Exploration of Spiritually Guided Scientific Method

Abstract

The classical Scientific Method is the bedrock of our modern world. It has allowed us to harness electricity, decode the genome, and send machines beyond our solar system. It is a systematic, rigorous, and proudly Left Hemisphere (LH)-dominated process, designed to strip away bias and deliver objective, verifiable truth. Its very strength—its insistence on the explicit and the measurable—is, however, its most critical limitation when facing the complex, interconnected problems of the 21st century. This suspicion is given profound, scholarly weight by the work of psychiatrist and literary scholar, Prof. Iain McGilchrist, particularly in his seminal text [1], The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. We came up with a modest proposal that the next great leap in discovery will not come from abandoning the Scientific Method, but from re-thinking its starting point—the crucial moment of genuine insight.