The Dream Thing Again

I just finished a book with a series of anthropological essays. Then the editor wrote an epilogue. He concluded that through scientific analysis the future can be predicted someday quite accurately, when scientists really have it all fine tuned in how to read the data.

I guess I can go with that, just wondering how us mortals can accomplish and not leave out infintesimal data.

But his last paragraph went further. He said, it's like everything we humans have done until now is simply a dream, with the real on the horizon.

That, of course, caught my eye. It goes along with religious philosophy I read. And this was written in the early 1960s.

C.S. Lewis talked about that creative spark that scientists seem to not evaluate. This guy may have somehow included that spark in his analysis, but still to take in his overview, the macro vision of life and the universe. He even included eternity. That it was probable, even considering that the sun would one day burn out and the earth die.

We live our bogged down, dim witted seventy plus years. Everything beyond our two inch grasp seems to take us by surprise. But something is there beyond us.