The One Thing: The Ultimate Secret
Author: Wayne Holland
ISBN: 0893343331 (paperback)
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ISBN: 089334334X (hardcover)
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Sound is a physical phenomenon which occurs in an envelope of air (and a chapter in any basic physics textbook). Words, and their Ideas, thus occur only in the biosphere of our planet. The physical nature of words ties them inextricably to the energy of the physical universe. It may feel to us as if they are far removed from the universe's seemingly distant cosmological powers, but such a feeling is deceptive. It results from an illusion that is created by the disparate natures of two forms of energy. The raw energy of the universe, which creates material forms and drives them through space,is ultimately the same energy that causes human beings to speak and develop technology. It may be filtered, and considerably refined, passing as it does through the processes that result in the earth and its biosphere, and then through the dynamic of human culture, but it is universe energy just the same, and the highly distilled form of it that we know as words makes it amenable to virtually endless transformations, from Shakespeare and the Bible, to computers and space shuttles.