The Boon of Clean Energy

What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean energy technologies - wind power, solar power, coal sequestration, hydrogen engines, sun-beam technology - are all brain-intensive, technology-intensive industries. Which means that they will directly create millions of jobs - engineering jobs to develop the technologies, and manufacturing and construction jobs to put them in place. And that will be a real way to put back to work the parts of America that have taken a hit from displacement of industrial jobs.

Clean energy also creates stronger economic foundations for liberty. It is a path toward wresting the world free of the stranglehold exercised by oil-funded fundamentalists in Texas, Oklahoma, Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as dictators in Venezuela, Lybia and Kazakhstan. With energy production no longer under control of oppressors, there are stronger economical foundations for liberty the world over. And that also means in the United States.

Clean energy is also a way for prosperity to continue while treading lighter upon the world. It is true progress: Affectuating greater utility with higher technology and less waste. The prosperous lifestyle can be maintained, while significantly reducing its negative effects, simply by changing the sources of energy to ones that are non-polluting and by removing the polluting elements from existing sources. The economic growth in China, India and elsewhere can be accommodated through the same mechanism.

Clean energy is also a boon for mentality and character that it fosters. Instead of seeing world as one in which it is jobs against the environment or civilization against nature, choose one or the other, the thinking turns to jobs and environment, civilization and nature, together: Accommodate both at once by creating jobs that produce wealth in a more intelligent and prudent way. Instead of people having to be fragmented between wealth and social responsibility, nature and civilization, feeling and intellect, ideal and reality, instead they become beings of both, and making the most of the aspects of human beingness that are in false dualistic thinking seen to be irrevocably at war. And this serves both the integration of human character as much as it serves longevity and progress.

The oil industry is based on extraction of finite resource - a resource that is a result of compaction of formerly-living matter. As such it fosters an extractive, exploitative, expropriative mentality - mentality that also, in a sense more than metaphorical, burns life. And just as the oil, through the pumps, is extracted and burned, so are the lives. Just as the resource that is extracted is both finite and poisonous, so become the worldview and hence the actions of the participants in its extraction and those whose minds are in league with them. And just as the worldview of the oil industry is a worldview that fails to see or to plan for the time beyond the date that their oil runs out, so do the worldviews of places most oil-influenced in their mentality become short-sighted to the point of being apocalyptic. And then they attract beliefs that envision the end of the world in our lifetime: The end that obliterates visible cosmos and puts into conflaggration most life under the earth (the deceased) and above the earth (the living) - perhaps as Biblical metaphor for burning, through incineration, the former life under the ground that is oil and coal - and, through global warming, of present life - natural and human - on top.

Clean energy, on the other hand, is based on transformation of abundant energy into usable energy. There is no end in sight to either the sun or the wind or the hydrogen in ocean water; and energy that uses these resources - resources that, unlike oil, are not made of organic matter, does not destroy but only transforms. The mentality of clean energy is thus provident, nonviolent, self-replenishing and supporting life with non-living rather than destroying life through combustion of life. It is a mentality that uses man's ingenuity and technical knowledge to transmute the energy of - sun, ocean water, wind - into forms that can be used to power the civilization, without poisoning the world or poisoning itself. It is a mentality that lives and lets live, and that shows how to coexist with life rather than burn the life under oneself and incinerate oneself in the process. It is a mentality that is at once life-supporting, productive, intelligent and responsible to the future generations - and one that offers a chance to secure a viable future for the planet and for humanity.

Clean energy is a solution that uses the best of civilization - its intelligence, its foresight, its reason, its inventive pioneering thinking - to minimize negative impact of economic activity on nature and on the future generations, while providing through ingenuity and constructive endeavor a lifestyle as good as or better than one that they've had before. Man stops being an agent of destruction of nature and becomes an agent of creation and coexistence with it. The people who for idealistic reasons are loathe to participate in economy, have an economic pursuit in which they can work and be true to ideals. And intelligence becomes source not merely of wealth, but of lasting wealth that works with nature rather than against nature - and that as such benefits both nature and mankind.

The mentality fostered is one of considering all aspects of one's activity - and building a civilization that not only minimizes negative impact on nature, but also applies the best of intelligence and the best of innovation and the best of work to provide more for people while minimizing impact on what one has not made and what the future generation will need. From modes of cognition that constantly create hostile dualities which necessitate constant destruction, human understanding reaches upwards to see the components working together and put into place a lifestyle that makes the most of all the components and makes the most as such of mankind. And the character created is a life-supporting integrative character: A character that considers all aspects and works to make the most of them - to make the most as such of life that is a function of all of the aspects working together. Intellect and feeling, civilization and nature, ideal and reality, prosperity and social responsibility, work together and create people of true integrity - integrity that is result of integration of components required for life, and that as such is supportive of life rather than life-destructive. Which character, by building a synergy of components, makes also the most of human existence; and which character, due to its very nature as a combiner and unifier, is also the character that seeks and actualizes lasting peace.

All of which is a matter of all components of life working together to create and perpetuate life, both in its natural and its man-made aspects, and allowing them to work with each other at basic and all other levels rather than being, as in all separationist dogmas, inherently and pointlessly at war.

Clean energy is therefore good all around. It is good economically, it is good politically, it is good for the character and mentality that it fosters, and it is good for its effects on the world. The extent to which clean energy is embraced, will determine who lives and for how long. In 200 AD, a Roman named Hero of Alexandria invented the steam engine. The Romans refused to use it because they thought the slave labor was cheap enough for their purposes. This oversight led Roman Empire to decline and eventually to fall to Vandals. If the Romans had realized what they had, they would have industrialized 1700 years before the Industrial Revolution and would have been completely invulnerable, and most likely the world would be speaking Latin even to this day.

In choosing whether to embrace clean energy, the world at this time faces an analogous choice.

Happiness Growth and Expectation Inflation

When a country gains more monetary wealth than it has had in the past, there are two paths that it can take. One is known as economic growth - of money being invested into producing real wealth. The other is known as inflation - of the money losing its value, things becoming more and more expensive, and the gain being squandered.

The same applies in human happiness. When state of affairs of any person improves, the two paths possible are happiness growth and expectation inflation.

In the first case, the person joyfully embraces the improvements and becomes a happier person. Remaining grateful and appreciative for what he has that he did not have previously, he exists in a happier mindstate. Any new improvements are likewise met joyfully and appreciatively. And the improvements are never taken for granted, but are appreciated in each case, resulting in ever greater happiness of the person.

In the case of expectation inflation, the person takes the new state of affairs for granted and begins to expects it. Instead of becoming happier, he requires more and more positive conditions to sustain the basic mental state. Sense of entitlement grows, requiring more and more to meet ever-growing expectations and making happiness ever more remote. The improvements are inflated away to feed the growing expectations. The demand grows out of control, necessities grow beyond all measure, and more is required to sustain basic level and more still for any level of happiness.

Both phenomena take place at the individual level as well as the collective. The current state of existence of most people in the First World would have been unthinkable to most people in history; and yet many take it for granted. Frequently it becomes worthwhile to show such people how life is elsewhere and how it has been before they have sufficient appreciation to value the life that they have and the efforts of hundreds of millions of people who made it possible.

One case of expectation inflation, taken to a thoroughly absurd extreme, can be found in the Australian men of father's lobby persuasion. My friend Dean, who has traveled to over 100 countries, wrote that Australia is the best place in the world to live. And yet Australian men have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. This suicide rate cannot be based on political or economic conditions; otherwise most of the world, where political and economic conditions are nowhere nearly as good as they are in Australia, would have much higher rates of sucide. Nor can it be based, as Australian father's lobby types claim, on feminism; otherwise there will be far more suicide among men in America, where feminism is far more strident, more toxic, more vehement, more abusive, more powerful and more extreme. The only possible explanation is that these men have absurd expectations of life - expectations that have inflated so far from reality that they cannot be met in the real world. If their expectations cannot be met in Australia, then they cannot be met anywhere, and the only solution is for these men to be made to know how good they have it by comparison to what people face in the rest of the world and also what was faced by their ancestors. Which may also give them appreciation for the liberal ideals and efforts of millions who made it possible for them to have the life that they have here.

Only then - when the overly-inflated expectations are shown for the folly that they are - can people develop the appreciative state of mind that is required for actual happiness. It is then that happiness can grow. And then these same people can become contributors to happiness of their families and of their country rather than its detractors. Which will be a far superior use of their resources than whining about feminism in one of the First World's least feminist countries, or taking away women's rights still further in a country known for violence against women, strident male chauvenism, and aggressively atrocious treatment of wives.

For happiness of people at both individual and collective level, it is necessary to encourage happiness growth and confront expectation inflation. In this the good is not wasted but is appreciated, and is affectuated improvement both in human condition and in people's experience of life. And then it in fact becomes a worthwhile endeavor to put in work to improve human condition, knowing that it will not be taken for granted but rather benefit people, and will not be inflated away into bloated sense of entitlement but rather lead to happiness in people who live and are yet to live.

Translations of three expatriate Russian poets

Alexandra Geller

Untitled


As far as all us know, love and sin

Walked side by side in world from the beginning:

Serpent's temptation in the garden of Eden

Turned Eve and Adam into human beings.



Thank you, the cunning serpent, for your gifts:

Apple and passion, untold good and evil,

And has remained for many centuries

The might of sinful pain and gorgeous feelings



And we possess no shame, when love arrives,

Of pangs of love or of our own conception,

And may be justified it, for all times -

The earthly passion of enamoration.



Ella Odeyash

By the Sea

Like liquid glass, water of sea,

Made of the tinted-bottle color,

Was pouring softly, heavily

The appelation of this: summer.



And ships, appearing like white dots,

Forming the distance with their presence.

They went somewhere to end of earth,

The appelation of this: heaven.



*****



Like in childhood, I am walking barefot

With my feet feeling the trail.

For long time I did not walk like this.

For long time I was not this way.



Balmy breeze in my face is blowing.

I forgot how old I've become

And perhaps it's the joy of living

Wafting at me from the ground.



It's the day, it's the path, it's the summer...

Every blade of grass, dear to me...

And my bare-footed childhood

Smiling, is looking at me.



*****



From the bluish distance blown,

Wind, arrives on a spring day.

Arms and elbows smell of orange,

Air is full of jasmin smell.



Not agreeing with my years

My soul sings and sings and sings:

And the leaves' rustle makes clear

Something tender's whisperings.



*****



I live in condition

Of mood schizophrenia:

As if there's no distance

Between Russia and Israel.



I live in two mentalities

In two different spaces and times.

In two "hard" realities,

In noise of different tribes.



In news political

(From darkness where I can't see)

About both Russia and Israel

I say the word "We."



And I watch TV programs

Like fog that is full of blood:

All is woeful and horrible

Both here and there it's bad



Like in a monster fairy tale,

Like in a tale of horror -

The Arabian terrorism

And the Chechnya war



And I live in condition

Of split apart soul -

As if there is no distance

Between the two countries I know.



*****



Again - a lightning bug, or maybe a cicada

Again - the moon and palms above my head...

And in my dream, blockade of Leningrad, and

The icy chill is blowing from the street.



Though life has not been smooth in any manner,

And flow of time has changed so much, I know,

WIthin my soul - I'm still a Leningrader,

And lightning bug looks like the Metronome.




Greg Kleper

My Wife is a Martial Artist


My wife is not an actor,

Not a pharmacist, not a doctor,

Not a linguist and not a harpist:

My wife is a martial artist



She gives me no vodka or Riesling:

For dinner - three grains of rice meal

Three raisins and then three olives

And on the holiday - orange.



My wife and I live in harmony

And go everywhere - she is right by me

If you do not like me - too bad

Come and greet my wife instead.



On weekends other have parties,

But me and my wife have a practice,

And I am woking a bag:

The one to punch, not to drag.



The kids have no worries at all:

With Mom they are climbing the wall

They practice with swords and with knives,

I have almost sleepless nights.



Me and my wife never quarrel

Right at hand she has a barbell

If you do not like me - too bad,

Come and greet my wife instead.



And in the bed she has tortured me:

She's short, but keeps jumping all over me,

Putting me in such positions

That I need to see a physician



And now she again succeeds:

She got me to do the splits.

I felt like I was torn in half,

But it's fine, I'm still alive.



My wife behaves quite meekly -

She almost does not beat me.

If you do not like me - too bad,

Come and greet my wife instead.



I will learn a bit more of all that

And I will get a black belt

And such forms to her I will show

That even she does not know



And then I will have no fear

Of my wife darling dear

And to every foe I may possess

I'll be able to say all this:



"Me and my wife live in harmony,

And go everywhere, she is right by me.

If you don't like my wife - too bad,

Come and greet me instead."

Ilya Shambat's Wikipedia page

Wikipedia now has a page about me. It has some of my translations as well as links to poetry and translation sites. URL

http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/index.php/Ilya_Shambat

Fighting domestic violence in Australia

As the Australian women and the better Australian men proceed on a much-needed fight against violence in relationships, it may be valuable to share insight that can be gained from experience of women's movements in other parts of the world.

In few parts of the First World is this fight more necessary or more rightful than it is in Australia. Australia has been singled out by international human rights watchdog organizations as a place where violence against women is a serious problem. Australia is the butt of such jokes as, "American man turns to his wife and says, 'Pass the sugar, sugar.' Englishman turns to his wife and says, ' Pass the honey, honey.' Australian man turns to his wife and says, 'Pass the tea, bag.'" While posting on Australian Internet forums, I have consistently encountered attitudes supporting domestic violence up to and including murder of wives. And the news stories reported that the Australian men, even the football heroes, felt embarrassed about donning white ribbons in fight against domestic violence, when the actions of men who stand up to abuse in relationships should be seen in no way as embarrassing but instead as heroic.

As an American expatriate married to an Australian woman, I know for certain that Australian women are anything other than bags. Australian women have amazing qualities to recommend themselves as people and as marital partners, and it is indeed unappreciative people who, instead of reciprocating these qualities with affection and passion and caring, would instead reciprocate them with violence and abuse. The heart, the beauty, the warmth, the strength, the genuineness and the generosity that Australian women have, deserve better treatment than what is afforded to them by "traditional" Australian attitudes. And it is a matter of fairness, a matter of virtue, as well as a matter of international image that Australia moves away from such attitudes and "traditions."

So as Australian women embark on solving this hideous problem, I hope that they do not lose what they are in the process. I hope that they keep their amazing qualities while pushing for and attaining the good treatment that they deserve. And I also hope that they do not repeat the errors of the errors made by American feminists in 1990s.

American feminism made this critical error: Of equating equality with similitude. Attempting to be equal to men, they lost what they were as women, including many wonderful qualities that women possess naturally but men do not. And just as many American women came under abuse from American feminists for having or wanting to keep the beautiful qualities that set them apart from men, likewise many women in America (and many more in the world) have developed enough distaste for American feminism to aggressively reject it. This, to the point that we see many educated Indian women willingly choose the obedient-wife role, many educated American women aggressively challenging feminism, many Western European women say that American women are stupid, and many successful and educated women from Eastern Europe state that American feminists have no idea what being a woman is all about.

The Swedish women did not make the same error. Sweden has significantly higher representation of women in politics than does either America or Australia, and it also has laws that are designed to protect women from everything from violence to emotional abuse. The Swedish women decided rightly that it's not one or the other but both. It's not be feminine or be powerful; it's be feminine and be powerful. It's not brains or beauty, it's brains and beauty at the same time. It's not be themselves or be equal; it's be equal and be themselves. And then, with the social power they gained, it became possible for these women to make the feminine count meaningfully in the world.

The result being, they have better lives; they are both who they are and equal to men in power; and they can apply the power to manifest the good that they have in them.

It benefits one little - and it benefits the world less - if the price of one's success is losing one's best qualities. That results only in trading one prison for another, or creating another prison into which to put others. Success is cheap if one loses oneself in the process of getting it. And as many women in America and around the world become enough disenchanted with American feminist social role to move away from it, Australian women deserve to know enough not to repeat the American women's self-proclaimed leaders' mistakes.

To do that, it becomes necessary to renege on false dualistic thinking, which American feminists have sheepishly followed men to embrace. The male logic is by design dualistic and made for conquest. The feminine logic, at its best, is integrative. While traditionally patriarchial beliefs want to separate thinking from feeling, civilization from nature, spirit from physicality, and use one to conquer the other, the traditionally feminine beliefs know enough to combine the components. A flower is not roots or stalk or petals; it's all of these things working together. And a human being is not one or the other component; it's all of them working together. A spirit without body is dead; a mind without feeling is a computer; a civilization without nature cannot exist. But it's when those components exist together and work together, that is found life in all its richness and splendor, and all the magnificent outcomes are created and can coexist with one another.

To have this basic understanding - that life is not one component driving the other into extinction, but all components working in synergy - is the logic of life and its ongoing perpetuation, as well as a logic of genuine peace. And it is that logic to which women, as givers of life, are most naturally attuned. Which means that when they are disconnected from that basic nature, they become incomplete, inferior to their possibility, and in most cases thoroughly unhappy. In the world of perpetuation of life it's not one component of life or the other; it's all the components of life at the same time. It's not feminine vs. equal, beautiful vs. smart, or loving vs. powerful; it's feminine AND equal, smart AND beautiful, powerful AND loving. And then the power and the status one gains, can actually be a mechanism for making the qualities one has count in the world meaningfully, instead of destroying them in the process of trying to be equal by being similar and thus becoming a two-X-chromosome vehicle for manifestation of masculine values and ways.

The people who think in terms of conquest keep having to find new things to conquer, and approach the world consistently as though it were field of war. But the person who combines instead of divides the components of life, results in new and splendid creations and outcomes. To use the intelligence to synergize rather than separate, is to strive for and achieve not only myriad splendid creations, but also achieve actual peace and completeness. Which is a more path not only to ongoing creation and perpetuation of life, but also to sustainable existence and happiness.

It have been American women that have been most hurt by the errors of American feminism of 1990s. The feminist war against beauty, love, romance, feminine physicality and the life-giving role have robbed American women not only of the wonderful qualities that are natural to women that are not to men, but also of much of their chance at happiness. One of the saddest statements I'd heard came from a highly educated American woman who described her female body as "useless." As many of the women educated in such modes of thought become parents, they will begin to move away from such destructive conceptions and strive for genuine power as women, which also means allowing themselves to be many of the things that women can be and that men cannot.

Now, I've been hearing feminist college students say that their leaders had got it all wrong; that traditional women actually had more power than do American urban corporate women, because the traditional women were in charge of reproduction while the American urban women are totally under control of male-dominated business. Whether or not that is true, it can't be denied that many legitimate aspects and needs of women were short-changed by American feminists. And there is a growing consensus by both men and women that these were denied wrongly.

And I am far from the only person who believes that there is a better way.

I have no intention at all of discouraging Australian women from achieving in business, science, politics, or any other worldly pursuits. That is their human right and part of fulfilment of their potential as it relates in those aspects. But having lived in America from 1988 to 2006, I seek to counsel Australian women against believing that this empowerment is incompatible with empowerment in other aspects. It's possible to have meaningful professional life and meaningful love relationships; it's possible to have both power and femininity; it's possible to have professional life and a home life; it's possible to be smart and beautiful; it's possible to have both a mind and a body at once. And a valid direction by both men and women, would be to encourage that integrative type of thinking; to teach men to respect women for being capable of all the preceding; and to show clearly the superiority of what they have for far too long regarded to be inferior to themselves.

There is now in America a popular sticker that says, "The women who want to be equal to men lack ambition." I've always been under impression that the women who are capable of genuine womanhood are superior, not inferior, to men, and my experience in Australia has borne me out. Australian women deserve respect and love for what they are. And they have a chance of obtaining it without making the errors that the American feminists made.

Australian men need to see that women can do all the things that men can do, and then some. But what they really need to see is the accomplishment of what women can be. They do not need to see women trying to be men - a race in which they can only come second - while destroying the womanhood in themselves and aggressively stomping on it in the women around them. They need to see women who can be what women can be and men cannot; who can also achieve significant things at what men think only they are good at; and who are enough as such to inspire both their love and their respect.

And then they need to learn appreciation for what they have for so long taken for granted, brutalized, referred to as their "bags" or their "kitchen b*tches." and whose value it sometimes takes an external perspective to bring them to see.

International competition will always make losers of the men who mistreat women and of the women who mistreat men. And people who fail to appreciate what they have, fail to gain from it and are wrongfully unhappy. While men's groups blame Australian men's high suicide rates on Australian feminism, I for one do not sympathize at all. Australian men have it better than men anywhere else on the planet. With a big, open continent, a working economy, a democratic government, and some of the world's most amazing women, Australian men should be the happiest men anywhere on the planet. Unhappiness here comes not from any reality but from failure to appreciate what one has. The problem in this case is not corrected by further oppression of Australian women by Australian men, but from change of attitude to value instead of degrading what one has here.

It is entirely for the benefit of Australian men to learn to appreciate and be good to Australian women. It will improve their international standing, their reputation, and their experience of life. The Australian men who campaign for good treatment of women, do so both in the interest of Australian men and in Australia's national interest. Which means that they are true heroes of Australia.

As for Australian women, they are wonderful as they are. What they need is to make it apparent that they would no longer accept mistreatment. Putting themselves in a position of power through work, business and politics can and should part of the solution for many; but another and greater part of the solution is making the feminine appreciated, respected and valued in Australia. And in striving for this life-supporting, integrative, state of affairs, Australian women stand not only to achieve social empowerment, but do so while remaining the many wonderful things that they are - that men aren't - that American feminists have destroyed in themselves and those who believed them - and that the Australian women, by keeping these virtues alive while pushing for both legitimate social power and legitimate good treatment in marriage, would be able to use their power to make count in the world, while gaining both love and respect that they richly deserve.

Intrinsic Conflagration

Project the mind - it resonates with thunder;
Reject the mind - around you it burns.
Intrepid joy - impassioned restless wonder -
The heart-suffused and life-rich way to learn:

Intrinsic conflaggrations, not to pity
Or to respect, or even yet to see -
The nature's splendor reaching into city
To render its inhabitants half-free

Until joy drops, and out appears concept
And meaning - this, if only for some!
And from beneath the axioms, a rocket
Ballasts into the space, explodes and is gone

And then - another time, another meaning,
The meaning is constructed from all sides
And forms the structure that informs the seeming
Which then becomes the vision of mankind -

And then come other meanings and perceivings
Construed just like dynamic SQL...
The culture wisens, thickens as it's dreaming
And builds to levels more removed from hell.

Mind, Heart and Wisdom

A Russian writer stated, "In Russia, there are two kinds of people: Smart and mean, and stupid and kind." In America, the mind and heart can be seen arranged in two significant misdirections, and with other more positive possibilities.

One common American misdirection is the Midwestern-style anti-intellectual "hey-mr-smartie-pants-who-do-you-think-you-are" crowd. These compensate for their intellectual inferiority by claiming that someone who has a mind can't also have a heart. The other is the emotionally repressive rationalists, reductionists, logical
positivists, behaviorists, "skeptics," eliminativists, and others who want to deny the validity of anything intuitive or heart-involving. These compensate for their emotional inferiority by claiming that those who have a heart can't also have a mind. Both are in grave error.

In effect, there are good hearts and bad hearts at every level of intellect. There are brilliant jerks like Freud, Hitler or J. Edgar Hoover and brilliant great men like Jefferson, Franklin, Gandhi or Martin Luther King. There are good-hearted dumb Forrest Gump types and there are stupid creeps who rape 9-year-old black girls and think that they are doing their country a favor. The dogma on both sides of this
is not in tune with reality, and to be able to see things for what they are it becomes necessary to be free of that dogma.

The heart can in fact produce insight and wisdom; and there are people of all intellectual levels who found, from going to significant lengths to develop the heart, that they came in possession of insight and understanding that they had not possessed previously. It is aso possible through development of the mind to come to the place of the heart - to the place of appreciation and wonder before the universe as its mysteries are deeper and deeper fathomed - to the place of respect for what has such intricacy, complexity and beauty; to the place of seeing the next person enough to empathize with them; to the place of fathoming the magnificence of the world enough to love it. Where both mind and heart merge into insight, compassion, understanding and love, is the place of wisdom. Which, like light that is both energy and matter (both wave and particle), becomes the point of intersection of mind and heart, where they exist together as one at the place of embodied infinity.

Many genuine scientists and mathematicians (as opposed to "skeptics," "rationalists" and others of similar persuasion) develop kind hearts, as that is the appropriate logical reaction to genuinely beholding magnificence of the Universe. Many people who work with the matters of heart develop very sharp minds, as that is what it takes to adequately fathom, nurture and resolve matters of human experience for
existent and long-term benefit.

The mind can therefore be a valid path to the heart, and the heart to the mind.

It therefore follows that an effective path to take is the integrative one of mind and heart feeding into each other and growing each other as well as themselves into both mentally fathomed and emotionally experienced universe-attuned wisdom.