I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.