An Integrated Symbiotic Whole
“The Future Is Now: The Significance Of Precognition” (Arthur W. Osborn)
“Whenever we look at nature and at all phenomena we find it impossible to put our fingers on boundary lines which are definite limits of independent existence. A thing which seems to be separate from one point of view is found from another to be related, and therefore dependent on other existences. Nature is an integrated symbiotic Whole.”
–Arthur W. Osborne (English-born Australian Theosophist and Writer, 1891-1976)
Every SIngle Action Affects Us All
“Everyone in the world is affected by every individual action.”
–Felix Layton (English-born American Theosophist, 1910-1991)
Living In A Unified Field
“Scientists – now familiar with field theory, ecological dynamics and the transactional nature of perception – can no longer see man as the independent observer of an alien and rigidly mechanical world of separate objects. The clearly mystical sensation of self-and-universe, or organism-and-environment, as a unified field or process seems to fit the facts.”
–Alan W. Watts (English-born American Philosopher, Writer, Speaker and Expert in Comparative Religion, 1915-1973)
“Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion” (Alan W. Watts)
Health Is Harmony
“Health is harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric.”
–Jeanne Achterberg (American Writer, Lecturer and Patient Advocate, 1942-2012)
When We All First Became Part of a Giant Brain
“Then there is electricity, the demon, the angel, the mighty physical power, the all-pervading intelligence!” …
“Is it a fact — or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! Or, shall we say, it is itself a thought, nothing but a thought, and no longer the substance which we deemed it!”
–Nathaniel Hawthorne (American Writer, 1804-1864)
“The House of the Seven Gables (Dover Thrift Editions)” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Everything In Nature Is Attached to Everything Else
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
–John Muir (Scottish-born American Naturalist, Writer, Founder of the Sierra Club, and “The Father of the National Park System,” 1838-1914)
Look to Find the Essence of Things
“When you see things in your world – a part of nature, another aspect of life – that appear separate from you, just look at them deeply. Look INTO them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence. And then you’ll meet you, waiting there.”
–Neale Donald Walsch (American Writer, 1943-)
Have You Yet Heard the Voice of Gaia?
“Increasing numbers of us have heard the Gaian voice and seen in our experience ways of being together that celebrate and affirm life. More and more we are in conversations where we speak of the great forces of life – love, purpose, soul, spirit, freedom, courage, integrity, meaning. The new story is being born in these conversations. We are learning to give voice to a different and fuller sense of who we are.”
–Margaret J. Wheatley (American Writer and Expert in Organization Behavior and Systems Thinking, 1944-)
Seeing the Whole
“We cannot possibly see the whole of what we are, if we persist in seeing the parts of our nature and nature’s parts as disassociated entities. Defining things without considering their relationships with other things is a fatal flaw in descriptive analysis.”
–Todd Siler (American Visual Artist, Educator, Inventor and Author, 1953-)
Universe Is a Communion and a Community
“It is especially important in this discussion to recognize the unity of the total process, from that first unimaginable moment of cosmic emergence through all its subsequent forms of expression until the present. This unbreakable bond of relatedness that makes of the whole a universe becomes increasingly apparent to scientific observation, although this bond ultimately escapes scientific formulation or understanding. In virtue of this relatedness, everything is intimately present to everything else in the universe. Nothing is completely itself without everything else. This relatedness is both spatial and temporal. However distant in space or time, the bond of unity is functionally there.
The universe is a communion and a community. We ourselves are that communion become conscious of itself.”
–Thomas Berry (American Historian, Catholic Priest and Author, 1914-2009)
