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📌Notes 1-Regarding terms used in this essay, the term “sacred tradition” is used here in reference to all paths of enlightenment and revelation ranging from Christianity to Islam to Buddhism. Additionally, all references in this essay to traditional and sacred sciences are meant to address those sciences that study not only the physical domain of reality, but the metaphysical as well, and are typically associated with any of such sacred traditions.

With that said, this essay also provides a criticism of modern science for both its ignoring of the metaphysical domain and for its dominant claim as the only science of nature.

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