drink, illustrates the point well. In the everyday world, in which we live and work and have our being, the great reality is spirit.
Indeed what I have done in this book is to wipe the spiritual slate clean. I have wiped it clean of reason, and relied only on experience, because reason depends on its parameters, just as mathematics depends on the validity of its axioms, and science depends on the validity of its basic assumptions. I have wiped it clean of theology, because theology depends on the rationalisation of past religious experience; and all subjective pronouncements that God does, or does not, exist are equally valueless for another person. I have wiped it free of conventional thought, even of my own theories, because convention is based on the experience of yesterday, and this is never enough to solve the problems of tomorrow. In this spiritual void, I have tried to show that the rules of conflict work, and work well, by giving a few examples from the Courts. I have also declared my belief that in a world, where no-one can rely on conventional patterns of behaviour, one answer is to seek an in-dwelling with another. In doing this, I have called in question one of the basic assumptions of science; namely, that there is a universal plan, or plan of growth, which never contradicts itself. How can that assumption be true, when what you are doing relies entirely on free will, the free will of the other to accept or reject; and when acceptance will change the potential for growth, and therefore change the plan? If in-dwelling is possible, then this basic assumption of science is valid only for limited conditions. In other words, I have challenged both basic assumptions of science. The other one, that cause and effect is the rule throughout nature, is challenged whenever you have sensitive dependence on initial conditions, because that leads straight to unpredictability, both in theory and in practice, as I explained in Chapter 2. So in my opinion both assumptions, and the whole edifice of classical science that they support, are…