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"What is the nature of this invisible thing
called light whose presence calls everything into existence except itself?
Light has been treated scientifically by
physicists,
metaphorically by religious
thinkers and practically by artists and
technicians.
Each gives voice to a part of the
experience of light.
Heard together they craft a full image of
light - all speak of one thing whose nature has been the
object of human attention and
veneration for millennia.
Now we are certain of the entanglement of nature and
the human mind.
Transformations have
allowed profound insights
into nature.
These form a sequence, not of disjointed fragments,
but a whole that unfolds in time,
a series of awakenings
that reflect inner growth.
Heraclitus was right: "It is in changing that things find repose."
Scientific and
intuitive knowledge of light
have reflected the
continual metamorphosis of our inward instruments of knowing.
Through research, artistic practices and
quiet contemplation,
light's elusive being constantly re-creates itself in
the mind's eye, offering
fresh
epiphanies.
The very existence of that transformation suggests the
possibility of further
evolution,
individually and
culturally, and the
possibility of re-linking
the moral and
sensual, the
physical and spiritual, in a
unified imagination.
Every manifestation of light is
a potentially occasion for grasping the truth of light, be it the
dappled disks of light beneath the
shade of a tree or the
moonbeam that furtively makes its way through
a chink in the wall.
Each
instance offers an occasion for
enlightenment, for
seeing the
light.
Light is a metaphor for seeing
the invisible in the visible, for
detecting the fragile garment that holds
Earth and
all existence together." -
Arthur Zajonc
Light is defined as: sunshine
illumination
dawn;
daybreak
to make luminous
spiritual illumination
to
enliven or to
animate
to set on fire;
ignite or kindle
the way of illumination for an
individual
electromagnetic radiation of
any wavelength
natural source of light such as the
sun or a
star
something,
such as a window,
that admits illumination
a candle,
a lamp,
a lighthouse or
an electric lighting fixture
Quaker doctrine,
guiding spirit or
divine presence in each
individual
"Our eyes have evolved as
light receptors by an adaptive process that responds to the nature of light.
Their structure tells us things about the true nature of light.
There is no room for a view that all our knowledge of light is nothing
more than a mental creation.
The fact that we possess eyes bears
witness' to the reality of that something we call light." -
John D. Barrow
"Light
from anywhere in the universe travels
through space at 186,000 miles per second.
Photons enter the eye/brain/mind
configuration as stream-bursts of photons via the retinal process, which
amplifies photon energy a million times.
Every waking moment visible
light flows into your eyes, intiating a magnificent process which entails light
oscillating through swirls of multitudinous
neural fibers, passing through a
refraction process involving millions of microscopic rods and cones located at
the back of the eyeball, which produce
electro-chemical currents
that surge through the optic nerve and into the thalamus, then the
visual cortex,
mysteriously creating
the marvelous process we experience
as sight.
The entire
edifice of how we perceive reality is intimately reliant on the retina's
reception of light waves, photons
radiating from the sun.
Sunlight is streams of photons, "particles"
of light with zero "mass."
Photons, radiant electromagnetic energy,
bind electrons to orbits of atoms.
Atoms, of which the entire phenomenal world is made, are
born in the astronomically
immense upheaval of super nova explosions which occur every second across
the universe of one hundred billion galaxies, with each explosion producing a
luminosity one billion times that of our sun.
We consist of such furiously made "stardust"
and "starlight."
We are, in essence,
beings of light born from solar
fury. "- Lew
Paz
"This is the message we heard from Jesus and now
declare to you:
God is light, and there is
no darkness in him at all." - 1 John
1:5"A true seeker must
transcend those joys and
delights that are just the ray and reflection of the glory of
God.
He must not let himself grow content with such things, even though
they are of God, come from God's grace, and are of the radiance of God's
beauty.
These are not
eternal unless in
reference to God.
Think of the rays of the sun
shining down onto the soil.
The rays of light are attached to the
sun and not the soil.
When
the sun sets, the ray's light does not remain.
Become the Sun itself to
end the fear of separation." -
Rumi
In Zoroastrianism the
principle fight is between Ahura Mazda,
the light of order, and
Angra Mainyu, the darkness of chaos.
Religious mythweavers use
concepts that will be widely understood.
This tradition is
ensconced in Christianity as
the fight between the dark force of
evil and the light force of good.
Little children are afraid of the dark.
Little children are
afraid of the dark because they can not see.
Little children understand
that the ability to see is advantageous to their
ability to navigate.
Fear of the dark is justifiable.
But little children in the
East can sleep without a light as they sleep together whereas
children in the West need a candle to
chase away the demons.
This trait is carried into adulthood with
future effects directly proportional to
degree of fear and trauma
experienced initially in childhood.
'Dark' thoughts are seen by a man's soul as
detrimental to living whereas 'light'
thoughts are seen as spiritually uplifting.
"When I have a terrible need of
- shall I say
the word - religion.
Then I go out and paint the stars."
Vincent Van
Gogh
Angular momentum of the photon may also be a
half-integer of Planck's constant.
To
entangle two electrons that had never met over great distances, two photons,
each correlated with a unique source electron, had to be sent through fiber
optic cables to meet in the middle at a "beam splitter" and interact.
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