God is Literally in Your DNA

I'll state my thesis right up front:

When we voice our thoughs, the words we speak are the literal sound of our inner spirit expressing itself. The letters in the words we choose to use are code for our spiritual DNA . There is no way around it.

In her landmark book, Molecules of Emotion, physiologist Candace Pert presents scientific evidence that our Spirit is in our body chemicals. In The God Code, Gregg Braden takes this body/spirit connection a step further. He says our body is a chemical pool that reflects our spirit. When we speak, we couch our deep feelings of spiritual understanding in the language we use, in the very letters of our words. We feel from our being and speak what we feel. It makes sense that if the words we speak have valence or value meaning, a value number could be designated for each letter of our heartfelt voicings. This is not just an entertaining word game. This method of investigation is known as the science of gematria.

Looking at the longest running, still existing language--Hebrew--Braden found insight in how this all works. In earlier centuries Hebrew was written using just consonants. Only in speaking were the vowel sounds used. I don't expect you to have much trouble reading (phonetically sounding out) the following: "Dnt fll dwn nd hrt yrslf." But the meaning does not hit home until the vowel sounds are added. We can see how the feeling—the meaning—is in the vowels which are the breath interrupted by consonants. (Put your hand close in front of your mouth and say the vowel letter e. Feel the breath? Now put a consonant in front and after of the vowel when you say it—like “peek.” Feel the punch?

Consonants give character to the breath. As infants we did not erupt in speech upon birth to say “hello, I’m here”; we just let out shrieking breath sounds to express our feeling about the shock of our arrival. Thus as newborn babies we expressed the "meaning" of our spirit-thoughts before we learned a tongue-language.

Think of it. Don’t we, as more sophisticated talkers, use words we have coined that sound just like the thing we want to express. Doesn’t the word “plop” sound like something that just plopped. How about “spit.” Don’t you just spit that word out. Love? Don’t you just “loooove” to sit in a hot tub. So, on and on (there we go again—the word “onnnnnnnnn”)

The message is in the combination of letter numbers. Braden finds the code for understanding what it is we know of God in the letters that we sound out when we speak of such things. The clue lies in the key example of the Hebrew letters for God—YHVH. Here is the surprise—the four base groups of genes that form the double-helix DNA structure unique to humans have alliterative letter values that match the Hebrew spelling of the name of God. The number value for nitrogen matches with the Hebrew Y, hydrogen with H, oxygen with V, and carbon with GH (gh is often shortened to h)—accompanying the three gaseous elements of the genetic base, the fourth element, carbon, is the one that solidifies our physical bodies. What we have here is a gematria match in the defined letter value for God in Hebrew and the base elements of DNA. If this makes some sense, then within the very body of a human is the call of God.

This may seeem too clever to be taken seriously. But don't walk away. First I note that my spirit is physicalized chemically as Dr. Pert proposes. Just as ancient alchemists concluded that the universe is made of a combination of fire, air, earth, and water, our modern physicists note that the basic chemicals fire, air, earth, and water are the four constituent DNA elements of our physical bodies. Then with this in mind, Braden says when we express our molecular emotions in language, we speak the code of spirit reality, whether we know it or not. Alphabet letters are the code for what we feel. Humans are a mirror of God in the Creator's unity of spirit made manifest on earth.

Speaking is an art expression, words are the paint. The words are letter-ized meaning tones. So it would make sense for the "meaning tones," the letters, to have a scripted number value--each letter in alphabetical order numbered in sequence. Hence, we have an orderly code for deciphering the underlying abstract meaning. Language is the wrap inside of which are meaningful feelings we experience. This is the sense in which the Bible can be considered the “literal” word of God. Fundamentalists, are you listening?

At first I thought Braden was nursing a fantasy by claiming to have found a hidden code in ancient but newly discovered documents (e.g., Nag Hammadi and the Dead Sea Scrolls) that tell what can be known about God and the universe. But when I see the discoveries of quantum physics making biblical miracles seem almost tame, Pert and Braden regain my respect. And I see how science--from alchemy to quantum physics--makes the power of God more impressive by being seen as more nit and grit believable. The wonder of it all is how I fit naturally in the divine unity of existence. The very name of God is a letter code that enables us to speak of who we are in our inner genetic formula. Our very DNA calls out to its divine letter-matching source of being.

Fundamentalists, as biblical literalists, almost get it right, but they don’t know it.

                                                                                                                   Doug Good