Chapter 3, A Matter of Energy Summary

Wilson and the narrator leave in Wil's jeep first thing the next morning and make their way through the Andes to a place called Viciente Lodge, a resort whose guests are mostly those attending scientific conferences and where the manuscript is studied. The Lodge is a beautiful place with a virgin forest just behind the main building. When they arrive Wil suggests that the narrator take a walk while he arranges rooms for them. The narrator strolls along a path behind the building and meets a woman named Sarah Lorner.

Sarah is a physics professor, who is at Viciente to study the effects of energy on plant life. Sarah tells the narrator that energy is an important aspect of the Third Insight. The Third Insight suggests that everything on earth consists of energy and that...