The mystics say that from the point of view of the Eternal, there is no past, present, and future, and that everything coexists simultaneously.
And his favourite passages in history are the bits where believers (often courageous Sufi mystics) spoke truth to power, not the instances when pliant greybeards did favours to the sultan.
Scientists will find mystics are not so stupid after all, and we will find scientists are on a spiritual journey, too, whether they realize it or not.
Sometimes the mystics sent live flocks of them, "murders," I believe they're called, to swoop around us, cawing.