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Re: Re: yes, maybe...

David,

‘…direct access to patterns of understanding.’- from this I draw the implication that the term ‘hard wiring’ may be applicable to an purely external rational. We can use ‘statements of relativity’ to describe contemporary physics. These statements of relativity allow our relative beings to interact with surrounding energies. We have ‘hard wired’ senses that preclude comprehensions of a range of surrounding energies. These together form both the basis and irrefutable proof of our being. It appears to me that science currently fails to accept that it is born of self-reference and is therefore merely the tool of a monkey. Our ‘hard laws’ are statements of relativity, laws based in the experience of a human at sea-level.

If spirit is the acknowledgment of a rational so impressive that it seems to transcend conceptual being, then I’d say yes; I think there is a spiritual dimension to understanding (just to avoid looking foolish).

Are we hoeing through the metaphoric and semantic steppes?

sean