The idea of modern scientific thinking has gone very far from the what Science was all about. Infact from the beginning, science and spirituality went hand in hand because scientists were people who were curious to learn about the reality.

Nikola Tesla once said something to the effect of "If scientists start studying non-physical phenomenon instead of phsyical phenomenon, they will make more progress in 10 years than what they would currently do in 50-100 years"

Born atheist, but turned agnostic in my 20s, I now believe that spirituality exists and is very important for human existence, and spirituality and consciousness directly interacts at a quantum level.

I also believe that a lot pre-einstein physicists turned to ancient scriptures for answers to the scientific problems they were working on.

I was listening to a spiritual leader from lat 1800s from India, who had a huge influence on Western scientific community, and he talks about space and energy in a way that prhaps only now scientists are beginning to think about.

I think we have had atleast a 100 year spirtual vacuum in the name of science, perhaps premeditated, with the focus on material advances but carefully stopping anyone from making advances in the directions that really matter.