Traditional Nursery Song I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of a very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms. To you, peering through your spectroscope, mapping the mazes of electromagnetism in its path, the Web appears as a global efflorescence, a resonant sphere of light. George Gilder, The Brightest Star, Forbes ASAP The new edition IS a general introduction to the 21st century. It still makes use of sources from psychology, the natural sciences, technology, the arts, and religion, but I have added a lot more in the way of sub-atomic particle physics and of the resulting computer and Internet technologies that have become so much a part of our lives. That means that nothing can be separated from anything else either inside you or outside you.
Nothing exists all by itself.
The world is holistic, interactive, and organic. Truth does in fact develop organically. George Gilder has described our planet as the brightest star because of the way that invisible parts of the spectrum, the foundation of fiber optic and wireless technologies, are glowing brighter and brighter with every passing day. This makes us the brightest star in the heavens when the invisible part of the spectrum is added to the visible. The world in which we now live is the epitome of holistic, interactive, and organic reality.