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Dear anonymous guiding spirit, wish you reveal your identity. I owe a lot to you for my current sense of well being because you did add a lot to my recent contemplations.

That was for the 'anonymous' who had been replying to some of my blogs. I have found this anonymous's remarks really helpful, and his/ her recent comments on my blog "The Empirical and Experiential" had real depth to it. I had a few things to tell on that and when i wrote it all down i thought, why not post it as another blog.

You had asked>>>

1) When we despise their intellectual masturbation, are we truly reminded of our intellectual impotency?

First, there is no despising THEM. Whenever I write I am very much there , i too am a part of the whole. Yes, i feel that as long as we crave to be Omnipotent ( the ' theory of everything' approach) there will always be the recurring delusion of being intellectually impotent.


2)"While insight went abegging for proofs."
Was it really the insight that went abegging for proofs? Does true insight have to beg for proofs?

My friend, blogs are spontaneous expressions of what is seen and perceived at a specific instant. blogs are not sermons or treatises. Sure, awareness will get enriched...past inferences could give way to new understanding. The particular blog in context is a quick reflection on the conflicts i experienced then. Despite leveling arguments against arguments, sometimes contradicting myself internally....logically building points after points with apparently a cool front while trying to stabilise my mounting heartbeats, i could then see in myself an innate urge to outsmart the other person...despite knowing that certain convictions based on personal experiences are ineffable, i was trying to bring it all within a conceptual framework. You are right I feel - 'True insight need not go abegging for proofs' ...but the truth is that my not-so-true insight did because the whole discussion had egocentric-emotional undercurrents.

There is one insight i gained from that, for which the very episode depicted would suffice as a proof. Then...is that insight true insight?....don't know my friend. All that i know is this- Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree.


3) A smile...........
Beautiful... But do we have to really limit the scope of that 'explanation'? Who knows perhaps, science may embrace the spirit and physical, the metaphysical someday, in quest for an even more deeper understanding of the truth?

Deeper understanding of truth , as a derivable equation..?...then is that the end of Mathematics and Physics?? Science is Science and Spirituality is Spirituality. Yes, there could be an awareness intensity resulting from the blend of both....a deep reverence for the immensity and profundity of creation...the universe within and around. Won't the child be well groomed if mother remains herself and father remains himself, the child needs both! I feel, thought and reason could comprehend the material phenomena wrapped up in space-time flux...and experiencing the metaphysical through the empirically verifiable...i find it mutually exclusive. Yes, Science assumes a much deeper dimension in its spirit of enquiry if motivated by deep sense of awe and wonder resulting in reverence for life...perhaps this is what Einstein meant when he told : "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science" ....and during his later years, when questioned about the 'spiritual experience' of a scientist, he answered " A scientist's spiritual experience takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural laws that reveal an intelligence of such superiority in the light of which all our systematic thinking and acting seems to be an utterly insignificant reflection".

Did Einstein speak like a Scientist or a Mystic or both??...am just reminded of something that Bertrand Russell told " Mysticism begins where logic ends". The 'Koans' in Zen Buddhism is rooted in that conviction.

This was the lurking spirit behind that part of the blog.

Here's little poem by Nikos Kazanzakis (Last Temptation of Christ)

" I asked the almond tree-Sister speak to me of God...
and the almond tree blossomed !"

...and these lines from REM's ' Out of TIme' :

'Oh no I've said too much
I set it up
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough....
Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions...'