This is all according to your feeling. You determine what emptiness is. The key is not to dwell in it, which means I’m somehow enjoying it, but to work above it.
Yes, in the final correction this world has already served its purpose, which was for us to rise upon this falsehood to the truth.
Everything you ever did, also in previous incarnations, gets included in this correction. Only where you could have expected to reach the spiritual goal because you had already known about it, is taken into account. The rest was not up to you, and also there’s nothing wrong with researching science, as you say.
Essentially, purifying the still means doing everything you learned in the Young Group, but without an intention. And this is already an important degree.