other and conducted their relationships. This extreme dissatisfaction with life in general caused me to research spirituality and to ask many questions to see if there are any effective answers.

During this period I embarked upon an intense period of learning about spiritual subjects from all sources. As a result of my experiences I have found that many others have been through similar spiritual transformations recently which has often involved them going through painful changes. I felt quite isolated and alone during these periods and was eventually able through determined investigation to work out that spirituality and the afterlife was true from first principles, i.e. mainly from employing logical and deductive methods and assumptions, many of which are common sense. In order to help others, I have attempted to share some of the methodologies which I used to confirm the truth as far as I can recall them.

I have titled this book An Analytical Approach to Spiritual Science and I genuinely understand that this can be achieved, and it is this avenue of thought which I have concentrated on in my writing. There are several main themes to this book which are to assist an ordinary person in the street to understand how they can find out that spiritual science is valid, and also to prove by an objective and analytical set of spiritual laws that the science works and this can be adapted to help society in any given situation.

When I visited the local Spiritualist Church I was informed by a medium by the spirit world that they admired some of the new type of thoughts I was experiencing and stated that this inspiration came direct from spirit. It was also suggested that I write these ideas down. As I had not previously considered this I decided to gather my thoughts together and to record them and to eventually expand upon the original concepts when more inspiration came. As I had numerous ideas about many varied topics usually with a spiritual slant, the challenge has been to organise these into coherent themes and a structure which flows for the reader. Hopefully, I have managed to achieve this although this was initially difficult due to the complexity of my thoughts and the fact that everything seems to be connected in some way to something else.

I have aimed my writings at a reasonably well informed lay person who has an open mind, the ability to think for themselves and perhaps a rudimentary knowledge of science and learning in general. Ultimately it is possible that this message could also be expanded to those in governmental and societal authority as well as those in scientific professions, as there are important concepts raised which I feel can help significantly in these fields.

It is as a product of my life long journey and process of learning that the contents of the book have arisen as often throughout my adult life I found myself contemplating and focusing on philosophical matters and issues as to how the mind, emotions and how we experience the world actually works. I started off by reading literature about positive thought and practiced prayer power to overcome everyday fears and anxieties and to help me achieve more. It was only in more recent years that my spiritual quest for information has greatly accelerated and I have probably learnt more in the last five or so years than in the previous part of my life.

It has come to my attention that throughout the vast amount of spiritual books and articles written there is relatively little concerning the analytical and more scientific side of how this subject actually works. Whilst there is a considerable quantity of uplifting writing, which whilst in itself is very important, this can to an extent lack an element of practicality and rationality and can also saturate the spiritual market. Although there is beginning to be an increased interest in spirituality and related phenomena as a science, this is still not considered mainstream and there appears to be an obvious gap that needs to be filled in this respect. I have attempted to partly fulfil this requirement from contributing my