>There are religions here in the U.S. that share that idea, although most still see soul as an individual spark down here temporarily (albeit it many times) before returning to unification with the whole.

Right.

God -> mind -> soul

The mind and then soul are emanations of the One. That's Plotinus.

The point is that science, in its current transitionary state, is warping our culture's ability to understand that.

Most of us have come to believe that science and mathematics has no business in that territory. Or even disproves it.

That's a bad belief, ironically it is usually held by so-called unbelievers.

This is the territory from which science was born.

It's as if science is a caterpillar in a cocoon.

It's been trying to bust open, and take flight lately. It won't be trapped much longer.