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The Intelligent Universe
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
— Max Planck
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Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter… The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.
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With both grief and love we need to open our hearts and all our senses to the living Earth. In the coming years we will watch as more of Her beauty and wonder are lost, Her seas polluted with plastic, more of Her ancient forests clear-cut for palm oil, in the name of economic “progress” or “development”. But within this grief we will find a deeper belonging, present from the beginning, for even though it has become distorted and forgotten, it was never lost.”
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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