Often if you only embrace science from a nuts and bolts perspective it leads only to suicide of the human race in a "Blade Runner" type of world with no hope, no reason to go on living whatsoever.
However, throughout my life when I combined esotericism and science because my parents were mystics I had enough hope to go on even in difficult times.
So, as my college friends around me ODed on drugs, drove their cars into brick walls racing them, died of malaria or murder traveling around the world, somehow I stayed alive as they died. Even now, two of my best friends died (one in 2006 and one in 2010 I believe). Another peer that I know is dying right now even though he is more of an acquaintance. It is most hard to lose a peer even moreso than losing parents. When I lost my best junior High and high school friend and I had to go to his military funeral from him being in the Air Force in the Viet Nam War I was so upset I couldn't even speak that day before the military funeral in Bakersfield, California where his sister lived.
So, some (many) of the people that I thought would outlive me did not. In this way life is very surprising indeed.
One of the reasons I"M still alive at almost 70 now is that I embraced mysticism in a Christian form, mysticism in a native American Form, Mysticism in a Tibetan Buddhist form and science in a Western World Form.
Science Does NOT give me hope rather it gives me stability in an uncertain world.
But mysticism and esotericism does give me hope for the whole human race.
Without it I would have self destructed 50 years ago.
Science can bring stability in an uncertain world but hope comes from a faith in the best of the hope of all mankind.
Without this hope there is no reason at all to go on.
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