From the Editors February 10, 2014 Issue

The spiritual view—right in front of us

The Editors

A recent online post reads: “Bees See Your Face as a Strange Flower” (livescience.com). Though the article reports potential research on the human brain, at first glance that headline triggers an amusing image. Beyond that, it has the potential to open up a metaphysical conversation.

Even without a spiritual sense of things, almost all of us can admit to moments when we’ve misinterpreted the world in front of us—someone’s actions or motives; what they’ve said, or haven’t said. In other words, the “face”—the “strange flower”—of what we experience.

Once we see from a spiritual viewpoint, we realize that God, good, includes not one iota of the human picture we’ve been accepting.