The Field of the Infinite Is Not Empty

The field of the infinite is all that we can see here, touch, remember and describe. The essentialqua ity of the infinite, by contrast, is its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is conveyed in the word spirit, whose root meaning is wind or breath. It suggests an invisible but pervasive energy to which the manifest world of the finite responds. Without it, any organism must fall apart into its constituent elements. And this is never born and it never dies.