Melo: It would be easy to be honest, if there was only Future. Unfortunately there is Past. Past means an enormous accumulated backlog of misinformation and misunderstanding with which new information has to compete. And that backlog is different for almost every person. Including ourselves.

That is why I am drawn to the arts as a means of communication because it allows a dynamic between people that is not based on 'logic', but the interplay of the senses and our individual interpretation of those senses. That is, the arts include and accept misinformation and misunderstanding.

The 'Dark Art' is in limboland - neither honest nor logical. And yet it IS an art, and it can have a certain honesty in that it exposes the frailties of mind. As I have said before: the hardest part of the communication path is the last 5 centimeters ;-)

Your and my life experiences are parallel, I feel, so I guess you'll understand what I am trying to say, even if I am saying it poorly. I am not sure everyone will understand. But I remain a committed ET member because I believe it is imperative to negotiate an exchange between 'facts' and 'feelings' in order to create change. As we did in the Sixties ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken