The consequence of cutting human consciousness off from the higher levels of consciousness in the prevalent scientistic worldview is the weakening of access to the transcendent.
Although the higher levels do not go away by our denying them, taking away the ladder or stairs to the third floor in this building means that one does not try to go up to the third floor any longer, and gradually the existence of the third floor is denied.
Artwork by Josh Pierce
Therefore, the quest for transcendence—for the empowering and illumination of our consciousness, which was the goal of all traditional civilizations—becomes irrelevant, ignored as an illusion. The desire for the transcendent and for the gaining of perfection, is horizontalized.
The human search is reduced to gaining more and more information but not luminous knowledge, and this has resulted in a negative transformation of human consciousness.