Human beings are trained to seek relationships. It’s a defining element of our cognitive functions that allows us to find meaning in the often chaotic circumstances that take place around us on a daily basis, and find a way forward. Unfortunately, this adaptive instinct can become hyperactive and backfire, leading us to find links where none exist.

“No particle of matter, whether mineral, vegetable, animal, or human, is ever still. Spirit vibrations are present in the smallest atom as well as the most complex cell. It is partially the effect of these vibrations that living matter transforms itself, grows, reproduces, and changes. “Every change of condition in matter,”

The kinetic theory of matter is a proven scientific principle that has driven physics research for thousands of years. As early as 50 BCE, Roman philosophers like Lucretius was making bold claims about how all bodies were made up on the smallest scale of rapidly moving atoms that were constantly bouncing against one another.

Over time, these ideas were expanded and refined by noted scientists such as Daniel Bernoulli who pioneered the idea that pressure and heat were both simply a result of the increased motion of particles. Later on physicists such as James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann would create statistical models on velocity and range of movement of these particles.

By the turn of the 20^th century, technology had advanced to a sufficient level to allow pioneering researchers like Einstein to prove these quantitative methods through observable experiments.

At no point amongst these much vaunted experiments is mention ever made to the motion of spirits within these particles. Although James Clerk Maxwell did reference “demons” in an effort to describe the unpredictable dynamic movement of atoms, this was simply used as a shorthand method to explain a yet unstudied phenomenon.

The manifesto does an excellent job of incorporating real scientific thought into its arguments; however, when these rational insights are used to prove a completely unfounded phenomenon then one does wonder what the ultimate aim is.  For the open, non-skeptical truth-seeker, these claims can easily form patterns that become very hard to shake.