Mikal,
Thanks for the discussion and hopefully this will clear things up. The page which you read at
www.peswiki.com is currently seeking some revitalization. But suffice to say that the discoverer of the Theory of Everything has struggled to live in two consensus realities.
There is the reality of what is accepted, that life is mundane and unequivocal. This sort of life is a beautiful thing in it's own right. Then there is the consensus that there is more to what meets the eye, the world is somehow mysterious, and meaningful. This type of reality is very powerful when one knows how to use it right, but can also drive one to become at odds with the mundane world.
I saw a movie just the other night that deals with this contrasting of consensus realities. It is the movie 12 monkeys in which a prisoner from the future is sent back in time to try to save the human race from destruction, and when he gets there he falls in love with a psychiatrist who tells him he is crazy and cannot be a time traveller from the future.
That is what it feels like for the TOE discoverer. He struggles to gain acceptance of his theory while simultaneously suggesting that it poses all-possibility and a limitless limit.
These are the barriers which we have to overcome in this life, and to be able to overcome these barriers it takes a tremendous amount of strength, hope, belief, and what some people would boil down to faith.
Just remember that just as the universe accomplished an impossible thing, by violating the speed of light and creating the universe, by quantum tunnelling beyond an impossible barrier, so too we are limited only by the power of our minds and the imagination in our spirit.
Everything is reflected in every other thing and the creation and meaning of the universe applies to every aspect of our lives. That is just a little heart to heart from yours truly.
toe chemist