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What is the great mystery? Is it not that in some mysterious manner life manifests in matter now, but suddenly then, is gone?
Like children sitting around our campfire here in the dark, we are suddenly astonished at the appearance of some beautiful animal – perhaps a raccoon – and then he’s gone. Alas ! we wail inconsolate – there is no more raccoon ! Darkness has taken him away.
Adults, however, know the raccoon has a wider existence that we sitting around the campfire cannot follow. We must wait for the illumination of death.
Below is a scan of page 103 of my copy of The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The Bose referred to is Jagadish Chandra Bose. “Campfire Picture” is a reference to the image of sitting around a campfire in the woods that I make in my scribbled comments at the end of this chapter. Hover your mouse over the scribble and a typed copy of it will appear as if by magic. Or it should…