The Scientific Method

The scientific method:

1. Observation/Question
2. Research topic area
3. State the Hypothesis based upon the observation and researched information
4. Test with experiments to determine the validity of the hypothesis
5. Analyze the data gathered from the experiments
6. report on what was found. If the information doesn't substantiate the hypothesis, further research and testing may be required, or the hypothesis has been proven to be incorrect and therefore must be discarded in favor of the factual evidence obtained through the experimentation and analysis processes. (In other words one may want something to be true, but through experimentation and evaluation, it may not prove to be so.) This approach to answering ambiguous questions may be a long process, but will likely substantiate or dismiss any hypothesis one may hold about the subject being observed and or questioned. The topic you broach is not a simple one to answer conclusively, it is like a tree with many branches and each branch holds part of the answer to the matter being questioned. The whole of the tree (using this analogy) must be considered in order to come to a full and final understanding. The scientific method does not rely on personal opinions, but verifiable repeatable facts, and this is the strength of this method. It is also the weakness of this method when it comes to metaphysical questions, because metaphysical activities do not necessarily conform to a linear consistent way of manifesting and therefore may not be verifiable via a repeatable experiment.

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Each of us is the creator of our own reality. The world we live in may be shared, and the events which occur may be shared, but how we each deal with the reality we are faced with, is unique to our own expression in being. If this is true, then it may be possible that there IS a flat Earth AND a globe Earth. Who is to say that both can not exist at the same time? Consciousness is not a simple black and white expression, like the tree analogy above, there are many branches, many roots which diverge from the main trunk of consciousness and each and every one of them is valid and essential for the expression of the tree as a whole and complete expression in being. It should also be noted, a tree is ever changing, ever growing so that the branches of yester year are not the same as the ones we may see in the future, they grow, they change. Consciousness is ever growing and changing, with the addition of more observers, (beings in expression in manifestation.) The questions may endure for the purposes of inquiry.