Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno.

How many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues

from the spiritual to the physiological to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles

and release it here as a bonus episode. For millennia, there have been two primary

understandings of the cosmos, the mechanical model of the West as influenced by Abrahamic

religions and Newtonian physics,

and the spontaneous, emergent, and impermanent model of the East,

as informed by Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen.

In the book of Genesis, an almighty, omniscient God

fashions a ceramic figurine from the earth and animates it by blowing life into its nostril.

The Enlightenment significantly upgraded the method leveraged in rocking the cosmos,

but still sought to understand the universe as absolute, hierarchical, and full of stuff. In the early 20th century, the world of physics

underwent a seismic shift. The emergence of relativity and quantum theory upended classical physics.

And curiously, this new comprehension of the world closely mirrored many of the

tenets of Eastern religions. The physicist, Fritzchiaf Kapra, described this conciliance in his

masterpiece, the Tao of physics, and I take a run at it here in this week's episode.

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