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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema Ch 2, p. 10 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or, for free pdf copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MvgfWlle00TeQSM06Ok2izD-MVSRl6y/view?usp=sharing 1/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #SLOS ✨☯️💡🪽 #SLOSCH2 📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️ #consciousness 💡 #metaphysics ☯️ #transpersonal 🪽 #primal ☮️ #experiential 🐉 #rebirth 🦋 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 11 CHAPTER 2 Destroying Worlds: Our Reality Is Species Determined and the Relativity of Science ... Culturally Constituted Realities, Biologically Constituted Realities, and Biological Relativity We Cannot Unknow What We Know but We Can’t Know What We Can’t Know
July 26, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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This is biological relativity, and what it adds to our understanding when seen as analogous to the other relativities is that it tells us: a) Our realities can only be understood within the context of our species ... other species could not understand them ... and we cannot really understand the realities of other species ... lower or higher, if in fact there are such categories for species in Ultimate Reality. In some way, large or small, species will misunderstand each other. In fact, in that species are actually distinct from each other, whereas cultures are not ... see Note 6 of this chapter ... there is much more to biological relativity than there has ever been to cultural relativity. b) Many elements of our human reality will be invisible to or not even exist within the realities of other species — they are biologically constituted realities. Some things, maybe many or all things, which exist within the perceived and understood realities of other species will be invisible to us or not even exist within our possible world: They are species-specific, biologically constituted realities for them, as well. Bringing this all together, we now see that there are culturally constituted facts: That is to say, facts that are cultural creations and either… 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 21
September 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 21 especially the Judeo-Christian ones, which assert humans to be superior in Nature and having dominion over all others in Nature. I call anthropocentrism or human superiority to Nature a flat earth assumption because it is equally as obviously true yet ultimately wrong, as well as relative to a perceiver, as is a notion the Earth is flat. Not to mention that seeing Reality outside that assumption of anthropocentrism and acknowledging this species relativity instead would be as momentous and world-changing as was the discovery of the heliocentric nature of our solar system. Incidentally, this assumption of species superiority — species centrism — is also a central component of the Unapproved and Hidden I describe in others of my works.7 To understand species relativity, we can use those same understandings, discussed above, in regard to time, space, and culture relativity. We will see that all of those understandings are true, as well, for the realities created or constituted by our specific physical constitution, our biology, separate as it is for each species. This is biological relativity, and what it adds to our understanding when seen as analogous to the other relativities is that it tells us: a) Our realities can only be understood within the context of our species ... other species could not understand them ... and we cannot really understand the realities of other species ...
September 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 22 …do not exist or are not perceived or understood the same from other cultural perspectives — in other words, by people from other cultures. And there are biologically constituted realities: That is, there are those supposed “brute facts” that either do not exist or are not perceived or understood the same from other biological perspectives — in other words, by species, beings, or entities other than the human one. These last are as biologically relative as the first ones are culturally relative.
September 30, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 13 …held ideas about governance, justice, appropriate behavior, work, play, ritual, leisure, courtesy, fairness, as well as the conventions, institutions, and material culture propelled by them; and much, much more that is considered real and true in a culture but which is not seen or at least is not seen that way in all cultures. Now, D’Andrade is saying that not all realities are culturally constituted and that there are realities that are independent of culture, and about which all cultures must make determinations and interpretations or with which they must at least interact. The examples he gives of such realities include things like a person’s age, the number of calories in a meal, the number of chairs in a place, and the pain a person feels. Total Heritage View of Culture Sees It as the Matrix D’Andrade is speaking to and critiquing a “total heritage” view of culture, espoused by some anthropologists, which holds that all reality is culturally determined ... or constituted ... including such “brute facts.” In the total-heritage view — espoused in particular by Marshall Sahlins (1976) — even the things we think to be irreducible or independent of cultural interpretations are indeed created by and patterned by ... “constituted” by ... culture.
August 7, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Are we sure that the way we chop up Reality into parts — separate things, separate beings, and so on — so that we might name them and analyze them separate from our perception of them is anything but a product of our biological programming? Does all possible perceptors see the world in terms of parts? How can we say that is the case? Perhaps, indeed, that separation of ourselves from Reality and dissecting of it is just some neurosis or illness ... some delusion ... that is particularly human to do so. Or at least that it is unique to humans. But going off on that tack is jumping ahead. For this book will, indeed, take us there and past that point as well. In fact such considerations are specifically addressed in the chapter titled, “The Radical Rational View of Us And It,” Chapter 15. Hang on, and congratulations on your forethought, by the way. 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 19
September 23, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Ch 2, p. 17

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Other than the few like these, the great majority of less stellar scientists will acknowledge that Reality is indeterminate — as they are prodded, by the new physics, to admit — yet they will assume validity for their established understandings, in the face of contrary evidence, if not in the current scheme, then in some other and future one. Which they further presume will be built upon their current assumptions, which at most, at that time, will be refined in parts. So scientists assume the cosmos they peer into, measure, and study is the same one all other species apprehend. This is regardless the vast differences in the way that universe is perceived by the beings we know about or, for that matter, the scope of any particular species’ perception of it, which we know at least sometimes is far far more far- ranging, advanced, than ours. Despite these facts to the contrary, nowhere in science is it advanced that their interpretations of the cosmos are relative to humans only. Much more about that, upcoming. 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 17
September 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 20 Biological Relativity At any rate, getting back to culturally constituted facts and those nasty brute facts, again, I was saying there is nothing “brute” about what humans would call brute facts. Rather, they are biologically determined facts. They are facts relative to our species. These “facts” or truths are biologically relative. They are true, with surety, only in relation to our species. They might exist for other species as well, certainly they are shared by many, but a) they are not shared by all, and b) we must conclude they are not even facts the way we know them, for they are necessarily perceived differently by each and every species. That is to say, if they, indeed, even show up as elements or “facts” in their realities, their perceived realities. Yes, we have another relativity — species relativity — to include with the others we have been coming up with in the sciences. Einstein let us know that our space and time were relative, not absolute. Franz Boas and all anthropologists after him helped us to see that our cultural realities were relative, as well. That means that all that we conceive and create as cultural elements can only be understood within the context of the culture they exist within.
September 24, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 11 …“feedback” or “alternative”-enough perspectives to allow us a glimpse of what is, for truth, really real? Let us just look at what modern science tells us about the observations it makes on the world. According to Gary Zukav (1979), the author of a widely read overview of the new physics, a major underpinning of modern physics is the realization and discovery that science cannot predict anything, as had been taken for granted, with absolute certainty. Relatedly, the new physics informs us that there is simply no way to separate the observed event from the observer. That is to say that the observer is, her- or himself, an inexcludable variable and always affects the results of an experiment. In a very fundamental way, the perceiver influences what is seen in even the most “scientifically” pure observations and experiments: “The new physics ... tells us clearly that it is not possible to observe reality without changing it.” 1 Zukav (1979) takes, as an example, that a condition is set up to perceive an event: If it is designed to find waves in light, it discovers waves. If it is designed to find particles, we get particles — in supposedly the same “outside world” ... and regardless of the fact that logically light cannot be both a particle and a wave.2
July 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 16

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 16 …totally unimaginable interpretations! As I said, our senses scan and pick out of an infinity of possibilities of what can be perceived. What it “notices” ... or “creates”? ... is relative to who we are as a species. Even the determination of that falling tree being an event is relative, hence questionable, ultimately. Relatedly, whether or not there is actually even a physical world in which it occurs is suspect and is something we will deal with at length and in due time in this book. The Bias Invisible in Science Regardless, the point of all this is that removing our anthropocentric blinders in this way we must conclude that the world, as experienced, is created of realities that are not only culturally constituted, as anthropologists point out. There are also biologically constituted realities. The “brute facts” to which D’Andrade refers are — nothing brute about them — biologically determined facts. How anthropocentrically arrogant for us to think that our brute facts are brute in some conceivable Ultimate Reality that all existing or conceivable living beings or entities share, meaning are able to perceive ... indeed are able to perceive ... pretty much the way we do!
August 28, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Culture is Our Template for Understanding So, you see, culture is the set of understandings and everything related to them that is shared in common by a group. It is the way a particular group sees, creates, and “furnishes” the world. It is the matrix, grid, or framework that is projected onto Reality determining what one perceives and then interprets it. It creates the understandings of our perceptions and experiences, as they are configured within the context created by that culture. It is a group’s “window” on the world; it is the template stamped upon Reality; it is the blueprint out of which our perceptions and understandings arise. Consequently, culturally constituted realities are realities or facts that are created by individual cultures and which exist only for them. They are distinct from brute facts, which can be said to be realities that exist in all cultures: Brute facts can be said to exist outside of cultures, independent of them, regardless that cultures determine the interpretation or meaning of them. Some basic culturally constituted realities are the different languages; the various religious notions with their supernatural realities and the cultural items and artifacts they impel; specific but commonly… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 12
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What we call “existing” is actually what is existence relative to one species, our species, Homo sapiens. And we are merely one species out of an estimated one trillion species, which includes bacteria this time, on Earth. That does not even take into account species on other planets, even ones we would be able to perceive, if we were there or they came here. It does not even touch the infinite possibilities of beingness, or “species” that we would have no way of knowing or perceiving or that we would perceive but in some way so we would not even know it to be a living thing. Remember that earthworm who might only perceive us as heat or pressure, which I mentioned earlier, and how we are likely in a similar situation relative to some other beings and species. Similarly, the event that we perceive as sound-tree-and-forest-interacting may be “perceived” as quite something else with different kinds of and/or more “senses” or, one might say, from a different vantage point. Indeed, different concoctions of the event — combinations of its elements — may be carved out of it, being relative to the other-than- human perceiver, creating different elements of the event, different “numbers” of any elements in it, and creating vastly different and… 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 15
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If it is designed to find particles, we get particles — in supposedly the same “outside world” ... and regardless of the fact that logically light cannot be both a particle and a wave.2 That is the classic example, of course. The structure of the experiment, designed by the observer, determines what will be found. At base, intent is all- important; it leans us toward “discovering” what we are inclined to see. Now, what is this saying if not just what I have stated in Chapter 1? Is this not the same as saying that we determine ultimately, because of our specific biology, what we sense? That we therein determine the “world” we experience? Culture, Brute Facts, and Culturally Constituted Realities Nevertheless, to some extent our social scientists have yet to get that memo from the hard sciences. For example, in line with Elizabeth Anscombe’s (1958) terminology of brute facts, John Searle (1969) claims a distinction between “brute facts” and “institutional facts.” Anthropologist Roy D’Andrade (1984) elaborates on this and goes on to explain what is meant by brute facts: 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 11
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 12 Not all social-science variables refer to culturally created things; some variables refer to objects and events that exist prior to, and independent of, their definition: for example, a person’s age, the number of calories consumed during a meal, the number of chairs in a room, or the pain someone felt. 3 D’Andrade is describing a difference ... no doubt one we all would make ... between objects in the world or seeming absolutes such as numbers and that which varies by culture — institutional facts, which are also referred to as culturally constituted facts, or realities. Simply put, culturally constituted realities, or institutional facts, are facts, things, realities that are created by culture. In the terms we used in the last chapter, culturally constituted realities are created in the cortex and they are interpretations of what has been given to the cortex of information concocted by a species biology, in interior parts of the brain, which were fed by neural firings determined by what our senses has selected out of the infinity of possibility of what can be sensed in any particular moment and environment. Culture is Our Template for Understanding So, you see, culture is the set of understandings and everything related to them that is shared in common by a group. It is the way a particular group sees, creates, and “furnishes” the world. It is the matrix, grid, or…
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 18 Science’s reluctant qualification of indeterminacy is quite a bit different from an acknowledgment of what I am putting forth: Which is that there might be a more valid understanding, or perception, by some conceivable other being or species, in which those elements of the universe we consider to be absolute can be seen to be non-existent or radically wrong. And beyond that ... the most important part of this ... that in comparison to whom, our interpretations of things are not seen merely to be to be biased as a result of our species identity, but that the very existence of these supposedly absolute things of our world are found to be projections, in their entirety and thus completely insubstantial, of our human psyche ... to be mere projections of our uniquely human perspective on things ... creations purely concocted of the elements of our unique distinction from Nature. That is a distinction, which I will not elaborate upon now, but which has us as supremely flawed in relation to the rest of Nature. This is something I have demonstrated in several of my works, in particular, Planetmates (2014b) and Prodigal Human (2016a). Furthermore, consider that physicists talk about the possibility of other dimensions intersecting our world. So these alternate realities share the same time and space ... or they share whatever Ultimate Reality we exist in ... with us.
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By contrast to this total-heritage or “matrix” idea of culture, we have the view that there are “brute facts” also which exist outside of culture which are interpreted by culture, not totally concocted by them. Biologically Constituted Realities, Species-Specific Facts For now, though — and however much I agree with D’Andrade that there are realities separate from cultural ones — from what I have been saying in the previous chapter about species creating their “worlds” through the different percepters they have, we can see that these “brute facts” may not be culturally constituted as he asserts, but they certainly are biologically constituted. For the age in years one has, the numbers of anything, and especially pain felt are all realities relative to humans, and some only to humans. We might remember what I said earlier about vibrational rates — that is to say, heat — and its relativity to the… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 14
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By contrast to this total-heritage or “matrix” idea of culture, we have the view that there are “brute facts” also which exist outside of culture which are interpreted by culture, not totally concocted by them. Biologically Constituted Realities, Species-Specific Facts For now, though — and however much I agree with D’Andrade that there are realities separate from cultural ones — from what I have been saying in the previous chapter about species creating their “worlds” through the different percepters they have, we can see that these “brute facts” may not be culturally constituted as he asserts, but they certainly are biologically constituted. For the age in years one has, the numbers of anything, and especially pain felt are all realities relative to humans, and some only to humans. We might remember what I said earlier about vibrational rates — that is to say, heat — and its relativity to the… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 14
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Yet this is exactly the arrogance that prevails in all of our sciences. When we imagine other beings in our Universe, as we do in some of our arts, we anthropocentrically assume they would have human features, with only slight variations, with senses similar to ours and perceiving the exact same world, and that they would have evolved in some manner parallel to the way we did on Earth. That is forgivable in our arts and cinema, as in Star Trek and Star Wars, as they are not claiming to be science. But what is damning and is embedded within and constraining the purview of our sciences is this assumption that the Universe as we have come to know it through our science, with its space, time, stars, Big Bang, galaxies, dimensions, planets, and so on, is the Universe in some ultimate way outside of our humanly limited perception. What? You don’t think so? You think the cosmos we measure with our humanly-created technology and perceive with our human, our limited, senses, is pretty much like the one that exists outside our perception of it? That our perceived and arrived-at cosmos is the Cosmos? No doubt you think it has to be. You have never questioned it. I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 16
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 16 …totally unimaginable interpretations! As I said, our senses scan and pick out of an infinity of possibilities of what can be perceived. What it “notices” ... or “creates”? ... is relative to who we are as a species. Even the determination of that falling tree being an event is relative, hence questionable, ultimately. Relatedly, whether or not there is actually even a physical world in which it occurs is suspect and is something we will deal with at length and in due time in this book. The Bias Invisible in Science Regardless, the point of all this is that removing our anthropocentric blinders in this way we must conclude that the world, as experienced, is created of realities that are not only culturally constituted, as anthropologists point out. There are also biologically constituted realities. The “brute facts” to which D’Andrade refers are — nothing brute about them — biologically determined facts. How anthropocentrically arrogant for us to think that our brute facts are brute in some conceivable Ultimate Reality that all existing or conceivable living beings or entities share, meaning are able to perceive ... indeed are able to perceive ... pretty much the way we do!
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* by Michael Adzema

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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 13 …held ideas about governance, justice, appropriate behavior, work, play, ritual, leisure, courtesy, fairness, as well as the conventions, institutions, and material culture propelled by them; and much, much more that is considered real and true in a culture but which is not seen or at least is not seen that way in all cultures. Now, D’Andrade is saying that not all realities are culturally constituted and that there are realities that are independent of culture, and about which all cultures must make determinations and interpretations or with which they must at least interact. The examples he gives of such realities include things like a person’s age, the number of calories in a meal, the number of chairs in a place, and the pain a person feels. Total Heritage View of Culture Sees It as the Matrix D’Andrade is speaking to and critiquing a “total heritage” view of culture, espoused by some anthropologists, which holds that all reality is culturally determined ... or constituted ... including such “brute facts.” In the total-heritage view — espoused in particular by Marshall Sahlins (1976) — even the things we think to be irreducible or independent of cultural interpretations are indeed created by and patterned by ... “constituted” by ... culture.
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by M Adzema

Ch 2, p. 19

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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 19 …those stars, or suns — and infinite numbers of dimensions is still only the cosmos that we — we lowly, humble, and limited perceptually humans — are able to perceive. So how can it not be true that there even more possibilities for ways of perceiving Reality, more possibilities of realities, than even the infinite numbers of them we are able to deduce with our limited senses at this particular time with its limited knowledge as well!!?? And, yes, I realize that some of you readers are jumping ahead and even questioning the reality of entities, beings, perceptions, perceptors, perceivers, percepters, senses, and all else, which I have been leaning on in making my case, and would like to challenge me on that.5 For you will say that they — any being, beings, or entities — also are deduced from what we know from our limited apprehension of the world. So they, too, might be no more than human projections. Thinking this way, you might say that my theory is empty or insubstantial for it, also, is deduced from our perception of realities, which I am acknowledging to be unspecial and infinitely variable. You might say that even our perception of different and separate perceivers — what I am terming, perceptors — is questionable. How do we know any entities or beings exist, outside of our own one — oneself — if all that we perceive is determined by what we expect and project? Are there even numbers of things — as when D’Andrade asserted numbers were “brute” — let alone beings?
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 2, p. 15

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What we call “existing” is actually what is existence relative to one species, our species, Homo sapiens. And we are merely one species out of an estimated one trillion species, which includes bacteria this time, on Earth. That does not even take into account species on other planets, even ones we would be able to perceive, if we were there or they came here. It does not even touch the infinite possibilities of beingness, or “species” that we would have no way of knowing or perceiving or that we would perceive but in some way so we would not even know it to be a living thing. Remember that earthworm who might only perceive us as heat or pressure, which I mentioned earlier, and how we are likely in a similar situation relative to some other beings and species. Similarly, the event that we perceive as sound-tree-and-forest-interacting may be “perceived” as quite something else with different kinds of and/or more “senses” or, one might say, from a different vantage point. Indeed, different concoctions of the event — combinations of its elements — may be carved out of it, being relative to the other-than- human perceiver, creating different elements of the event, different “numbers” of any elements in it, and creating vastly different and… 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 15
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Ch 2, p. 18

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Yet how could physicists even define these invisible worlds as “other dimensions”? Think about it, are dimensions not also relative to our species, with some other species conceivably apprehending the Cosmos in a completely different way? Is it not possible there are species whose perceptions of Reality — equal to or more valid than ours — would in no way involve those dimensions ... perceptions where those dimensions do not exist, as they are overridden by or subsumed within some other perceptual array vastly different from ours? Or, accepting the reality of those dimensions, how can we say with any certainty at all that the brute facts we have in our dimension qualify as brute facts in those dimensions as well?! At any rate, I am going to leave to the side, for now, the complicating factor of the infinite number of beings and possibilities of existing and perceiving that would exist in each of those different dimensions. I will not even get into the fact that this incredible cosmos with these billions of galaxies — an estimated one hundred billion galaxies with an average of two hundred to four hundred billion stars per galaxy and god-only-knows how many planets coinciding with all… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 18
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 11

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We Cannot Unknow What We Know but We Can’t Know What We Can’t Know “...to these relativities of space, time, and culture, we must now also include species relativity or biological relativity. That this has not been acknowledged already ... can easily be attributed to ... our anthropocentrism....” Relativity of Science But what of our science, one might ask, which can reputedly extend the range of our senses? Does it not provide accurate-enough… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 11
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