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Spider fossils are relatively rare because spiders have no long-lasting bones or skeletons. We have few clues about their evolutionary past, but spiders sealed in amber provide a clear view of their existence millions of years ago. The activity of ancient creatures captured in amber's avalanche shows the end of its life at the moment of contact with the sticky substance. Dolemedes, shown here, was a spider that lived more than a million years ago and was probably hunting or being hunted the moment before the tree's resin poured over it. The typically cautious spider evidently didn't avoid being overtaken by the path of the super-glue river. Imagine that each insect, bird, snake, grain of sand, leaf, and pollen had an aura - which everything has - but imagine if we could see it. The distinction between the bird and the sky would be hazy and the separation between the ant and the tree would disappear - like the insect in amber. Imagine the whole universe in amber - all connected, all the same. When animals - including humans - walk, eat, sleep, and communicate, the auras blend, merge, grow, change, always overlapping and always connecting.
Quantum theory has abolished the notion of fundamentally separated objects ... It has come to see the universe as an interconnected web of physical and mental relations whose parts are only defined through their connections to the whole.Dr. Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics |
