Surely some have noticed the strange synchronistic coincidence of life-imitating-art, as the discovery of a ‘God particle' & the naming of a new Pope were the key plot elements in Dan Brown's monster bestseller & film Angels & Demons, which was published before The Da Vinci Code but became popular afterward.

Consider it the day the Christian Science Monitor – that bastion of objective journalism built upon Mary Baker Eddy's charismatic cult – lived up to the full-scale implications of its name. They probably partied all night over it.

The key concept confirmed in the Higgs boson is the indubitable presence of the field -- pervading at least this universe -- by which particles acquire mass on a quantum level. It’s what can best mathematically (or better yet statistically) verify a Unified Field; the Field that enables shamanic & alternative energetic practices that rely on a supposedly scientifically impossible (according to Newtonian theory) principle of action-at-a-distance (such as Reiki energy) to work in a new scientific paradigm. Mystics, of course, have spoken for thousands of years of such a Field, & how humanity can commune as well as heal fellow beings thru attuning to it vibrationally. The recent documentary The Living Matrix shows how healers in several alternative practices make use of this force.

The confirmation of the Higgs boson / God particle makes this theory of the Field palatable to quantum scientists for the first time, though doubtless most of them, despite this initial proof from the Hadron Collider straddling Switzerland & France, will require additional proof in order to shift their thinking. Should it hold up, this is without doubt the most exciting set of discoveries since the time when classical physics was being challenged by the new quantum mechanics in the early part of the last century, beginning with Bohr's new theory of the atom & leading up to the quantum field theories of Richard Feynman & others that filled in the missing holes of Heisenberg, Shroedinger & Durac's contributions that led to & followed the pivotal Copenhagen Conference.

Chocolate too has its particle, encapsulated in the cacáo seed that gathers mass as it moves thru the chain-of-being exchanging hands so that those enraptured by it, prophesize on it – from practitioners mixing mystic cocoa liquors, to portable solid bar elixirs infused with radiant kindness, & planters husbanding Theobroma cacao trees; including so-called “raw chocolate” types (much maligned on this site), who, in the main, are sincerely inspired & intent on feeding people with goodness. All connect within its web of life, luck, & love.

Count Paul Johnson of CariBeans, with an able assist from Dan & Jael Rattigan of French Broad (they occasionally work jointly on cacáo projects) among the collective of optimists, idealists, romantics, dreamers, visionaries, & radicals… imagineers who happily pioneer the borders of chocolate… those kindred spirits to chocolatarians the world over who can feel close from a distance.