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Jerry learns about and profoundly experiences his inherent connectedness with all other beings. In doing so, he finally answers his life’s question, which is “what is the relationship between energy and matter?” Getting to that answer, however, involves exploring zero-point energy, the wave structure of matter, the fractal nature of boundaries, and the paradoxical nature of the Klein bottle (which has only one surface although it appears to be both inside and outside). The logic of either/or is subsumed (but not replaced) by a logic of both/and. The One That Is Both is radically original in that it introduces a new type of language for capturing the essence of such a reality. Both Jerry and his female counterpart, Helen Donellyn, are on a journey toward wholeness. Like two strands of DNA, their lives intertwine, until they are prematurely torn apart by Jerry’s mysterious disappearance, then each must build their own wholeness like the process of replication builds a new complete DNA strand from half of one. Their journeys toward wholeness are different but complementary.

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When Jerry Fowss was 10, something supernatural happened to him that both alienated his family and ignited the need to understand it. However, neither Western science nor Eastern mysticism adequately explained what happened. When all the avenues he explored turned up empty, Jerry gave up on his quest and put his life on autopilot. But the quest didn’t give up on him. An enigmatic urban shaman rekindled his inner fire, which then blazed even higher after he met Helen Donellyn, a journalist whose work takes them on an adventure into the frontiers of physics. Shortly after the shaman returns, their lives are torn apart prematurely when Jerry mysteriously disappears. While Helen searches frantically for him, Jerry must adapt to a world based on a bold unity of dualisms where things happen by thinking them, male and female are united in every person, and which is humorous, perplexing, challenging to his everyday assumptions, and deeply transforming. Jerry desperately wants to answer the question about what happened to him as a child, but doing so requires that he revise everything he knows about himself and reality.

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