MICHAEL STEWART
MICHAEL STEWART
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
Max Planck, the originator of quantum theory
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years – and it opens….
It began with an act of supreme violence– a big bang expanding ever outward, cosmos born of matter and gas, matter and gas ten billion years ago. Whose idea was this? Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason? Were we part of that plan ten billion years ago? Are we born only…
There is only one path. For good or bad these are the lives we choose.
Everything around us, this day to day existence, stops us from being who we really are.
‘To thine own self be true’ Polonius, Act 1 Scene 3, Hamlet
You can die for a cause, but you can live for a reason.