Fascinating (and quite well written) article.

I would invite you and readers to look a little more closely at this:

"This secular materialism says that only what can be observed scientifically is “real.”

It's true, secular materialism says this, a statement which shows the utter intellectual emptiness of secular materialism.

The generally accepted scientific method can be boiled down to 2 essential things:

1. Only direct sensory observation is allowed (either with the human eye or supplemented by various instruments

2. All further research is done by analysis of what was observed.

Since nobody has ever directly observed matter as it exists independent of any kind of consciousness (once observed, it is no longer independent of observation), and to date, nobody has provided a coherent definition of the word "physical," as Bernardo Kastrup has eloquently pointed out in countless writings and videos, there is no evidence for the existence of the kind of matter that secular materialists claim to be the foundation of everything.

Robert Thurman, Buddhist monk and former chair of the Columbia University department of Tibetan Buddhist studies (and father of Uma!:>) has a neat little answer for the very common brain-dead retort, "Oh yeah, you think matter doesn't exist? Try standing in front of a moving train!!"

First off, nobody said "matter" doesn't exist. The idea is the matter independent of any kind of observation is a mere hypothesis for which there is no evidence. All we know exists within Consciousness. Beyond that is secular religious dogma about dead matter.

Thurman's retort: "Since everything exists in Consciousness, there is no doubt, if the form of Consciousness known as "you" stands in front of the form of Consciousness known as a moving train, "you" will not likely survive. But Consciousness will."