In the last Twentieth century Science and Technology have advanced several orders of magnitude. This has provided humanity with information on, and an understanding of, the natural world that was undreamed of even 50 years ago. At the same time religions have not adapted spiritual elements and still rely on concepts generated 2,000, or more, years ago. It is inevitable that this gap will close. However, it will not be prompted by theology but by the new findings of science. In science's new model of the universe in which energy replaces matter as the basic ingredient, it is becoming apparent...

For thousands of years the concept has existed that the true nature of the universal creative forces, we call God, is intelligent energy, or pure consciousness. Unfortunately the idea of pure consciousness is very hard to grasp and despite the efforts of mystics to explain it for thousands of years, it has remained on the edges of traditional religious thinking. Although kept alive in eastern religions and mysticism it has been largely ignored by western religions and science, except for one small flicker when Rene Descartes declared "I think, therefore I am." Only in the last few years has...