Images of Spiritual Information

Information is low on the totem pole of consciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding—which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence—information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowledge—newspaper listings, messages scrawled on match-books, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological...