The Cosmic World How We Participate in Thee and Thou in Us.

"Being a physicist is like being in love with a very weird person."

At the center of a participatory worldview is a participatory understanding of the underlying nature of the cosmos that we inhabit and co-create. In his most recent book, Ervin Laszlo has offered an evocative metaphor, that of the cosmos as a "whispering pond," the cosmic whole whose parts are constantly in touch with each other. Laszlo has also written: "Wherever scientists look and whatever they look at, they see nature acting and evolving not as a collection of independent parts, but as an integrate