The Real-Life Matrix

Darwinists and creationists have had a long-running debate over the origins of life.  Previously, the two sides have only been able to agree that they disagree.  Now all of a sudden, some of the brightest and most respected minds in science have entered the fray.

These scientists are mostly from the disciplines of quantum psychics and molecular biology and their specialty is identifying the mysteries of life.  Based on their research, they now believe that life was created by “Intelligent Design”.  I can almost hear the creationists applauding, however, their celebration may be a little bit premature.  You see, by Intelligent Design, the scientists mean something quite different from the biblical concept of God.

Their findings/theories border on the esoteric but here’s some of the more pertinent ones:

• The world is holographic, that is to say a two-dimensional reality that we experience as being three dimensional, or as Morpheus said to Neo in The Matrix, “If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by the brain”.
• Reality is changed by the observer and is therefore created by consciousness; thus, the expression that we are spiritual beings having a human experience rather than human beings having a spiritual experience.
• DNA has a wide variety of extra-terrestial origins or as Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick put it, humans are extra-terrestials.
• Creation is made up of an infinite number of universes, in essence one gigantic multi-verse.  The matrix which holds the multi-verse together contains a binary code.  In other words, it was artificially constructed, which perhaps validates what Einstein originally said about space-time.

I call this perspective of reality “The Video Game Effect”.  Comparing this to a movie, one could say that the essence of the movie is actually on the film, rather than on the screen where the movie comes to “life”.  As one watches the movie in the theater, the movie appears to have a beginning, a middle and an end even though the film was shot months before and certain scenes can only be found on the cutting room floor.  All of which, however, begs the question of who exactly is the Intelligent Designer of the universe.  I, for one, believe that God is ultimately unknowable and that the Truth of the matter, therefore, will never be ascertained.  Of course, that won’t keep inquiring minds from pushing the envelope further still.  As Voltaire once observed, “Even if God didn’t exist, man would have to invent him.”  In the final analysis, there’s just one thing that I’m sure of.  Whoever created the universe, they were a hell of a programmer.

“You have to let it all go, Neo.  Fear, doubt and disbelief.  Free your mind….I can only show you the door.  You’re the one that has to walk through it.”

- Morpheus, from The Matrix

Life’s Little Mysteries

There are so many things in life that defy explanation, not the least of which is the concept of God.  No one was born with a knowledge of God and no one, I dare say, has ever talked to God – not even the preachers who begin their sermons with “last night God talked to me”.  Religion, therefore, is a rather curious endeavor in that it tries to explain the unknowable.  So when God said “let there be light” who was he talking to, inasmuch as the world had not yet been created.

Down through the ages man has tried to make God human in order to understand him better. However, in the process it was necessary to take certain liberties with the stories about God – stories which were often borrowed from older stories.  For example, there’s the Lord’s Prayer which probably even people who aren’t religious have at least heard about.  Now, the Lord’s Prayer was not unique to Christianity despite its repeated use in the Bible’s New Testament. Christianity, you see, borrowed it from Judaism as it can also be found in the Old Testament.  It’s actually based on Talmudic sources as many of its verses have their origins in ancient Jewish prayer.  The thing is – so much of what passes for Judaism and Jewish law can actually be traced back to Egypt.  First, there’s the obvious connection to Moses who was steeped in esoteric traditions based on the training he received from Egyptian priests.  Beyond that, one can also look at the Egyptian “Book of the Dead” which contains a similar, and much older, version of the Ten Commandments.

It’s also instructive to examine the Talmud, the rabbinical interpretation of Jewish law, which says that Amen (the closing from The Lord’s Prayer) is a name for God.  Interestingly enough, Amen was actually the very ancient name given by the Egyptians to their God who they referred to as “the hidden one”.  So, one could say that the Lord’s Prayer is really an Egyptian prayer to their god Amen which was later adopted by religions that came afterwards.  As for the ancient Egyptians themselves, they have long been mischaracterized as pagans when, in reality, they were praying to their one god, the first cause, long before the pharaoh Akhenaton (who is considered by many to be the father of monotheism).

While this could well be very interesting to some, one might ask why it matters.  Well, it matters because beneath the surface there has been a long-running battle between two diametrically opposed forces, both trying to win over the hearts and minds of mankind.  For the last 1,700 years, the world has heard, almost exclusively, one side of the story which is reflected in the religious dogma of the day.  All the while, the other side of the story has been dismissed as heresy and the books and writings of an important philosophy destroyed (e.g. the Library of Alexandria).

But in 1945, the “truth” took an interesting turn. In that year, a treasure trove of ancient documents was discovered in the Egyptian desert.  The find is referred to as the Nag Hammadi Library.  The Nag Hammadi Library, along with the Gospel of Judas (which was found in 1970s), are Gnostic texts.  The Gnostic texts are important because in ancient times the Gnostics were the keepers of the secrets of the universe (referred to by some as The Mysteries), which you could only learn if you were an initiate of their group.  Similarly, the Bible tells us that Jesus never intended his teachings to be for the masses, only for his disciples.

While the world was obsessing over the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Library was relegated to relative obscurity.  Recently, however, the ancient masters’ teachings have finally been published.  One of the most important mysteries promulgated by the Gnostics was that God is the spirit and the light within us.  According to the Bible, Jesus echoed the Gnostics belief as he taught his disciples that the kingdom of God lies within.  Even science (quantum physics) has come to the conclusion that our reality is an expression of a deeper order of existence that exists beyond space and time.  The consensus then is that man is really a spiritual being having a human experience rather than a human being having a spiritual experience!

Voltaire once wrote that even if God did not exist, man would have to invent him.  So while religion has brought the discussion about God to the masses, it did so through the invention of superficial surface stories.  Just as with Jesus or the Gnostics, the common man has never been allowed to explore the deeper esoteric truths about God. Therefore, it is important for people everywhere to finally learn the truth about who they are and their place in creation.  Interestingly enough, science has had some breakthroughs on this front.  Recent scientific theory states that the human genome is a hologram and that the universe is a virtual reality matrix driven by intelligent design.  More meaningful to you and I and how we lead our daily lives is that science says that matter is basically an illusion which springs from a non-physical reality.  This has relevance in that it means that thoughts create.  For example, it can be demonstrated scientifically how things such as bio-feedback, prayer and positive thinking techniques work since they are all involve creating reality through controlling the thought process.

From a religious standpoint, what it all boils down to is this: salvation isn’t a right, it’s a choice. It requires that people choose to walk the path of life that all the enlightened ones have taken.  It’s a path of exploration of the divine light within and becoming co-creators in the universe, as opposed to living by faith alone.  Now that’s what I call one of life’s little mysteries.

Palestine Forever

Recently the United Nations voted as to whether or not to recognize Palestine as a member state.  The question that I have is not do the Palestinians deserve a homeland (of course they do) but on what basis the United Nations is addressing this at all.  Why is the United Nations the arbiter of this issue?  Who gave them the right?

Anyway, it’s a bit disingenuous of the U.N. to address the Palestinian issue before first addressing other more serious issues around the globe.  The African continent, for example, has been in a constant state of upheaval for decades where the genocide of millions has become commonplace and apparently an accepted practice.  More recently in Libya, the United Nations stood on the sidelines as NATO forces played a major role in the overthrow of that government.  Politics does make strange bedfellows.

The old saying about war is that to the victor goes the spoils.  But why is it okay to redraw country borders in certain situations but politically incorrect in others?  If we are to interfere in the affairs of other countries, who gets to decide and on what basis?  If we were being intellectually honest, wouldn’t we decide to give America back to the Indians?  Even in the Middle East, there is a larger issue that has been completely ignored by world governments.  The largest ethnic group without a homeland isn’t the Palestinians, it’s the Kurds and yet you never hear anyone suggest that they should get their own homeland.  Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the Kurds can be slaughtered by the Turks and the Iraqis without the world community becoming offended.

But, back to the Palestinian issue.  Around the time of World War I, the Ottoman Empire came to an end and the Middle East was broken up into pieces via a secret pact between England and France.  As a result, an agreed-upon area was designated as being under British control and was then named Palestine.  That area was significantly larger than what is now generally referred to as Palestine.  Out of that larger area, three countries would eventually be formed, namely Jordan, Lebanon and Israel (some 20-30 years later).  During the Six Day War of 1967, Israel was attacked by the forces of several Arab countries.  As a result of that war, certain lands were ceded to Israel (to the victor go the spoils yet again).  Certain of these lands (The West Bank), which were previously part of Jordan, are now the subject of the discussion about forming an independent Palestinian state.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s all a moot issue.  The land has been under Israeli control for  almost 50 years.  It was land that Israel gained as the result of winning a war and needless to say a war that they didn’t start.  What moral authority do we have to redraw the boundaries of Israel at this point in time?  While we’re at it, why don’t we also redraw the boundaries between North and South Korea or how about between China and Taiwan.  To be completely fair, shouldn’t we also give Texas and California back to Mexico?

You could say that we have arrived at this crossroads without a compass and now we intend to right the ship by draining the ocean.  However, I would propose a much simpler solution to the dilemma.  Simply give Palestine to the Palestinians.  By that, I mean Jordan of course.  You see Jordan made up the vast majority of the original Palestine and, in fact, Palestinians constitute a majority of people living in Jordan today.  The country itself is ruled by an ethnic minority whose homeland actually hails from, of all places, Saudi Arabia.

However, I doubt that world leaders are truly interested in real peace in the region..  They created Israel to serve their own agenda and now they would like to destroy it (for the same reason).  Maybe that’s what Rahm Emanuel meant when he said that you should never let a serious crisis go to waste.  That’s exactly why the proposal for a Palestinian homeland will not go away and at the same time why there will likely never be a Palestinian state.  We’ll be forever discussing the Palestine issue and the hatred on both sides will provide fuel for the chaos.  Peace was never the objective of peace talks – chaos was.

And Social Justice For All

A wave of revolution has been sweeping the globe – from Libya to Egypt and from  Yemen to Syria. There have even been demonstrations in London and Tel Aviv.  Some are calling them uprisings of the common man, but what they really are is a series of insurrections instigated by the elite.  The protests for a change in government are most often accompanied by a call for social justice which is in reality a rallying cry for a redistribution of the wealth – otherwise known as Communism.  Not that the elites are actually serious about social justice, or any other kind of justice for that matter.  They simply want your vote and your support for global conflict.

You see, in a world where politicians say one thing and do another, money and greed rule the day.  These same politicians may have been elected by you, but they work for someone else.  How else can you explain the lack of action on this country’s economic woes?  Why isn’t there a movement in Congress to return this country to prosperity?  Why, for example, are businesses and individuals  forced into bankruptcy when their spending exceeds their revenue but the same doesn’t apply to government?  Could it be because government’s financial problems are eventually simply passed along to the taxpayers (in the form of inflation or higher taxes)?  Like I said, who is really working for who?

It’s instructive to look at people’s behavior in reaction to the country’s economic plight.  A man standing in line for Obama bucks was asked where the money he was receiving was coming from.  He replied that the government has plenty of money.  What he really meant to say, but of course didn’t know, is that taxpayers (you and me) would foot the bill.  Had he known, however, he would probably still have insisted on a handout.  It’s a classic example of redistribution of the wealth.

Of course, government’s ultimate solution will be to tax the wealthy.  However, that is merely a ruse to tax the middle class.  In the real world, the rich can always use loopholes to avoid taxes – loopholes that have been bought and paid for from our elected officials.  As always, therefore, the burden will fall on the middle class.  What we wind up with is a form of class warfare where one half, namely the middle class, has to support the other half (who pay no taxes).

So just exactly where does all the money go?  Well, first of all there’s our well-bribed public officials.  Then there’s public employees who, on average, earn 60% more than their counterparts in private industry.  Then, there is the 50% of the citizens who pay no income taxes and yet, for the most part, receive public assistance.  Of course, Wall Street executives rake in millions in bonuses even as the stock market declines.  But let’s not forget multi-national corporations who have moved jobs overseas and in the process avoided paying U.S. income taxes.  Finally, we have the federal government which doles out money (pork) indiscriminately without regard to how much money realistically is available.  Other than the middle class, everyone has their hands in the till, which is why this problem is so intractable and why there has been no rallying cry in Congress to improve the situation.

For example, why is there no movement towards a balanced budget?  After all, there was a surplus when Clinton was in office – only a short eleven years ago.  Why are we involved in wars and conflicts all over the world?  Didn’t Obama run on a platform of getting us out of Iraq?  Instead we have expanded to Afghanistan and Yemen and are considering actions against Syria and Iran.  As for Iraq, we’re still there and the combat troops are now called by other names or replaced by mercenaries (government contractors).  If we were leaving, why are we spending billions on new bases? The bottom line is this. How can these wars possibly be in our best interest when they are bankrupting the country?

As for solutions, Obama recently stated that we need to get America working again by creating jobs.  Well creating jobs in this case is a recipe for disaster because guess who has to pay for them.  By the way, if it was so easy to just create jobs, why haven’t they done it already?  In the final analysis, any real effort to improve the jobs situation and reduce unemployment has to include a realistic illegal immigration policy and tariffs on foreign-made products, both of which seem to be politically undesirable.

So there you have it – an unholy combination of backroom politics and a society hell-bent in pursuit of the almighty dollar.  If you want things to change for the better, you have to take some personal responsibility for the problem.  Don’t just expect the politicians to do anything except prescribe social justice as the panacea regardless of the issue.  In the words of Santa Claus, social justice for all and for all….  I guess Santa didn’t quite say it that way now did he?  Ho ho ho.

Stupid in America

Bill Maher has frequently referred to Americans outside The Beltway as stupid.  Unfortunately for us, Bill Maher is right.  If you have any doubt about that whatsoever, all you have to do is check out some of the incredible man-on-the-street routines that the media does from time to time.   More than that, who else would just hand over their country without a whimper – hardly even a protest or a demonstration, unless you count The Tea Party (which I don’t).

On the plus side, we’ve had some great presidents down through the years – men of character and great courage who made significant contributions to preserve the republic.  I’m talking about people like Jefferson, Lincoln and Kennedy.  They understood that a free country has to be continually protected from those who seek to corrupt and control it.  But the citizens themselves… well that’s another story altogether.

People get the government that they deserve… and boy did we get it.  If you want to complain about the state of affairs in this country, simply look in the nearest mirror.  The culprit will be looking you in the face.  Maybe, however, you’d like to pass the blame on to your representatives in Congress who you foolishly thought would act in the country’s best interest.  Yes, I’m talking about the representatives that you elected.

Of course, maybe you don’t even agree that things are all that bad.  Maybe, you weren’t all that excited about The American Dream in the first place.  Sometimes, it takes a little perspective to appreciate certain things.  Historically, the wave of immigrants to this country has always been about opportunity – opportunity that they didn’t have in their own home country.   Therefore, freedom was something that they never took for granted.

Perhaps then you don’t even realize that you’re being slowly stripped of your civil rights.  Perhaps, you don’t even realize that there is something called The Bill of Rights that is suppose to protect all American citizens, despite what Nancy Pelosi might say to the contrary. Bill Maher was right in calling Americans stupid, but he forgot to mention how we got that way.  You see, half of you have been brainwashed by watching MSNBC and the other half have been brainwashed watching Fox News.  It’s an ideological food fight and ultimately you’re the main course on the menu.  As for the kids, they have been intentionally brutalized by an education system that has taken this country from first to worst.

Now I know that some of you think that none of this applies to you.  If so, you probably listen to public access TV and politically don’t call yourselves either liberals or conservatives.  Similar to Bill Maher then, you might call yourself a progressive which essentially means that you can’t identify with “the little people.”  If so, you feel that you belong to a small, elite group of people whose mission in life is to tell others how to live theirs.  Unfortunately for them, intellectual dishonesty doesn’t equate with intelligence either.

They say that there is nothing so uncommon as common sense and, in that regard, I’m still looking for someone (dare I say anyone) that understands that they’re talking about them when someone speaks about a general lack of common sense.  So go ahead and make my day by telling me that this doesn’t apply to you.   Go ahead – I dare you and, while you’re at it, also tell me that you’re not one of the 300 million Americans who have taken their freedom for granted.   You could say that you’re not one of them… but you’d be wrong.

Like I said, Bill Maher was right.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

- President Ronald Reagan

A Dirty Little Secret

Down through history, many wars have been fought over who had the right to rule.  In the end, it was all about the bloodline.  If you had the right pedigree, you might possibly lay claim to the throne.  But just where did this idea about bloodlines come from anyway?

It has been said that kingship was handed down by the gods.  The basis for determining who the new king would be was simply a matter of direct descendancy.  It was always kept in the family.  For example, the Bible speaks of a time when the sons of the gods married the daughters of men.  From those unions, then, kings were born.  From that time forward, royal bloodlines were firmly established.  Therefore, kingly authority was based on blood or, more to the point, on DNA.  Kingship was deemed to be a matter of genetic right.

Since their right to be king was the result of their desendancy from the gods, it was said to be a Divine Right.  In order to establish such a right, royal families of Europe have traced their lineage back to Jesus (and then usually back to King David ).  This bloodline through Jesus is referred to as the Grail Bloodline.  The importance of the Grail Bloodline in choosing kings is based on the belief that the bloodline of Jesus survived the crucifixion!

In reality, the bloodline goes back much further than Jesus or King David.  In fact, it goes all the way back to the fallen angels of the Bible.  The Book of Revelation says that the number of the Beast is the same as the number of man – 666.  What people don’t realize is that this means that man evolved from the fallen angels and both have a physical basis within the universe of that of a carbon-based life form.  Science and religion come together on this point, inasmuch as carbon-12 atoms each have 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons – in other words 666.

The intrigue surrounding the royal bloodlines has been the subject of many best-selling books, including most recently Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code.”  Many researchers and authors have noted that these bloodlines have always been incestuous, where family members have had to marry strictly within the family in order to maintain their genetic code (and their right to the monarchy).  In ancient times, because of the lack of a ready gene pool, mothers married sons and brothers married sisters.  Even today, royal marriages between cousins is commonplace (e.g. Prince William and Kate).

With respect to American presidents, almost every president can claim a royal British/European heritage.  As shocking as this may sound, these American presidents are related to each other and are part of the same bloodline, a bloodline that stretches back through the Roman emperors to the Babylonian kings and the Egyptian pharaohs.  So tell me then, exactly who is it that has been ruling America for the last 200+ years?

This information is new for most of you and there is a reason why you haven’t been told about it.  It’s a dirty little secret that some people prefer that you never learned – a secret that has been reserved for members of the elite and their secret societies.  It’s the story about man’s true origins.  Dr. Francis Crick, a world famous biologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular structure of DNA, was responsible for letting the cat out of the proverbial bag when he announced to the world that human DNA has an extraterrestrial origin.  The scientific community has been scrambling ever since to mitigate the damage caused by his disclosure.  As secrets go, this one is a doozy. The possible implications are staggering, with ramifications that could shake the very foundations of government, religion and virtually all other social institutions.

To fully understand the secret you have to connect all of the dots.  Extraterrestrial origins…one family…one rule.  Like I said, it’s a dirty little secret that some people don’t want you to know.  But, of course…now you know.

The Ultimate Secret of the Universe

Religion has become increasingly less relevant in a modern world that is constantly changing at warp speed.  That’s a shame since the Church, whatever your faith, has an important place in any stable, healthy society.  But, then, exactly how does the Church expect to keep its flock in tow, let alone attract new believers?

The Church’s problem is really quite elementary.  Its dogma was created long ago in a world that was so very different from the one we find ourselves in today.  The old order was based on tribal warfare where the people owed there allegiance to the tribal chief who told them exactly how to live their lives and then ruled on all conflicts big and small.  Actually, that’s quite understandable since the vast majority of people back then were illiterate and survival was a battle of the fittest.  Therefore, it was necessary to give the masses a code of conduct.

Today, it’s a brave, new world, especially for young people.  Not surprisingly, they are increasingly asking the tough questions that the Church can’t, or won’t, answer.   The Church has always struggled with some very fundamental questions.  For example, why do very young children have to suffer and die, especially since they had not yet developed an understanding of the difference between right and wrong?  When hard-pressed for an answer, the typical Church response is that God works in mysterious ways.  That’s understandable as well, since the Church doesn’t truly know the answer.

Then there’s the question that so many have asked:  What is the purpose of my life?  Theologians and philosophers down through the ages have attempted to tackle that one, without a satisfactory answer - which leads us directly to the ultimate secret of the universe:

The purpose of life is evolution

 

The thing to remember is that we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience.  In short, consciousness is all that is.  The rest is simply illusion.  We exist in a free will universe where everything is permissible and, in fact, occurs in an infinite number of ways in an infinite number of parallel universes.  God, and by extension all of his children, is good.  However, we cannot evolve without evil.  In a world of duality, matter requires anti-matter, light requires dark and, yes, good needs evil. You see without evil, there is no way for good to understand and experience itself and therefor no way for it to evolve.

Now you’re probably wondering why all people don’t inherently understand this concept.  Part of the answer lies in what scientists would refer to as junk DNA, which makes up over 90% of one’s gray matter and is far from being junk.  Since we use only 10% of our brain, we in essence understand/perceive only 10% of reality.  Our physical senses are really quite limited even when discussing our three dimensional world.  For example, animals perceive the physical world far better than humans.

Beyond that, there are other dimensions and realities that even science now readily admits.  Scientists have recently discovered that black holes are not dead-ends but rather portals (white holes) to other worlds and the universe has many dimensions which they have labeled under the heading of String Theory.  Since these other dimensions are smaller than our own three dimensional world, they exist all around us as well as within every cell of our body.  The Kingdom of God is truly within and the good news is that you can access it through awareness (consciousness) and access it you must because evolution depends on it.

I’d tell you more but truth is an illusive concept.  Simply knowing something isn’t enough.  The truth must first be internalized before it can be accepted.  For most people, truth must be experienced first-hand for this to occur. Therefore, it’s up to each of us to find our own truth, independent of what others may tell us.  Only then can the process of evolution move forward.

As for religion, it desperately needs to reinvent itself.  The old dogma is just that –old (and stale).  People today are searching for answers that require a new way of thinking and a fresh understanding of the world around us.  People are craving a better understanding of their relationship with God that goes far beyond the jealous, angry god portrayed in the Bible.

Today, humanity stands on the precipice of a new age as the Mayan calendar is coming to an end.  The pundits, historians and truth-seekers are all searching for what comes next.  Notwithstanding prophecy, the details of how the divine plan will unfold is sheer speculation on anyone’s part.  However, the one certainty is that life, like God, is eternal – a circle with no beginning and no end – forever evolving.

Secret of the Universe #4

 

One of my favorite books is “ The Five People You Meet In Heaven”.  It’s a book that I heartily recommend to everyone that I meet.  The reason that I like the book is that it reinforces the idea that we all came to this world for a reason and because it deals with the concept of heaven pragmatically instead of through the wishful eyes of a believer.  The problem that I have with some people’s belief about heaven is that it’s what I call a limiting concept.  That is, you can’t get to heaven unless….   On the other hand, I view heaven as being a concept of self-enpowerment.  Life, for me, is a journey and heaven is not so much a destination as it is a stopping off point.  It is a place that is part of the process of life, a place that we all get to experience (even Hitler according to Neale Donald Walsch).

It says in the Bible that my father’s house has many mansions and it’s been proven to me that indeed my father’s house (all of creation) does have many mansions (worlds/lives).  Which brings us to the fourth secret of the universe -

Death is not the end, it is the beginning

I don’t limit myself or my concept of life to this one lifetime.  Creation is much more intelligent and infinite than that.  Neither do I consider mankind to be the point of creation.  Rather, I believe that we are all part of an infinite stream of consciousness and exist simultaneously in multiple dimensions.  Thus when we “die” in one dimension, we simply continue to exist in another dimension.

In the circle of life, there is no beginning and no end.  Life is its own reason for existence and we are all part of that evolutionary process in which death has no meaning, other than perhaps rebirth.  This process is beautifully captured in the mythology of the Phoenix Rising which was revered by the ancient Egyptians .  Other ancient cultures have had other names for this symbol of immortality but the meaning is always the same (i.e.a continuous cycle of death and rebirth).

Unfortunately, we live in a fear-based reality where the things we understand the least we fear the most – like death.  As opposed to that, some of the ancient cultures actually celebrated a person’s death.  They believed, and I agree, that it’s far healthier to celebrate the life that we shared with a loved one than to mourn the separation.  In the end, we exist in a dimension governed by the natural law of duality.  How could you ever comprehend the meaning of light unless there was darkness?  Similarly, how could you ever come to understand God without the existence of evil?  In this world of duality, everything (including death) is illusion – everything but love.

Secret of the Universe #3

Most people identify with the physical aspect of their being.  After all, our  senses tell us that we exist in a physical realm and what could be more real than hearing, seeing and touching the world around us.  However, science is redefining the boundaries of our universe and in the process closing the gap between itself and religion.

Research in the field of quantum physics has uncovered that the basic underlying reality of matter is quite different than what we perceive.  Scientists have now stated that at the core of physical matter is a non-physical reality.  In layman’s terms, it means that the non-physical world produces the physical world, and not the other way around as we have previously believed.

Which brings us to the third secret of the universe –

All there is is Consciousness

With the advent of quantum mechanics, man has begun to realize that he exists in a space/time paradigm contained within a field of what the scientists refer to as “non-local area phenomena.”   Scientists say that this non-local area phenomena is the source and cause of our physical existence.  In other words, we are spiritual beings having a human experience rather than human beings having a spiritual experience.

What it all proves is that there is an interconnectedness to everything and everyone in the universe.  Not only are we all connected, we are all literally one.  Separation, therefore, is an illusion.  Further, non-local area phenomena/Consciousness is not bound by space/time nor does it need to observe the physical laws of the material world that it created.  It permeates everything and yet could said to be nowhere.  Can you spell G-O-D?

It’s somewhat ironic.  As much as science has tried to dismiss the existence of God, it may just have found him in, of all places, a scientific laboratory.  And that’s all there is folks…Consciousness that is.

Secret of the Universe #2

It seems that many of us have been taught to live in fear of God.  Personally, I don’t buy into a fear-based reality, whether it emanates from God or from the media or from others seeking to control the rest of us.  Why should I?  Who dreamt up this wrath of God and burn in hell concept, anyway?

Being a Christian myself, I’m still waiting for someone to adequately explain to me how an all-loving God could condemn one of his children to eternal damnation.  What law was supposedly broken to warrant such a punishment?  Maybe, some would say the Ten Commandments.  If so, then my response would be that the Ten Commandments are in reality the law of Moses.  Even though the Commandments are probably good rules to live by, there is no proof that they are actually God’s laws and certainly God has never gone on a speaking tour (as book writers do today) to explain those laws!  Am I to believe that God gave me free will and then punished me for one of my inadvertent actions that may have offended him?

Most religious scholars will tell you that “in the beginning” all there was was God.  It’s an important point to understand because it underscores the fact that everybody and everything originally emanated from God.  That being said, God could never very well condemn a part of himself, now could he?

All of which brings us to the 2^nd secret of the universe -

 

Sin does not exist.  Good and evil are both necessary parts of the duality of creation.

 

A Greek philosopher once said that if you tell a lie often enough it will be accepted as the truth, and of course the truth would then be considered a lie.  For example, in the Garden of Eden story, the god of Genesis has always been viewed as the good guy and the serpent as the bad guy.  But, why?  The logic is twisted.  Are we to believe that it was okay for god to lie to Adam and Eve when he told them that if they ate the apple they would surely die? Of course, the serpent who told Adam and Eve the truth was forever branded as the bad guy.  It’s somewhat relevant to note that the serpent has always been symbolically linked to wisdom dating back to ancient Egypt, as well as being the symbol of the medical profession.

And what of poor Eve who gets blamed for Original Sin because she exercised her god-given free will?  After all, god responded to the eating of the apple by saying that man had become like one of us, knowing good and evil.  This is telling on two fronts.  First of all, prior to the eating of the apple, Adam and Eve obviously didn’t understand the concept of good vs. evil and yet they were judged as if they did.  Secondly, god refers to “us” (both here and elsewhere in the Genesis story).  In other words, god was not alone in the garden with Adam and Eve.  Others similar to god were also there so we’re not talking about the Prime Creator in this story, only someone who in the ancient writings was referred to as the Lord or as the Elohim (a plural term).  Ergo: No Prime Creator, no Original Sin.

It’s important to understand that the existence of both good and evil are critical parts of the process of Creation.  Everything exists in a condition of duality. For example, you could never learn what light was unless the dark existed.  The shadows, themselves, are a by-product of light.   What’s necessary here is the understanding of how life works so that one can exercise free-will in accordance with their highest and best purpose. It’s an understanding that Adam and Eve only acquired after they ate from the Tree of Knowledge (symbolically, the apple).  While there are natural laws (for example the Law of Cause and Effect) that result in consequences for one’s actions, the concept of sin is misplaced.  There’s a critical distinction between the two which requires one to have a much broader idea of how God’s creation works and the underlying purpose of life.

More on the secrets of the universe later.