Folks used to say that science and spirituality were at odds with one another, and were bound to stay that way. But those days are long gone, thanks to the Spiritual Science Research Foundation. They’re taking all the smoke and mirrors out of the supernatural, and replacing them with math and science. I’ll admit that, at first, I thought it was a spoof site. I mean, I’ve seen pseudoscientific Christian apologetic websites that claimed to have all the answers before, but none featured the Scientological Lucid Dream level of creepiness of this video. I kept asking myself how exactly they could be so sure of the ‘14 Planes of Existence in the Universe’, or claim with certainty that there are ‘6 Basic Principles of Spiritual Practice’. But the more I focused my chi, or “chakra”, and opened my mind, leaving this whole critical-thinking trip behind, the more possibly plausible it all seemed.

Read on for more unsubstantiated bullshit.