Thank you, dear reader, for commencing the sequence of words I have prepared for your consideration within these pages. As a person who uses the English language to communicate thoughts in writing, I feel inclined to start with a few sentences containing words about words: The sense of our concatenated words and sentences can, no doubt -- when used in earnest pursuit of truth -- build toward a fuller comprehension of things. But the method is limited. We snake down pages to weave a pattern in the mind – to map portions of our infinitely-facetted existence. But no matter how subtle, intertwined, or extensive, our serpentine prose cannot escape its bounded nature.
Wind and wind as we may, and even with the interpolation of the powerful and fine-tuned languages of mathematics, unfathomed mystery still lies at the edges of the broadest maps and most complex patterns of the mind. With our words and our senses we measure with artificial beginnings and endings. Only in the eternity expanding out beyond the limits of our mortal musings and calculations is there the possibility of wholeness and true comprehension. Paradoxically, one of the highest callings of language is to define its own limitations and then point beyond itself (as only the poetic word can) to the frequencies of hope that ring in from the regions beyond the maps of our cumulative science and philosophy.
In many ways ours is an age of beguilement. Many of the brightest minds are wholly enamored with mastering and expanding the mental complexities we have built up and strung out to try to gather reality into the human brain. Every age is proud of its intellectual and scientific accomplishments but each succeeding age believes it sees the narrowness of its predecessors’ vision. This cycle will continue despite the headiness of our rapid advances and the perpetual temptation to preach contemporary knowledge as being, for all practical intents and purposes, comprehensive.
As I begin adding a string of words to the immense linguistic web already spread by others, I hope the cumulative effect will be in tune with those most generous frequencies of thought that resist subjection to the confines of our time’s expert-approved formulations and theories and (heaven help us) the grand designs of those in high places who devotedly adhere to such formulations and theories.
