From Adam to the Atom

The explosive force of suns,

once safely locked in nature

now lies in the hand that long ago

dropped from a tree limb

into the upland grass...

Both the light we seek

and the shadows we fear

are projected from within

Science, for all its wonders, is a human undertaking. This is why science has not prevented war, but rather perfected it. Why are we dependent on the Middle East? Because we are dependent on oil. And why are we dependent on oil? Because we refuse to use nuclear energy. And why do we refuse to use nuclear energy? Because it is dangerous. True enough. But is it more dangerous than building 50,000 nuclear weapons and rattling them in vain in a doomed effort to shape the world to our will? How is it acceptable to weaponize this beast yet too dangerous to tame it in the interest of clean and independent energy?

Our identity is a dream.

We are process, not reality,

for reality is an illusion of the light--

the light of our particular day

We risk becoming the tools of our tools, which may include ideas, before we have managed to make those tools work productively rather than destructively. The manipulation of the atom is the purest example of this danger.

There is strong archaeological evidence to show that

with the birth of human consciousness there was born,

like a twin,

the impulse to transcend it