The shift to the physical plane.

Tad's writings took a quantum leap after LM. What more could he say? From a writer's perspective, LM was as close to perfect control as any writer has ever had over a printed work. It was an exact treatise of his views in 1971.

After success, most writers would have expanded on their ideas and confused readers by publishing loftier flights of spiritual fancy. But the completeness of thought in LM left Tad nowhere to turn his attention to but the physical plane. Or more precisely, the physics plane. Tad was convinced that science would eventually prove his first paragraph of LM: "We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is made up of one kind of entity: each one is alive and determines the course of his own existence." As a writer, Tad set out not to justify, but to prove what he wrote. Or as he says in the Gibbs Smith edition Introduction to LM, his writing is "based on what I can't demolish."

There's been no doctorial thesis on Tad's theories, but new scientific understanding reveals some interesting parallels. Golas' idea that love is an agreement that starts at the molecular level is backed by the study of mitochondria. The symbiotic agreement with these tiny parasites that infest our bodies is what makes life possible.

Tad was particularly fond of his theory that energy propels matter and space propels energy. It would be interesting to put this theory on a blackboard in a roomful of today's top scientists and see what what fistfights break out.