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In the 1920s, physics moved ito the strange and unexpected reality of the subatomic world. Everytime physicists asked nature a question in an experiment, nature answered with a paradox. The more they tried to clarify the situation, the stronger the paradoxes became. Finally, physicists realized that paradox is part of the intrinsic nature of the subatomic world upon which all of our physical reality exists. For example, one can set up an experiment that proves light is a particle. A small change in this experiment will prove that light is a wave. Therefore, to describe the phenomenon of light, both the concept of a wave and a particle must be used. Thus, we now move into a universe based on the concept of both/and. Physicists call this complementarity. That is, to describe a phenomenon (if we continue to think in such terms as particles and waves), one must use both types of descriptions. These types are complements of each other rather than opposites, according to the old concept of either/or. For example, Max Planck discovered that the energy of heat radiation (like the radiator in your house) is not emitted continuously, but appears in the form of discrete "energy packets," called quanta. Einstein postulated that all forms of electromagnetic radiation can appear not only as waves, but also in the form of these quanta. These light quanta, or energy packets, have been accepted as bona fide particles. At this stage of the game, a particle, which is the closest definition of a "thing," is an energy packet! As we penetrate deeper into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "basic building blocks" as Newtonian physics suggested. The search for the basic building blocks of matter had to be abandoned when physicists found so many elementary particles that they could hardly be called elementary. Through experiments in the past few decades, physicists found matter to be completely mutable, and on the subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows "tendencies" to exist. All particles can be transmuted into other particles. They can be created from energy and can vanish into energy. Where and when this happens we cannot determine exactly, but we do know it is continuously occurring. On the personal level, as we move more into the world of modern psychology and spiritual development, we find the old forms of either/or also dissolving into the form of both/and. We are no longer bad or good; we no longer only hate or love someone. Within us, we find much broader abilities. We can feel both love and hate, and all the emotions in between, for the same person. We act responsibly. We find the old dualism of God/Devil dissolving into a whole in which we find the Goddess/God within merging with the God/Goddess without. Anything evil is not the opposite of Goddess/God, but resistance to the God/Goddess force. All is composed of the same energy. The Goddess/God force is both black and white, both masculine and feminine. It contains both, the white light and the velvet black void. As the reader can see, we are still using concepts steeped in dualism, but it is a world of "apparent" opposites that complement each other, not "real" opposites. In this system, the dualism is being used to propel us forward into unity. |
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