'Inner Technology' and Jacob's Ladder

In a recent YouTube video, American scientist and thinker Gregg Braden was talking about the immanent convergence between modern science and religion. I didn't understand everything he said in this 30-minute long interview, but two points he was making strike me as rather profound:-
man will never be able to exhaust his search for the Universe because whatever is manifest in the Universe, the stars, the constellations and the galaxies, are a projection of mind; mind and matter are interdependent.
All technology that man has invented is a reflection of what he is capable of within himself. Today man has pushed his external inventions almost to the limit and the time has come for a return to the potentials lying within himself through 'inner technology'.

I myself is not a science-inclined person; to put it bluntly, I'm rather ignorant as far as modern science goes. Fortunately for me, I've counter-balanced my lack in external science with direct experience and knowledge on myself - my own body as a living organism through years' of consistent practise of Yoga, meditation, Tai Chi and Chi Kung (energy work). At the culmination of it, I was taken up to the Light and was held in the Light, even just for a brief moment. In the Light, the distinction between mind and matter disappears,  time comes to an end and is replaced by an eternal 'Now'. The microcosm and the macrocosm also merges together, so is the inner and the outer. One realises that the Divine or God and all the powers associated with it dwells within rather then without.

Jacob's Ladder by William Blake

Now coming back to the topic of science and technology, what are the biggest challenges facing science today? Is it not in the fields of energy (i.e. solar power technology), health (drugs for combating diseases) and space technology (desire to discover the secrets of the Universe)? Has it ever occurred to the scientist that solutions for his quests might be found within rather than without?

For thousands of years, the Chinese Taoists have quietly observed and studied themselves - not just segregated sections of themselves in isolation, but their own body, mind and soul as a living and unitive organism as a reflection of the world, the nature and the cosmos. They've worked out that the only way for man to ascend to the Heavens (the higher realms) is by working on himself utilising his own body as the athanor to produce 'medicine' for coagulating of the 'golden elixir' which will liberate him from the bondage of his own body, mind and soul and thus deliver him from the cycle of birth and death. A master adept of Taoist alchemy is said to be resistant to both heat and cold, water and fire, and is free from all physical and mental afflictions and illnesses. He can also materialise and dematerialise at will travelling between different dimensions of space and time. He is said to have become an 'immortal' through achieving the Oneness (At-one-ment). Would this not be the wildest dream of science as far as the human organism is concerned? Full potentials of human life can only be realised from within, not without; the highest science and technology should not have as their goal conquering the external nature and environment but fully tapping into the hidden treasures lying within the human organisam. And the way to study the human organism is not by dissecting it into parts with different functions but by integrating all the inner faculties and using the finite corporal body to realise the infinite and therefore timeless ends not to be perceived by mortal eyes. Jacobs ladder does not exist out there in the firmament but right here within each of us. The Yogis call the ladder 'sushumna' and the access to it is through the seven chakras; the Taoists call it the 'Way' which is revealed through cultivating the 'golden exlixir'. Mystic traditions all over the world teach various disciplines for the purpose of ascending this ladder to Heaven. They all maintain that the ultimate goal has to be revealed to the individual adept in direct vision and experience through alchemical process (not metallurgy and chemistry but psychologicall and biological processses). The illumination or enlightenment comes from within not from without and yet is a reflection of the all embracing Light and Power from the Divine Intellect. Once all the seven planetary spheres as represented by the seven energy centres within the human organism are pierced, he will come face to face with the effulgence from the Divine or see himself in its reflection; he would have met his 'true Self', the Self that was not born and will never die.

Such a highest vision is given a full descritpion in a Syriac Hermetical text which is reproduced here:-
[the text uses the analogy of a 'secret mirror' which alludes to the third eye (pineal gland) that is hidden behind 'seven doors' which refer to the seven chakras]

'The mirror was so made that no man could see himself materially in it, for as soon as he turned away from it, he forgot his own image. The mirror represents the Divine Intellect, When the soul looks at itself in this, it discovers the shame that is in itself, and casts this away . . . Thus purified, it imitates the Holy Spirit, and takes Him as a model; it becomes Spirit itself; it achieves peace, and always returns to this higher state in which one knows (God) and is known by Him. Then having become without a shadow, it is liberated from its own chains and from those which it shares with the body . . . What is the adage of the philosophers? - Know thyself! This refers to the intellectual and cognitive mirror. And what is this mirror if not the Divine and original Intellect? When a man looks at himself and sees himself in this, he turns away from everything that bears the name of gods or demons, and, by uniting himself with the Holy Spirit, becomes a perfect man. He sees God within himself . . . This mirror is set up beyond seven doors . . . which correspond to the seven heavens, beyond the sensual world, beyond the twelve (heavenly) mansions . . . Beyond all this is this eye of the invisible senses, this eye of the Intellect which is omnipresent and beyond everything. There one sees this perfect Spirit, in Whose power all is contained . . .'       
 [quoted from Titus Burckhardt, ALCHEMY]