Post #82 "Accessing Knowledge"

'Knowing' continued..............................

Why can't science answer the deepest questions? Why can't science determine why there is something instead of nothing? Or, why is there nothing instead of something? Science is the pinnacle of reason. Science sets the goals of rational thinking. And this is exactly why science cannot answer its own most profound questions. Rational thinking/reason is a faculty of consciousness. Faith is a faculty of consciousness. Rational thinking is one way to access knowledge and seems to be the chosen path our world culture utilizes, most knows, and respects. Rational thinking determines to result in belief in or have faith only in itself. But rational thinking is only one way to access knowledge. History could be seen as a movement through civilization to embracing the art of reason. Indeed, history seems to have proven humanity's search and obsession to rational thinking to all but the obliteration of the possibility that there may be other ways to access knowledge. Science seeks mechanical answers from a  mechanical brain to an increasingly limited mechanical world. But, science's questions are not mechanical questions. Science's unanswerable questions are not questions answerable by reason. These questions cannot be accessed through rational thought. Since rational thought is the underpinnings of faith, and faith is dependant and imposed, faith certainly attempts but increasingly fails to answer the deepest questions.

Let's dig down beneath the surface level of existence in which most have chosen to exist. Each level removed brings the search closer to the truth at bedrock. As previously discussed; there are levels of consciousness beyond our most common and familiar ways of accessing knowledge through rational thinking and through faith. Can pure rational thinking even be a possibility? Does pure independent faith exist? How can we determine the values of faith strictly on its own terms, independent of existing data? What actually determines which level of consciousness we use to access knowledge? Are we even aware of the possibilities of levels and layers of consciousness? Are we even aware of the possibility of unlimited dimensions alone that could give choice to consciousness when we function only out of the senses, out of faith, or out of reason? As we have discussed.....the function of the intellect is choosing. Choice is the determinate of knowledge. We know as we choose to know. The level or layer of awareness with which knowledge is accessed is not accidental or arbitrary but is Chosen. In creation, Intelligence chooses knowledge in one of two ways. One choice accesses knowledge from a  state of awareness from within ourselves, from within our mechanical brains, from deep within the human psyche. This choice comes from within, as in...'There lies deep within humanity the desire to become God.' This choice is to access our own knowledge. The other choice reaches beyond human psyche, beyond that which we are and that which we have created. In this alternate choice, the choice comes from within for the knowledge which lies without. Choice is made either inwardly or outwardly. Choice determines Reality.
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