REFLECTIVE INSIGHT #001 - THE POWER OF CONNECTION: WHY THE BOTTOM LINE IS A LIE

Sitting on the porch

Tēnā koutou, e te iwi. Pull up a chair here on the porch with me. Lately, I have been sitting with a couple of books that might seem like they come from different worlds. One is about the deep secrets of quantum physics, and the other is an old Māori translation of the Gospels.

At first, you might think a scientist and a preacher have nothing to say to each other. But when I look at them through our Ngāpuhi lens, they are telling the same story. They both say that nothing in this world lives by itself. Everything is connected, from the stars in the sky to the mangroves in the Hokianga.

The tickle effect

In the world of science, there is something called entanglement. It sounds fancy, but the idea is simple. It means that when two things are connected at a deep level, they share one life. You could put one part on the moon and keep the other here in Taitokerau.