Wednesday, January 24, 2007
I just had to say
We should laugh at the people who think that science and spirituality are not the same thing, or that religion isn't spirituality plus politics, or that politics isn't about control of emotions by perpetuating states of war, gluttony, worship, and hope. ha ha ha ha.
Have we not seen that science is the greatest tool of spirituality that the human race has invented? Look at the leisure time and senses of empowerment that science has given us to explore our creative potentials. Science will more clearly serve spiritual evolution when the great leap happens that many are metaphorically anticipating with vague terms like indigo and crystal children or earth changes or paradigm shift, but until then a little consideration reveals how much science has already served spirituality.
Most scientists don't get it. They haven't studied the history of science enough to appreciate that science began as observation of nature to better understand God. But that's what science does, it reveals God through the observation of nature, and anyone who thinks that's dumb or corny just hasn't had God revealed to them yet. God is not human, but human plus God is superhuman, and in fact the next generation of God. You can't stop it, the patterns have already been laid in the unconscious collective experience that we call physical reality. Science reveals God, the Arts glorify God, Science empowers the Arts, the Arts anticipate Science, etc. etc.
Think about it. Science made inventions which change daily life and become desired by large populations that invent the commerce of products. With commerce comes transportation of the people with the goods, first as the merchants and sailors, then as the tourists and international brokers of power.
Societies and mythologies intermingle, first in psychological pidgins, then as new multicultural societies. And science gives exactly the framework needed for the universe of possible worlds to expand. If you're Irish, the other worlds you can visit are kingdoms of tempermental gods and fairies, and people suspect your crazy or fearfully agree. If you're Irish Catholic, you can visit heavens and hells with demons and angels and saints. If you're an Irish Catholic scientist, you can read science fiction mass produced in paperback and completely and fearlessly agree to imagine a vast number of worlds on all the planets of the universe, with creatures who mimic or exaggerate human qualities or do things we can't yet imagine. If you're an Irish Catholic physicist, you can imagine an incomprehensibly infinite number of worlds in alternate universes of the quantum multiverse, with 11 or more dimensions, where there are so many possibilities that basically alternate yous exist doing slight variations on everything you already do now. If you're an Irish Catholic physicist who has a mystical awakening from thinking about this -- perhaps you have lucid dreams or are visited by translucent beings or you go out of body and you consider that all the spiritual terminologies of different cultures could be united by scientific explanations for supernatural contact across dimensions between different universes -- then you start to appreciate that science serves spiritual evolution, and contact between worlds as well as wise solutions to all problems and world peace are all fabulous goals already in progress.
See what I'm saying? And I'm not even an Irish Catholic physicist who had a mystical experience. But I did come back from a stimulating conversation and meditation class with several intelligent friends who are like myself exploring frontiers of personal spiritual experience. So I just followed an impulse to say what I said, think along those lines, and some might call it channeling, which is a kind of inner listening for something that could use saying.
So there, unedited, unexpurgated, tonite's blog entry, true stream of consciousness. Hope it made sense.
Have we not seen that science is the greatest tool of spirituality that the human race has invented? Look at the leisure time and senses of empowerment that science has given us to explore our creative potentials. Science will more clearly serve spiritual evolution when the great leap happens that many are metaphorically anticipating with vague terms like indigo and crystal children or earth changes or paradigm shift, but until then a little consideration reveals how much science has already served spirituality.
Most scientists don't get it. They haven't studied the history of science enough to appreciate that science began as observation of nature to better understand God. But that's what science does, it reveals God through the observation of nature, and anyone who thinks that's dumb or corny just hasn't had God revealed to them yet. God is not human, but human plus God is superhuman, and in fact the next generation of God. You can't stop it, the patterns have already been laid in the unconscious collective experience that we call physical reality. Science reveals God, the Arts glorify God, Science empowers the Arts, the Arts anticipate Science, etc. etc.
Think about it. Science made inventions which change daily life and become desired by large populations that invent the commerce of products. With commerce comes transportation of the people with the goods, first as the merchants and sailors, then as the tourists and international brokers of power.
Societies and mythologies intermingle, first in psychological pidgins, then as new multicultural societies. And science gives exactly the framework needed for the universe of possible worlds to expand. If you're Irish, the other worlds you can visit are kingdoms of tempermental gods and fairies, and people suspect your crazy or fearfully agree. If you're Irish Catholic, you can visit heavens and hells with demons and angels and saints. If you're an Irish Catholic scientist, you can read science fiction mass produced in paperback and completely and fearlessly agree to imagine a vast number of worlds on all the planets of the universe, with creatures who mimic or exaggerate human qualities or do things we can't yet imagine. If you're an Irish Catholic physicist, you can imagine an incomprehensibly infinite number of worlds in alternate universes of the quantum multiverse, with 11 or more dimensions, where there are so many possibilities that basically alternate yous exist doing slight variations on everything you already do now. If you're an Irish Catholic physicist who has a mystical awakening from thinking about this -- perhaps you have lucid dreams or are visited by translucent beings or you go out of body and you consider that all the spiritual terminologies of different cultures could be united by scientific explanations for supernatural contact across dimensions between different universes -- then you start to appreciate that science serves spiritual evolution, and contact between worlds as well as wise solutions to all problems and world peace are all fabulous goals already in progress.
See what I'm saying? And I'm not even an Irish Catholic physicist who had a mystical experience. But I did come back from a stimulating conversation and meditation class with several intelligent friends who are like myself exploring frontiers of personal spiritual experience. So I just followed an impulse to say what I said, think along those lines, and some might call it channeling, which is a kind of inner listening for something that could use saying.
So there, unedited, unexpurgated, tonite's blog entry, true stream of consciousness. Hope it made sense.
