| Hey V K. Very good analysis -- and I hear you that when we talk about prayers and the future, we have moved somewhat beyond the rational and into another mode of perception. One guy who thought a lot about thinking was Emerson, trained as a Protestant minister, went to divinity schook and ultimately spent most of his life lecturing and being a poetic philosopher. Here's a passage that I think is related to our topic:
Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes, -- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible. You must elect your work; you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so, can that amount of vital force accumulate, which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs. One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry, "how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?" -- "By always intending my mind."
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Emerson was a very deep thinker, a man of many beliefs. Not only a poet, but a man of spiritual interest as well. Your road to enlightenment may have been his. My road was found in the form of The Urantia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book/
This was read about 30 years ago due to an interest in conflicts of Religion and spiritual abnormalities. Those who believed in second sight were felt to be no followers of Christ, but rather the devil. If God grants all things, why were these gifts not gifts from God? Why would He give the gift if it was supposed to be evil? We were given minds, and thought process...we should be free to allow these gifts to grow and in the process find our own paths to see what might be found. To grow, it’s always best to have an open mind as this is the only way it would be able to expand.