Steve, my interest in astronomy has been triggered by the science fiction novels of Alastair Reynolds, who has been an astronomer before becoming a full time writer. He describes in scientific details some astronomical facts he includes in his novels, so it just comes naturally to go and research those aspect as a further educational reading. I personally love this kind of books which trigger research into historical or scientific facts.
Many physical scientists publicly express their atheistic views, forgetting that they are not in their turf. That is, the realm of metaphysics is not their realm, it's another field. Some of'em though are interested in astrology and metaphysics, although few admit it.
If I remember well, the spiritual evolution of earth's civilization is influenced by the distance to the center of the galaxy, the milky way, according to Sri Yukteswar. This has some important consequences: The hub of the galaxy is a super massive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, a huge gravity well. Do black holes emanate spiritual influences? Do they have some metaphysical counterpart? How and why? Do inhabited wolrds, located closer to the galactic center than us, host very evolved spiritual beings due to the spiritual influence of the relatively close-by massive black hole?
Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star", standard abbreviation Sgr A*) is a bright and very compact astronomical radio source at the center of the Milky Way, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. It is part of a larger astronomical feature known as Sagittarius A. Sagittarius A* is believed to be the location of a supermassive black hole,[5][6][7] like those that are now generally accepted to be at the centers of most spiral and elliptical galaxies. Observations of the star S2 in orbit around Sagittarius A* have been used to show the presence of, and produce data about, the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, and have led to the conclusion that Sagittarius A* is the site of that black hole.
This is a rendition of a supermassive black hole, a giant spiritual hub according to Sri Yukteswar
And this is an image fo the area of Sagittarius A*, the spiritual hub in our galaxy
