Playtime, maturation-rituals, and the search for vocational truth

In 2021, I read an excerpt from a book called Inventing Reality, in the final chapter The Last Word, this quote really stuck with me: “The question need not be whether reality is material or spiritual; it can be, what follows from talking about reality in one way or the other?”

I thought about this for months after. Hey, I’m even writing about it over a year later. While that book is about the language of physics, and I have almost no business in that section of the library (other than to tell my much-smarter-than-me…