What Scientists Didn’t Want You to Know: The Galileo Committee Unveils the Truth

Recently, a committee of esteemed scientists, known as the 'Galileo Committee,' was formed. The committee gathered more than 90 respected advisors from over 30 universities worldwide to produce a special report on research goals and directions.

But what does Galileo have to do with us? Galileo, as is well-known, lived about 400 years ago. Why is he being talked about now? Let’s allow Galileo to explain. In one of his letters, he writes: "Here in Padua resides the chief professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly asked to look at the moon and planets through my telescope, something he refuses to do firmly." Galileo discovered astronomical findings not through hypotheses and theories, but through the telescope. He simply saw new findings, stars, and their positions. The way to argue with him was not through eloquent papers, but merely by refusing to look through the telescope. His opponents refused to open their eyes and look, as they were busy declaring him wrong and trying to silence him.

And that’s exactly what's happening today, as described by one of the scientists from the Galileo Committee, Prof. Wallach: "Many scientists are unwilling to look at evidence that consciousness is more than just brain activity, because they have an unwavering belief that consciousness is generated in the brain. Often, the authority of the scientific world, and the fear for their reputation, are what prevent them from broadening their worldview. The Church created the infallibility principle of the scriptures, today the infallibility principle of scientific materialism is at stake."

The scientific establishment simply isn’t willing to look, not willing to discuss, and is stuck in its belief that the world is only nature and nothing else.

In the Galileo Committee report, under the title "Beyond a Materialist Worldview – Towards an Expanded Science," scientists explain that the establishment is closed to a dialogue that breaks the boundaries of materialism, allowing consciousness to be seen as something spiritual, and the world as not just nature. Facts do not change that.

More than a hundred years ago, William James warned of the dangers of 'scientism,' the claim that science is the ultimate perspective, and the belief that only the material world is real and only physical causality is scientifically respectable: "Science in its essence should rest only on method, not any particular beliefs. However, as accepted by its admirers, science has been identified with a certain fixed, general belief — the belief that the deeper order of nature is merely mechanical, and that non-mechanical categories are irrational ways to explain even something like human life."

The report’s authors conclude:

"For all these philosophical and cultural reasons, we established the Galileo Committee as a project of the scientific and medical network. The network operates at the interface between science, spirituality, and consciousness since the 1970s, enabling an open membership dedicated to exploring and expanding our horizons in these fields… The purpose of the Galileo Committee report is to open public discourse and find ways to broaden the fundamental assumptions of science, so it is no longer limited by an outdated view of the essence of reality and consciousness, and to accommodate and explore meaningful human experiences and questions that science, in its current form, is unable to cater to for philosophical reasons. We foresee the expansion of science to include several new fundamental assumptions (an extended ontology), additional ways of knowing and new rules of evidence (an extended epistemology), as well as new methodologies derived from them."