The rhythms of the Universe are non-linear. They merge mysteriously into each other. That which is linear lends itself to straight ‘cause & effect’. I push the pencil and it moves – this is linear. All machines are based on this linear mathematics. But in a non-linear world – the cause does not immediately come up with an immediate ‘effect’.

A push here may not result in an immediate effect there, the effects may collect over ‘space and time’ zones to precipitate entelechies, sudden occurrences or epiphanies which seem totally disconnected or small effects can cause huge changes.

In reality, all processes are cyclical, in that, the effects are again fed back to the original causes through various loops of energy[25] and this makes mathematical calculations by hand impossible. The global weather problem was the first non-linear equation to be widely studied and Edward Lorenz showed in 1963[26], how very small changes in weather patterns could precipitate huge changes thousands of miles away. He coined the phrase ‘the butterfly effect’ whereby he meant that a small butterfly flapping its wings in Peking could change the weather in New York. And this was prophetic indeed because the ‘El-Nino factor’ is now legendary. A small current in the Pacific has been empirically found to effect world weather.