Insight

"If a fine idea of a singular insight was lying in wait for us, would we be ready for it?" Margaret Stortz.

While driving I listened to an NPR interview with Janna Levin, a theoretical physicist who describes herself as "besotted with mathematics". Delightful! During the interview she pondered whether anything is real of not, such as other people. It struck me that this conversation was coming up with a scientist, as it is also a conversation that comes up with some who study and write about spirituality (i.e. Gary Renard) and in dreamwork. If there could be a premise that perhaps everything is an illusion, what would be the purpose of someone with a disease? This is perhaps pretty "far out", but it might be an intriguing notion to think that those with whom we interact are here for some purpose of which we are a part. (Janna Levine is author of "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines.")