Pyschologists say you don't "see" anything until you are pyschologically at the point where you can receive that particular piece of information or insight. Joseph Campbell says, "The hero gets the Adventure he is ready for." The Indian gurus use the questions you put to them as a gauge of your stage of evolution on the spiritual path and provide an answer suitable to that stage of evolution. A bunch of pacific islanders could not "see" the spanish ship that had just landed on their shores as they did not know that things could float on water. Their medicine man who was the more intelligent of the lot focused on the point where the waters parted and was able to see the ship. T.S.Eliot said, "We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." As we climb the mountain, we see a little more of the mountain and when we reach the peak we are able to see the entire mountain below. As the story unfolds in a novel, we get a little closer to the denouement with each page turned. During my school years, the same topics kept repeating from grade to grade, only they got deeper with each passing year. From the scientific method, we know that we always start off with a little knowledge, then learn more through an iterative process of observation, hypothesis generation, experimentation, analysis and revision of the hypothesis.
Question to my readers: How can we accelerate this process of "seeing? "
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