Secret_History

Foreword
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novelty which, as a rule, is not completely reducible to any of the preceding
stages.”
Then he adds:
“Nevertheless, the method of attempting reductions is most fruitful, not only
because we learn a great deal by its partial successes, by partial reductions, but also
because we learn from our partial failures, from the new problems which our
failures reveal. Open problems are almost as interesting as their solutions; indeed
they would be just as interesting but for the fact that almost every solution opens up
in its turn a whole new world of open problems.”
We may find that much truth was known by the peoples of the past and that they
did, in fact, express deep, mysterious, realities in their poetic and obscure
messages. Mystics and seers - even in terms of communicating with “myself in the
future” - seem to perceive quantum states, which are demonstrably difficult to
translate into language.
The experience of viewing simultaneous, cause/effect reality is extremely
difficult to maintain when one is constantly being bombarded by threedimensional
interpretation.
Imagine the difficulty of explaining to a snail the expanse of an acre of ground?!
Mystics and Seers have attempted to do just that for millennia with the result that
the vast majority of mankind have absolutely and totally misunderstood these
concepts. And, there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear
it: the greatest lies are the dark and evil systems of religion created by those who
do not understand.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood
becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope is strong as
long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But, suppose you had to hang by that
rope over a precipice? Wouldn’t you then first discover how much you really
trusted it? (C.S. Lewis)
Laura Knight-Jadczyk