In his sweet little book, The Edge Of The Sky, All You Need To Know About The All-There-Is,* Roberto Trotta explains complex scientific ideas about the universe. He simplifies this discussion by using only everyday words. In fact, he restricts himself to just the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English language. The results are easy to understand, and pretty entertaining!

A few of the many descriptors he had to create with limited language include: student people (scientists/researchers), party every year in the place of ice water (Nobel Prize), big one-eye see-er (telescope), White Road (Milky Way), and All-There-Is (Universe).  This is a delightful perspective that reads like a children’s book.

It made me think about my toddler grandchild, who is trying to communicate with us using only the 100-200 words he can say. Sometimes we can guess what he’s getting at by looking at the context. There are misunderstandings, big and small, and sometimes we can’t figure it out. There’s a lot going on in his head that he just can’t express yet.

This also applies to our language around expanded consciousness. Even after decades of practice, I still stumble when asked to define some basic terms like Spirit, transcendence, and the alternate dimensions which exist simultaneously with five-sense reality. The English language just does not have the words yet to describe these things. We have been so focused on explaining reality through the science of intellectual analysis that we have forgotten our ancestral heritage connecting us to the universe.

Although these connections have gotten buried, we still “know” them. They are part of our DNA. We can reconnect by turning off the noise of technology, by spending time alone in nature, and by staring up at the night sky loaded with infinite stars––the All-There-Is––and absorbing it.

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* 112 pages; Basic Books 2014. The audiobook, read by Bronson Pinchot, is also great.