In a very real sense, no person is alone, no man is an island. We are not isolated atoms, each jostling and competing against the rest in a Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest. Instead, each of us is supported and constituted, ultimately, by all there is in the universe. We are at home in the universe. In this entangled universe, we cannot do violence to our fellow human beings or our fellow inhabitants of the Earth without doing violence to ourselves. And the most effective way to benefit oneself may be to benefit others. Most of all we are not impotent observers outside nature, subject to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Instead, we are participants in the creation drama that is constantly unfolding. We are constantly co-creating and re-creating ourselves and other organisms in the universe, shaping our common futures, making our dreams come true, and realizing our potentials and our ideals. Mae Wan Ho
‘The records show that the air and earth potentials fluctuated in phase with the trees’ potentials. Statistical analysis revealed well-known diurnal rhythms in all four records, as well as the lunar cycle and the 11-year cycle of solar activity. These findings leave little doubt that trees, in particular, are sensitive to electric and electromagnetic fields from the earth and outer space, acting as antennae to the universe. Trees connect us to the universe. This may be why a walk in the woods or being near to woods and forests is beneficial to health.’ Harold Saxton Burr
Chapter 9 Veiled Reality: Affirmations of the Apophatic from Physics – The God is No-Thing An Apophatic Assertion: An Introduction for Humankind’s Transpersonal Actualization– revised -. Copyright Rodger Ricketts Psy.D.,2023. All rights reserved.
We have seen that science supports the apophatic assertion that a transcendent reality is beyond the normal range of human perception and conceptualization. Yet, at the same time, the Transcendent is a reality in the human life process. We have also seen that awakening or transcending the ignorance of duality is a common experience of the mystic. I will now highlight how the theoretical physicist Bernard d’Espagnat argues that we cannot directly know the transcendental reality or mind-independent reality: When, in its spirit, quantum theory and Bell’s theorem are used as touchstones, the two main traditional philosophical approaches, realism, and idealism, are found wanting. A more suitable conception seems to be an intermediate one, in which the mere postulated existence of a holistic and hardly knowable Mind Independent Reality is found to have explaining power. […] This model considers Reality as not lying in space and time, indeed being a priori to both, and it involves the view that the great mathematical laws of physics may only let us catch some glimpses on the structures of the Mind-Independent Reality. (On Physics and Philosophy (2006) vol. 41) D’Espagnat calls this model “veiled reality” to suggest that the mind-independent reality, like the transcendental of transcendental idealism, is, for the most part, unconceptualizable. “Veiled reality” refers to a “world” independent of human perception, brain structure, and the language of our minds’ participation in knowledge. D’Espagnat, as well as others, also assert that we are directly involved in this actuality; we exist in it. We are an integral part of the actual. We are “swimming” in it. Reality is not a specific area of the universe that exists separate from our senses. Our limitation is that we have the capacity to delineate only an exceedingly small aspect of it. As the Buddha taught, d’Espagnat explains that sense impressions and sensations are genuine, as are our sense organs. In sight and color, both the photons or waves, as well as the retinal cones are actual and their interactions create our vision. The same is true of our other sensations. This is the middle way of understanding our place in reality. We do not have to seek our participation in it; we are a part of it. However, in our dualistically based ignorance, we normally take our cognitive representations, or pictures of reality, to be reality itself. However, under certain meditative conditions, we can understand how our subject/object dualistic world creates this illusion—the illusion that is our ignorance.
We are all Interconnected even with the Universe 