Here is the text of today's conversation:

"Why are all the theories of spirit physically based. Of course, SP sounds like it, too--atoms to molecules to complexity--but remember always, I use that as a metaphor, a model, a teaching tool, something to hang your hat on. Complexity of spirit is not the same as the complexity of a carbon-based molecule.

"The physical gives a hint, a glimmer, a point in the right direction, but it is not it. Nope, not it. So, what’s the problem with all the spiritual systems? Nada. But when the spiritual system is subverted to the physical analogy, you got trouble in River City.

“This is the absolute, concrete truth: There is no absolute, concrete anything.

“So, be aware that when you stop an idea and put it into words or symbols, it is now in the mausoleum of human thought. How many pinned butterflies can fly?

“The trick is to see the picture but not be obsessed with the paint. Method means squat with the eternals; methods have to do with what has been. Teach a person the fundamentals of Renaissance painting and what do you get, copies of long ago. But let a person use the media of choice, and something new might happen.

“Why, I ask, would you want a Heaven which is just a better Earth, when you could have it all. People don’t dream too much; they dream too little."