“The physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the psychologist C.G.Jung also explored the idea of a transcendent connection. Pauli for his part used the image of the speculum, or mirror, that while reflecting the objective into the subjective, and vice versa, belongs to neither. Jung explored the psychoid that bridges the order between mind and matter and, with Pauli, those meaningful patterns called synchronicities that transcend our temporary divisions of consciousness and matter.

For my part, I suggest that in our deepest moments we experience the world as inscape, rather than as an objectified, externalized, landscape. The word, inscape, itself comes from the English poet and priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins whose poetry probed the inner-dwelling-ness of nature. To engage the world as inscape therefore brings us close to what I mean by cosmology in its widest sense - in the sense of the existential immediacy of the cosmos as it presents itself to us, and our participation within it.

To see the world as inscape is to acknowledge that each of our experiences is limitless, authentic and unconditioned. To come into contact with nature, enter into a relationship, read a poem, watch a play, or contemplate a work of art is to open ourselves into an unlimited world of experience and a multiplicity of levels of meaning. Inscape calls upon us to seek and to respond to the authentic voice that lies within all things. It asks us to realize that all attempts at description, and all levels of existence are, of their very nature, provisional and contingent.”