Trending: Reason, Logic No Longer a Glass Ceiling for Many

published March 15, 2012SEATTLE — Fremont neighborhood resident Kristina Meldau has spent the last year sharing with those who will listen a dramatic evolution in her world view, one that has allowed her to break through what she calls a “glass ceiling in [her] relationship to the world.” The change came after she abandoned what she calls a “niggling insistence on observing basic reason and logic” in her interactions with others.“This month has been a real eye-opener,” said Meldau from a coffee shop in the neighborhood Seattleites know as the Center of the Universe. “Reason and logic were the dual constraints that kept me bound, Prometheus-like, to a way of living and being in the world that is totally at odds with nature. Instead of being disemboweled continuously by birds of prey, I decided to liberate myself from their tyranny, and in fact this experience is exactly what the Greeks were alluding to when they wrote the sequel to that myth, Prometheus Unbound, under the pseudonym Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1820.”“It’s this type of innovative, trailblazing thinking that makes our country great. If two Chinese immigrants like George and Weezie Washington can found this country on income from a dry cleaners, and we can become the greatest civilization in the universe, then these are the things that help strengthen my conviction that I am on the right path,” said Meldau, adding “They wouldn’t call it the right path if it weren’t making a bee-line directly toward righteousness.”While the Internet is her preferred channel of communication, Meldau shared the gory details of her journey toward what she calls “the new enlightenment” during a grueling six-hour face to face conversation consisting primarily of responses to her own hypothetical questions. During the interview she touched on nearly every subject about which an individual can have an opinion, including some subjects that were previously thought to be beyond further speculation.“The logic is so simple, which is why 936 percent of the American population agree with me when I take the time to explain it.“If I suspect something, then I have the right to feel it, and if I am feeling it then I must have thought it. When we have the courage of our convictions, then alchemy has taught us that what we feel and think combine with our life essence and become belief, and belief is clearly beyond any sort of investigation of merit based on reason or logic.“It took a very long time and several counseling sessions for me to develop the courage needed to stand up for one’s beliefs in the face of ideas as insidious as logic and reason. Now that I have that courage, it’s my responsibility to share with others the freedom represented by this way of looking at the world.”“If there’s anything that I’ve learned from the current economic climate it’s that innovation is the key to unlocking our hidden future. And innovation is defined as having the right to think and do exactly what I want, and to feel justified in doing that because that is my God-given right as someone who knows what the definition of innovation is.“We need new solutions to the problems we face as a country. The old solutions were designed for a time when logic and reason were being used to keep people in fear of the future by undermining their faith in themselves and their fellow citizens. But I live in a world that I can feel and see and touch, and nothing is more real than that. I have become a living, breathing example of how to use alchemy to turn what I don’t know into the gold of conviction.“How awesome is that? Wait for it…“So awesome that only .001 percent of the world population can ever get there, including the 50 percent of the American populace that has already gotten there.“The only reason more people haven’t jumped on board with this is that the mainstream media conspires to keep us hidebound to traditions like reason and logic as a form of control.“I, for one, refuse to allow myself to be controlled in this way.”Near the conclusion of the interview, Meldau was joined by Chris Meldau (no relation), her boyfriend of three years. Chris has provided much needed support in Kristina’s march toward her vision of an absolute truth.“I used to be afraid of what I did not know, because it reminded me of the limitations of human understanding,” he said. “But with Kristina’s help I came to the true understanding — that not having enough facts to form an educated opinion shouldn’t be a barrier to belief.“And conversely, if I am unaware of the so-called facts that would force me to change my beliefs, then they don’t exist. Because if a tree falls in the forest, then there is no way of knowing if it strikes the ground and makes a sound if I am not there to observe it. It’s all so reasonable.”The two laughed at Chris’s use of the word “reasonable” to describe their shared belief, a word they have come to view as less and less relevant to the context they are living in.“Maybe that’s not the word we should use,” said Kristina, turning to her boyfriend with a smile, “but old habits die hard. I know I speak for both of us, however, when I say that the future is not a source of anxiety for me anymore. It’s a glorious path to be on.”# # #