Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.