Are the stated perspectives wrong then? No, but they are not entirely right either. Imagine halfway up the truck of a huge oak tree, a limb branches off the main truck. Along the side of the trunk another limb branches off, pointing in the opposite direction. At the beginning and for a good length of time the two limbs can see each other and see that they are from the same tree. Time goes on, the limbs grow, moving incrementally away from each other. Leaves below begin to obstruct the trunk below until the bottom of the branching limbs are no longer in view. Time goes on, more growing, the two limbs can still see each other, as well as the main tree truck and a multitude of new limbs, branches, leaves and creatures crawling and flying by. Soon it's no longer evident that the two limbs are from the huge main truck that goes through the middle of their world. There's a similarity between the two limbs, but not really with that big, straight, course conduit, though it's still evident that other similar limbs all branch from it--and so must the two limbs. Time goes on and they branch out so that they can no longer see the main trunk, but each can still glimpse the other limb that branched at the same time, particularly after shedding leaves after a winter's sleep. A bit more time goes on and soon all that is seen and all that is evident from this limb is the sky above, and below--the patterns that all emulate--from this limb.

Has scientific man, which at one time--was intimate with the main trunk and his spiritual-limb brother, branched so far that he no longer knows of their existence--though he carries the patterns and relationships within his very essense and the very physiology of his body? Has the other limb, the spiritual man, done the same in the other direction? And, if they do see each other, do they fail to see they are of the same tree. This wasn't always true, only when they both failed to see the main truck and more so when they could no longer see each other.

So to continue, let's consider for the moment that man is both physical and spiritual and that this is also true of life. Where's the evidence of this? Empirically this may be difficult, epecially in that we, individually as well as galactically, are really no more than a speck of dust in the big picture. Our viewpoint is less than a bug's viewpoint of the planet Earth. Where do we start? Can we start? Sure, start with what we know to be fact. Start with other reliable theories, including theology. Apply universal forces, relationships and patterns. Imagine. Stretch your mind--you have it no more than 10% filled now.



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