In nature, a whole enclosed the parts, and yet a larger whole encloses the whole enclosing the parts. By enlarging our field of view, what is thought of a s whole becomes, in fact, nothing more than one part of a larger whole. Yet another whole encloses this whole in a concentric series that continues on to infinity.
A collection of an infinite number of parts includes an infinite number of unknown parts. These may be represented as an infinite number of gaps, which prevent the whole from ever being completely reassembled.
Western man firmly believed nature to be an entity with an objective reality independent of human consciousness, an entity that man can know through observation, reductive analysis, and reconstruction…in his efforts to learn about nature, man has cut it up in little pieces. He has certainly learned many things in this way, but what he has examined has not been nature itself.
The scientist, unable to see light as anything other than a purely physical phenomenon, is blind to light.
Man is neither in control nor a mere onlooker. He must hold a vision that is in unity with nature.