The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
If you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.