John Neufeldt:
My point is not Mankind understands all phenomena that exist, we do not. My point is that the human race must continually endeavor to use the rational capablities of our minds to confront, define and control reality, to bend and shape existance to our desires and purposes.
If we dismiss unknown knowledge as "the supernatural", we will be as bad as cavemen who groveled in wonder at lightening and sacrificed animals to their gods. No knowledge is gained.
I propose that all that seems mystical are merely bodies of knowledge as yet unquantified, or worse ignored.
A famous example: the French Academy of Science laughed and ridiculed those who testified to seeing rocks fall from the skies. Yet, one evening a meteor shower occurred literally dropping rocks right on their hallowed grounds. After that they agreed that stones could indeed fall from the sky. And people stopped laughing.
So, do other dimensions exist, other realities than that in our observable universe? Can the objects of occultists' wet dreams, such as supernatural powers, ESP, time shifts, ghosts, and other paranormal events have any validity? Perhaps. But if they exist, they are nothing more than an extension of our reality and physics and cosmology that we have not yet grasped.
The danger with your projecting everything onto a supernatural being and rationalizing the mind instead of being rational, is that it subverts reality, sets up roadblocks to the search for real answers, diminishes the self to non-existant spirits, subjugates the self to blind amoeba-like claptrap, and closes the door on Man's ability to evolve.
Father Terrence |
