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Whence Came I, Whither Go I? Science Cannot Tell Us A Word About Why Music Delights Us, Of Why And How An Old Song Can Move Us To Tears. Science Is Reticent Too When It Is A Question Of The Great Unity – The One Of Parmenides – Of Which We All Somehow Form Part, To Which We Belong. The Most Popular Name For It In Our Time Is God – With A Capital ‘g’. Whence Come I And Whither Go I? That Is The Great Unfathomable Question, The Same For Every One Of Us. Science Has No Answer To It.

For Eternally And Always There Is Only Now, One And The Same Now; The Present Is The Only Thing That Has No End.

The Multiplicity Is Only Apparent. This Is The Doctrine Of The Upanishads. And Not Of The Upanishads Only. The Mystical Experience Of The Union With God Regularly Leads To This View, Unless Strong Prejudices Stand In The Way.

The World Is Given To Me Only Once, Not One Existing And One Perceived. Subject And Object Are Only One. The Barrier Between Them Cannot Be Said To Have Broken Down As A Result Of Recent Experience In The Physical Sciences, For This Barrier Does Not Exist.

No Self Is Of Itself Alone. It Has A Long Chain Of Intellectual Ancestors. The "i" Is Chained To Ancestry By Many Factors ... This Is Not Mere Allegory, But An Eternal Memory.