“Soul Discovery”
So, he learned from art history that the Truths of genius became available only to those who stayed still as the moonlit lake and allowed the winds from the inspired to move across them as the breath of God moved over the waters on the first day of creation. This knowledge dovetailed with that gained in several of his early trances. The central piers supporting his Western mindset had now been shaken loose. Skylar knew that he not only had but was, at bottom, a soul (thus eliminating the mechanistic view of people many scientists held); that the consciousness making up that soul was identical with that which made up other souls and even other objects (for he had felt, while in Yak’s room, at one with his friends and even inert entities); and that ultimately time and place did not truthfully characterize nature, being instead concepts invented by the mind, whose limitations human beings could supersede if they lived up to their potential.”