You have to have both life and consciousness within a body before that body's eyes can see anything. What are life and consciousness? Where did they come from? What are their dimensions and purposes? And where do they go?

Those are the great questions asked by philosophers and spiritual teachers, and they are questions well worth asking. They are the crux of what life is about.

You cannot quantify or measure life and consciousness, and you cannot produce them out of inert materials in a lab experiment. This doesn't mean they are not real, because we all know they are from direct experience. The same applies to love, fear, and hatred. We know them from direct experience, but we have no scientific means of measuring them or controlling them in any accurate fashion.

It is because science is not capable of dealing with such matters that it prefers not to acknowledge them or deal with them, but they are the most vital things in life. Scientists (in general) fear what they cannot control. In that sense they are very much like most other people. Religious fundamentalists likewise fear what they cannot control. It's the same mindset, in fact.

They can't control the UFO visits either, and they fear them most mightily...whether it's the science community or the religious fundamentalists or the military authorities. They're all jealously protecting their turf.

- LH