The Great Emptiness (or), the "Nothingness"

[Ming the Merciful]

Once we accept that Spirituality is something incomprehensible, (and unknowable). The "Natural Order of Everything", then there is no need to try and understand it. As Humanity, our goal is Enlightenment and perhaps a comprehension of Spirituality beyond something that we can imagine.

 
"Enlightenment" is not a very descriptive word.  The Confederation, model of the developement of consciousness I find far more useful.  As articulated in the quotes above, it's an unending journey of discovery of deeper experiences of consciousness.  Understanding obviously does play a part in this because as one progresses into previously unknown zones of being, one must learn to adapt. 

The distinction between intellect and this broader understanding is that the intellect tells you how many, how long, how this and how that to assist in navigating this particular illusion.  Deeper elements of mind (compared to intellect) are needed to understand the deeper levels of self.  This is tricky: all the components are available, but the instruction manual is written in an cryptic format.

The design is to so baffle, frustrate and confuse the intellect with all the data of the senses that the student will be forced to move the center of investigatory energy from the intellectual mind, which is a creature of this illusion only, to the wisdom of the deep mind, which is vastly more informed and which resides in what you would call the heart energy center.

  

Language is part of the problem, and word description and interpretation. What is language, what is sound? Gross vibration frequency. Do you see where this is leading? The higher the Spirituality, the higher the vibration. We are even discussing this on a gross vibrational level. That is why language is useless as a medium, because the "Great Emptiness" is beyond language.