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11). I understand that he thought his life might end suddenly during the war, and that made meaning more important to him. But it seems unrealistic to demand that every word a person speaks should be meaningful. "Please, pass the salt," is not very meaningful, but it is necessary to say such things in order to get through life. We can't go about saying to our neighbors, "Time is a human illusion. There is only the Eternal Now," although this is certainly a meaningful statement. We have to talk about the fence we share that need to be fixed and whether the man next door can borrow my lawn mower to cut his grass.

This doesn't seem too meaningful, and yet it is. Bigbee (1958, 1976) quotes Spinoza as saying, the true good is discovery of the union between oneself and all beings. If I remember this, I can get meaning from loaning my lawnmower to my nextdoor neighbor when he needs it.

From what I have read of quantum physics, the "union between oneself and all beings" is literal and not just a metaphore. Everything in the universe is really all one thing, one substance. Nothing is separate from anything else; all are parts of same whole, like different patterns in an ornate Persian carpet: "One enormous something that has extended its uncountable arms and appendages into all the apparent objects, atoms, restless oceans, and twinkling stars in the cosmos" (Talbot, 1991, p. 48). If this is so, and it is what quantum physicists claim, then, there is really only one man -- and separation is an illusion brought by the human experience and the way we perceive it.

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We are not separate from nature and other animals either, but connected. What we do to others, we do to ourselves. Would environmental damage or war exist if people knew this was so?

Bigbee (1958, 1976) compares reflection to tilling the soil and turning it over and over. He is in favor of reflection, of course, but he warns that "a sense of estrangement from the truth that is one's own" can be the result if we go about it the wrong way. It reminds me of something my grandmother told me. She had Freudian psychoanalysis when she was young, and she said it was like stirring a big pot of garbage over and calling it soup. She was old when she said that.

I think the problem is analysis itself as a method for getting at the truth. It seems to me.....

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