> One of the best illustrations of science playing 'catch up' must be
> the recent Harvard neurologists using mri machines to identify the
> 'visual cortex' being stimulated by the 'painter with no eyes' while
> he was at work.
>

> When Beethoven went deaf, he wrote his best works. "Masters" have
> always told that to experience greater reality, we have to go 'beyond'
> our sensual capacity, in a state of consciousness. (Whichis the source
> of such wisdom they are communicating.)
>
> The greatest breakthrough in atomic science is imminent, being the
> Hardon particle accellerator about to go into operation. The
> scientists know that what they are going to see will be beyond
> anything they have yet experienced, and are understandably , extremely
> excited.
>
> Reminds me a bit of the 'launcher' in the movie "Contact".
>
> Not unlike the desire for material things growing exponentially, so
> does the desire for scientific knowledge. Will they be able to explain
> what it is they are observing once the particle is pulverised?
>
> Not with their senses they wont. Science plays catchup, of that there
> is no doubt, as the mri example demonstrates, but like the curve
> exponentionally growing closer to the base line, it never gets there.
>
> The gap is only crossed with a shift in the consciousness of the
> observer.
>
> BOfL