A Time Before Deception "Assumption #3"

"Communication may be understood only through analysis"

I don't really follower Cooper's train of thought here, not the assumption he makes or his attempt to refute it. He says that communication is not only understood through analysis. He says this is so because individuals, in this case, Native Americans require a communion with each other and with nature. Fair enough, but it seems as if his argument is inconsistent. Communion and communication are two similar concepts but in the end, different things. The way he puts it, it seems as if communion is a means by which individuals communicate though technically there is no communication involved, thereby making it communion.

Even if we assume that communication and communion are the same thing, or interchangeable or what have you, i disagree with his objection: that they cannot be understood through analysis. He presumes that this analysis comes after said information is transfered, be it via communion or communication. If you think about it, without prior information, knowledge, reason, existence...etc even via communion, information is analyzed. This mental connection is only possible because of prior knowledge, something previously (though perhaps subconsciously) analyzed.