This chapter begins with a story about trying to convert an intelligence test designed for Caucasians into one that would be relevant for indigenous children.
WISDOM LITERATURE
We will then examine the parallelism between what modern science says about nature and what the ancient Hindu studies on consciousness revealed, as recorded in that famous poem, the Mahabharata. The alignment is breathtaking and haunting.
SUMMARY
The sun has 99 percent of our solar system’s mass but occupies only a trillionth of its space.
Each atom is 99 percent empty space, so every object we see is 99 percent emptiness.
This emptiness is the incubator of possibilities.
Microscopic and macroscopic things have the same elements.
Ultimate Reality is in the tiniest particles and in the largess of the cosmos.
Collective actions of electrons can be predicted but not the conduct of a specific electron.
Atomic particles’ actions depend on how they are observed.
The abundance that is in the outer world is equally present in our inner world.
Ninety-five percent of the energy in the cosmos is invisible, transparent, and unknown.
Abundance is Ultimate Reality, hidden, and immeasurable.
MUSIC
REFLECTIONS
We will now plumb what scientists say about nature, skirting across a broad landscape that attends to things like atoms, electrons, quarks, mini-solar systems, forces that bind and repel, antiparticles, the origins of the cosmos, fission, fusion, electromagnetism, gravity, galaxies, and the macrocosm-microcosm parallelisms.
Physicists are Historians
What does the understanding look like at the macro-level ?
Cosmos & Consciousness
An understanding of the micro-picture at the atomic level according to modern science.