Chris Snead - On Being

Being is All That Is, the Tao, the all-pervading reality of which everything is a part simply by nature of its conception. One can never truly be separate from it, though the one can certainly hide from this fact. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus posited that Being was a state of constant change, and that all forms were temporary. So too did he state that all of existence emerged from One, and that all of existence was bound together in fundamental Unity. These ideas are not unique to Heraclitus, and indeed they are present in most religions, both modern and ancient, in some context or another. Whether we discuss the Trinity and its indivisible Oneness (and do recall that the Holy Spirit exists in all) of Catholicism or the Tao of Taoism, we can see that these ideas are very much alive and well. Indeed, the discoveries of quantum physics even seem to support these observations by way of Quantum Entanglement. It would seem to me that such a unity should be embraced, for it is in line with the observations of many of humanity's most prolithic souls – and for myself, at least, it feels intuitively correct.