Since all natural phenomenonsare ultimately interconnected, and in order to explain any one of them we need to understand all the others, which is obviously impossible. However, science has formulated the Bootstrap Theory - "The bootstrap philosophy represents the culmination of a view of nature that arose in quantum theory with the realization of an essential and universal interrelationship." The "interdependence of all things" can be found in many spiritual traditions.

Ed McGaa, an Oglala Sioux spiritual teacher, for instance remarked, "Interdependence is at the center of all things. The separation between us and nature is a mirage. The perception is the result of ignorance."

The Buddhist scripture Avatamsaka Sutra says: "All is one". Every being in the universe depends on every other thing and every other being for their existence. This Sutra also illustrates the timeless of past, present and future as "infinite time and endless space"- "each containing each other and depend on one another for existence and are not separable by knowledge". This also demonstrates the idea of "no separateness" of any concepts, scientific or not.

The patriarchal Abraham in the Bible (spanning Christianity and Islamic beliefs) defined the One-God as the Unity underlying the entire natural world.

Judaism speaks of "...Dealing with ultimate reality and fundamental problems of existence, we move into regions beyond the range of human observation, experiment and experience". This belief also has basic underlying tenets of "we are all connected" and that we are indeed a part of the natural order of Being: the basic universality of who we are.

The Great Sufi Master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, devotes most of his book "Awakening" to the illumination of our Oneness with the Divine as a being of pure light. Khan includes the idea of the pendulum of consciousness and compares it to the ocean and the wave of time dynamics. Sufism is about "knowing" that all things operate as One.

In the "Secrets of Hebrew Letters," letter sequence of B'reshit (the Hebrew text of Genesis), a text which underlies and is held in common by the spiritual traditions of the ancient world there is a metaphor model of embryonic growth and self-organization. It applies to all whole systems, including those as seemingly diverse as meditational practices and the mathematics fundamental to physics and cosmology." and "represent fundamental directions in a hyper dimensional space."

"By fusing mathematics and Jewish mysticism, Stan Tenen, a physicist, has demonstrated that the first verse of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible generates mathematical Torus". It goes on to say, "letter forms themselves have intrinsic geometric and mathematical properties that point us to a profound knowledge of life and the nature of human consciousness". (In some other cultures and ancient histories, Hebrew was and is regarded as the Language of Light because of its mathematical properties.)
(above quote from the Atlantis Rising web site, see Links)

The Essenian philosophy speaks of "the spaces between, the silence between the pulses of creation" which relates to quanta, the small pulses of light that creates our reality of time. There must be a "pause" in between the pulses. This pause is the "NOW" moment. This "NOW" moment is the crux of the "Stalking The Wild Pendulum" by Itzhak Bentov.

Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist scholar, relays the ongoing message with "things have molecules, atomic particles held by forces with empty space of perpetual moving energy..One is All, All is One".

"The Tao of Physics" is a book filled with incredible information regarding scientific concepts paired with consciousness in the practice of Buddhism and Hinduism. Some of the chapters in the book are: The Unity of All Things, Space-Time, Quark Symmetries and Interpenetration. In the last mentioned chapter Capra writes, "The universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events...they all follow from the properties of the other parts and the overall consistency of their mutual interrelations determines the structure of the entire web."

A grain of sand, a star, water drop or a person, a proton of a hydrogen molecule is the same regardless of form. The only difference is the way in which the materials are organized and the different properties of consciousness they possess. According to Bohm's idea in the previous section, "conscious atomic sea...extending out from this sub-atomic reality, all of material creation may also be said to be conscious."

We, as stewards of Earth should be concerned with All living things. All things are living and are composed of energy. We are all connected at our most elemental and rudimentary levels. When we honor the physical things and become mindful of the unity of all things, we impart respect and honour to Earth.