[Hank Kerchief]

Einstein wrote often of faith...

Nobody's perfect.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

Einstein was brilliant, in a very narrow way, but in some areas he was just another crackpot. What a, "mystic emotion," might be, I cannot imagine. (There is no such thing.)

Let's do this. If you name me one disease that has been cured or relieved by mysticism, I will name you ten that have been cured by the science of medicine. You name me one advance in agriculture or food production that mysticism has provided and I will name you a hundred that science has provided. You name me one form of electronic device that mysticism has provided and I will name you a thousand that science has provided. Name me one principle of mathematics, logic, or economics that mysticism has provided, and I will name the geniuses in these fields that have provided all we know about them.

What mystic teacher or teaching has made a single contribution to human betterment or knowldge in any field? None!

Mysticism has never (and never will) provide one useful truth, or any knowledge of any kind. Why do you pursue it so?

Hank

[Lorianne]

He was not talking about mysticism. He was talking about the ability to open oneself up to the greatness of possibilities, to free one's self of intellectual restraint. To be open to the wonder and mystery of the universe (and not to fear what is not known or that something might even be "unknowable") give the truly great mind the freedom to explore the possibilities.

You missed entirely what he was saying. He is not talking about mysticism in the form of magic, but rather in the form of having a healthy respect for the unknown and for the possibility that there are some things we cannot ken.

It is unlikely that the truly earthbound in their intellect have ever thought of one useful thing.