Baba Brinkman - Hypothesis 2 (Spiritualism) lyrics

Evolution is a beautiful, unifying vision But when science gets too ambitious, it shades into “scientism” If you take the time to listen to enlightened mystics Like the Dalai Llama, you'll see, there's other kinds of wisdom What can Darwin teach me about the transcendental experiences I've found through meditation, or the boundless mysteriousness Of existence? What? That I'm just delirious And it's just an illusion that corresponds to certain neurological areas? C'mon, let's be serious; it's not all in the cerebellum! Human nature has a physical level, and a spirit level And the transcendent is imminent in the material – it's very subtle But it's a theory for which science has no clear rebu*tal Consciousness came before matter, not vice versa, and it's Only through love and compa**ion that the spirit side emerges And rappers are channeling that spirit when they recite their verses But all the s** and violence, well, that's biological urges