Is it Logical?

One of the most common criticisms that a person on a spiritual path will encounter is that
it is not logical. There will those whole will dismiss anything to spirituality with calls of
'not logical' based on a false concept of what logic is.

Somehow this call to the higher power of logic has the power to destroy anything the
'logical' person wants to negate.

The process is very simple. The act of calling something 'not logical' demands the
response of proving that it is logical. The counter argument will be rejected because the
reply will not be logical and therefore it is wrong. We know that spirituality is not logical,
but does that mean it is wrong?

The call to logic to dismiss an argument is a misuse of logic, and shows a lack of
understanding about the nature of logic. Logic is the justification of a pre-determine
prejudice.

The purpose of logic is to find a way to justifying whatever end result is required. If an
engineer designs the structure of a building he/she will start at the end. How big will the
building be? How much will it weigh? What will the wind loads be on the building? Will
the ground it is to be built on support the building?

All logic begins at the place you want to end up at. In this example it ends with building a
building that stands up.

From this point the engineer will work backwards from the big to the detail. Eventually
the engineer will arrive at the very beginning where a set of plans and specifications can
be given to the builder. The builder then starts at the beginning and works forward until
the building is completed.

Logic is the art of working backwards from where you want to be to find where you must
start from to get to where you want to be, It is the power of using logic that it is a means
of crating whatever we want by working out what we need to do to get there. It is not a
means of finding out what already exists or doea not exist.

If something is attacked for not being logical it means nothing because the pre-
determined prejudice has been defined to be somewhere else. Logic can only 'prove'
something that has already been pre-defined.

If I wanted to prove white people where smarter than Afro-Americans that is the
prejudice I would start with. If I wanted to 'prove' Afro-Americans where smarter than
white people I would start with that as my prejudice. The starting point established by
working backwards from each prejudice would be different. By using the different
starting points I can prove whatever prejudice I want to prove.
Used in this way logic is very dangerous. It can be used to prove anything.

But used correctly logic is a beautiful tool. What do you what? Where do you want to be?
Let that be you pre-determined prejudiced. When used in this context prejudice is not a
dirty word.

From there work backwards from there to here to understand how to get from where you
are to where you want to be. Working forward again from here it is logical that you will
end up where you want to.

Logic used correctly can take us to Heaven. Used incorrectly it can take us to Hell. It is
possibly the most powerful tool invented by the human race. if understood and used
correctly if the outcomes we want are to materialise. It cannot be used to prove if an
argument is right or wrong because first you have to define what you want to prove, and
logic will always prove what you want it to prove.