We Live Inside!
“The new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom…the world is all outside: it has no inside.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience.” "Your inside is out and your outside is in." --John Lennon "Everybody's Got Something to Hide" It takes a bold philosopher to disagree with Ralph Waldo Emerson. A young contemporary of Emerson, Cyrus Teed was that man. Emerson’s profound declaration that the world “has no inside”? Nonsense. We were there already. Teed was a rural physician with training from the Eclectic Medical College in New York, a tradition which rejected heroic chemical cures and blood-letting and favored herbal and electrical remedies. Teed also was a latter-day alchemist, thirsting after the very secrets of the universe; and, in...