Research and Citations

I read several books and papers, and the main one that resonated with me was Life at Stake, composed of texts selected and translated by Jean Claude Mérol on a woman who was considered a saint, divinity incarnate: Ma Anandamoyi, who lived in India. She herself never wrote, but the texts he selected focus on her vision of life, which she talked about with people who lived near her and with thousands others of every or no religious belief.

She had a profound impact on them. Both the simplest of people and figures like Mahatma Gandhi, pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi and the masters of several spiritual schools and famous scholars all pay her deep respects. She left us in August of 1982.

http://www.anandamayi.org/ashram/french/vjmafr1.htm

Here are some excerpts on what she said as it relates to this subject:

“When you’re standing or sitting in a crammed space, do you think you’re filling it? In fact, there’s nobody there – the space is empty!”

Comments: This means that what we think is real and concrete – material – is empty. Space is all that is real. It fills the material world and makes it “alive”. Without space, life would never exist.

“In a flower wreath, there’s a thread, the flowers, and “distances” between the flowers. These distances cause suffering. We must understand that what unites, removes distance.”

Commentary: Space is what unites us.

“In truth, form is empty. Realizing this can help you break free from form. The world reveals itself to be empty, ready to disappear into the great void. Emptiness is the true nature of manifestation; it is form.”

Comments: Form (the physical world) is a projection of the “void”, which we experience through form. Form is empty, since all that is real is space. In this digital age, we could say that the physical world is now but a virtual one.

Physics, through the lens of unified field theory, helps clarify everything we still consider mysterious or miraculous. The knowledge to come will bring about a total change in our behaviors.