Spiritual Life

The Secret Art of Knowing

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, which will you travel?

There are multitudes of ways of knowing. For the most part, we have consolidated the knowing into two paths. We call one path rational. It is chalk full of wisdom, derived from observation, deduction, and reason. I am going to present to you an argument that this classical system so esteemed today is actually the faith based system. It is in writing and spelling that magic can be found. You can use language to turn anything, from good to bad and bad to good. You can convince anyone of anything, which is why you should fear lawyers and snake oil salesmen. Fear even me, because I am presently using words. I am trying to be reasonable. But for a moment, let’s be unreasonable.

Reason is essentially math. X plus Y equals Z. That works great when you have constants, and your playing ‘fields’ aren’t influenced by regional modifiers.

Intuition is by definition irrational. It has been known to save lives, and yet we don’t cultivate a relationship with it. That rationalist will argue ‘it’ gets things wrong more than not. Well, people that are saying that aren’t doing the math. The rational system frequently disregards data. It has to, in order to maintain it’s positional authority. Rationalist are always…