Science and Spirituality: New Physics Points To Cosmic
Spirit
Science and Spirituality: New
Physics Points To Cosmic Spirit
'God is dead' proclaimed a cover story in Time magazine
in the 1960s, and held science responsible for it. Case closed? Far from it. By
the 1990s, people were talking about things like 'can spirituality promote
health?' The pendulum is now swinging in the other direction. Ironically
enough, it is the same science that once killed off the notion of God that is
now strengthening humankind's belief in a 'supreme power'. Latest revelations
in cosmology and quantum physics are fostering this paradigm shift.
Spirituality, Spiritual Articles, Information, Definition, Defined, Articles, Article, Facts, Beliefs, Belief, Faith, Faiths, Ethics, Religion, Religions, Spiritual Belief Systems, Theology, Religious Philosophy, Teachings, Teaching, Body Mind Soul, Body, Mind Spirit, New Physics, Quantum Physics, New Physic, Quantum Physic, Theory of Relativity, Science and Spirituality, Spirituality and Science, Science and Religion, Religion and Science, Spiritual Science, Science and Spirituality, Spirituality and Science, Science and Religion, Religion and Science, Spiritual Science, Body Mind Soul, Body, Mind Spirit, Body Mind Soul, Body, Mind Spirit, Body and Mind, Body Mind, Mind and Body, Mind and Spirit, Body Mind and Soul,
Science and Spirituality: New Physics Points To Cosmic
Spirit
'God is dead' proclaimed a cover
story in Time magazine in the 1960s, and held science responsible for it. Case
closed? Far from it. By the 1990s, people were talking about things like 'can
spirituality promote health?' The pendulum is now swinging in the other
direction. Ironically enough, it is the same science that once killed off the
notion of God that is now strengthening humankind's belief in a 'supreme
power'. Latest revelations in cosmology and quantum physics are fostering this
paradigm shift.
Transcending theologies and
denominations, there is a conviction in a creator divinity which, having
spawned the universe, is present throughout it, upholding and administering the
universe. People have always accepted that God will never be revealed to us
empirically. Yet for eons we have deemed this entity worthy of adoration and
have directed ardent prayers to it, making it the vessel of our hope.
Now, for the first time in human
history, we have objective knowledge of an entity that fills space and time
throughout the universe, representing the primary elements of reality. This
entity's existence, comprising unmanifest quantum fields and possessing the
elemental blueprint of everything physical, rests on a solid scientific
foundation. Physicists and cosmologists are also close to proving that all
these fields arise from a common source that was present in an infinitesimal
nugget at the inception of the universe. The source sequentially unfolded to
create the universe and everything in it. We already have semi-quantitative
proof, even in the absence of a complete mathematical theory. The elegance of
the symmetries and incredible precision of the blueprint possessed by the
source predisposes us to believe that it mirrors the intelligence of a higher
power and amounts to a veritable experience of the deity.
Just as the religious God did not
create the world and leave it, the source is still active through the universe.
This is so because physics at extremely high temperatures that existed at the
onset of the universe is equivalent to physics at fundamentally small distances.
Therefore, the manifest condition at the onset of the universe is presumed to
be the same in an unmanifest, quantum physical way at or near the fabric of
space. The existence of the common source at the fabric of space would be no
less real than the elusive denizens of empty space known to scientists as
virtual screening charges.
Persuasive evidence points to a
source, which, having spawned the universe, is now present in all space and
time. This entity is uncannily reminiscent of the Brahman of Vedanta and
immanence in Christian theology. What is missing is credible evidence of
awareness in this entity. The necessity for embracing a simultaneous existence
of complementary properties to explain the quantum world paves the way for
contemporary scientists to find an essential link between the seemingly
irreconcilable mind and matter. From this viewpoint, the irreducible primary
realities of field and consciousness are inseparable aspects of the same
elementary process of our universe united through mutual participation; the
biological nervous system just provides a material struture for unfolding
consciousness in each individual.
So, plausible arguments can be made
to suggest that the common source has an inherent quality of awareness, thereby
giving credence to the existence of a cosmic spirit. This spirit is present in
every element of space. Like fish in water, we are immersed in it. Tuning in to
that awareness, realising we are part of it, will help us cope with whatever
crises await us in our increasingly complex, polluted, overpopulated,
overheated, over-armed, violent world. Indeed, if we become part of nature's
inherently spiritual direction, we should flourish and bring meaning and
purpose to our terrestrial journey.
More material related to Science And Spirituality can be found here:
Hi friend! The Global Oneness Community, the place for information and sharing about Oneness is not really launched yet (you will see there is still some clean up to do) ...but it is now open for a sneak-peek! And if you wish - please register and become one of the very first members to do so! Jonas