Science Mystics?

"There are religious mystics and nature mystics, but it is still somewhat unusual to encounter a “science mystic”, since the implications of the two words would initially appear to be contradictory, and their respective realms perpetually antagonistic (even though such a renowned scientist as the great Albert Einstein himself has been characterized as “rational mystic”). Certainly, for centuries now, the world of the scientist and that of the mystic have seemed to have regularly clashed. On the one hand, the mystics report accessing a reality beyond the intellect or objective domain of the scientist, whereas the scientist points to the burdensome accumulation of religious myth and superstition that has accompanied mystical assertions, as proof of its obsolescence at a time when demonstrable facts speak louder than conditioned flights of fantasy.

Lately however, those entrenched views have undergone a significant change, an evolving transformation particularly evident in the meeting between the field of the Quantum Sciences and that of Mystic Esotericism. Today, if there were such a category as “Science Mystic”, writers such as Thomas W. Campbell, Jr., Peter Russell, and Gary Zukav would certainly qualify as excellent representatives (along with a growing list of others such as David Bohm, Fred Alan Wolfe, Fritjof Capra, Bruce Lipton, Nassim Haremein, Amit Goswami, Michael Talbot, Robert Monroe, and Rupert Sheldrake, to name a few)."