Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.