Saint Teresa of Avila Being Penetrated by Her Vision in Her Holy Levitation and Transverberation

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But what if logic isn’t right and all

The rest is better, intuition best

And mysticism even more, its thrall

Superior to test tubes in the West?

Yes, what if rationality of Greek

Or Einstein minds is pitiful against

Our search for truth, if visions (each unique

To Christ or Mao), if visions (each unfenced)

Replace mere facts? . . . well, what then shall we do?

The Japanese, the Chinese, Eastern minds

Think mathematics and the facts can’t coup

Deep thoughts.  Such cast away such facts as rinds.

  They fell like women, hoping they are right

    About their men while cuddling in the night.

~ Phillip Whidden