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Everything We Don’t See
Seedlings being protected from a hostile growing environment by orbs? Is this just a photographic phenomena with a scientific explanation of refracted light that the camera records but the human eye does not? Or is it a trippy metaphysical manifestation from an additional dimension? How many dimensions are there?
A fifth dimension, posited by Swedish physicist Oskar Klein, is that it is a dimension unseen by humans where the forces of gravity and electromagnetism unite to create a simple but graceful theory of the fundamental force. — Wayne Sumstine
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Oh God,
help me to believe
the truth
about myself,
no matter
how beautiful it is.
— Galway Kinnell
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“Many scholars, such as the psychologist Barbara Killinger, have shown that people willingly sacrifice their own well-being through overwork to keep getting hits of success. I know a thing or two about this: As I once found myself confessing to a close friend, “I would prefer to be special than happy.” He asked why. “Anyone can do the things it takes to be happy — going on vacation with family, relaxing with friends … but not everyone can accomplish great things.” My friend scoffed at this, but I started…
