How do we combine science with spirituality? Metaphorically, how do we go from Glastonbury to Avalon without wandering off all the way to Fairy country?

Steven Pinker (“How the Mind Works”) says that we can never solve fundamental questions, such as what is mind, consciousness, meaning and free will,and how they emerge from the physical brain, because the brain was designed by evolution for solving problems that concern survival, not for fundamental philosophy. It may just be beyond our ken. This leaves the field free for speculation and imagination, which so many have done over the ages, and I have followed in their footsteps.

We are able to ask the questions which science cannot answer, but we are unable to arrive at provable, credible answers to our questions. Yet we should not stop the imaginations process, which is so interesting, in engaging our native curiosity. only one proviso: do not take the answers arrived at by imagination as the final truth, do not treat it as dogma. Play with it, enjoy the possibilities, explore the connections and implications, but do not take it seriously, as proven facts.

Thus we can live a re-enchanted life without succumbing to the mumbo-jumbo of arbitrary magic. We can dream, but know that we must wake up.