Morality is about behavioral codes agreed upon by a society. Science is about discovering the truth about how everything in the universe comes about, works, and interacts. Science has nothing to do with what a society determines to be the right way to behave or think. It is only concerned with what can be proven under laboratory conditions after repeated results.

History shows us many cases in which Science and the morality of the time clashed. Galileo was imprisoned because he dared to defy the common morally-held belief at the time that the earth was the center of the Universe.
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The sentence of the Inquisition was delivered three parts:

• Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy" when he stated that the Earth is not static and stationary at the center of all that is but it moves, contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to “abjure, curse, and detest” his statements.
  
  
• He was sentenced to formal imprisonment, which was commuted to house arrest, under which he remained for the rest of his life.
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• His writing were banned; publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.
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Galileo was a scientist who just told the truth about his observations and calculations. But the moral code of 17th Century Europe couldn’t take the truth. They tried to suppress it through punishment. He died condemned by the Catholic Church for "vehement suspicion of heresy."

Years later, we all know that the the entire Universe does not revolve around the Earth and that the earth revolves around the sun. To put anyone in prison for declaring this fact would be highly immoral by today’s standards.

Morality is about making choices in life—It is about how you choose to live your life in a way that produces the highest amount of joy and the least amount of pain for yourself and to others.

Throughout history, rules have changed. In Victorian England it was OK to chain a mentally ill person to a pilaster for passersby to taunt and abuse as they would an unprotected animal in a zoo. The rules changed and then it was criminal to treat people this way.

The rules changed, but the morality stayed the same. It is cruel to treat less fortunate people like berated animals to be laughed at and scorned. Happily, at this stage of our planet’s history, if someone did that to another human, they would be prosecuted.

When we depend strictly on rules for our morality, we are going along with the fashion of the times. And when these rules are heavily enforced, it implies that they do not come naturally to us and so we must be frightened into obeying them.
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True morality does not come from some external source that threatens punishment. It comes from our own inner reflection on how it would feel to us if we behaved in a certain manner or someone behaved in that way towards us. I do not harass the less fortunate because it doesn’t feel good in my heart to do so—not because someone is watching to see if I break the rules. That is the lasting source of true morality and not someone holding a big stick over my head.

Religions of the world preach to us that we must love each other. But does preaching really work? Just because someone wearing priestly vestments tells me I must love God, does that mean I can or will do it? And if I must be kind out of fear of going to hell, how true is that kindness really?

Kindness implies that it is unforced. I am kind because it feels good, I care and don’t want to hurt people, I love them—not because the preacher told me I must be kind. Yet when I look at the inquisitions, the holy wars, the atrocities committed in the name of religion even to this day, it makes me wonder about the hypocrisy being spouted from the altars and shrines of the world.

If morality is based on such tenets as the Ten Commandments, and we see “holy men” embezzling, cheating, killing, molesting children, then we can question whether religion has contributed anything towards kindness and morality.
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If you listen to the words of all the great ascended beings, you will see that they had nothing to do with the organization of any religion with rigid, punitive belief systems. They are truly about kindness and morality but are without the power-based structures that have evolved in our history.

Integrative complexity is about how people process information. Some people see things in simple terms (all pigs are dirty), and some may view them in more complex ways (given the chance, pigs like to be clean too). In this way, integrative complexity involves being able to:
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1. See that there is more than one way to look at things.
2. Create links between these disparate things and to bring them into a coherent overall resolution.

Most great business leaders, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk (including Nobel Laureates) have demonstrated integrative complexity skills. They each have shown, in their own way, that they can develop and entertain opposing values and ideas and then integrate them into larger creatives wholes. Things are not simply black and white to them—and they make the most of the gray areas.

Other examples of this skill are:

• The ability to see the big picture, the tiny details, and all levels in between, and merge the views gained at those different levels.
• Being creative, systematic, and practical all at the same time.
• Being assertive and open-minded at the same time.
• Doing things that people assume don’t do together. For example, being wildly creative yet highly organized with intense attention to detail and precision.
• Having a mental map of how things need to be done for highest efficiency—yet being open for improvement.
• Being both humble and intelligent, willing to ask questions and satisfy their curiosity.

In short, integrative complexity skills are the key to our future creativity on this earth. Being tied into rigid rules and narrow prejudices is not the path for our evolution as a species.

Before the dawn of human consciousness, we were like all other animals on the planet: Concerned mainly with survival, eating, and reproducing. Most people are still in this pre-conscious mode. They operate according to the dictates of their culture and never question their purpose or their existence. They are willing to turn others into victims to fulfill their own biological needs, without awareness of the moral implications of their actions including the pain they cause others.

When human consciousness arose, we were taken beyond merely surviving and brought into a state where we wanted to know more and understand more about the great questions of life, such as: Who and what am I? Simply surviving for the sake of surviving is not satisfying to anyone who has the capacity to think, because we know that tomorrow we may not make it anyway—then what?

When we became conscious, we became attuned to that part of us that is immortal: Our Souls. Advanced beings pointed the way. For example, the Buddha saw that suffering was all around him. He sought a path out of this suffering. He found higher consciousness through peaceful meditation. He experienced and was attuned to the forces of the Universe that operate through us. And he saw that this is the way out of misery. He brought this message, but even to this day, few people are able to assimilate it.
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Attuning to this higher consciousness is the only salvation for this planet. For if we go on plundering, pillaging, and depriving each other of health, happiness, and freedom, we will destroy this globe. Or it will reject us for its own health and we will be an experiment in nature that just didn’t make it. By evolving our consciousness and awareness beyond mere survival, we are actually ensuring our survival but with the addition of peace and joy.

Every part of the world interacts with every other part of the world. So the world would be different without me from that point of view. But otherwise, the trees will go on tree-ing, the birds with go on migrating, the oceans will keep on in their fascinating patterns and the traffic will keep whirring by.

The human ego makes us think that we as individuals are extremely important. It can’t imagine that we are part of an immense totality that all fits together perfectly and that death is part of it. So it thinks we need to strive to differentiate ourselves by attention-getting acts and accumulating treasures and fighting against death as hard as we can. But deep down, anyone who has the slightest powers of observation, or the ability to think, has concluded that the world will go on very nicely without us.

It was going on well before people appeared on it. A case could be made that it would have been better off altogether before people ravaged its resources and did not renew them.

Part of the perfection of the world is the process of birth and death. But the ego can’t face death. It fears it because it cannot comprehend the eternality of the Soul. So it creates a scenario that it must fight against. “I will make a name for myself so others will remember me long after I am gone.” If you examine history books you may observe that most of the people who insisted on changing the world were the tyrants and mass murderers of their age.
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The planet was designed to function, without many of its components in tact. None of the dinosaurs exist today but the planet is still here. Volcanoes spewed their ashes and created large die-off of plants and animals. Yet the planet survived. It will be here even if people, in their spiritual blindness, exterminate each other from it.

​I wouldn’t say science is wrong, it is a pathway to knowledge that has enabled achievements such as rockets to the moon and bridges across deep waters. I don’t think that science aims at happiness. It aims at understanding how things work in the physical universe.

Happiness has nothing to do with how many scientific achievements have been accomplished. Science has enabled us to bring enormous amounts of improvements to our physical comfort here on earth, but do you think anyone is any happier than ever before?

More people than ever are on anti-depressants and mood-altering substances. They are going on amazing vacations but have to take their tranquilizers and opioids with them.

I once stayed at a house by a beautiful lake, surrounded by trees and the peace of nature. When I went into the bathroom, I saw several bottles of Prozac on the counter. The owners had achieved great financial wealth and had lots of luxury around them, and still needed Prozac—and lots of it. When I looked in the medicine cabinet, there was Zanax, Halcion, and Atavan in this setting of total peace.

Science has created these drugs that attempt to counteract people’s severe unhappiness. But, we have found that eventually these drugs don’t work on their own. They need add-ons. And the add-ons need add-ons.
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If you do not have peace within, it doesn’t matter how many honors or glories or prizes or acquisitions you have achieved—happiness is not possible. It doesn’t depend on anything exterior, such as achievements, which can be topped by someone else. It comes from understanding yourself as an Eternal Soul. Then it becomes even more than happiness, it becomes an underlying, indestructible joy.

​Opinions, by their very definition, are subjective. They are based on how a person feels about something. These feelings may be conditioned by all kinds of factors: Parental teachings, society’s rules, our own ego and its need to be bolstered and protected, religious indoctrination, and the natural propensity to avoid pain and move towards pleasure.

Opinions are not meant to be based on fact. They are one person’s point of view. That is all. It is how they see the world. Someone can come up to you and tell you you’re amazing. That same day someone else comes up and scoffs at you. That is all their opinion. It is what they are going through at the time and it is not based on objective reality whatsoever.

So many opinions are taken to be facts and this causes a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world. This is especially true when someone tries to force their opinion on you, argues about it, and even strong-arms you into going along with it. It’s just their point of view for the moment and it is not based on any proof or anything concrete.
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Peoples’ opinions can easily be changed. Objective facts don’t change. They are always true.

Up cannot exist without down. If I asked you to place all the furniture in the room “up” you would have to understand what down is to do it. It would all be up if there wasn’t a down.

As humans we see things as good and evil, up and down, wrong and right but in nature it is all part of an enormous simultaneous happening and there is no value judgment about it. As humans, too, we are taught to fight against the bad and defend the good. But if we didn’t know what the bad was, it would all be good.

When we see a gazelle being devoured by a lion, it depends who’s side we’re on as to whether it this has a down-side or and up-side. To the gazelle, if it could think the way humans do, it would have a definite down-side. To the hungry lioness who needs to feed her young, it has an up-side. Yet all that is really happening here is Nature naturing. It is huge forces of the Universe playing out its dance in a series of contrasts.

We still cling to the belief that the sun is rising (coming up) and setting (going down) even though we know that the globe is rotating in space in relation to the sun and there is no down or up about it. Its more like side by side. We add more moral judgments to this natural occurrence when we attribute sunup to hope, the dawning of a new day. And we mingle our fears with the totally natural phenomenon of sundown with death. So we continue to to say, “The sun went down” and “the sun came up.”
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In nature upsides and downsides co-exist and you cannot have one without the other. People try to have trouble-free lives and strive to eradicate the downside. They think can achieve only the up-side through all kinds of disciplines and escape tactics. They don’t want the lion to eat the gazelle. They don’t want animals to eat each other. Nothing should ever die. Everything should live forever. They want to fix everything and make it all upside, without realizing that it already is beautiful and perfect just as it is.

That is how morality controls selfishness. It may not erase it but it controls it for the greater good.Selfishness is a hard-wired quality that comes from our lesser evolved natures. It comes from our drive to survive. When we are hungry and we see food, if we are selfish we grab it all for ourselves. We might hit somebody away, or even steal it from them. All this is OK in nature, as you can see from the behavior of the coyotes and jackals.

But even coyotes and jackals have moral behaviors that are enforced for the health of the pack. The Alpha male gets first choice of the kill or what gets stolen. The Omega female gets the last choice. This all seems so cruel and selfish but it has evolved for the efficient management of the pack and its overall survival. Each animal knows exactly what is permitted of him or her and there are severe consequences if they are clueless.

In human society, morality, is defined as principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. We teach this behavior to our children so we can all get along and live together comfortably. You might say that morality enables society to run effectively and ensures the individual’s survival in the long run.

One of the most fundamental principles of morality is the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” If you treat people in an open-hearted and giving way, they will be more inclined to show love to you too. This makes for a happy experience for everyone involved.
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If you want to grab up all the toys for yourself and steal from others, most societies don’t condone it. They will even punish it. So people who selfishly try to snatch everything for themselves are put in check by their family, their society, and the world at large. That is how morality controls selfishness. It may not erase it but it controls it for the greater good.