For Peirce abduction must be ultimately proven by the visible signs of purposeful action: “Nothing is in the intellect that is not first in the senses.”24 In transduction (or transincarnation), the moment itself is revelational. It discloses truth not yet through action but through trust, insight, relationality, intuition, and healed perceptions. It is John Wesley’s “strange” feeling of a “warmed heart,” an experience not yet differentiated in action but distinguished by what chaos theory calls the “strange attractor”25 that constrains and directs what is missional, relational, and
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