The Good News Jesus Pre-visioned
If God wants human creatures to know their creator, we should expect divine visitations and revelations. Is not this what the Old Testament predictions and the Christmas season is all about? But when Jesus arrived, he corrected and revisioned much of what was written. This could mean that either the Jewish tradition is somewhat myopic or Jesus was an untrustworthy witness. I prefer to believe that God’s revelation has been progressive; we can accept Jesus’ revisioning without throwing aside all the Jewish attempts to understand God. Today, two thousand years after Jesus, we have the benefit of even clearer vision as science is helping us see from the laboratory miraculous and amazing corroboration of what Jesus visioned intuitively. Science and biblical story are not incompatible. Each in its best form contributes to the full picture.
Accepting the story of Adam and Eve, we humans began living a reality-metaphor. But as Jesus proclaimed, the metaphor is only a partial perception of reality. He said “the kingdom of God is near,” meaning that separation from God caused by a “fall” hides the fundamental insight that Adam and Even lost in the Garden. By eating the matter-fruit, they bought in to a misperception. Jesus’ good news was that he and we, his siblings in God, in full reality are alive in “the kingdom” now.
Though reductionistic scientists call the “Garden story” a myth, scientists unwittingly have brought story and science closer together. Without apparent intention, they have added mortar to Jesus’ good news by expressing reality as an equation: E=mc2 (energy the same as mass-times-velocity squared). God’s kingdom is the whole equation. We are physically born into the “mc2” part. But Jesus understood that as Sons of God, all of us, eachly, are mere, yet marvelous, manifestations of God. The “=” in the equation does not divide God into compartments. The “=” is not a barrier; it is a joint. As Jesus said, we are joint heirs in the kingdom, as he too is.
The forbidden fruit analogy is a cropped picture. To say God created the universe out of nothing is another way of saying the something we think composes us was made up new by God without use of materials. We cannot comprehend exactly what nothing is, so we imagine it as matter coming from God’s snap of the fingers or bolt of lightening, or whatever. Metaphors are a figurative way of thinking, but today’s physicists are providing a provable way to understand creation.
Quantum science says the universe is abuzz in potentiality. What we humans call actuality is our choice of focus; it is the perception we adopt. Waves of energy and particles of matter are the same thing entangled. For convenience, physicist Amit Goswami calls the stuff “wavicles. “ Our brains perform a “collapse” of the wave into matter when we make an observation or a measurement. Quantum science describes it as consciousness nudging perception (see Sheldrake on morphogenetic fields). Religious people, in a sense, “collapse” particle matter back into the wavicle and call this “believing” or “having faith.” Most of us are so focused on the imaging, by way of our brain processes, that our material existence appears, for all practical purposes, to be the only, isolated, reality. Since Adam and Eve’s time, we have thought matter is all we humans are made of, and God is divided from us in a super, thereby unnatural, realm.
A better way to understand is to accept that creation was not the beginning of our existence; it was a zooming in on a particular point of consciousness. But I am more than a designated “mc2.” I am a living God-metaphor, and quantum science shows how this better analogy works. The unexciting yet profound term Goswami uses for this paradigm-changing notion is “monistic idealism.”
The notion that science and religion are plowing the same field is exemplified by the idea of “quantum leaps” which scientists describe as electrons jumping to new energy levels in an atom without traversing the space between. This provides a fine synonym for the spiritual idea of “faith,” while being felicitously believable because of laboratory reports.
Quantum physics describes human material awareness as perceptual choices strung together in a time-like sequence that matches our biological span of survival. Judeo tradition, with its metaphor of “creation,” does not belie this; it only invites a separation of divine and human compartments in the Eden story. The “good news” is that Jesus reconnected the spiritual and material realms.
To say that humans are ultimate consciousness “collapsed” into material “perception” does not steal credit from God for creating us. We are part of God’s playful creativity as we, nudged by quantum fields of consciousness (rooted in the divine mind), chart our lives by choosing, from among the potentialities, certain waves to collapse into physical actuality. God the Father is more than just a distant benevolent Creator. We are all in this together, all part of the whole consciousness. The Kingdom is spirit, mind, and matter; and it is here, has been and will continue to be. Jesus understood this without a Ph.D.
We now can understand the Good News in both scientific and spiritually intuitive form and can join Jesus in reunion-awakeness with our maker while alive here on earth. Christmas is quite merry.
Accepting the story of Adam and Eve, we humans began living a reality-metaphor. But as Jesus proclaimed, the metaphor is only a partial perception of reality. He said “the kingdom of God is near,” meaning that separation from God caused by a “fall” hides the fundamental insight that Adam and Even lost in the Garden. By eating the matter-fruit, they bought in to a misperception. Jesus’ good news was that he and we, his siblings in God, in full reality are alive in “the kingdom” now.
Though reductionistic scientists call the “Garden story” a myth, scientists unwittingly have brought story and science closer together. Without apparent intention, they have added mortar to Jesus’ good news by expressing reality as an equation: E=mc2 (energy the same as mass-times-velocity squared). God’s kingdom is the whole equation. We are physically born into the “mc2” part. But Jesus understood that as Sons of God, all of us, eachly, are mere, yet marvelous, manifestations of God. The “=” in the equation does not divide God into compartments. The “=” is not a barrier; it is a joint. As Jesus said, we are joint heirs in the kingdom, as he too is.
The forbidden fruit analogy is a cropped picture. To say God created the universe out of nothing is another way of saying the something we think composes us was made up new by God without use of materials. We cannot comprehend exactly what nothing is, so we imagine it as matter coming from God’s snap of the fingers or bolt of lightening, or whatever. Metaphors are a figurative way of thinking, but today’s physicists are providing a provable way to understand creation.
Quantum science says the universe is abuzz in potentiality. What we humans call actuality is our choice of focus; it is the perception we adopt. Waves of energy and particles of matter are the same thing entangled. For convenience, physicist Amit Goswami calls the stuff “wavicles. “ Our brains perform a “collapse” of the wave into matter when we make an observation or a measurement. Quantum science describes it as consciousness nudging perception (see Sheldrake on morphogenetic fields). Religious people, in a sense, “collapse” particle matter back into the wavicle and call this “believing” or “having faith.” Most of us are so focused on the imaging, by way of our brain processes, that our material existence appears, for all practical purposes, to be the only, isolated, reality. Since Adam and Eve’s time, we have thought matter is all we humans are made of, and God is divided from us in a super, thereby unnatural, realm.
A better way to understand is to accept that creation was not the beginning of our existence; it was a zooming in on a particular point of consciousness. But I am more than a designated “mc2.” I am a living God-metaphor, and quantum science shows how this better analogy works. The unexciting yet profound term Goswami uses for this paradigm-changing notion is “monistic idealism.”
The notion that science and religion are plowing the same field is exemplified by the idea of “quantum leaps” which scientists describe as electrons jumping to new energy levels in an atom without traversing the space between. This provides a fine synonym for the spiritual idea of “faith,” while being felicitously believable because of laboratory reports.
Quantum physics describes human material awareness as perceptual choices strung together in a time-like sequence that matches our biological span of survival. Judeo tradition, with its metaphor of “creation,” does not belie this; it only invites a separation of divine and human compartments in the Eden story. The “good news” is that Jesus reconnected the spiritual and material realms.
To say that humans are ultimate consciousness “collapsed” into material “perception” does not steal credit from God for creating us. We are part of God’s playful creativity as we, nudged by quantum fields of consciousness (rooted in the divine mind), chart our lives by choosing, from among the potentialities, certain waves to collapse into physical actuality. God the Father is more than just a distant benevolent Creator. We are all in this together, all part of the whole consciousness. The Kingdom is spirit, mind, and matter; and it is here, has been and will continue to be. Jesus understood this without a Ph.D.
We now can understand the Good News in both scientific and spiritually intuitive form and can join Jesus in reunion-awakeness with our maker while alive here on earth. Christmas is quite merry.
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