Are your thoughts real? What about the things you see when you dream? Are those images real? How about your emotions? Are they real?

These things are not material, but that doesn't mean they aren't real, does it? Whether the immaterial is a product of the material (or vice versa), while an interesting question in itself, is inconsequential to the point, which is that there is more to reality than the material.

As much as we've learned about physical reality, we don't know everything about it, and that has been the primary focus of human beings for much of history. About immaterial reality we know much less (at least in western cultures) because it often eludes the scientific method. Compared to the material it seems intangible and flimsy; therefore, we reject it as 'unreal', 'untrue'.

The immaterial does exist though, and clearly the material and immaterial are not only inseparable but interdependent; two sides of the same coin. There is no independently objective physical reality, because the physical universe is not unaffacted by 'immaterial' thoughts and observations. It's all one seamless process.

So, to the question in the title of the thread I would say: they're already unified. They just aren't acknowledged as such by those who reject the possible existence of yet unknown immaterial truths.
afghooey Reviewed by afghooey on . Should we unify science and spirituality?(Very Long) Written by Kim Michaels. Let us first consider whether you should care that there is a state of war between science and religion? If you are the type of person who wants someone else to tell you what to believe about life, then you probably shouldnâ??t care. You will align yourself with a professed religion or the unprofessed religion of scientific materialism and accept its image of reality. Yet if you are the type of person who likes to think for yourself and find your own answers, then Rating: 5