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FMC00.632 depicts the relationship of spiritual science to contemporary mineral science (or the material-physical natural sciences).

The lower grey block in the middle below represents the physical world as observed with contemporary mainstream waking consciousness, as the scope of mineral science. Above it are the (overlapping) higher worlds which require other modes of consciousness and are included in scope of spiritual science. On its left, the process of initiation as a path to develop (faculties latent in each human being into) higher capabilities; for example Bardon's proven system of self-initiation IIH consists of 10 steps.

Observe that any information and knowledge about spiritual realities gathered ‘above’ needs to be ‘translated down’ into human language and its cognitive limitations (as this language is for use on the physical plane with waking consciousness). It therefore becomes a description and a projection by the person who had the experience and the knowledge (and no longer 'absolute').

The illustration outer left can serve as illustration for the fact our current physical materialistic worldview is also but a projection (re Plato's cave) looking at reality through a bandpass filter of current waking consciousness. Higher stages of cognition are called imagination (astral world), inspiration (lower spirit world, also 'hearing the music of the spheres), and intuition (of the higher spirit world, or 'understanding') .. all describing different aspects of a given spiritual reality.

Finally, through certain experiments it is possible to bridge between and unify spiritual and mineral sciences by testing and validating hypotheses from spiritual science ‘above’, with physical mineral science and experiments ‘below’.