By Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD. * It’s difficult to find a truly holistic description of Nature including consciousness as its source and inherent essence. While theoretical physicists almost invariably delve into cosmological realms, it is extremely rare for even theoretical biologists to do so.

We’ve suffered long enough from a modern worldview, however scientific it purports to be, that holds the universe to be a vast non-living space sprinkled with disconnected non-living galaxies, each peppered with lone non-living stars and planets. Somehow, it tells us, upon the surface of one such planet, if not more, life miraculously sprang from random bits of non-life blown about in random non-living lightning storms. It’s been dull and unsatisfying to say the least. Worst of all, we’ve been weaned on the depressing thought that all this non-life is running out of steam by way of entropy, doomed to “heat death,” a deadly, motionless inconceivable coldness that ends it all. So we frail humans can do no more with our miraculous moment of life than to make the best of it by struggling to stretch out our meager natural resources a few more generations and hope our technology may produce miracles to keep us going somewhat longer. (Click on file for the rest of the article.)