Let me point out that the foundation of science..a dn of the positive methos is magic.. and that religion was also a development of magic that tried to take the place of it.

In other words, on one hand there are plenty of magic and semi-magic rithuals of belonging and sharing and "giving meaning to" and practices trying to udnerstand the "why" to me" question or purely the "why".. from philosophhy to apsichology to any symbolic fourtuen teller or any rithual of self-recognition. When religion developed giving stress to the order and hierarchy stuff it tiried strongly to get rid of or abuse and co-opt the stablished magic structures (sol invictus anybody?) so it is no wonder that spirituality came to mean  the "concept" it measn know.. trying to make sense of it all with the help of the authority.

On the other hand, while in Europe there is revulsion to the autoritas in religion and magic is and semi-magic are filling the role of religion we have teat thea uthority has been given to Science... and msot of the time in the worst sense oft he word Science. Science has been humiliated to the "if Scince says it so, it is true" just in the wway religion used to do. But thi is not a problem of the scientific minds and the people doing research, it is more aproblem of a certain mind set ina certain subset of disciplines that have a lot of projections. Luckily in physics I ahrdly can encounter this close-mind a pproach...

Closing the argument. I would say that the gtreat reason why science is failing to provide anything more than an "autoritas" or failing to explain that ins cience there should be no toher authority that your rational mind applying a set of tools and concepts to the external world is hte lack of people with a huge background fof alls ciences and of fairy-teellng and oral communication /antrhopoogy in particualr. There are nos cholars explaining the how questions and giving new posibilities for the "why" questions... there are no good phiosopher that know what theey are talking about when they talk about science, and there are no good scientific scholars which are giving money and prestige to explain in philosophical or magica ways science.

And finally, a humble opinion.. if magic and science do not join forces I see a bleak future for enlightenment values and for the positivsm of science.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude