Such correspondences between the mental and material domains of ordinary human experience and the One World “below” them are the actual experiential source of the religious senses of the numinous, the uncanny, and the eerie. Beyond or below that still is the mystical sense of unity or identity in the psychophysically neutral ground of all being. In short, we are talking about the very sources of religion before religion. We are also talking about physics—that is, about the behavior of the material world. We are talking about everything. We are also talking about a realm in which space-time is
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