Bringer of Light, Chapter 46: Foundations of Understanding

From “The Quantum Physics of Change,” by Brady Cooper, written, it is said, as a scientific sub-text for Red Temple initiates:

Matter primarily consists of space between atoms. Nothing stands on top of anything. Things only appear to be in place. We do not create words by physically touching the pad with fingers. The spaces around the pad interact with the spaces around the fingers. We do not “sit” in chair; pressure from the atoms interact at infinitesimally small intervals to cause action and reaction, attraction and repulsion, so that we appear to be “sitting” when the spaces that comprise our bodies are merely in covalence interactions with the spaces that comprise the chair.

Thus, we can literally walk on water and walk through space; only our logical mind tells us that such things as “surface” and “space” exist, and that water as a liquid has a surface which cannot “hold” us and “space” has no oxygen with which to sustain us. Logic tells us that we cannot walk through walls. Yet walls are mostly nothing, as are our bodies…

What are “our bodies” but spaces surrounding spaces, held together by the unwritten laws of thermo and nuclear dynamics? What is the universe but endless space? Logic is but the beginning of knowledge, not its end; the “mind” of the individual is nothing but a framework needing to be filled, expanded, shared with the infinite…The “laws” of science were written by human beings, not the universe; they merely describe our perception of reality, not reality, itself.

…the key is not that we are physical and that there is too much material which interacts. Material never physically interacts, it is traditionally said, because two objects may not occupy the same space at the same time. However, two spaces may, indeed, occupy the same space, because there is nothing there. The trick is in the timing. We must confuse the ions swirling in covalence bonds around our matter that the magnetic fields attracting and repulsing them from each other ceases to be for split-nano seconds at a time. We must convince the fermions to become bosons…

The ancients believed that breaking the boundary between the physical and the spiritual was possible through either faith or mental discipline. The near-moderns taught that true reality existed in the moment of non-thought between a quick beginning and a quick finish.

This non-thought is only briefly non-existence. From nothing we come, and to nothing we return, because we are almost entirely filled with nothing…

Next: Bringer of Light, Chapter 47: The Leaving