It all begins when one cell enters another cell and stays there. What begins as a gourmandizing encounter becomes a love affair. Lynn Margulis refers to the relationship that ensues between the two previously free-moving bodies as symbiotic. In fantasy, the relationship is that of mother and child, the original corporate body, the genuine two-in-one. The child is to the mother as the nucleus is to the cell; the two are interdependent and inseparable; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Now, is it mother and child or is it father and penis?

Prokarotes do no relate to each other as nucleus and container. In a microcosmic world nothing is inside anything else. Each encounter is a consumate encounter; nothing is left over. There is no center because there is no gravity; the relationship between the cells is lateral, not verticle. In short, the microcosm is timeless. In a timeless world the human family does not exist.

The time/space continuum is the nuclear world. But there is, O Monks, a world without nucleus. The human experience includes both worlds; human consciousness is nuclear, as the human unconscious is non-nuclear. We find the unconscious process in our wit, our slips of the tongue, our diseases, and our dreams.