Contributing editor comments on a book that explores an issue of importance to all who value spirituality.
I've seen a film of a metal ingot being taken out of a furnace. It threw off sparks while it glowed a fierce white and orange.
What caused this light? The intense heat. But what if we became absorbed in a study of the metal itself, and stopped thinking about the interaction between the metal and the energy that caused it to glow? What if we took the ingot away from the heat and made an analysis of it—probed it right past the molecular level into its atomic and subatomic components? We could end up with a Jaz drive full of information and a lump of cold, dark metal. The information might be rated as brilliant, but the awe inspired by that shimmering, radiant ingot would be gone.
