Indeed, such will forever be the difference between individual salvation and the scientific quest/ advancement. There will always be the scientific minds and their proclivity, the mystic beings and their instincts, and also the masses and their tendencies. Broadly speaking, these are the categories I see in the future.

Just as science has sought into the obvious manifestations of material energy, it continues to progressively look into finer levels of energy. It has very quickly confounded and supplanted religious foundations. It is now starting to validate the supernatural and the mystic to a degree.

Observing and understanding these movements in the environment can be of consequence to subsequent life cycles for the mystics, as far as adequately dealing with the environments of the future. The masses simply are part of the rest of the "natural world". They are relevant as much as the rest of nature but immaterial in terms of intrinsic movements of subtler definitions and works.

Humanity strictly speaking has always been defined by or more precisely decided by the advanced beings, that precept cannot be altered. But the finest scientific conclusions will not absolve any human of their actual nature. They can, however, muse the mind of the observant mystic more than just about any other human endeavor.