(excerpted from Barbara Brown Taylor, The Luminous Web)
As a believer in One God, I think everything is connected to everything else. What is exciting to me is that believers in science are beginning to think the same thing–not the God part but the connection part. . . .
The new science requires a radical change in how we conceive the world. It is no longer possible to see it as a collection of autonomous parts, as Newton did, existing separately but interacting. The deeper revelation is one of undivided wholeness, in which the observer is not separable from what is observed. Or in [Werner] Heisenberg’s words, “the common division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer world, body and soul is no longer adequate.
So Close to the Other Side 