Rip Parker
5 min readFeb 15

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MATERIALISM: THE GRAND ILLUSION,

AND WONDROUS DELUSION

How do we deal with materialism? How do we get to its essence? By studying its science — physics. What does physics reveal about the nature of the “material, physical universe”?

Ready for the bottom line? Physics reveals that what we consider to be solid, material, physical “stuff”, including you and me, is literally nothing, empty, void of tangible substance.

Say what? Hit that wall with your fist, and then tell me it is “nothing, an empty void, and so is your fist, and the nerves in your brain that say ‘ouch’, and even…

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Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics