In His Head

I think we are all figments of God’s imagination.

Reduce anything and you will reach energy.

What is mind? Mind is energy.

To think is to move electrons around on your brain. Your brain is simply energy amassed.

To imagine is to conger a creation in your mind.

That creation is physically nothing more than energy moving about; just like us.

Is it so far fetched to recognize than we, and everything in our reality, is exactly the same as everything we imagine? Understanding this begs the question: is it so far fetched that we are operating entirely within the mind of a greater being?

After all, we are said to be “like” God, so as it is in our mind, so is it is His.

If our thoughts are wholly energy, so may be His. We are wholly energy, so we may be His thoughts.

Everything I Know is Wrong

Do you ever wonder for what it is that you are being prepared?

A strange blend of scientific mindset mixed into a spiritual framework; I didn’t always understand that I had a spiritual framework but it was and is true non-the-less.

As a child I questioned everything. It tended to get me in trouble at school, but I do not regret a single question. Is it enough for someone to tell you that something is? Have they earned the right to profess reality?

Who told Sir Isaac Newton that he had the authority to proclaim the, “Laws of Physics?”

Who told Einstein the he had the authority to balk at them? I’m glad he did, because he found Newton flat wrong. Who will find Einstein “wrong?”

The Church silenced Galileo when he asked questions and the religious leaders did the same to Socrates.

You know that you breathe Oxygen because your elementary school teacher told you so. She knew it because her teacher told her so. Keep counting back until some guy decided it was so. Who gave him the authority to decide we breathe oxygen?

If the Earth wasn’t round, would it change your life?

If time wasn’t flat, would it kill you?

Everything we know is based on the assumption that the people before us got it right. We operate solely within the framework into which we were born. What if somebody was wrong? People are wrong often, right?

Christians tend to get freaked out by change. Change, by definition moves an entity. Deeply rooted objects resist moving, many times, to the point of death. In the circles that I run, reality is questionable. I am a Deconstructionist.

If we seek stability like a tree, we are destined to a ripping, tarring death as the earth beneath our leaves shifts and disappears. Do we rely on the Church: a deeply rooted entity, built on the assumptions of past men? Or do we rely on Christ, the definition of divine perfection, removed from our feeble, fleeting reality.

I am suspended by the knowledge and love of Christ, swinging above the abyss. I am not rooted in this imaginary, energy field we call time and space. Cling to your roots, cling to your traditions, cling to your world; or cling to the God who told you that you are not meant for this life, but for the next!

Energy and Spirit

I’m not sure if I have publicized yet my feelings about the nature of spirit. I realized in my post concerning reality that I left a bomb in explained. I made the claim that energy is spirit. I stand by that claim. Here is how I explain it.

I believe that we are all eternal, spiritual creatures; that we are confined to our physical existence for a time and that we will return after our time here to our purely spiritual existence. I make this claim based on my understanding of the divine personality we call God through his avatar Jesus and what is recorded about his live. For convenience sake we will refer to the divine as masculine. Now, my understanding of God is that he is the sculptor of all physical things. If this is true then all of our reality belongs to him. I also believe that God, like other artists, expresses himself in his creation and spiritually permeates are reality. If he spiritually permeates all things, then God is quite literally in everything. Since I believe that God is greater than the sum of his creation I will refer to the part that permeates us as spirit.

Now if spirit permutes all matter then what is spirit? What is the basic building block of everything in our existence? Energy. Energy is both a wave and a particle, unique in that quality, and yet it is found at the base of everything you can and can not imagine. What holds molecules together? Energy. What is the power by which things operate? Energy. What can not be destroyed? Energy.  I am energy, you are energy, it is energy that lights the LEDs on your screen and it is energy that delivers the light to your eyes. It is energy that your brain uses to interpret these words and it is energy that controls your mood concerning what you are reading.

If energy is the basic unit of physical existence then it is, at the very least, extremely closely related to spirit.

What is Reality?

“Reality” is that which is real. What is real? Is this computer “real?” It is certainly comprised of matter, and matter is comprised of energy which is the building block of all things physical. There in, lays the question. Is physical existence real? The basic question here is really: Does physical reality govern the non-physical or does non-physical reality govern the physical? I suggest the latter.

The tools with which we seek physical reality are incapable of understanding that which is non-physical. Using these tools we always stop at energy. As a child I was the irritating kid that always asked ‘why?” A troublesome question since our system is not set up to answer this question. Ask “why” enough times and you will end up at “energy” or “I don’t know.” Our tool box understands reality as energy. What is energy?

Energy is spirit. Now we leave the physical in pursuit of reality. Spiritual reality governs physical reality. Since the beginning of time we have disagreed upon what spiritual reality is, I think that this is because we are using the wrong method of discovering it. We live in a world that idolizes Ultimates. If something can be reduced to its ultimate form we accept it, if not then we have not discovered it. What if there is no ultimate spiritual reality? No way of solidly stating truth? What if our world is not as constant as we so desperately desire?  What if we are truly in the abyss of which most major spiritualities speak? Judaism, Christianity and Islam all accept the Biblical book of Genesis as the explanation concerning where we have come from. Believers from within each of these traditions disagree on whether the account is literal history or poetry. Our discussion is not concerned with this argument. In either case God creates physical existence within the abysmal spiritual reality. This shows up in other spiritual traditions as well but I’ll not exhaust them all.

Is it so terrible to think that spiritually there is no bedrock at the bottom of our sandcastle? What if the deity which I call God is the only constant reality? What if his nature is so vast that we are unable to view him in constant form?

Magick

There are several definitions of the words Magic and Magick, typically the difference in spelling contrasts illusion from reality. Magick is sometimes defined as “the unexplainable,” or as “spiritual communication,” or as “consciousness.” I know it depends on the manifestation of the magick. For example, mediation is “spiritual communication,” while astral projection is “consciousness” and telekinesis is simply unexplainable. I believe magick in general is very real. First of all, I run with the majority on this one, every known culture in the history of the world has believed in some sort of spiritual activity manifest or manipulated by humans. That is, until the invented the scientific method and decided we could explain everything. Arrogance.

Lets take a quick trip through recorded history:

6000-2000bc-

Mesopotamian cultures produce Gilgamesh/Biblical Flood narratives.

Egyptians receive fire messages from the gods.

The Toa is received from the inner consciousness in China.

2000bc-100ad-

American Indians see the future in smoke signals and with peyote.

Israelite God physically defeats Israelite enemies.

Jesus Christ reanimates several people including himself.

Greek farmers are blessed and cursed by the gods.

African Shamans communicate openly with ancestral spirits.

100ad to 2000ad-

Muhammad receives dictation of Qur’an from Gabriel.

Joseph Smith receives golden plates from Gabriel.

Gerald Gardner records spells and rituals in “Witchcraft Today.”

A small group of scientists decide everyone else must be stupid.

Now we will discuss Christianity:

Most of contemporary conservative Christianity discounts magick as unreal. I find this fascinating since conservative Christianity accepts the narratives in the Bible as literal history. Jesus Christ practiced magick all the time. Again, remember the definitions of magick. One might say, that he had this ability only because he is divine. Ok, what about his disciples who preformed many of the same signs? Oh, that’s only because Jesus specifically gave them that ability? Ok, what about the stranger in Mark 9 driving out demons? Hum…

What is prayer? Communicating with God, right? And what is the expectation? That he will answer the prayer, right? So… communicating with a spirit who will reciprocate. Sounds like magick to me.

It is childish to discount as fake that which we do not understand or that of which we are afraid.

Spherical Reality

Every known component of our physical existence is spherical. This is constantly rediscovered. Until a few hundred years ago the Earth was considered to be flat, we now know it to be spherical. A few decades ago we discovered that atoms, the basic component of matter, are spherical along with their particles. Stars, Solar Systems and Galaxies, are circular, cyclical and spherical. From biggest to smallest the things that make our world are round. If the universe is round, which I think we are on the verge of discovering, then time would have to be round also.

In the 1400s a ship sailing west discovered that it would end up east, or in the same place it started. I think a satellite traveling in a constant direction will eventually end up in the same place it began. If this is true then time must return also, given that time is a product of movement in space.  Astronauts traveling around the earth a great speed age slower than us on the Earth. You can read my post about relativity if you want to know how that works. Its all an issue of speed and distance. I am not saying that a satellite which circumnavigates the universe would end up in the same time and space as it codependent but independently. so a point in time would be in a different space. Some of you are still with me, some of you are lost, sorry.

If time will eventually return to the place (not space) which it began, then time is cyclical. This is how I understand infinity. I believe in eternal life. Eternal life requires infinite time. I feel that infinite time requires cyclical space.

Cyclical space requires spherical reality. What do you think?

Irrational Rationality

The other night one friend of mine asked another, “Do you not want for something more?”

The speaking friend had been explaining about how she had rejected Catholicism as a young adult and was now searching for spiritual fulfillment. She had spent some time considering herself as an atheist and found it terribly unfulfilling. She was unwilling to return to the religion she had left behind, and seemed to be spinning frantically in circles reaching out to the passing, flickering glimpses of something she couldn’t quite make out.

The friend she was speaking to is an atheist who rejected the Hinduism of his family after moving to the USA and dredging through academia. He had been told that a rational person can not believe in something which cannot be empirically evidenced. His courses convinced him that, while the scientific method has not yet discovered all that there is to know, it has certainly disproved the idea of a spiritual world.

His response was simply that he did long for there to be more, but since there was nothing more, it was a silly desire.

Oh, how far we’ve come as a society! We know so much! We are so advanced that we have abandoned reality in order to map our surroundings.

One man said, “It is only that which we do not yet understand that we call God.”
I say, “It is God that we do not yet understand. It is that which we do not understand that we call not God.”

God is in everything and yet he is superior. He is not “he” and he is both “he” and “she”. He is the scientific method and he is art. He is the answer and he is the question. He is our reality yet we do not realize him. He is found all around us yet he will not be discovered. he has been called many things; he is God, he is Spirit, he is Force, he is light, truth, existance, wind, breath, life, ultimate conciousness, abyss and reality. What do you call him?

Boyle’s Theory of Reativlity

The basic difference in Galileo’s theories of space/time and Einstein’s is that Einstein noticed that time itself is relative to the perceiver. Everybody knows E+mc^2- do you know what that means? Basically it means that the mass of something is equal to its energy and that, coupled with velocity, one can calculate its time offset relative to the viewer.

More recently in 2008, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois discovered that a single atomic particle can exist simultaneously in multiple locations.

These two discoveries by very reputable scientific sources are only two in a long list of discoveries that directly oppose the basic principals of the modern scientific worldview.

The idea that a single reality, ultimately accessible to man’s mind, can be discovered and agreed upon by all is a product of post-enlightenment arrogance. Sure, Galileo was pre-enlightenment era but these thought processes have to be based in the past. He was ahead of his time.

I do not think that science is the end all authority on reality, but it is one why is learning about the world around us. Science has now discovered that time is relative, and that space is relative. I think the only why this will be truthfully understood is with the understanding that our existence in the world around us is relative as well.
Wht do you think?