From: Flash Light
Subject: Mysticism as Science
Date: Jan 11 2004
To: Albert Depas

Dear Albert,

I agree completely that the Bible should not be taken literally, and I did not intend the quote from Ecclesiastes literally. I find your prohibition against quoting the Bible restrictive. Poetry is usually not meant to be taken literally; would you also prohibit quoting poetry? (And surely we can agree there is poetry in the Bible.) Never-the-less, I see the merits of your prohibition, and I will abide by it in order to carry our dialog forward.

If I understand you correctly, linguistic science is to mysticism, as mathematics is to physics. If this is a correct interpretation of your idea, I find it a promising analogy. It suggests mysticism can be as much a science as physics. If you agree to this hypothesis and are willing to pursue a discussion of mysticism as science, I believe we will be getting to a key issue of Logical Pantheism: establishing a methodology for a dialog between the secular humanists and the theists, wherein both can recognize the validity of the other.

Peace,

Flash

P.S.: I have attached the Modern Metaphysics PDF, and I look forward to reading your lecture in the next issue of Creative Insight.