When There Are Miles To Go Before

Religion Teaches Us That Our Lives Here On Earth Are To Be Used For Transformation.

Built Into Human Makeup Is A Longing For A 'more' That The World Of Everyday Experience Cannot Requite.

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

...yesterday And Today And Tomorrow Are Not An Arrow That Shoots From Past To Present To Future; Rather All Tenses, And Sleeping And Waking, Mix And Cohabit In An Atemporal Duration Beyond Clocks And Calendars. The Aboriginal World Began Long Ago When The Ancestors Sang In Dreamtime The Cosmic Rhythms That Give Shape To The Things We See, And It Is The Beginning Right Now, When A Living Tiwi Sings The Dream Songs That Continue, Or Are, The World.

In Nature, The Emphasis Is In What Is Rather Than What Ought To Be.