the light in the tool shed

In this article CS Lewis describes the difference between looking at something and looking along it. He starts it with the analogy of seeing a light in a dark toolshed and it just looks like a ray of light and a bunch of dust. He then goes on stating that when he walked up and looked directly along the light it was a whole different experience. He could see the sun and all the toolshed faded away. What he was trying to explain here is that when we are experiencing something it is entirely different than when we are watching someone else experience it. When you watch someone else experience it you summarize it to a simple "chemical imbalance" or whatever. When your actually experiencing it, you feel like it's real. There's no chemicals involved, only the experience to you. I think what CS Lewis is saying is that we shouldn't discredit things that people are experiencing with scientific facts to explain it. I believe CS Lewis is stating that we need both the experience and the scientific view in order to really understand it to it's full potential. When we throw out one or the other we loose that potential. It become's only an experience, or simply a chemical and it no longer retains that meaning to us. CS Lewis is encouraging us to use both our experiences and the facts in order to truly comprehend these kinds of things.