Hi Nort,

What is the language of feelings? How does one capture the wind? How does one describe a cataract? It is flowing water, for sure, however, it is the tumbling, splashing, bubbling, whirling, sparkling motion that invokes feeling and which is almost impossible to capture in words. What is captured in invariably something else, something peculiar to the page and limitations of writing, which, grant you, are feelings nonetheless. Scripture gives voice to the Holy Spirit; Poetry to our emotions. In both cases our imagination must engage the text to produce the effect. We need a new language of science to capture these feelings, if it is possible. Science which tries to draw hard lines around phenomena is unable to capture the intangible, fluid-by-nature, come-and-go quality of our feelings. We need a new analytical language. Is their a place for poetry in the sciences? Otherwise we continue to recycle the same reductive, materialist, and ideological theories that are removed from the feeling of actual lived experience.

Tad