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When we loosen the grip of fixed beliefs, we change our perception, freeing the flow of spirit toonce again inform us of the truth. The “truth” (noesis) is intentional movement correlating with thebracketed noema. In the experience of transcendental mind, Husserl knew the truth. He discovered thatfacts, rather than adding up to truth, are correlated with truth. In other words, the implicate correlateswith the explicate. A correlation exists because fact infers truth and truth intends fact. Variation in onecorresponds with variations in the other. For example, mental constructs (such as beliefs), physicalforms, and events correlate with the a priori intention, or essence, that structured our relationship tothem in the first place. We gain understanding through experiential thinking, by bridging the worlds ofessence and form. Essence and form are the “structure of experience.” This is the power of limits. Artmakingprovides reins for guiding or deconstructing these limits. Art is the power of transformation.Experience of NoesisLife examples of Husserl’s protocol happened to me as a child and again in my late teens. I discoveredthat when I simply focused my attention and suspended any thought, belief or interpretation, insightsflowed into my awareness, seemingly from an immense depth within me. Sometimes, my awarenesstransported itself into mind and soul realities. Other times, when I turned my vision inward and focusedon the perceptual darkness, a subtle light and archetypal images appeared. When I drew and journaledabout these images, I had further insights. There was a call within me to ask for a greater truth, to reachout within myself, forming a greater connection to holiness. I dared to “put away” the security offamiliar and accredited things and thoughts, and to touch the void. Life met me there. Waiting rightthere on the periphery of my attention, life, noesis, spirit, and holiness touched back.I had changed my relationship to the content of my life, and by so doing, transformed thecontext of my life. For me, the separation between the physical and metaphysical patterns of lifebecame less distinct. Fact and truth were no longer synonymous, yet continued to be correlated. Truthpromotes facts and facts reflect truth; yet, they are not synonymous. Such is the power of limits, and theexpression of limitless power.When we change the way we look at life, it changes the way it looks at us. Just after Army basictraining, I was selected as a subject in a sensory deprivation experiment. The University of Marylandconducted the research at the Presidio of Monterey in California. This was not one of the infamousmilitary psychedelic experiments. As a member of the test group, I was in a small room for three daysand nights. To limit sensory input (power of limits), the room was totally dark, soundproof, and kept atbody temperature. After a while, the room perceptually lit up. I saw amazing color, and light radiatedfrom the shapes that appeared to float in space. I also had out-of-body experiences in which I flew overthe Southern California landscape. This experience represented a substantial change for me. Somethingnew lived within me. There were many contexts from which, through a shift in my awareness, I couldexperience my relationship with life and with holiness in different ways. The sensory deprivationdeconstructed my mental sedimentation. When the sedimentation is loosened in this way, theexperience of noesis emerges. Noema gave way to noesis. The context, or limitation, of the safe roomgave way to the limitless mystery of worlds beyond.26