Feelings as the bridge between the logic of the mind and the knowing of the self

Frederic asks where emotions fit in, noting that from the mind's perspective asking questions brings movement, which brings up feelings, and asks whether that is the link between the mental and the spiritual.

The Wonders confirm it is.

The mind prefers a world of logic where one plus one makes two because logic serves its need to control, and would be ecstatic if everything ran on logic - but human beings also have an emotional component, and feelings mostly do not come from logic even though logic can be used to control them.

Those non-logical feelings are precisely what keeps the mind exploring deeper toward the self: the mind asks a question, the answer may be logic at first but eventually becomes a feeling, and continued questioning leads to the knowing and to the spiritual component of himself.

Feelings, they say, are the bridge between the logic of the mind and the knowing of the self.

They warn that most people either avoid feelings or get lost in them, and distinguish the mental-emotional counterfeit - the mind's idea of a feeling, an emotional reaction it labels as feeling - from real feeling such as 'I feel love, I feel scared, I feel whole, I feel complete', which is what leads to knowing oneself.

He should therefore always ask where a question or a feeling leads, whether the feeling is broad enough or merely anger, uncertainty or insecurity.

Frederic notes that removing judgment changes the feeling, and the Wonders add that sometimes a feeling simply wants to be expressed - through screaming, laughter, tears or movement - and that feelings do not need to be defined; their very existence leads to the next question.