Within the paradigm of scientific materialism, over the past few centuries we have turned almost exclusively to trusting only what we can see and measure. If it can’t be recognized as some-thing, labeled and counted, then it isn't considered valid. Absence of proof equals proof of absence. Unseen is now synonymous with unreal.

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Big mistake.

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Until recently, science said the universe was made up of a bunch of things: asteroids, planets, stars, and galaxies, all floating in a hollow void. But in the past three decades cosmologists and astrophysicists have begun to recognize an unseen, yet always present, background in which all recognizable material exists. Known as dark matter/dark energy, we now understand this invisible background to make up more than 95% of the universe.

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How do scientists detect dark matter/dark energy? By its gravitational pull on every-thing: from atoms to stars (which, by the way, make up less than 1% of the universe). All recognizable matter is under the direct influence of a non-recognizable force that exerts its influence on every known thing.

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Indeed, dark matter/dark energy is, in this very

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moment, influencing and “bending” the arc of every galaxy in the universe.

Unseen, yet real. So it is with AND.

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Not dissimilar to dark matter, AND is always exerting its pull on our lives. Unseen and real.

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