The Rigor of Angels

thought about how maybe the constancy of our surroundings makes us believe in a constancy of reality and of self.

Bohr believed that whenever we encountered a paradox, it was a sign that we were hitting on something true and real. This was because of the fundamental disconnect between reality and the mind—a disjuncture that the bizarre quantum world made abundantly clear:

If our three-dimensional world is a dimension of matter where there’s more space than time, the quantum world is a dimension of antimatter—a place where there’s more time than space. Because there is more time than space, all possibilities exist in the eternal present moment. Whereas the three-dimensional world is our universe, meaning one reality,

The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think . . . But if these dried-up little scraps of fungus taught me anything, it is that there are other, stranger forms of consciousness available to us, and, whatever they mean, their very existence, to quote William James again, ‘forbids a premature closin