Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both." — Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark) I couldn't have put it any better than Carl did,so I didn't try.
Getting in touch with the things within the psyche that lie below (or above, if you like) the level of the acquired conscious mind. At that level of the mind, the direct sensation of the interconnectedness of ourselves with everything exists. Saying it isn't having the sensation.
The conscious mind filters out much of what we actually absorb through our senses to a trickle that we can actually deal with, but it all is dumped into the subconscious. Everything that we've ever experienced is still there, even the trauma of birth.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.