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Originally Posted by Og  I think that saying that there's some sort of limiting circle of reason is a silly thing to say. Intuition can be mistaken. Intuition itself is a complex process going on in your brain. It's certainly reasonable in many senses of the term "reason."
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I don't think I have ridiculed logic or reason in any of my posts. In fact Swami Vivekananda emphasises the need of logic to eradicate the superstitions from the intuitive knowledge that one gets by accessing the superconscious state.
And from the quotations of Albert Einstein and others, you can find that logic does have its limitations in immediately accessing knowledge.
Again I wish to repeat the teaching of Buddha....
"Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for your teacher. But whatever after due consideration and analysis you find to be conducive to the good , the benefit, the welfare of all beings, that doctrine , believe and cling to and take it as your guide. "
This shows that a logical, scientific and rational frame of mind is not alien to spirituality and religion , and they have been emphasised very much.