“Insights”

“At this point, Skylar lacked all but the vaguest ideas about the nature of this certitude. But with deep conviction, he knew it to be true. Human beings come to grasp profound truths in trans-rational illuminations: sometimes coming in dreams, sometimes in trances or during prayers, sometimes during moments of sublime calmness induced by intoxicants. These illuminations cannot be disputed. They are not structured syllogistically, often contain no words, and never result from a process of conscious reasoning. Insights of such all-round completeness and grandeur affect one who receives them immediately, deeply, and on all levels of being: the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Revelations of this nature might be compared to those natural cataclysms that forever change the landscape where they make their impact.”