Re: Real vs. imagined communication

["Daniel Gutmanas" <noxerus@...>]

Dear Rawn and Simon,

Rawn, thank you for your answers, I see it now. I think this 
intellectual understanding will be enough (and as much as I can 
currently have), that is, until the time is ripe to actually 
practice and see it all for myself :)
As for the weather, luckily for me it starts to creep out of the 
winter here too, but we're still far away from 90 Fahrenheit!

Simon, thank you for making yourself clearer, I understand what you 
meant now. I think that saying that some things exist which are 
objective, and yet can only be described subjectively (usually using 
metaphors from one's own personal background), is an excellent way 
to sum it all up in a not-so-confusing manner (just like you did in 
your closing paragraph) :).
As for connecting science and the occult - I have to say that I held 
the same opinion for a long time, and most unfortunately I indeed 
encountered quite a lot of impatiency about it.
Currently, I do hold science in great regard, and yet I see a simple 
problem with it: after all, most of scientific research is based on 
fitting a mathematical-theoretical model to experiential results. 
Any finite set of such experiential results can be explained using 
an infinite amount of theories - some of which may fail when the 
experiential results set is expanded, others may not (as indeed 
happened a myriad of times throughout history, at times even without 
any new experiments :). Because of that, as good as a theory may be, 
you can never know if it is the Truth. In Hermetics, and in all 
other forms of initiation, one seeks the ultimate Truth, and 
eventually he can know it. Perhaps he can only convey it in 
subjective terms, but the Truth itself is absolute.

Daniel :)