I'm with you on this. We certainly appear to be heavily partitioned. I sometimes get the feeling that our only task is to reclaim lost parts of ourself. Then the notion springs upon me that WE are the lost part!

We are being bombarded by communication, but there is no common language. Even our sense of reality itself may just be a stream of communication. A basic children's picture book to set us fledgelings on our path.

Keep up the good work Rip. See if we can get anywhere near 'solving' the puzzle, before our allotted time.