10-09-2010, 12:00 AM
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Naguals begin a voyage in space and time and eternity.
The places they visit will often be distant, the times remote, the themes beyond space and time altogether.
Naguals shall try to describe states of consciousness that words can only hint at.
They shall use logic to try to corner insights that laugh at their attempt. And ultimately, they shall fail; being themselves of a different cast of mind, they shall never quite understand that Naguals knowing is not of our own.
But if we take these Naguals seriously, we need not fail miserably. And to take them seriously we need do only two things.
First, we need to see their adherents as warriors who faced problems much like our own. And second, we must rid our minds of all preconceptions that could dull our sensitivity or alertness to fresh insights.
If we lay aside our preconceptions about these Naguals, seeing each as forged by previous Naguals who were struggling to see something that would give help and meaning to their lives; and if we then try without prejudice to see ourselves what they saw – if we do these things, the veil that separates us from them can turn to gauze.
Naguals begin a voyage in space and time and eternity.
The places they visit will often be distant, the times remote, the themes beyond space and time altogether.
Naguals shall try to describe states of consciousness that words can only hint at.
They shall use logic to try to corner insights that laugh at their attempt. And ultimately, they shall fail; being themselves of a different cast of mind, they shall never quite understand that Naguals knowing is not of our own.
But if we take these Naguals seriously, we need not fail miserably. And to take them seriously we need do only two things.
First, we need to see their adherents as warriors who faced problems much like our own. And second, we must rid our minds of all preconceptions that could dull our sensitivity or alertness to fresh insights.
If we lay aside our preconceptions about these Naguals, seeing each as forged by previous Naguals who were struggling to see something that would give help and meaning to their lives; and if we then try without prejudice to see ourselves what they saw – if we do these things, the veil that separates us from them can turn to gauze.