Beyond Matter and Spirit to an Objective Spirituality through the Totality Axiom

Science has rendered the matter and spirit conceptual framework obsolete. This paper advocates its replacement with structure (what we can understand through science) and essence (what we experience in stream of consciousness). The Totality Axiom is introduced to integrate structure and essence and thus provide a starting point for integrating scientific understanding with spiritual intuition. Using this axiom, the paper shows how the mathematical result known as Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem can be applied to the evolution of consciousness giving substance to spiritual intuitions. This is an important example of how the Totality Axiom lays the groundwork for an objective spirituality with the potential to develop at a rate adequate to cope with the enormous power that science and technology is creating through the objective guidance of experiment.