Science, main stream science anyhow has always been very behind spiritual knowledge. In the beginning it was already thousands of years more advanced from the earlier sciences from the atlantean and lemurian cultures.I guess scientists are trying to understand the purpose of the Pineal Gland. The Hindu are big on Pineal research. There is speculation and research into how the Pineal is associated with spirituality and other non physical aspects of the human body. As medical science advances they will find new ways of understanding the Pineal and spirituality will evolve due to it. Science will continue to make new discoveries concerning spirituality and scientists will have to choose whether to accept facts or not.
It has been really nice however to see over the last 25 years or so that things have been developing in science, the pineal research is just one small part of that puzzle. Consciousness, ghosts, ufos, and other paranormal stuff...Even the akosh has now been proven. not to mention 2022/21's revelation that reality is a simulation experience.