This Tuesday I thought about the nature of spiritual insight.  Often it is (an I have) described as a voice within that was not my voice.  I thought about how my thoughts often sound like a voice and often like voices other than my.  This called into question the reliability of this perception as divine guidance.  But I thought of the distinguishing factor of insight as the fact that the thought is "outside the box" of the person's normal mode of reasoning.  Especially when it is radically counter to the personal paradigm.

In class today we talked about Kohlberg's theory of stages of moral development.  I thought that the professor expressed his personal bias against established value systems again by characterizing people who demonstrated what he thinks is conventional  (George W. Bush) and preconventional (Barack Obama) behaviors as inane and childish whereas people who recklessly follow their own conscience like Hawkeye Pierce is a mature postconventional thinker.

My thought is that these moral stages build upon each other and continue to operate as a hierarchy rather than replacing each other.