Existing Outside: "Of Mere Being"

In his poem, "Of Mere Being," Wallace Stevens Uses several commonly applied symbols to explain, through leaping logic, his idea of 'being'. His use of vivid, abstract imagery, in tandem with this symbolism, creates a portrait of the infinitesimally small space between the mind and the world: "Immense cosmic power, itty-bitty living space." The dark corridors of irrational hope--faith. We reach to the "end of the mind" to grasp at all that we cannot understand, or rather those things that we cannot explain. The most readily used example of this 'space' is faith, more specifically faith within religion. Divinity is neither of this world nor of the mind. Quite the contrary, this world and these minds are understood to be of divinity. Therefore, we can categorize faith as falling between the world and understanding of the world.

What's most incredible, on a related note, is that sometimes, the world outside that space is effected solely by the existence of the mind within. This idea is demonstrated by the Double-Slit experiment. Even by merely being, we are effecting the way that the world functions.

Double Slit-Experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc