Thank you Acorn. No, I haven't read Cat's Cradle but it sounds like one I might be interested in. In what way did you find it connected to the original article? I'm one who sees the connections in all things so it doesn't surprise me there is a connection from one idea to another. It would be hard for me to verbally explain that, it's something that would be much more easily explained in a visual. One favorite story of mine is a Zen teaching that describes human consciousness to be similar to a flowing river. In the calm places the water eddies and flows, each drop connected in a single stream. At places in the river, where the water moves more rapidly, such as waterfalls, the water appears to separate, and that is how we feel we are each individual droplets of life, individual energies, separate from others around us, but, that is an illusion; when the water reaches the bottom of the waterfall, it again collects and gathers together, in a single stream, making it's way, sometimes gently, sometimes with speeded up energy, to a great ocean, where all the waters, of all streams, are again joined together. From there, it rises into the atmosphere, where it becomes rain, and begins the whole cycle over again.