
Knowledge does not contradict faith. (It's ok to ask questions)
Faith is good. Let no ill words be spoken about it. What do you have faith in? Maybe something to meditate upon. A certain type of gravity, perhaps?
What is meditation, or *a* meditation. I will allow it to be many things. It's the answer to a question but as an answer, it leaves itself deliberately unformed (and perhaps unanswered). Meditation is also the quieting of one's self which can be very difficult and requires practice. I suppose it can also be quite like a prayer or the recitation of mantras stilling and directing the mind: An inquiry and a study.
A prayer is an invocation. Whether a prayer is "heard" or not... That's not my meditation. I seek the strength to affect positive change in my own life through something like prayer. I evoke spells through the articulation of will. I don't ask myself for things but rather, as I said, the strength for myself and others, and that perhaps the abstract winds will remember us favorably when considering our fate.
Science is a spiritual devotion and the schism between it and "religion" is what I would call conspiracy. Yes, conspiracy. UFO cover-ups, 911: An inside job, the Kennedy assassination... No, a far more sinister agenda at work, that knowledge is evil and arrogant and that it contradicts faith.
Mysticism, to me, is how we approach the singularity of God (or Truth) and how we ideally desire to absorb into IT completely and totally, but never fully can, and never fully do. Such a lifetime inquiry is the discipline of real art, absorbing, interpreting, and reacting to life. Answers represent beginnings and not endings.
God is a constant challenge of the imagination, an overwhelming sensation of purpose and meaning. Evolution is real. The imbreeding of thought is the destruction of the human soul. It would appear that in life, our own universe constantly contracts like a shadow descending on a weakening flame. Our struggle is in the keeping of this light as we fight against the entropy of total darkness that threatens our spiritual reality. Faith is how we keep waking up every morning because maybe otherwise we might choose not to.
