ABSTRACT

Knowledge is derived by inference from specific cases in respect of a general order. True, death actually happens and it happens 'to' the body while the mind plausibly might survive indefinitely; similarly, the body is caught up absolutely in time's forward movement while the mind can skip about over the surface of time, recalling, anticipating, imagining, not shackled to the present. The body arrives at death, or death arrives at the body, and once the body falls the mind must fall too; it goes down like a captain with his ship. In a very general sense the force of possibility constitutes the strongest force conceivable. It takes no force to open, just a little imagination, for any possibility may be conceived – there is no resistance, at one level, in the realm of the imagination.