Everything Has a Within

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Scientists have discovered, most unexpectedly, what we call matter, the stuff of which we and the earth are made, is 99.99% nonvisible. Sir James Jeans, the British physicist and mathematician, suggested that we think of the world that we see and hear with our senses as the “outer surface of nature, like the surface of a deep flowing stream.” He said that material objects have origins that go “deep down into the stream.”

Duane Elgin, a writer concerned with evoking collective awakening, writes that upon close inspection, matter dissolves into knots of energy and space-time whose dynamic stability gives the appearance of enduring solidity, This world of the very small is unimaginably vast.