Hi Bob

I can't of course comment on your dialogue with your father. That is your own personal matter.

As for your dialogue with me, that's between two living people who are more or less part of the same culture, and we manage to understand each other - more or less. 

Understanding a dead religion is however quite another matter - for the reasons I've given. I have absolutely no confidence that I could say anything accurate about how an ancient Egyptian felt about what Jim calls his "supramundane reality".  Ditto for the Aztecs and so many others...  It is an intellectual black hole - and always will be.


DA