Spencer Heath Archive

Item 320

Penciling by Heath on lined notepad paper.

Transcribed July 8, 1958

    

 

 

     How wonderful are the potentials wrought out of the infinite cosmos into the mystic mind of man.

 

      How wonderful is the mystic mind of man, a particular micro­cosm wrought out of the Universal and, through increasing under­standing of its source, potential for ever growing concord there­with in the like creation of its dreams into outward and visible and ever more enduring forms. Of this the physical scientist is a prime exemplar. His sensible world gives him particular material impressions on which his mind constructs self-consistent hypotheses. He tests these against objective experience within the field whence they are drawn, until he can say: given thus and so in that field, other thus-and-so does always follow. Thus it is that science gives pre-science — the knowledge wherewith to objectify the dream.

 

     The basic hypothesis is that of actions or events and that the mystic mind of man reacts to them in two ways — in the way of acceptance and in the manner of rejection. The one is passive, in the sense of being — existent; the other dynamic in the way of doing, with impulsion to outward action.

 

     At the level of feeling acceptance is vegetative, inspires no action, but here rejection energizes towards escape or attack, to avoid or destroy.

[incomplete]