Finding the Common Ground Between Science and Spirituality is a fitting term If we describe matter as “being sense-perceptible,” then spirit, the antonym of matter, can be described as imperceptible Spirit is the invisible essence of everything sense-perceptible The perceptible lends itself to a definite intellectual grasp The imperceptible, not being as easily grasped, lends itself to multiple relative perspectives The term Absolute is used here to describe the essence of everything and clarify a concept that has many names, based on relative perspectives This ultimate reality is the being of all realities: animate and inanimate, gross and subtle, terrestrial and divine All realities are therefore ultimately connected to the One, although our senses may perceive them as individual and separate 45