Just as an opener...this morning as I awoke from sleep and dream, but was still altered in consciousness, I saw a scene containing the image of the numbers 2012 as if carved from stone, but it wasn't stone, I'm not sure what material it was, but I don't think it matters. Just trying to describe it... It was like a drawing of 3-D, a 2-D representation of 3-D. It was imbued with concepts and ideas. There were two bodies lying above/beyond 2012 (a father and child, I think). I knew that they had laid down their bodies (death). And there was the concept of bodies all around, dressed in white cotton, lying in a manner that reminded me of the Jones Town Kool-Aid Suicide. That idea was layered in there.
It sounds gruesome, but it was not, entirely. Nor was it delightful. It was meant to be informational, not emotional. It really felt like everyone shed their bodies or laid them down and slipped out, and there was the idea of suicide, yet it also did not feel "planned". Oh, and I had lyrics repeating in my mind [but I'll have to come back and edit/insert them when I remember what they were
...it was something like "you gotta live".]
Okay, now back on track...
I search within and without. I collect, collate and compare information to build an understanding of all that is. The more this is done, that is to use an analogy of fitting the pieces of the puzzle together, the more it helps in building the puzzle. The puzzle is continually analyzed so to speak. I would not limit myself to any one source, no matter the source. To do so is with limit which is finite, which opens up a pathway to control or ignorance.
I love this analogy of the puzzle. It is a good one. I also feel that I collect and collate (like I have this on-going data base in my mind). I use this with numerology. I like to collect people's numbers, to keep comparing them in my mind as I try to make sense of it by seeing the patterns between people with the same numbers.
I also really like that you choose not to limit yourself to any one source no matter the source. That's a one-sentence keeper.
There is always left open the possibility an understanding I hold is in error or incomplete in some form.
Given the concept of infinity, or at least the limitations of human understanding, would it be more accurate to say that no understanding is ever complete or without error? Not to say that we do not need to put a foothold somewhere and chose a place to lay claim so we are not floating endlessly waiting for a perfect, complete understanding, but doing so with the knowledge that the understanding is only temporary - an illusion.
I mean, it just makes me wonder sometimes if there is any point in trying to figure things out.
Maybe just to "be" is better?
Hence knowledge by it's own virtue buffers against false knowledge.
Though it seems like it could also be a "block" to other possibilities. Maybe the whole puzzle is wrong?
[I'm intentionally thinking of counter points to your points to keep the analyzations going, hope you approve.]
So again, belief is a concept that does not fit appropriately. I work in probable possibilities.
This almost seems like an either/or. Logic versus belief. Is it?
YBIL,A
