Letters to the Editor

• Elephant in the living room

  [Read the article: We are meant to be here]
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  This article, as so many articles from Salon that seem to "circulate" around this topic, have one thing in common. (For the most part). They all derive their "Knowledge" from an "observable" stance that is generated by the intellect and senses. In other words, in trying to cope with the nature of reality, the only tools that are allowed to be deemed "worthwhile" are those of the materialistic mind. Thus what can be "seen", "measured", "quantified", "evaluated" come apriori from a predetermined orientation that precludes other, potentially extremely important perspectives.

  Science in general has a huge hole in its paradigm which one could say, in its denial, carries a basis of lack of ethics, although this lapse in true integrity is mostly, although not always, unconscious. There is a vast body of evidence that what we consider to be "reality" encompasses dimensions beyond that which is seen by the intellect-senses and that this aspect of reality might have much to bring on the bearing of the questions at the heart of the interview.

  Near death experiences, especially in children who have no developed cultural framework to create "fantasy", are one example. Past life regressions in which current life physical ailments are cured through what is described as dealing with a prior source of the ailment are another. How to explain when there is family conflict, that the researcher (Brian Weiss) regresses family members individually and without coaching they all go to the same life independently where the source of the conflict originates?

  But even more compelling is the work of people such as Michael Newton in Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls in which his regressions in thousands of case histories lead to a map of the non physical reality that reorients the entire discussion of issues such as Divine Intelligence, how it operates, possibilities beyond our normal comprehension as to the nature of life and purpose of existence. I also suggest Carol Bowman's work on children's past life memories as a beautiful compliment to Newton's and others research.

  That "science" is unwilling to acknowledge, to be open to this enormous body of what for now has to be considered anecdotal evidence is a massive failure of a true investigative spirit. Evidence may be anecdotal, mostly because science has not yet developed the tools to measure frequencies that are beyond its capacity, but it does not mean that it is not evidence or that it is not powerful.

  The work of men such as Davies is extremely important. I do not wish to minimize their efforts. But I am reminded of the old joke of the man looking under the lampost for his keys. "Why are you looking here", a stranger asks. "Did you lose them here?" "No", the man replies, but this is the only place there is light."

  I would suggest that many of the answers we seek are beyond the very limited light of the intellect, as wonderfully developed and refined it has become. I would further suggest that we actually have many of the answers we seek already. As "science" grows and is able to integrate the non physical and its relationship to the physical more clearly, much will be resolved. We need not be trapped in Plato's cave, and the path out (or at least its parameters) has been marked rather extensively.

  The idea that Divine Intelligence has to be "proved" by measureable means that we determine are measureable reminds me of two sayings. "When did you stop beating your wife"? And a line by Kabir, "I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty."

  Permalink Wednesday, July 4, 2007 09:17 AM