SCIENCE AND IDEAS. Modern science is reaching a limit in its understanding of the visible world in its quest to comprehend the microscopic and macroscopic. Science is a chain of discoveries and a linking of ideas about understanding the visible and invisible world. It is also fundamental to consider that technological developments have fostered the greatest advances in science, and vice versa. Mathematics is the language in which the understanding of Nature is understood and structured. The investigation of Nature and the laws that govern it are always topics of great interest. Since ancient times, the most intimate connection and the reason for being of everything have been sought. Human nature, at its core, has the need to understand the why and the wherefore of things. It is an inner and intellectual need, but also one of great emotion and passion for discovery. Many advances have been made in various stages throughout these cycles in various cultures. However, it was Greek culture that, in its classical period, challenged the course of the West and later the world with its trajectory and extraordinary figures, from Thales and Pythagoras, through Socrates and Plato, to Euclid, Diophantus, and Hypatia, among many others. Official science views the Middle Ages as a dark age; however, it was the era in which the Arabs developed a great culture and revived the classical Greek period. Furthermore, from a more inner perspective, the work of alchemists and scholars of that time in Europe fostered a very important development that is rarely truly appreciated. Nevertheless, it was from the Renaissance onward, and especially from the advances of Galileo and Newton, along with their 16th-century predecessors, that research and science gained new momentum. Following the discovery of new types of geometry in the 19th century, which led to advances such as the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Physics in the 20th century, great strides have been made during this century with increasingly remarkable technological applications that have, in turn, transformed the way we live in the world. Mathematics is, as Galileo Galilei said, the language in which Nature expresses itself. Creation itself seems to manifest itself in every phenomenon through a pattern or laws of mathematical behavior, even though much of it is not yet fully understandable to us. All sciences, however, use mathematical ideas as a tool for their advancement and understanding. Science is a foundation of human progress; however, its development and application in technology are not always used for the good of humanity as a whole, but rather primarily for the benefit of a select few. In this sense, scientists, like artists in various eras, including the present, are blind to the implications and applications of their science and art, placing themselves, purely for personal gain, in the hands of those who hold power in our society. These individuals typically lack understanding and empathy for humanity as a whole, thinking only of their own self-interest. There are many examples of this throughout human history, and they continue to exist. Even in ancient times, several geniuses offered their services to the construction of weapons of mass destruction for war, such as Archimedes, Da Vinci, the German chemist whose discovery led to countless deaths in World War II, Einstein, and Oppenheimer. We can currently see an example of this situation in the development of AI (Artificial Intelligence), whose advances and applications, as we can see in this DW interview, make us reflect on the meaning and use that technologists make of it in the hands of unscrupulous businesspeople who exploit it. As long as the mistaken view that we own nature prevails—the sense of conquest and expansion, the exploitation of man by man and of the environment as if it were a treasure belonging to us—the course of science and its technological application is on the wrong track. Understanding that we are part of a whole that has its own balance and that, cycle after evolutionary cycle, develops new stages of growth and adaptation for all beings and things contained within it, including ourselves, can bring us a new, more complete and integrated vision of our own nature and purpose in life. This is a profound mystery that continues to be investigated and remains indefinable, but it will not be fully understood until we study and appreciate the deeper, more spiritual meaning of reality, which we only manage to perceive in fragments. In this area, many ancient philosophies have much to contribute, and in conjunction with the most current scientific discoveries, they will undoubtedly lead to a greater understanding. This is a time of great change that invites us, above all, to question once again the reason for our being in this world. It also compels us to make a greater effort toward self-knowledge, since our potential is diminished in various ways by lifestyle habits. The very current of life and customs causes us to lose faculties and the fundamental meaning of Life itself, chasing technological mirages and a life without a more uplifting direction, solely in pursuit of comfort and fleeting pleasures. RESEARCH: I believe that current Science is incomplete in its method and vision if it does not take into account that human Consciousness has many more possibilities for investigating Scientific and Artistic Truth, beyond the intellectual tool alone. It is, among other things, in the practice and profound knowledge of humanity's ancient traditions that we can find some of the answers, alongside the scientific and artistic knowledge generated by humanity, and in a deep exploration of our inner nature, where we will find answers for future development. Stephen Hawking already commented that the 21st century will be especially marked by developments in complexity, approaching a problem or research topic from multiple perspectives or areas of knowledge. This confirms, in a sense, that our era will be a kind of Renaissance, in which art and science, along with other manifestations of knowledge, unite to understand phenomena in a deeper and more holistic way—a more general and interconnected way of perceiving and contemplating them.