It seems bizarre to believe all of this could be connected. It sounds like a fairy tale fabricated by mystics or madmen. Yet the conviction that the universe is all “one” and the experience that it is comprised of many things have been an enduring conflict for humanity since its earliest days. “From all things One and from One all things”: twenty-five hundred years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus had expressed the thought of an all-encompassing universe in its most radical way.
