Right, fellow Alchemists--you think the works of J. Campbell on myth and man are completely unrelated to Greene's work on superstring theory--wrong!
The basics of Campbell's defined hero's journey (or human condition) found in literature represents the SAME pattern as what we see in basic Quantum Mechanics. Don't believe me? It's true: For Campbell, there is always a pair of opposites, or duality, that the hero must transcend to see the all-important underlying singularity--which in story requires a transformation of consciousness. In Quantum Mechanics, the basic premise IS a pair of opposites--wave-like particles, entagling with more stationary particles. The wave-like particles are not confined to time, space, or possibility BUT the stationary particles are. There are your opposites. But when in an entaglement, there is no telling thesetwo very different particles apart. There is your underlying singularity.
It is the same with the body and the mind. But more on that next time!
Until then, fellow Alchemists....
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