The Lives of a Cell: Lewis Thomas
"One can imagine a wooly-minded Visitor from outer space, interested in human beings, discerning on his spectrograph the click of that golf ball on the surface of the moon, and trying to account for it as a call of warning (unlikely), a signal of mating (out of the question), or an announcement of territory (could be)."
The passage above made me question how we interpret metaphysical phenomena and spirituality. We appear to apply rational thought to our investigation of spirituality, but often our search for spirituality can lead us away from its actuality. Just like the alien in space trying to figure out the meaning of noise it picked up from the golf ball being hit by a human, we struggle to find meaning in our world. We don't realize that some meaning must be accepted and cannot be found through searching as it exists no where we are capable of looking. We must turn in-ward to understand how we relate to the world around us. We need to nurture the feelings that the mountains, canyons, grasslands, deserts, sun, and sky inspire in us. These feelings are the messages that contain information essential to our being. We can only use language to describe these messages not explain the information they hold. The alien can only describe what he heard not explain why the noise happened.
- November 8, 2013
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