In Nature, The Emphasis Is In What

Ancient Wisdom And Quantum Physicists Make Unlikely Bedfellows: In Quantum Mechanics The Observer Determines (or Even Brings Into Being) What Is Observed, And So, Too, For The Tiwis, Who Dissolve The Distinction Between Themselves And The Cosmos. In Quantum Physics, Subatomic Particles Influence Each Other From A Distance, And This Tallies With The Aboriginal View, In Which People, Animals, Rocks, And Trees All Weave Together In The Same Interwoven Fabric.

...primal People See The Objects Of This World Not (or Not Only) As Solid But As Open Windows To Their Divine Source.

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

I Grew Up Taking It For Granted That Missionaries Were What American Boys Grew Up To Be.

Human Intelligence Is A Reflection Of The Intelligence That Produces Everything. In Knowing, We Are Simply Extending The Intelligence That Comes To And Constitutes Us. We Mimic The Mind Of God, So To Speak. Or Better, We Continue And Extend It.