I've written several articles on this blog about how science, particularly quantum physics, is catching up with religion.  By that I mean that quantum mechanics studies are revealing things that religious and spiritual schools have been saying for thousands of years.  In short, the scientists have been telling us the solid matter universe isn't nearly as solid as we thing it is and the more studies they conduct, the less solid it appears to be.
    First, the atom was discovered and thought to be a solid particle from which everything was made.  Then science discovered that the atom is made up of even smaller particles.  In school, you probably  saw models of atoms where the nucleus might be the size of a tennis ball and the smaller electrons orbiting it were ten or twelve inches away.  If this model were made to scale, the electrons would be miles away from that tennis ball nucleus and the atom revealed to be mostly "empty space", that is, an area with no matter, just energy.
    The latest news is that those  tiny sub-atomic particles themselves are made up of smaller things called quarks and the mass of the quarks only makes up about one percent of the mass of the protons and other sub-atomic particles.  The rest is energy that the scientists call the strong nuclear force.
    So what does all that have to do with religion and spiritual teachings?  Well lets do a comparison table on some of the major points.

SCIENCE	RELIGION
Matter isn't solid, it's mostly empty space.	The material world is a world of illusion.
Matter, or at least the appearance of matter, is changed by our observation of it and even by our thoughts.	Sinning in thought is sinning in reality.  What we believe affects what we see and what we get.
The atom is looking more like a miniature solar system, possibly even a miniature galaxy.	As above, so below, as within, so without.